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End to affirmative action
Published July 9, 2009, 4:00 am, The Gainesville Sun
By BONNIE ERBE SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE Toward the end of last year's election, I turned to a young African-American acquaintance and said, "If Barack Obama wins, you can kiss goodbye to affirmative action, or what's left of it after 20 years of Supreme Court cases whittling it away.
Are we ready for a post-racial society?
Published July 8, 2009, 1:55 am, Jewish World Review
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In its widely anticipated decision in Ricci v. DeStefano — the New Haven firefighters' case — a majority of the Supreme Court evaded a significant opportunity to seriously question the constitutionality of the long familiar affirmative-action claims by groups and classes that they had been discriminated against by race, gender, et al.
Diocese abuse case can go forward
Published July 7, 2009, 5:54 pm, Bangor Daily News
PORTLAND, Maine ? The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday that the head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland is not immune from being sued by an Augusta man who alleges he was molested ?
Labour and Employment
Published July 7, 2009, 1:23 am, Mondaq
In Ricci v. DeStefano , decided on June 29, 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that "race-based action like the City's in this case is impermissible under Title VII unless the employer can demonstrate a strong basis in evidence that, had it not taken the action, it would have been liable under the disparate-impact statute."
Should linking be illegal?
Published July 5, 2009, 12:05 pm, Guardian Unlimited
In a misguided attempt to aid newspapers, one of America's most influential judges is suggesting a new copyright law Those who wish to keep the internet free and open had best dust off their legal arguments. One of America's most influential conservative judges, Richard Posner, has proposed a ban on linking to online content without permission . The idea, he said in a blog post last week, is to ...
Closing Arguments: No more quotas The Supreme Court in "Ricci v. DeStefano" dealt a final blow to racially motivated ...
Published July 4, 2009, 11:30 pm, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Closing Arguments: In striking another blow against the use of racial quotas last week, the Supreme Court challenged the nation's first minority president and Congress to help lead us to a post-racial America.
J. TODD FOSTER COLUMN: Why Newsmen Can’t Be Used As Police Investigators
Published July 4, 2009, 9:09 pm, Bristol Herald Courier
The Virginia State Police made a sly attempt last week at expediting a criminal investigation by going straight to this newspaper for documents related to a scheme in the Abingdon-based magistrate’s office.
THE QUOTA RACKET
Published July 3, 2009, 3:20 am, New York Post
THE Supreme Court's deci sion in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case of the New Haven firefighters, was a ringing endorsement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's ban on racial discrimination and a repudiation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's...
Bless This Honorable Court
Published July 3, 2009, 12:25 am, Jewish World Review
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In what let's hope will prove a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that all Americans have civil rights — not just those belonging to certain specified groups. Whereupon said honorable court proceeded to protect those rights.
Federal judge vacates verdict in Indiana triple slayings
Published July 2, 2009, 11:04 pm, 22 WSBT South Bend
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana's attorney general said Thursday he would appeal a federal judge's order throwing out the guilty verdicts and death sentence of a southern Indiana man convicted of the fatal ambush of three people along a rural Warrick County road.
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