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...million Record settlement in the Coca-Cola bias suit, paying an average of $40,000 to 2,000 black workers...
...billion Amount Johnnie Cochran is seeking for four plaintiffs in a separate racial-bias suit against Coke...
...bully behind his back and then enlisting his services when you get in a brawl. You'll notice that the Bush campaign called the Florida Supreme Court an "instrument of the Democratic party" when it agreed to let the manual count continue, but were silent about the court's bias when it rejected Gore's emergency appeal to force Miami-Dade to resume its recount...
...whole legal field, administrative law, devoted to the intricate question of when a government official has abused his discretion. Courts won't overrule an administrator lightly: In general they need to find that she or he has acted out of prejudice or arbitrarily. To Harris's critics, bias seems a given, since she is co-chair of Bush's Florida campaign. But except in the most blatant cases, courts are reluctant to make such assumptions about an official's motivation...
...onto the bench as Democrats or Republicans. Of course some are more liberal than others, and some are more conservative," says Professor Terrence Anderson of the University of Miami law school. "But on an issue like [the Florida election] I would be very surprised if you could detect a bias." Jon Mills, interim dean of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, agrees. "This is not a partisan court," he insists...