He also twice took the unusual step of urging a presidential administration to reconsider a death penalty case.
While Willis' final project repurposed digital information, MA Art and Science student Sarah Craske used high level technology to reconsider a physical object, in this case, a 1735 edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis. .
The Justice Department wanted the entire appellate court to reconsider an earlier ruling allowing the case to move forward, but the split vote means the prior ruling will stand for now.
It also proposed that the blanket 3am "last drinks" rule be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis, taking into account a venue's compliance history, planning controls and location.
Straw announced in December that, contrary to his former view that "only the Bulgarian authorities could reconsider the case", a judicial review from the high court had established unequivocally that it was "open to the secretary of state to exercise a royal prerogative" when new evidence demonstrates that a prisoner is "morally and technically innocent".
The program will continue for now, but the justices ordered an appeals court to reconsider the case under a demanding standard that appears to jeopardize the program.
Before filing the lawsuit, Mr. Rangel had tried to push the ethics committee, which is under new leadership, to reconsider his case — an exhibit filed as part of the lawsuit includes 73 pages worth of correspondence between Mr. Rangel's lawyer, Jay Goldberg of New York, and the committee since the censure.
In another Texas death row case, a federal appeals court agreed today to reconsider the case of a convicted killer whose lawyer slept through parts of his 1984 murder trial.
In the closing days of the race, the Hahn campaign ran a television ad that attacked Villaraigosa for asking President Clinton to reconsider the case of a convicted Latino drug trafficker who was the son of a major Villaraigosa contributor.
This month, the Fourth Circuit voted not to reconsider the case as a full court.
