Defendants want apartment-protest case thrown out on free-speech grounds
By Lewis Griswold
The Fresno Bee, September 29, 1999
More than two years after a developer sued 12 northwest Fresno residents for publicly opposing his proposed apartment complex, the residents are hoping to win the case on free-speech grounds.
U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger listened
Read More → Posted in NewsConstitutional limits on federal power at stake
Washington, D.C.- The Supreme Court agreed today to review the constitutionality of the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). A key provision of the act was struck down by a federal appeals court in March. The Supreme Court’s decision in this case, Brzonkala v.
Read More → Posted in Press ReleasesA test case for racial preferences
By Stephen Thernstrom
The National Review, September 13, 1999
PANIC may be setting in. The legal conflict over racebased admissions at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor may become “the Alamo of affirmative action,” warned Time magazine columnist Jack E. White recently.
The Michigan suits, which will
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