Word: federales
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For now, this post-affirmative action world of cascading exists mainly in California and Texas, where the University of Texas, responding to a federal court order, has also stopped considering race in admissions. But other suits challenging racial preferences are under way elsewhere in the U.S., notably at the University...
Here are just a couple of tales from the rough frontier of Texas justice: a teenager in Bexar County charged with drug crimes last September sat in jail for a month before his first scheduled meeting with a court-appointed lawyer. That attorney never showed up; and by the time...
From Liberty National he issued statements that helped assure insurance-company trustees that they were receiving fantastic returns on U.S. Treasury bonds. Meanwhile, he funneled the money, as much as $915 million, through a series of foreign bank accounts and a tangled web of entities still being sorted out by...
Then there are the potential legal hurdles. Federal labor laws designed to combat price fixing bar self-employed physicians, the vast majority of doctors in the U.S., from jointly discussing fees and contracts. Only 1 in 7 physicians--those directly employed by entities like hospitals, HMOs or state health departments...
Efforts are under way to change that. Last week Texas Governor George W. Bush signed a law to exempt physicians from such antitrust regulations. Republican Congressman Tom Campbell of California and Democrat John Conyers of Michigan have introduced a bill that would do the same nationwide. The bill, vigorously endorsed...