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Court Rejects Administration's Privilege Claim: Bolten and Meirs Must Testify

NCLR Breaking News: NCLR Moves to Protect Gay, HIV+ Pakistani Refugee

  • By: The National Center for Lesbian Rights
  • 08/04/2008
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Muslim Inmate Loses Supreme Court Case Over Koran, Prayer Rug

Justices Indicate They May Uphold Voter ID Rules

  • By: The New York Times
  • 01/10/2008
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Florida: Judge Blocks Voter Registration Law

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 12/19/2007
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Scalia Lives Up To Peppery Persona During Memphis Visit

  • By: Memphis Daily News
  • 12/19/2007
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Court: Prison Program Unconstitutional

Justices Express Skepticism in a Discrimination Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/03/2007
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E.P.A. Is Sued by 12 States Over Reports on Chemicals

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/29/2007
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Court won't review San Diego home hunts

  • By: <i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</i>
  • 11/26/2007
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Gitmo Policy Faces Another Supreme Court Test

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Gun Control Case

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 11/20/2007
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Bush Vetoes Health and Education Bill, Signs Huge Pentagon Funding Increase

Health insurer tied bonuses to dropping sick policyholders

  • By: <i>The Los Angeles Times</i>
  • 11/09/2007
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Supreme Imbalance: Of Liberals and Conservatives

  • By: The Huffington Post
  • 10/31/2007
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Supreme Court to review Exxon Valdez damages

US top court takes up case of Muslim who alleges harassment in prisons, jails over faith

  • By: <i>International Herald Tribune</i>
  • 10/29/2007
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Deluded Judge Suggests Domestic Violence Victim Wanted to Be Hit

A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/23/2007
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Repeat Offender Smithfield Sues Union

  • By: <i>Political Affairs Magazine</i>
  • 10/23/2007
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California plans global warming suit against EPA

  • By: <i>The Daily News Los Angeles</i>
  • 10/22/2007
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Two Migrant Workers Sue Pilgrim’s

  • By: <i>The Daily News Record</i>
  • 10/20/2007
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Deciphering the State of the Death Penalty

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/19/2007
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Judge blocks effort to use no-match letters to fire illegal workers

  • By: <i>The San Francisco Chronicle</i>
  • 10/11/2007
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Sexual Stereotypes, Civil Rights and a Suit About Both

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/10/2007
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Going to Court, but Not in Time to Live

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 10/08/2007
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Executions On Hold Across US

Supreme Court to Hear Key Civil Rights Cases This Term

Guantanamo inmates' rights to get a fresh look

  • By: <I>Los Angeles Times</I>
  • 10/01/2007
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Justices Begin Work on a Polarizing New Docket

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 10/01/2007
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E.E.O.C. Files Lawsuit Against Bloomberg L.P.

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 09/28/2007
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States watch new U.S. Supreme Court term

Judge Rules Provisions in Patriot Act to Be Illegal

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 09/27/2007
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Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 09/26/2007
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High court to decide constitutionality of voter ID law

  • By: <I>The Associated Press</I>
  • 09/25/2007
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Justices to judge constitutionality of lethal injections

  • By: <I>TheAssociated Press</I>
  • 09/25/2007
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State's primary is in hands of top court

  • By: <I>Seattle Times</I>
  • 09/24/2007
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Court: Clinic need not tell parents about emergency contraception

The Dissenter

  • By: <I>The New York Times Magazine</I>
  • 09/23/2007
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State abortion clinic rules suspended

Small Louisiana town braces for one of biggest protests since '60s

  • By: <I>The Edmonton Journal</I>
  • 09/20/2007
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Civil rights' ONLINE movement

  • By: <i>The Seattle Times</i>
  • 09/19/2007
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Maryland High Court Upholds State Law Banning Gay Marriage

  • By: Capital News Service
  • 09/19/2007
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Billing in "pro bono" cases is fodder for ethics debate

  • By: <I>Seattle Times</I>
  • 09/17/2007
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Court rules against automakers in global warming case

  • By: <i>The Detroit Free Press</i>
  • 09/12/2007
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Ground Zero Workers Sue Employers Over Alleged Labor Law Violations, According to Workers' Legal Team

Jury Consulted the Bible, but Death Sentence Stands

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 09/11/2007
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New Focus on the Effects of Life Tenure

