Word: legalize
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...means that fewer minorities will graduate with the elite credentials that would help them become top doctors, lawyers and business leaders. "Some people don't believe African-American and Mexican-American students deserve to be at these institutions," says Ted Shaw, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. "That should be refuted...
...running G.O.P. presidential candidate could still find himself embroiled in a debate about the sorry state of indigent defense, not just in Texas but in the rest of the U.S. as well. For one thing, the Supreme Court will consider later this year whether to tighten the standard for legal competency, after hearing a case involving bungled defense work on behalf of a convicted Virginia murderer with an appointed lawyer...
...America's most vital but abused natural treasures. Like the endangered wood storks that glide overhead, the fewer than 500 Miccosukees rely upon this unique "river of grass" for their survival as a tribe. And they rely on gaming profits to buy the multimillion-dollar legal and scientific clout they need to protect the Everglades. "The money allows us to be like the cowboys," says Cypress, 48. "We can bring in the hired guns...
...Cypress is determined to "do something a lot of politicians and environmental groups don't always like Indians to do: speak." And win lawsuits. The tiny tribe has seized a leading role in the Everglades restoration by outmaneuvering some of Florida's and Washington's strongest lobbies in a legal campaign to help set tougher water-quality standards and break bureaucratic logjams...
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--can currently unionize. In the past, doctors' groups that have tried to organize anyway have been slapped with antitrust complaints by the Justice Department...