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...University of Greenville, S.C., that the IRS policy of denying tax exemptions because of racial discrimination violated their freedom of religion. Their segregationist policies, they claimed, were grounded in their interpretation of the Bible. But that constitutional argument, which had been rejected by a federal appeals court, was made moot by the Administration's decision to settle the case by revoking a twelve-year-old IRS rule against tax exemptions for schools that discriminate racially. If allowed to stand, the new policy would permit such schools to receive tax-deductible contributions and avoid paying income or Social Security levies...
...developers are trying to make it seem as if the whole thing is being struck down," Sullivan--who may ask the city council to pass new legislation rendering the court decision moot--said yesterday. "Only tenants who want to buy their homes will be affected, though of course there is always the chance landlords will harass renters into buying," he added...
More than 500 people packed the newly remodeled Ames Courtroom last night to hear the final arguments of two teams of third-year law students in the annual Ames Moot Court Competition...
...moot court was without a Supreme Court member in 1964 because inclement Boston weather forced Justice Arthur Goldberg's plane to land in Portland, Maine. By the time he rented a car and raced to Cambridge, the panel had already begun deliberating...
...Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall, once the Law School library reading room, and the site of the annual Ames moot court finals since 1954, has been completely renovated at a cost of almost $300,000, officials said yesterday...