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 09/10/2007
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Judge Voids F.B.I. Tool Granted by Patriot Act

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 09/07/2007
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Law firm wants school district to pay $1.8M

  • By: <I>Seattle Times</I>
  • 09/06/2007
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An Overlooked Problem with Title VII's Protections Against Discrimination: Procedural Obstacles to Invoking the Law

Abortion Foes See Validation for New Tactic

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 05/22/2007
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Ruling May Alter NJ's Housing Landscape; Meadowlands Panel Told to Build Afforable Units

Supreme Court: Parents Have Enforceable Rights Under IDEA

  • By: DisabilityLaw.blogspot.com
  • 05/21/2007
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In 4th Decade On High Court, Stevens Stays True to Form

  • By: <i>The Washington Post</i>
  • 05/21/2007
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Massachusetts Challenges Federal Energy Rules

  • By: <i>Environmental News Network</i>
  • 05/08/2007
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English-Only Workplaces Spark Lawsuits

Supreme court rules against Bush in global warming case

Appeals Court Rules Union Pacific Railroad's Policy To Not Provide Coverage for Contraceptives Not Discriminatory

  • By: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • 03/19/2007
  • more info

New York Court Upholds Westchester County Executive Order Resepecting Out-of-State Marriages of Same-Sex Couples

U.S. Accuses Walgreen of Racial Bias

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 03/08/2007
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Student, 16, Finds Allies in His Fight Over Religion

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 02/19/2007
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Jury finds Curtiss-Wright liable in gender bias case

McConnell focuses on judges as GOP defines top priorities

Wal-Mart Loses Bid to Block Group Bias Suit

  • By: <I>The Washington Post</I>
  • 02/07/2007
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'The Supreme Court': PBS Does Justice to History

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 02/01/2007
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Ginsburg laments solitary role on court

Court ruling spotlights Calif. prisons

High Court to hear campaign finance case

Court rules for gov't in deporation case

Can We Improve Affirmative Action?

Back to the Supreme Court: racial balance in schools

  • By: Christian Science Monitor
  • 12/04/2006
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Detroit eyes Supreme Court cases

  • By: Detroit Free Press
  • 12/04/2006
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Church Meets State: What Impact Has the Religious Right Actually Had on Public Policy?

Michigan Rejects Affirmative Action, and Backers Sue

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 11/09/2006
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The Roberts Court Takes on Abortion

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/06/2006
  • more info

Justices Challenge EPA's Arguments in Clean Air Act Case

  • By: washingtonpost.com
  • 11/02/2006
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Federal Judge Blocks Pa. Town Crackdown

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 11/01/2006
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Pollution Control Case Goes Before High Court

Same-Sex Marriage Ban in Virginia Faces Opposition

New Jersey Court Backs Rights for Same-Sex Unions

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/25/2006
  • more info

Scalia Sees Shift in Court's Role

  • By: The Wahington Post
  • 10/23/2006
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Op-Ed: Legal Legacy

Roberts Court May Be Defined in Second Term

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/02/2006
  • more info

Op-Ed: "Who's Court Is It Anyway?"

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/02/2006
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Ban on New Forest Roads Upheld by Federal Judge

Judge Rejects Plan to Allow Tree Clearing in Monument

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 08/23/2006
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The Rule of Law: Recognizing the Power of the Courts, Finally (Op-Ed)

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 07/12/2006
  • more info

GOP turns its focus to N. Korea, terror

Top court affirms sex discrimination award

Top court sides with gov't in duress case

Top court rules against illegal immigrant

Alito Vote Loosens Limits on Evidence

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 06/15/2006
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Judge Rules That U.S. Has Broad Powers to Detain Noncitizens Indefinitely

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 06/15/2006
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Signing Statements and the President's Authority to Refuse to Enforce the Law

  • By: American Constitution Society
  • 06/15/2006
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Court to Weigh Race as Factor in School Rolls

  • By: The New York Times
  • 06/06/2006
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Editorial- The High Court Punts

  • By: The New York Times
  • 04/04/2006
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Supreme Court Reopens Abortion Issue on Alito's First Day

  • By: The New York Times
  • 02/21/2006
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What's happening in the courts

