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...Judge John C. Lifland of the U.S. District Court in Newark also denied the plaintiffs??€™ motion for a temporary injunction that would have allowed law schools to immediately curtail Judge Advocate General (JAG) recruiters’ access to students...
Moreover, the students argue, by forcing the law school to suspend its non-discrimination policy solely for lesbian and gay students, “the Solomon Amendment...violates plaintiffs??€™ right to due process and equal protection under the Fifth Amendment...
...Justice John P. Stevens pointed out in his opinion last week, although the plaintiffs??€™ money in Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington had earned a few dollars’ interest for the fund, they would not have earned any interest had the money been held in individual accounts because the cost of opening and closing such accounts is prohibitively expensive. Stevens wrote that because the plaintiffs lost no money, and because by its design, the IOLTA fund would never cause a loss to its contributors—lawyers are mandated to set up private-interest earning accounts...
Bonifaz said that the two key differences are that he counts several soldiers among his plaintiffs??€”and that this time, the resolution from Congress was much less specific than prior authorizations of military action that fell short of a declaration...
...courts’ history of overturning individual litigation is probably related to the tenuous legal arguments on which they rest. Bullock’s and other plaintiffs??€™ arguments require evidence that simply is not available. They argue they were not fully aware of the risks of smoking due to tobacco companies’ deceptive tactics, which included misleading advertising and understatement of health risks. Proving such an argument requires clairvoyant insight into decisions made decades ago. The plaintiff’s word should not be enough, especially when so much money is at stake...