Rehnquist flipped out?

“Court Overturns Arthur Andersen Conviction

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for destroying Enron Corp.-related documents before the energy giant's collapse.
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"The jury instructions here were flawed in important respects," Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for the court.
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Government attorneys argued that Andersen should be held responsible for instructing its employees to "undertake an unprecedented campaign of document destruction." It said Andersen was guilty under an obstruction law that makes it a crime to "corruptly persuade" others to destroy documents.

But in his opinion, Rehnquist noted that it is not necessarily wrong for companies to instruct employees to destroy documents, even if the intent is in part to keep information from the government.

Like a mother who advises a son to invoke his right against compelled self-incrimination out of fear he might be convicted, "persuading" an employee to withhold information is not "inherently malign," Rehnquist wrote.
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“He may not be much, but if he croaks, who knows what will replace him? Chief Justice Karl Rove???”

“Whose bright idea was it to treat corporations as people?”

“WASHINGTON - A physician at the U.S. Capitol prescribed a powerful sleep aid for William Rehnquist for nearly a decade while he was an associate justice of the Supreme Court, according to newly released FBI records.

The records present a picture of a justice with chronic back pain who for many months took three times the recommended dosage of the drug Placidyl and then went into withdrawal in 1981 when he abruptly stopped taking it.

Rehnquist checked himself into George Washington University Hospital, where he tried to escape in his pajamas and imagined that the CIA was plotting against him, the records indicate.

Although Rehnquist's drug dependency was publicly known around the time he was hospitalized in 1981, the release of the FBI records provides new details.

The justice was weaned off Placidyl in early 1982 in a detoxification process that took a month, according to the records. The hospital doctor who treated Rehnquist said the Capitol Hill physician who prescribed Placidyl for Rehnquist was practicing bad medicine, bordering on malpractice. Both doctors' names were deleted from the documents before they were released.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_go_su_co/rehnquist_files”

“"he tried to escape in his pajamas and imagined that the CIA was plotting against him" You mean they weren't? Holy crimminy!”

“Anyone checked the white house?”

“Dang for a moment I thought this was Slick Willie.....”

“Psychosis is a known complication of abrupt withdrawal from Placidyl.”