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...days leading up to this nomination, there were several media reports suggesting that Judge Sotomayor should not be considered for this position simply because she has Type 1 diabetes," said Dr. R. Paul Robertson, president of the American Diabetes Association, in a statement following Sotomayor's nomination. "The advancements in the management of Type 1 diabetes have been just amazing over the last two decades, and the ability of people to manage their diabetes successfully has been proven. People with diabetes can function and live a long and healthy life...
Barack Obama has never hidden his passion for sports, whether it be opining on the shortcomings of the college football Bowl Championship Series or defending his picks for the NCAA college basketball tournament. So perhaps it should have come as no surprise that in announcing his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, the President singled out the federal appeals court judge's landmark 1995 ruling that effectively ended the 232-day baseball strike. "Some say that Judge Sotomayor saved baseball," Obama said on Tuesday. That may be an exaggeration, of course, but there are many baseball observers...
...Sotomayor's performance back then offers any clues about how she'll perform on the high court, expect a brisk jurist who is utterly unafraid to dress down powerful interest groups. On March 30, 1995, Sotomayor, then age 40 and the youngest judge in the Southern District of New York, presided over a two-hour hearing in which the baseball players' association protested the owners' decision to unilaterally eliminate free-agent negotiations and salary arbitrations while both sides were negotiating a new collective-bargaining agreement. Although Sotomayor, who was raised in a housing project a few miles from Yankee Stadium...
...grilled both sides, and it took her only 15 minutes to rule in favor of the players. "She obviously had done her homework well before the case was argued," says Donald Fehr, the head lawyer for the players' union. "She was in control of her courtroom." Sotomayor issued an injunction against the owners that ordered them to restore free agency and arbitration. With the injunction in place, the players agreed to return to work while a new labor agreement was hammered...
...Sotomayor chided the owners. "The owners misunderstood the case law, and many of their arguments were inconsistent," she said. "One side can't come up with new rules unless they negotiate it with the other." A few sports columnists, offended by the speed with which she reached her decision, offered odd indictments of Sotomayor. "I'm sorry she's not male, so I could say what I really think," wrote Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I haven't the time or disposition to deal with NOW [the National Organization for Women] right now." However, the legal community...