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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...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Cable companies cannot refuse to carry local broadcast stations, the Supreme Court ruled. On a 5-4 vote, justices upheld the 1992 "must carry" law that said cable providers must include local stations as part of their cable lineup. Cable providers had argued that the law is a violation of free speech because it grants local broadcasters preferential access to cable networks. As a result, national cable channels such as Comedy Central and Fox News can't muscle their way into some desirable full cable systems. "More than 3.5 million viewers have lost access to all or part...
LAHORE, Pakistan: A court upheld the wedding of one Pakistani woman who married against her parents' wishes but did not settle the thorny question o f whether a woman may marry whatever man she chooses. The case, which pitted hardline Islamists against human rights advocates, was initiated last year by the parents of a young woman named Saima Waheed. They disapproved of her choice of husband and w anted her marriage annulled. Lawyers for Saima's parents argued that the tenets of Islam prohibit women from marrying without parental permission -- and indeed such permission is the norm in Pakistan...
...Wild, Wild Internet" (February 20), Ethan M. Tucker explains that "restrictions on telephone speech date back almost as far as the invention of the telephone itself," referring to an 1883 New York District Court decision that upheld a telephone company's prohibition on the use of "improper or vulgar" language...