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...Adventist church sought to remove residents from one of Fiji's oldest squatter settlements, on a steep hill and riverside land at Tamavua in Suva's northern suburbs. The church alleged it had legally purchased the squatters' home sites from local chiefs. But the squatters, known locally as "blackbirders" (Solomon Islanders brought to Fiji to work on plantations in the 1930s), argued that more than 40 years ago they were given permission by the chiefs to live on the land. Fiji High Court Justice Roger Coventry ruled the squatters could remain for the time being. Lingham says the decision...
...second time Lambda has given its leadership award to a group battling the military’s prohibition on openly gay servicemembers. Last year, the group recognized Boston College Law School professor Kent Greenfield, the founder of a coalition of law schools that challenged the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. The law requires universities to grant the military access to their campuses in order to receive federal funds...
...seemed like this was the perfect opportunity to move beyond the Solomon Amendment and to look at the core element of discrimination,” he said...
...banned military recruiters from using the school’s career services office, but the school decided to reverse course when the Pentagon threatened to cut off more than $400 million in federal funds to the University in 2005. Last March, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Solomon Amendment—a law which permits the secretary of defense to cut off funding to schools that do not allow recruiters on campus—clearing the way for military recruiters to continue using the Law School’s facilities. If Meehan’s legislation passes...
...Don’t Tell” policy. Then there’s Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, pushing to legalize polygamy in the commonwealth. Or even our own Dean Gross electing to give Peter “just one more chance.” Brilliant tacticians all of them, Solomon Amendment be damned. We’ll tell you straight off that it takes more than a penis to lead a Fortune 500 company, fight a war, or run an institution of higher learning. You need a room filled with penises, all shapes and sizes, usually several rooms. But that?...