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...companies allowing workers to dress casually every day dropped from 48% in 2004 to 37% in 2007, according to human resources trade group SHRM. And the trend has left corporate America a sartorial mishmash. At opposite ends of the spectrum are Lehman Bros., which has reinstated its daily-suit mandate, and IBM, which has tossed its famously conservative dress code altogether. Last summer the U.S. Commerce Department banned employee flip-flops. This summer Texas A&M University is urging its staff to dress "comfortably" so the school can ease up on air-conditioning...
Meanwhile, the real-life consequences of the same-race requirements have emerged in a number of court battles. Most prominent has been the case of Lou Ann and Scott Mullen of Lexington, Texas, who filed suit in April to adopt two black brothers, ages 2 and 6, whom they have raised since infancy. Though Texas law bars race from being the determining factor in adoption, the Mullens charge that caseworkers delayed the adoption in order to seek an African-American home. Their case is bolstered by a separate class action against the state of Texas, filed jointly by lawyers...
...other tribunals, including the U.S. Supreme Court, interpret fundamental constitutional issues. A case in point: 60 years ago, George's predecessor Justice Roger Traynor authored an equally groundbreaking - and divisive - opinion tossing out California's ban on interracial marriage. Nearly two decades later, the Supreme Court followed suit, citing the landmark California case. But it was a bumpy road. When the high court issued its famous Loving v. Virginia decision, there were still some 16 states with laws on the books forbidding whites and blacks from marrying...
...Polls have shown that a majority of Americans--including Californians--remain opposed to gay marriage. And in response to the 2003 Massachusetts victory, 13 states passed anti-gay-marriage initiatives in the subsequent election. Gay-rights activists must hope the three states likely facing similar measures won't follow suit this November...
...that the Department of Homeland Security may be favoring wealthy landowners by routing the fence away from their property. "I puzzled a while over why the fence would bypass the industrial park and go through the city park," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, the coalition chairman, says in the suit...