Court Rejects Administration's Privilege Claim: Bolten and Meirs Must Testify

NCLR Breaking News: NCLR Moves to Protect Gay, HIV+ Pakistani Refugee

  • By: The National Center for Lesbian Rights
  • 08/04/2008
  • more info

Muslim Inmate Loses Supreme Court Case Over Koran, Prayer Rug

Justices Indicate They May Uphold Voter ID Rules

  • By: The New York Times
  • 01/10/2008
  • more info

Florida: Judge Blocks Voter Registration Law

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 12/19/2007
  • more info

Scalia Lives Up To Peppery Persona During Memphis Visit

  • By: Memphis Daily News
  • 12/19/2007
  • more info

Court: Prison Program Unconstitutional

Justices Express Skepticism in a Discrimination Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/03/2007
  • more info

E.P.A. Is Sued by 12 States Over Reports on Chemicals

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/29/2007
  • more info

Court won't review San Diego home hunts

  • By: <i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</i>
  • 11/26/2007
  • more info

Gitmo Policy Faces Another Supreme Court Test

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Gun Control Case

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 11/20/2007
  • more info

Bush Vetoes Health and Education Bill, Signs Huge Pentagon Funding Increase

Health insurer tied bonuses to dropping sick policyholders

  • By: <i>The Los Angeles Times</i>
  • 11/09/2007
  • more info

Supreme Imbalance: Of Liberals and Conservatives

  • By: The Huffington Post
  • 10/31/2007
  • more info

Supreme Court to review Exxon Valdez damages

US top court takes up case of Muslim who alleges harassment in prisons, jails over faith

  • By: <i>International Herald Tribune</i>
  • 10/29/2007
  • more info

Deluded Judge Suggests Domestic Violence Victim Wanted to Be Hit

A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/23/2007
  • more info

Repeat Offender Smithfield Sues Union

  • By: <i>Political Affairs Magazine</i>
  • 10/23/2007
  • more info

California plans global warming suit against EPA

  • By: <i>The Daily News Los Angeles</i>
  • 10/22/2007
  • more info

Two Migrant Workers Sue Pilgrim’s

  • By: <i>The Daily News Record</i>
  • 10/20/2007
  • more info

Deciphering the State of the Death Penalty

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/19/2007
  • more info

Judge blocks effort to use no-match letters to fire illegal workers

  • By: <i>The San Francisco Chronicle</i>
  • 10/11/2007
  • more info

Sexual Stereotypes, Civil Rights and a Suit About Both

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/10/2007
  • more info

Going to Court, but Not in Time to Live

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 10/08/2007
  • more info

Executions On Hold Across US

Supreme Court to Hear Key Civil Rights Cases This Term

Guantanamo inmates' rights to get a fresh look

  • By: <I>Los Angeles Times</I>
  • 10/01/2007
  • more info

Justices Begin Work on a Polarizing New Docket

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 10/01/2007
  • more info

E.E.O.C. Files Lawsuit Against Bloomberg L.P.

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 09/28/2007
  • more info

States watch new U.S. Supreme Court term

Judge Rules Provisions in Patriot Act to Be Illegal

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 09/27/2007
  • more info

Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 09/26/2007
  • more info

High court to decide constitutionality of voter ID law

  • By: <I>The Associated Press</I>
  • 09/25/2007
  • more info

Justices to judge constitutionality of lethal injections

  • By: <I>TheAssociated Press</I>
  • 09/25/2007
  • more info

State's primary is in hands of top court

  • By: <I>Seattle Times</I>
  • 09/24/2007
  • more info

Court: Clinic need not tell parents about emergency contraception

The Dissenter

  • By: <I>The New York Times Magazine</I>
  • 09/23/2007
  • more info

State abortion clinic rules suspended

Small Louisiana town braces for one of biggest protests since '60s

  • By: <I>The Edmonton Journal</I>
  • 09/20/2007
  • more info

Civil rights' ONLINE movement

  • By: <i>The Seattle Times</i>
  • 09/19/2007
  • more info

Maryland High Court Upholds State Law Banning Gay Marriage

  • By: Capital News Service
  • 09/19/2007
  • more info

Court rules against automakers in global warming case

  • By: <i>The Detroit Free Press</i>
  • 09/12/2007
  • more info

Ground Zero Workers Sue Employers Over Alleged Labor Law Violations, According to Workers' Legal Team

