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...universities could provide special consideration to minorities, as long as they didn't use strict point systems like the one that the University of Michigan's undergraduate program had used. (The school gave 20 points on a 150-point scale for being black or Hispanic, and Gratz was the plaintiff in the suit that ruled it unconstitutional...
...thing they didn't do was sue, which emboldened Brown to show the letters to a lawyer. One thing led to another, and last June she found herself before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia as the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the collection agency. Her lawyer, Cary Flitter, argued that, because the agency never intended to sue, only to scare her and some 13,000 others who had received similar letters in Pennsylvania, it had engaged in a "deceptive" practice prohibited by federal law. A U.S. district court had already dismissed this argument, pointing...
...rating for a particular film are not allowed to cite movies with similar scenes that got a milder rating. "It's not like a legal proceeding where you can quote precedent," says Wayne Kramer, director of The Cooler. The legal equivalent to this strange rule would be that every plaintiff in a racial prejudice case before the Supreme Court was obliged to argue Brown v. Education all over again...
...through any agent, ruse, guise device or means, however indirect." "We believe it is too difficult to expect business owners to start checking IDs before they sell a soda" said Espinal, who moved to Hazleton in 2001 and is now a real estate agent and tax preparer and a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The Dominican immigrant, who has lived in the U.S. since 1988, says he doesn't feel personally targeted by the ordinance, but it is clear that the requirement would fall more directly on Hispanics. "If you look a certain way, you're going to get asked...
...bomb might penetrate fortified underground bunkers. It will be the biggest open-air chemical blast ever conducted at the Nevada Test site - 280 times more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. "The concern of downwind communities is ?Here we go again,?" said plaintiff Stephen Erickson of the Salt Lake City-based Citizens Education Project. Though not a nuclear test, Erickson is afraid the huge blast "could kick up radioactive dust from previous nuclear testing," and claims "the Pentagon has sprung it on everybody with no examination of its effects...