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...dish du jour. Cocktail parties are peppered with objections to the plot: Why does Andy Beckett (the Hanks character) get no more than a chaste kiss from his lover (Antonio Banderas)? Why is his case rejected by 10 lawyers, when even a simpleton knows that the ACLU, the LAMBDA defense fund and many other groups would jump at the chance of a precedent-setting suit? Why is Andy's huge family so conspicuously loving, so unanimously supportive? Why do the good guys have to be so pristine and the bad guys -- senior law partners, of course -- so ostentatiously venal? Andy...
...Bradley Sears, a student at Harvard Law School, spent last summer working for the ACLU's National Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, researching and eventually writing a brief for a suit against the Boy Scouts for excluding gays...
Public interest jobs are defined broadly by OPIA as government agencies, private public legal services (such, as the ACLU and NAACP) and public interest law firms, which provide student interns little...
...Court further narrowed its definition of religious symbols in ACLU v. Allegheny County. Again ruling on a creche, the nation's highest court invoked what would later become known as the "reindeer test," holding that as long as a nativity scene included reindeer--associating it with the "secular" and "cultural" figure of Santa Claus--the scene could also be considered secular and cultural...
...liberal ACLU supports conservative Representative Henry Hyde's bill, which places stronger, albeit still inadequate, restrictions on police power. Hopefully, this coalition will succeed in passing the Hyde legislation...