Press Release for the Thirteenth Annual John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series: The Supreme Court of the United States

Press release for the Thirteenth Annual John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series, The Supreme Court of the United States, given by William T. Coleman, partner at O\u27Melveny & Myers and former United States Secretary of Transportation (1975-1977).https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/events_programs_sonnett_miscellaneous/1017/thumbnail.jp

Constitutional Equity and the Innovative Tradition

It is argued that the court\u27s status as a general equity court with constitutionally vested jurisdiction has benefitted the legal system. The Delaware court of chancery is an example of an equity court that resolves complex disputes expeditiously and lets the litigants move on

Rare B Decays and B Decay Dynamics

I present some recent measurements of B meson decay rates to leptonic and charmless hadronic final states, as well as of CP-violation charge asymmetries and other features. I sketch the theoretical frameworks used to predict these, and indicate the level of agreement of the estimates with experiment.Comment: Comments: 10 pages, 13 postscript figues, contributed to the Proceedings of the XXV Physics in Collisio

\u3ci\u3eTypocerus Deceptus\u3c/i\u3e in Southern Illinois (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

The lepturine cerambycid Typocerus deceptus is reported from southern Illinois for the first time. It was collected in association with T. v. velutinus near, or in oak- hickory forest stands on Hydrangea arborescens, a new host plant record