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...Rights Act, which allows crime victims to attend trials and testify about the crime's impact. The act was hastily shoved through Congress in March in response to Matsch's refusal to allow anyone who attended the trial to testify during its criminal phase. Though a federal appeals court upheld Matsch?s view that seeing the defendants in court could taint a victim's testimony, Congress effectively overrode the court by allowing victims to watch the trial on a closed-circuit television in Oklahoma City, and then testify if they wished during the punishment phase. Seeking to avoid a lengthy...
...violated Title IX, the 1972 law credited for revolutionizing women's sports. Brown's attorneys had argued that the school would be forced to cut academic offerings or cut male sports teams to avoid liability or loss of federal funds under Title IX. But the justices, without comment, upheld an appeals court ruling that schools must have "gender parity between its student body and its athletic lineup" or show strong progress in that direction. In Brown's case, at the time of the trial in 1993, 51 percent of the student body were women, while only 38 percent...
...violated Title IX, the 1972 law credited for revolutionizing women's sports. Brown's attorneys had argued that the school would be forced to cut academic offerings or cut male sports teams to avoid liability or loss of federal funds under Title IX. But the justices, without comment, upheld an appeals court ruling that schools must have "gender parity between its student body and its athletic lineup" or show strong progress in that direction. In Brown's case, at the time of the trial in 1993, 51 percent of the student body were women, while only 38 percent...
During the hearing, the university will argue that NLRB precedent should be upheld concerning the classification of graduate students as employees, according to Thomas P. Conroy, acting director of public affairs at Yale...
Glazer recently criticized the Califonia Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), a referendum which garnered 54 percent of the Californian vote last November and has since been upheld by the California Supreme Court. He said he feels that the initiative, which would make racial preferences illegal, "would undermine the pattern of American adaptation to social change by introducing a complete ban on the use of race in college admissions...