Word: circuitousness
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...still has high praise for her judgment. "It was the correct ruling," says Rick Karcher, sports law professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law. "She assured that fair collective bargaining would take place under the labor laws." A few days later, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Sotomayor's injunction, and baseball played a 144-game season in 1995. (Read "Judge Sonia Sotomayor Headed for Easy Supreme Court Nomination...
...time, the GOP tried to block Sotomayor's nomination to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals because they feared she was being lined up for a spot on the Supreme Court. It took a piece of congressional sleight of hand to hold up that nomination for over a year, but in the end, the Republicans had to cave, and Sotomayor was approved. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
...Less than a minute after the market opened, share trading was halted for the first time ever when sharp gains in the Sensitive Index, or Sensex, triggered an automatic suspension. Trading resumed two hours later but so-called "circuit breakers" were again tripped by heavy buying in a matter of seconds, and markets were shut down for the rest of the day. The Sensex closed up 2,099 points at 14,272. India's Nifty index was also closed after gains of more than 15%. (Read about the key players to emerge from India's elections...
Students criticized planned reductions in Quad shuttle service and hot breakfast offerings at four Town Hall Forums held Monday by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds just hours after the changes were announced.Hammonds began the town hall circuit with low-key, primarily one-on-one meetings in Lamont Café, followed by larger group meetings in Quincy, Cabot, and Mather Houses, where she was joined by other members of the College administration to answer questions and hear students concerns about the changes—part of $77 million in reductions announced by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...argued successfully before the court. That case was filed in Helena, Mont., challenging the constitutionality of requiring local enforcement officers to perform background checks required by the federal Brady Act, regulating handgun sales. The district court found the requirement unconstitutional but was overturned by the more liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The lower court decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1997, four years after the Brady Act passed. The ruling was, in effect, moot because a federal background database supplanted local background checks by the time the court ruled, but it left in place...