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...firmly opposed affirmative action, has accepted an honorary degree from Bob Jones University and has written admiringly of the Confederate cause, would he function effectively as the enforcer of the nation's civil rights laws? Given that Ashcroft as Missouri attorney general used his office to file a harassing lawsuit against the National Organization of Women, would he use his new office to promote equality? Given that he has expressed little support for antitrust efforts such as the Microsoft case and that his legislative record has earned near-zero ratings from environmental groups, would he adequately defend consumers...
Even if a lawsuit were successful, a victory would yield no easy solutions. "How and who do we distribute the money to?" Pires said...
Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree is leading a team of lawyers and professors in preparing a lawsuit to gain reparations for the descendants of American slaves...
...group includes prominent lawyers such as Johnnie Cochran, Alexander J. Pires, who won a $1 billion lawsuit for black farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and J.L. Chestnutt, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s former attorney...
Ogletree, who is Climenko professor of law, brings an academic perspective to the lawsuit...