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...It’s not something I’m worried about right now because I feel like as long as I wash my hands and protect myself, I should be fine,” said Shwinn Ricci...
...earlier version of the Nov. 9 news article "UHS To Provide H1N1 Vaccines" incorrectly stated the name of a student. The individual's name is Shwinn Ricci, not Ashwin Ricci...
...Ricci case starts over again in New Haven (Yale), with a black firefighter suing with the claim that New Haven's 2003 promotional exam unjustly prevented him from being promoted to lieutenant status...
...Ricci v. DeStefano, the closely watched affirmative-action case, the court was criticized by liberals - and praised by conservatives - for inventing a new legal standard to determine when cities can throw out promotion exams that have discriminatory effects on minority firefighters. Whether or not you like the decision, there's no question that the court was making policy, coming up with a pragmatic rule that Congress never passed...
Sotomayor also spent much of the day defending her handling of the Ricci v. Destefano reverse-discrimination case, which the Supreme Court last month overturned, stating that she had simply followed existing precedent in joining the panel ruling that New Haven was right to deny white firemen promotions when enough minorities had not passed an employment test. She also sought to assure senators she'd remain open-minded on gun laws and pledged that she quite clearly understood that foreign laws are not applicable in the United States, even if she has an interest in studying them. Following a strategy...