Word: equalling
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...offerings meet with equal success. Among recent marketing failures at Fairway, Seybert cites the ugli, a yellow, rough-skinned fruit from Jamaica that looks like a woebegone grapefruit and tastes like a second- rate...
Almost 40 years after Dred Scott, well after the Civil War and the l3th, l4th and l5th Amendments had guaranteed the long-denied citizenship and rights within all the United States, the court did it again. Seizing on the 14th Amendment's phrase "equal protection under the law," it upheld, in Plessy vs. Ferguson, a Louisiana statute mandating separate but "equal" public facilities for blacks. Indeed, those challenging Rehnquist's nomination cite a memorandum he once wrote stating, "I think Plessy vs. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed...
...Brown vs. Board of Education verdict, whose broad result was to end legal segregation. In Brown, said Meese, the court "was restoring the original principle of the Constitution to constitutional law." Yet the Brown decision $ rests primarily on an interpretation, not a strict reading, of the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause. And it was attacked by segregationists at the time as social engineering that went against the intentions of the amendment's framers...
...laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves." And as Tribe's latest book, God Save This Honorable Court, clearly shows, the very breadth of the Constitution makes it an imperfect guide in specific matters. Such vague phrases as "unreasonable search," "equal protection of the laws," or "due process," writes Tribe, "not only invite but compel the Supreme Court to put meaning into the | Constitution" rather than simply trying to take meaning from...
...year had nothing to do with the Supreme Court. It was the bombshell dropped last April by the elite New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. By the addition of a $12,000 "housing allowance," Cravath pushed its starting salary to a stratospheric $65,000 a year. Equal or larger increases went to junior lawyers already on the Cravath payroll...