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TIME correspondent Melissa Ludtke, then a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED reporter, was a plaintiff in the federal court case 12 years ago that gave women sportswriters equal access to interview players. Her comments on the current controversy...
...most disturbing provision lies in Section 4, which overturns a recent Supreme Court decision regarding the standards of proof in discrimination cases. Last year, in Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Antonio, the Court ruled that a plaintiff who charges discrimination bears the burden of proof to determine that a particular hiring practice is racially motivated...
Mark F. Itzkowitz and Jeffrey A. Newman, the attorneys for the plaintiff, declined to be interviewed for this story. But in court filings they accused the defense of "outrageous misconduct" for filing the motion...
...plaintiff "should not be required to continue to fight costly legal battles to protect her constitutional rights when there is no basis for the defendants to seek to violate them," the two argued. The lawyers also criticized the club for presenting some of the same newspaper clippings which were held to be an insufficient basis for the gag order...
...that led to the convictions of Ku Klux Klansmen involved in a bloody 1979 confrontation with blacks in Decatur, Ala. In September Vance wrote a bluntly worded reversal of a lower-court ruling that had lifted an 18-year-old desegregation order from the Duval County, Fla., schools. The plaintiff in that case was the Jacksonville branch of the N.A.A.C.P. Robinson had played a part in a failed N.A.A.C.P. challenge to a school desegregation plan for Savannah...