Word: ackermans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruce A. Ackerman, Yale Law School: "The court will accept benevolent quotas. The basic idea will be that it is permissible for Government to act to redress past grievances...
...amendment now stipulates that the city manager will make the initial appointments, with the commission submitting recommendations for subsequent appointments. City Councilor Barbara Ackerman said yesterday City Manager James L. Sullivan will advertise to recruit members...
...However, Ackerman who is chairman of the subcommittee, said last night the measure will at least give a "feeling of security to the elderly tenants" by granting them a stay without legal action...
...Philip Kurland. "It's run by a five-man center" (Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell and Stevens). The University of Virginia's A.E. Dick Howard agrees: "None of the central five has an overriding judicial philosophy. They decide cases as they come." Adds Yale's Bruce Ackerman: "A sweeping moral vision guiding the nation? It's just not something we're going to see from this court...
Another aspect of the law is proving controversial: the clause stipulating that schools must draw up individual education plans for disabled pupils. A costly procedure, it is subject to parents' approval. Unhappy parents can even take their grievances to court. But Paul Ackerman, director of the White House conference's education program, welcomes the parental clause. Says he: "We will focus ort the role of parents in exercising their rights, making parents realize that they are part of the school-parent team...