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...Joffe argued Martin v. Wilks before the Supreme Court. Robert K. Wilks and other white firefighters had filed an anti-discrimination suit after a consent decree required that black firefighters be promoted. In this pro bono case Joffe represented the black firefighters in Birmingham...
...Crimson’s half-court offense ran into plenty of problems of its own, as the lack of a legitimate post presence and clutch shooters crippled the visitng team...
...army is also ultimately meant to serve a country and its people, and ever fewer Nigerians feel loyalty to President Yar'Adua. Retired Supreme Court Justice Kayode Eso tells TIME that Yar'Adua's continued insistence on ruling from his sickbed in Saudi Arabia was "insulting to the people. We are being taken for a ride and it must stop." Those who continue to support the President are merely those with something to lose should he step down, says Lai Mohammed. "There are some people today who have access to power and they are afraid that if the power moves...
...fear for their lives. Human rights activists say the same political leaders who were behind the clashes that killed 1,300 people are now waging a systematic campaign to silence those who might be called to testify against them in any legal proceedings. (See how the International Criminal Court is investigating Kenya's post-election violence...
...Wafula says the intimidation has gotten worse now that trials of those responsible for the post-election violence look more likely. The prosecutor for the Hague-based International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has asked the court to allow him to investigate those believed to be responsible for the clashes...