Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling on the "reverse discrimination" complaint of the medical school applicant Allan Bakke, the Supreme Court last week turned to the no less controversial issue of affirmative action in the field of employment. In contrast to the Bakke decision, in which six Justices filled 154 pages with occasionally passionate legal arguments, the court simply let stand-without explanation-a lower-court ruling that approved numerical goals for employment and promotion of minorities and women...
...Legal experts cautioned, however, that it would be unwise to read too many implications into a Supreme Court refusal to review. The court might have many reasons for this refusal, including simply a desire to postpone substantive discussion of such a complex subject until fall...
...minority contractor set-aside unconstitutional-but it made no ruling on the merits of the case. It suggested only that the California suit may be moot; since all federal contracts for the 65 Los Angeles-area public works projects have already been awarded, there may no longer be a legal controversy for the courts to resolve. But a number of other contractors have mounted similar challenges to the 10% quota, and it is likely that the high court will be confronted with this issue again...
...year Cambridge building moratorium expired on July 3 and Radcliffe officials are again preparing to face community, opposition. Officials said yesterday they will move ahead with construction of the planned Observatory Hill gymnasium, even if they have to bring legal action against the city...
Richard W. Horgan, spokesman for the Cambridge City Planning Department, said yesterday. "Once Harvard applies for a permit it will have little difficulty obtaining one." He added, "The residents have no legal basis for objection to Harvard's plan" because the property in question is owned by Harvard...