UB Law Faculty in the News

.... The Justice Department, responding to a subpoena from the Senate Commerce Committee, gave documents from the Balco case to the committee April 27. By completing the transfer of this evidence to the anti-doping agency, the government managed to extricate itself from a bind: how to get evidence, whose secrecy is normally guarded, into the hands of those who have the power to use the information to bar athletes from competing in the Olympics.

But the action stands in contrast to the administration's vigorous defense of executive secrecy in other forums, and to a longer Justice Department tradition of staunchly resisting Congressional demands for information about prosecutions that have not yet gone to trial.

"This is the kind of stuff that, traditionally, was extracted, if at all, only after a protracted, highly public fight," said Charles Tiefer, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and the author of "Congressional Practice and Procedure."

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