Word: reconsiderations
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Or is he? There was a lot of worried head scratching last week after Kennedy joined four other Justices in making a stunning announcement: next term the court will reconsider one of its major civil rights decisions. If it eventually decides to overturn the ruling, it would mark the first...
The ruling that the court will reconsider is Runyon v. McCrary, a 1976 case involving suits by black parents against two all-white private schools. That decision required the Justices to look into the language of laws enacted in the wake of the Civil War, when Congress was seeking to...
Mayor of Baltimore Kurt L. Schmoke made national news last week when, before a gathering of the country's mayors in Washington, D.C., suggested that Congress set up a committee to reconsider America's current drug policies.
On April 25, Reagan's three Supreme Court appointees--Justices Kennedy, O'Connor, and Scalia--joined Justices Rehnquist and White and voted to reconsider the right of minorities to sue private parties for racial discrimination under a post-Civil War statute, section 1981 of Title 42 of the United States...
Barrett encouraged CELCO to embrace the "principle of continuity," and continue pressuring the Massachussetts DPU to reconsider the burden it would place on the "small person." The Council voted to encourage the company to examine the Attorney General's testimony before the DPU in favor of "shrinking base rates" to...