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...ruling sets a precedent that should make it easier for other courts to overturn similar laws. "The judge made it perfectly clear that Creationism is pure and simply religion," an ACLU spokesman in Arkansas said yesterday...
Developers went to court this summer seeking to overturn the city's controversial restrictions on condominiums; when their request for a preliminary injunction was denied, the case drifted out of the headlines...
...review is tentatively committed to adopting some form of "race-conscious" policy, thanks to a razor-thin 42-39 vote two weeks ago. But recent pressure by key faculty members could easily lead the editors to overturn that commitment. We urge the review to stick to its guns, and to maintain its determination to compensate for pervasive discrimination by including race as a consideration along with grades and writing samples...
...reaching effects of such an ordinance, though, are scary. Currently, developers are suing the city in an effort to overturn the ordinance. If the amendment exempting two buildings was ever passed, surely any sensible judge would be tempted to throw the entire law out the window as a gross violation of equal protection. And if that happens, the condo gold rush will be on again and every tenant in the city will once more live in fear. The law protects all tenants too poor to buy their own apartments, and guarantees that there will be rental housing in the city...
...there actually is moral energy here, actually a righteous and unco-optable underdog, actually a clear, courageous and sharp challenge to all the bullshit. May be no other episode matches the Polish revolution of 1980-81 for demonstrating the power of people to act peacefully, but forcefully, to overturn the old and corrupt; for all its technical flaws, this movie captures the spirit and the fact of that revolution and should be seen by anyone who gives a damn about that country or this...