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...other hand, many are also deeply suspicious of authority because of their experience with prejudice or police harassment. Whatever the case, the presence of jurors who share the background of a defendant or plaintiff is useful in pointing out to other jurors cultural differences and confusions. Paul Igasaki, executive director of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, recalls a recent lawsuit heard by a jury containing only one Asian American. The panel was puzzled by the failure of the plaintiffs to demonstrate sufficient passion over the damages they claimed to have suffered. More Asian Americans on the jury might...
...representative of the Japanese AmericanCitizens League, however, said that giving thechildren of alumni an edge in admissions wouldwould benefit Asian Americans in 20 to 30 years,when the children of current students begin toapply. Igasaki said he was more concerned that theEducation Department missed certain subtle formsof discrimination in its reviews of prospectivestudents...
...Instead of quotas they'll use other methods ofdiscrimination like emphasizing verbal over mathscores," Igasaki said, noting that Asian Americanstend to score higher on the latter. This sort ofdiscrimination could never be discerned by areview, he said...
...Paul Igasaki, a lobbyist for the San Francisco-based Japanese American Citizens League, said he feared that a government attack on Harvard admissions policies would damage the cause of affirmative action, which often helps Asian-Americans...
...Igasaki said that a report critical of Harvard would be especially damaging because the College's affirmative action program was cited as a model for admissions in the 1978 Bakke decision--the landmark Supreme Court ruling outlawing quotas...
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