Word: briefings
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Perhaps the most pressing legal issue is whether or not the Fly Club and the other eight clubs are public or private organizations. It is the lengthiest part of Baker's brief and the one which quotes the most extensively from precedent-setting cases...
...bear out this contention, the legal brief sets up several standards for determining if a membership club is public or private. These include: "The degree of selectiveness in membership requirements...the use of facilities by nonmembers...and the the performance of a public function." And even if the MCAD chooses not use Baker's framework, he insists that "No one factor is required, and many are absent in clubs which are nonetheless held to be places of public accommodation...
WHILE the AMA can at least try (and fail) to defend its positions on Medicare reform, its hypocrisy is undeniable on the issue of abortion. Amidst much pomp and circumstance, the AMA filed a pro-choice legal brief with the Supreme Court before the Webster case...
...individual's fundamental privacy and liberty right to be free of government extends to medical treatment decisions," the legal brief nobly argued. But when this "fundamental right" clashed with the income of doctors, the AMA chose the low road...
Stone said in a brief interview yesterday that "we're trying very hard to get Pittston to negotiate." He refused further comment...