Word: courtly
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Furthermore, the rules governing Title IX compliance with respect to academic programs has never been ironed out--only a court can flesh out the law's official interpretation, but no school wants to be the legal guinea pig. As a result, most schools have been wary of instituting single-sex academic programs that could open them up to a legal challenge...
...female athletes accused Brown of violating Title IX when the school tried to eliminate women's gymnastics and volleyball programs. After six years of legal wrangling which took them all the way to the Supreme Court, courts ordered Brown to keep the number of women compared to men involved in sports within 3.5 percent of the ratio of women to men in the undergraduate population...
...first question lobbed into his court is, on the surface, quite simple--"Todd, are you running for U.C. president...
...view of the delicate situation and the potential clash between the judiciary," McElroy said, "we're asking people to put a hold on that until the Supreme Court makes its ruling...
Unfortunately, the Courts may not see it that way. In 1996, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a District decision gutting a statute that required the National Endowment for the Arts to respect "general standards of decency and respect" in its grant-awarding process. Implicit in such rulings is a reading of the First Amendment that goes something like this: whenever the state throws its weight behind a specific set of beliefs, it is establishing one worldview at the expense of another. And this the First Amendment explicitly prohibits it from doing. You don't have to support...