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...hard to build an opposition campaign around them. For instance, this year a 6-3 Supreme Court overturned a 2007 Sotomayor decision that ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency could not use cost-benefit analysis when deciding whether to require power plants to take steps to limit their impact on aquatic life...
...issues that would be hard to build an opposition campaign around. Two years ago, a 6-3 court overturned a Sotomayor appellate ruling that determined that the Environmental Protection Agency could not use cost-benefit analysis when deciding whether to require power plants to take steps to limit their impact on aquatic life. In another case, Sotomayor ruled that investors could bring certain kinds of fraud suits against investment firms in state court rather than in federal court. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned that decision, ruling that to permit the suits in state court would lead to "duplicative litigation...
...registrar [aerry S. Kane] looked at the expense associated with hiring people to proctor exams and he found that he could achieve some savings by asking professors to proctor their own exams while not making a serious impact on student’s experience,” said Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds...
...Most students interviewed said that this part of the budget cut will not have a significant impact on their academic lives...
...concentration fair would be completely eliminated. “That was a harsh assessment,” he said. He said that the fair will likely combine with another event, or take a more subdued form. According to Abdelsamad, the cuts were made with the goal of trying to impact advising as little as possible. “They’re removing things like food at events,” he said. “The core advising is still there.” Eric Newcomer contributed to the reporting for this article. —Staff writer Laura...