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...court in a black robe. She's 25, loquacious and the cutest justice the show's producers could find. With a rap of her gavel, the first case begins. Standing before her is the defendant, a Beijing resident who keeps a pet donkey in his apartment. The outraged plaintiff argues that farm animals aren't allowed in city homes. The defendant retorts that his donkey has never lived on a farm so it isn't a farm animal. Well, says the plaintiff, Beijing residents aren't allowed to keep dogs bigger than a Pekinese. A donkey...
...spokesman for MCAD declined yesterday, except to say the is still "under investigation," and agency has not yet decided if it jurisdiction. If MCAD decides it jurisdiction and finds "probable cause" that the Fly Club is violating state law, then the agency will provide the plaintiff with legal counsel and can require a public hearing, award damages and seek an injunction...
...requires alternative placements for those who commit a range of offenses--whether in school or not--after they have successfully completed sentences in juvenile-detention facilities. The students say the rule punishes those whose misdeeds weren't violent, as well as those who did nothing wrong at school. The plaintiffs also fear they will be banished permanently. "The statute doesn't provide clear timetables or means by which those students can get back to regular schools," says their attorney, Marsha Levick. One student, who may sign on as a plaintiff, recently emerged from two months in boot camp...
...Sugihara's 89-year-old widow, Yukiko, is the suit's plaintiff of record, but the case's true motivator is Katsumasa Watanabe, the mastermind behind Japan's burgeoning Sugihara-deification industry. He owns Taisho Shuppan, a small Tokyo publisher that produces books on only two subjects: railway history and Sugihara's heroism. Watanabe says he was "blown away that such a man existed in Japan," after happening upon a TV documentary about Sugihara in 1991. Watanabe immediately sought out Yukiko Sugihara and published her two memoirs along with three biographies of her late husband. These days, Watanabe leads...
...quotas, which infringe individual rights by excluding white students from consideration for seats set aside for minorities. As such, the University of Michigan law school’s admissions policy—which seeks to enroll a critical mass of minority students—should be struck down. As plaintiff Barbara Grutter argued in her final brief to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, critical mass “is a concept based on numbers.” The fact that critical mass is a vague range of acceptable percentages of minority students means that there is a minimum permissible...