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...will force schools to speed up the math progression, which will cause even more students to fall behind and become mathphobic. We should achieve our current standards before we up the ante; if students are already stumbling, the New SAT may cause them to fall flat on their faces. ABNER MINTZ Laurel...
...Washington, Kagan encountered such ideological battles when she clerked for the liberal Judge Abner Mikva on the D.C. Circuit, who clashed regularly with the leading conservative Circuit Judge Lawrence Silberman...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. CHARLES SCHWARZ, 36, former New York City police officer jailed for participating in the torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima after his arrest in 1997; in New York City. The court ruled that Schwarz's attorney had a conflict of interest in representing him and that jurors had been exposed to prejudicial information. The ruling also overturned the convictions of Schwarz and two other officers for obstruction of justice. It does not affect Justin Volpe, the officer who pleaded guilty to torturing Louima with a broomstick and was sentenced to 30 years in prison...
...Abner Louima's nightmare just won't fade away. Thursday, almost five years after he was attacked by officers inside a Brooklyn police station, a federal appeals court overturned the convictions of three men who allegedly aided in his torture...
Famed liberal judge and former Congress member Abner Mikva urged an audience of about 175 people to “bring justice back to law” by vigorously resisting the prevailing conservative influence at law schools across the country...