Jurors because of their race. Foster was convicted of killing a 79yearold white woman by an all white jury. Well hear argument first this morning in case 148349, foster versus chapman. Mr. Bright. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. The prosecutors in this case came to court on the day of jury selection determined to strike all the black prospective jurors. Maybe you could address first the question we raised on friday with respect to which court certiorari i should be directed to . Yes, your honor, we filed this originally certiori to the Supreme Court of georgia. Of course this court in sirius versus upton issued certiori in 2010 of the georgia Supreme Court in a similar situation. It appears to us from looking at this over the weekend that r. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company versus durham county, which the court has cited in 1986, the court said unless there was positive assurance that the decision was not a decision on the merits, then the writ went to the spate Supreme Court
All humility, in order to set the stage, a question that i think was raised and discussed by members of the council and is of course broader concern to all of us including to all citizens around the world. How is it possible to achieve peace in the middle east . 20 years ago, at around the time of the first i asked this question to a friend of mine and who later was the chief justice of the israeli supreme court. Its common maybe just for americans to believe that wars have a beginning and end. Although of course the recent American Experience in afghanistan and iraq would be changing. Can i ask my friend, would there be peace between palestine and israel and my friend answered weve been fighting for 2,000 years, why should it end now . Theres probably a deep truth to that point, though it is not an assuring answer, but i would like to put it, danny put this question to with all respect to Prime Minister netanyahu. And danny im sure will have other questions as well. The, this institut
Maybe you have a weapon or Something Like that. But this is a warrant to do whatever. It is a littleknown fact. That they have a reference to keep them uptodate on the technology. [inaudible] [laughter] that violent do violent videogames thatcher remember when she was expecting concerned about the breath of the ban in the statute she made a comment about the clerks back up the chain so they can get educated. And Justice Sotomayor mentioned shes a fan of technology and has more than one device and i think just having that degree of diversity on the bench and technological experience diversity for ones is important. Disney hd or whatever its called. Okay lets go to this gentleman right here. We will ask all of you if you could just introduce yourself and tell us if you have any affiliation and then ask your question. I am an adjunct professor at Georgetown University law center and i would like to ask professor kenrick can you please tell us what is the procedural history of that case .
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Them harder. I think we would welcome legislation to reform that area. But if we come in a blunt instrument, suddenly recreating the fda authorities or mandating things on the fda or looking for the department of health and Human Services to do things that theyre not equipped to do and then, of course, we dont fund them to do it, i think we have to be cautious about some of the legislation that may be proposed. More than anything we want government to be there to work collaboratively but we still have to recognize the safety and efficacy that American People and most people here would certainly think is necessary for a new product. We want those products out as quickly as possible. I remember the days when we had the first evidence of the aids epidemic and the people that brought home the reform and fda to get some of these therapies out quickly were the act up groups of the gay community. They studied the law of fda and argued you dont need to take so long. You dont have to wait till