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  • For those that don't know, Marla Olmstead is a child painter that quickly rose to fame at the ripe old age of 4, before a 60 Minutes episode doubted the authenticity of Marla's work.

    August 2008 2008

  • If the Court please, I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements 2010

  • The ideal that Brandeis asserted in Olmstead, therefore, was not simply as one-dimensional as "the right to be let alone."

    'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

  • Jennings's winnings surpassed those of the previous record holder, Kevin Olmstead, an environmental engineer from Michigan, who racked up $2.18 million on ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in the spring of 2001.

    Trivial Pursuits 2005

  • Jennings's winnings surpassed those of the previous record holder, Kevin Olmstead, an environmental engineer from Michigan, who racked up $2.18 million on ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in the spring of 2001.

    Trivial Pursuits 2005

  • The so called "Child Prodigy" Marla Olmstead is in the news again, gaining more international exposure than most veteran artists.

    January 2005 2005

  • In what became known as the Olmstead Decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Americans

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • In what became known as the Olmstead Decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Americans

    FOXNews.com 2010

  • And in a subsequent ruling known as Olmstead v. L.C., the United States Supreme Court decided that mental illness is a form of disability under the ADA and that institutional isolation of a person with a disability is a form of discrimination.

    Deborah De Santis: Celebrating Fair and Open Access to Housing 2010

  • The concept of the right to be left alone dates to a 1928 Supreme Court wiretapping decision called Olmstead vs. the United States in which the Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said "the right to be let alone -- is the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men."

    John M. Eger: Growing Concerns Over Internet Privacy John M. Eger 2010

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