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...interview with TIME, Olson said he and Boies had met with gay-rights groups to discuss their concerns before filing the suit over the controversial law banning gay marriage but ultimately decided to move forward anyway. "We have given this a great deal of thought," said Olson, who noted that sitting on the sidelines hardly guarantees that some other plaintiff won't seek his or her own day in court. "Both David and I have seen cases at the Supreme Court brought by people who didn't know what they were doing. We feel we do know what...
...issue of gay marriage back in front of voters, perhaps by as early as 2010. If they win, gay marriages will resume - a big victory for the movement, but one that would likely halt Olson and Boies' case in its tracks. Since all four plaintiffs in the federal suit are Californians, a victory at the polls would mean they have no claim to pursue...
...that might not have existed if it hadn’t happened,” Mendillo says. And while HMC announced in February that it would lay off roughly 50 staffers—part of Mendillo’s desire to “rebalance the company to better suit the portfolio I want to have going forward”—it is now actively looking to hire some top-notch internal traders as well.A LEARNING EXPERIENCEWhile she has tackled the financial crisis opportunistically thus far, Mendillo says the past year has also been a learning experience. Maintaining...
Athletics have never—ever—been my strong suit, but when I talk to my mother about Harvard, I wind up running defense. She’s coming at me with endowments and advising and “Why should you have to pay to see your peers perform?” and “Why can’t the house just open storage early for you?,” and I’m right back at her with economic realities and intellectual independence and “Student groups support themselves?...
...University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. "It's unclear what case Coleman could make that he hasn't already put forward, so it would risk looking like a quest for delay instead of a search for fairness," Kettl says. "He has little to gain in a suit with few chances of success and little but criticism as a result...