players enjoy an absolute right always to conceal their cards until played." 7>° Allowing ex parte procedures violates basic principles of fairness. The American Bar Association raised this point quite effectively in its comments to the Advisory Committee on Rule 17. 7°! The ABA explained that Canon 3(B)(7) of the Model Code

evidenced in its enabling statute. For instance, the American Trucking Association quotes a Ninth Circuit case explaining that Secti

an Dershowitz, Finding Jefferson (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008). 3 See Alan Dershowitz, “Preventive Disbarment: The Numbers Are Against It,” American Bar Association Journal 58 (Aug. 1972): 815. 4! AsT wrote in Why Terrorism Works: In my debates with two prominent civil libertarians, Floyd Abrams and Harvey Silv