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...Justice Department brought suit against V.M.I. 16 months ago, claiming that exclusion of women from the state school was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause. After hearing arguments in April, Judge Kiser, who got his law degree from Washington and Lee University 33 years before it became coed, found that as a single-sex school V.M.I. adds important diversity to Virginia's education system that would be lost if women joined the 1,350-strong cadet corps. The Justice Department has two months to appeal...
Dershowitz eventually landed a teaching job at Harvard Law School. There, gratitude was not his long suit. Neither was tweed. He recalls his fellow Jews on the faculty: they didn't " 'dress British and think Yiddish.' They thought British too. Their Anglophilia . . . affected their mannerisms, their attitudes, their style of speech, their choice of metaphors, even their jokes." None of this for Dershowitz, then or now. His attire, jokes and attitude proclaim him as the peddler's militant grandson: out for social justice and civil rights, and along the way maybe a little advertising wouldn't hurt...
...million in claims for the alleged theft of a Song dynasty vase and commercial losses on an undocumented coffee shipment. Underwriters refused to pay, so Bilbeisi sued them for punitive damages, prompting Lloyd's to launch a deeper investigation. Result: last December Lloyd's filed a civil racketeering suit against Bilbeisi and B.C.C.I., charging the two with a long list of illegal acts, including coffee smuggling, arms dealing, customs violations, money laundering and paying bribes and kickbacks. That suit was followed by the grand jury investigation into charges by the IRS that Bilbeisi cheated on his taxes as well...
...sweeping change is the result of a deal the government cut with the Teamsters in 1989 to settle a massive racketeering suit alleging that the union's leadership had made a "devil's pact" with the Cosa Nostra. To avoid a costly trial and the threat of a government trusteeship, Teamsters leaders agreed to major reforms. If the Orlando convention follows the new rules, in December the 1.6 million members of the most powerful U.S. union will freely elect their president and 17-member executive board for the first time. That's good news for the rank and file, whose...
...largest U.S. political-action committee. Last year it raised $10.5 million, nearly twice as much as the runner-up, the American Medical Association. That money buys plenty of political influence. More than half the members of the House of Representatives urged the Justice Department not to file the racketeering suit that paved the way for next week's free convention...