Jury Consulted the Bible, but Death Sentence Stands

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 09/11/2007
  • more info

New Focus on the Effects of Life Tenure

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 09/10/2007
  • more info

Judge Voids F.B.I. Tool Granted by Patriot Act

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 09/07/2007
  • more info

An Overlooked Problem with Title VII's Protections Against Discrimination: Procedural Obstacles to Invoking the Law

Abortion Foes See Validation for New Tactic

  • By: <i>The New York Times</i>
  • 05/22/2007
  • more info

Ruling May Alter NJ's Housing Landscape; Meadowlands Panel Told to Build Afforable Units

In 4th Decade On High Court, Stevens Stays True to Form

  • By: <i>The Washington Post</i>
  • 05/21/2007
  • more info

Massachusetts Challenges Federal Energy Rules

  • By: <i>Environmental News Network</i>
  • 05/08/2007
  • more info

English-Only Workplaces Spark Lawsuits

Supreme court rules against Bush in global warming case

Appeals Court Rules Union Pacific Railroad's Policy To Not Provide Coverage for Contraceptives Not Discriminatory

  • By: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • 03/19/2007
  • more info

New York Court Upholds Westchester County Executive Order Resepecting Out-of-State Marriages of Same-Sex Couples

U.S. Accuses Walgreen of Racial Bias

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 03/08/2007
  • more info

Student, 16, Finds Allies in His Fight Over Religion

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 02/19/2007
  • more info

Jury finds Curtiss-Wright liable in gender bias case

McConnell focuses on judges as GOP defines top priorities

Wal-Mart Loses Bid to Block Group Bias Suit

  • By: <I>The Washington Post</I>
  • 02/07/2007
  • more info

'The Supreme Court': PBS Does Justice to History

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 02/01/2007
  • more info

Ginsburg laments solitary role on court

Court ruling spotlights Calif. prisons

High Court to hear campaign finance case

Court rules for gov't in deporation case

Can We Improve Affirmative Action?

Back to the Supreme Court: racial balance in schools

  • By: Christian Science Monitor
  • 12/04/2006
  • more info

Detroit eyes Supreme Court cases

  • By: Detroit Free Press
  • 12/04/2006
  • more info

Church Meets State: What Impact Has the Religious Right Actually Had on Public Policy?

Michigan Rejects Affirmative Action, and Backers Sue

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 11/09/2006
  • more info

The Roberts Court Takes on Abortion

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/06/2006
  • more info

Justices Challenge EPA's Arguments in Clean Air Act Case

  • By: washingtonpost.com
  • 11/02/2006
  • more info

Federal Judge Blocks Pa. Town Crackdown

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 11/01/2006
  • more info

Pollution Control Case Goes Before High Court

Same-Sex Marriage Ban in Virginia Faces Opposition

New Jersey Court Backs Rights for Same-Sex Unions

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/25/2006
  • more info

Scalia Sees Shift in Court's Role

  • By: The Wahington Post
  • 10/23/2006
  • more info

Op-Ed: Legal Legacy

Roberts Court May Be Defined in Second Term

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/02/2006
  • more info

Op-Ed: "Who's Court Is It Anyway?"

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 10/02/2006
  • more info

Ban on New Forest Roads Upheld by Federal Judge

Judge Rejects Plan to Allow Tree Clearing in Monument

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 08/23/2006
  • more info

The Rule of Law: Recognizing the Power of the Courts, Finally (Op-Ed)

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 07/12/2006
  • more info

GOP turns its focus to N. Korea, terror

Top court affirms sex discrimination award

Top court sides with gov't in duress case

Top court rules against illegal immigrant

Alito Vote Loosens Limits on Evidence

  • By: <I>The New York Times</i>
  • 06/15/2006
  • more info

Judge Rules That U.S. Has Broad Powers to Detain Noncitizens Indefinitely

  • By: <I>The New York Times</I>
  • 06/15/2006
  • more info

Signing Statements and the President's Authority to Refuse to Enforce the Law

  • By: American Constitution Society
  • 06/15/2006
  • more info

Court to Weigh Race as Factor in School Rolls

  • By: The New York Times
  • 06/06/2006
  • more info

Editorial- The High Court Punts

  • By: The New York Times
  • 04/04/2006
  • more info
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