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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary People

January 23, 2010

Corporations may be imaginary people, but last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that imaginary people are entitled to free speech. Along with trolls and gnomes, presumably. President Obama’s nails the problem in his weekly address: Weekly Address: President Obama Addresses This Week’s Supreme Court Decision | WhiteHouse.gov

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CNN: ” Supreme Court upholds college military recruiting law”

March 6, 2006

Law schools across the country have, in recent years, banned military recruiters from their campuses because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays. The catch is that many law schools receive federal funding, one of the conditions to which is that the law schools must allow military recruiters on campus. The federal [...]

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CNN: SCOTUS “Other Rulings”

February 21, 2006

A quick summary of some of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions: Stepped into a dispute over whether white managers can be sued for calling black employees “boys.” The court unanimously overturned an appeals court decision that said the term “boy” alone was not evidence of workplace discrimination. The decision is a loss for Tyson [...]

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