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By Pat Nolan, Senior Vice President, DVL Public Relations

June 27, 2008

RITES OF SUMMER

It's become an almost annual rite of summer.

After hearing cases from the first Monday in October until well into the spring, the U.S. Supreme Court winds up its term each year by issuing numerous decisions just when summer arrives. And they are usually decisions rendered in the most controversial of cases.

That's what happened again this year.

In fact, the Supremes may have outdone themselves this term with their opinions touching off new debates in several hot-button issue areas such as: the right to bear arms; capital punishment and child rape; campaign finance reform and millionaire candidates; habeus corpus rights for enemy combatants; the limits of punitive damages in environmental cases among other decisions.

This week on INSIDE POLITICS we will focus on the recent Supreme Court term and its decisions. As our guests, we could not have two better experts to join us than Vanderbilt constitutional law professor Jim Blumstein and Nashville attorney and constitutional expert David Raybin.

 Join us as these two explain how these decisions will impact our lives and our politics in the months and years to come.

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Friday (June 27)

7:00 PM, NewsChannel5 Plus, Comcast Channel 50

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5:00 AM, NewsChannel5 Plus

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Sunday (June 29)

5:00 AM, NewsChannel5 (WTVF-TV) and NewsChannel5 Plus

12:30 PM, NewsChannel5 Plus

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