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Indecent Proposal Add this to the already bloated annals of fat-cat pay: a U.S. arbitration panel last week upheld a $23.6 million severance payout for Jean-Marie Messier, the ousted CEO of Vivendi Universal. Jean-René Fourtou, Messier's successor, described the payout as "indecent" and promised to contest the decision. He has little room for maneuver: the payout was written into a U.S. contract agreed to last July by two Vivendi directors, Marc Viénot and Edgar Bronfman Jr., to persuade Messier to depart quickly and quietly. The full board rejected the contract days later, after...
Proponents of the election program upheld it as a means of bringing fringe groups into mainstream politics...
...Rehnquist court has also restored power to citizens by protecting the right of civic organizations to express themselves. The court upheld the Boy Scouts' right to exclude homosexual leaders whose presence would dilute the Scout message that homosexuality was immoral. We should see this not as an attack on homosexuals but as a vindication of First Amendment rights of organizations to form a message through their associations. The Scout message may be flat wrong, but it should lose through societal debate, not government fiat...
...objective has been pretty sweepingly upheld by the Supreme Court, and it’s a much more conservative one than the one which upheld Bakke,” Orfield said. “That’s remarkable...
...Court upheld the Michigan law school’s policy of using race as a factor in examining applications on a case-by-case basis, but struck down the undergraduate college’s use of a point system in admissions, which gave all underrepresented minorities a fixed boost...