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/ 31 May 2005

US court overturns Arthur Andersen conviction

The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for destroying Enron Corporation-related documents before the energy giant’s collapse. In a unanimous opinion, justices said the former Big Five accounting firm’s June 2002 conviction was improper.

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/ 4 March 2005

God goes to court

With demonstrators shouting religious slogans outside, United States Supreme Court justices this week argued and fretted over whether the Ten Commandments displayed on government property cross the line between church and state. Arguments in cases from Texas and Kentucky were the court’s first consideration of the issue since 1980, when justices ruled that they could not be displayed in public schools.