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...WILDLIFE 521 Total number of species that Bill Clinton added to the endangered-species list during his eight years as U.S. President 59 The total number of species that George W. Bush's Administration has added to the list in the past seven years; WildEarth Guardians has filed a lawsuit to add 681 species...
...total number of species that George W. Bush's Administration has added to the list in the past seven years; WildEarth Guardians has filed a lawsuit to add 681 species at once...
...charges stem from allegations that Kilpatrick and Beatty, also 37, lied under oath about their intimate relationship during last year's lawsuit involving two former Detroit police officers. Those cops had sued the city, claiming they were fired for investigating reports of misconduct by two of the mayor's former bodyguards. In September, a jury awarded the two officers more than $6.5 million in a settlement that eventually became $8.4 million in a deal apparently brokered in secret by Kilpatrick's attorneys to keep the text messages between the mayor and Beatty confidential, according to the Detroit Free Press...
After a federal court turned down a lawsuit that challenged a Michigan ban on affirmative action, reactions from Harvard professors and students ranged from disappointed to unsurprised. On Tuesday, a U.S. district judge dismissed the lawsuit that challenges the ban on affirmative action that was approved by voters, known as Proposal 2. In 2006, Michigan residents voted to end affirmative action in public universities and agencies in the state by a majority of 58 percent. Harvard Law School professor Mark V. Tushnet said he thought the court’s decision was “not surprising?...
...Bitch vs. Cunt: You Decide!” This thread has over 100 replies vilifying two students at Tulane University. The starting post explicitly gives the full names of both girls and is indisputably defamatory. Although such speech in print or by a website publisher would usually warrant a lawsuit, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act grants immunity from liability arising from content posted by users. Of course, Web sites do not exercise full control over what content gets posted. When reputable websites providing forums for conversations responding to well-researched articles, this law seems reasonable. But in cases...