Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Supreme Court decision established the constitutional precedent for bilingual education when it found that San Francisco had discriminated against 1,800 Chinese children by failing to help them overcome their linguistic handicap. Last month the legal issues seemed to come full circle as a group of Brooklyn parents filed suit against the New York State commissioner of education, claiming that tens of thousands of children are "languishing" in poorly run bilingual programs. The suit charges that American-born children with Latino surnames and low test scores are consigned to Spanish-language classes even if their dominant language is English. Fearful...
...strains of paranoia. On one hand, blacks are so suspicious of whites that many seriously believe aids is a genocidal plague cooked up by the cia. That is the flip side of the fear that makes many white women clutch their purses when a black man in a business suit gets on the elevator. Perhaps because of their minority status, most blacks who live with these grim realities have learned to keep their fears in perspective most of the time. They know their justified rage can be exploited, and have schooled themselves to distinguish between cynical appeals to their sense...
...next day Mary, who had been taken to a foster home outside the city, was questioned by Samson without an attorney or legal guardian present, the Smiths' suit alleges. Samson then drew up a petition to the juvenile court charging that the Smiths "neglect or refuse to provide care necessary for the health, morals or well being" of their daughter. Counters Jeanelle Kleveland, the Smiths' lawyer: "They had put her under the care of a doctor, and that's who she needed, not the cops." Mary's regular physician was on vacation at the time...
...point. In the Smiths' view, however, the fact that Mary's pregnancy was too far along for an abortion does not erase their basic complaints about the authorities' treatment of her. (While Mary was still pregnant, the Smiths contacted the Nebraska Civil Liberties Union, which helped them prepare their suit...
...suit names the former superintendent and medical director at Fernald, four MIT scientists, the two Harvard Medical School doctors, three former employees at Fernald, a representative of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the state Department of Mental Retardation and the Quaker Oats Co., which helped fund the experiments...