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News Thousands protest ruling against Hawaiian school policy
Thousands protest ruling against Hawaiian school policy
Tom Henry
August 8, 2005 07:56:00 am

Three days after a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a lower court ruling and struck down a Hawaiian school policy of only admitting native Hawaiians , nearly 15,000 people...

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News Court blocks US government logging plan in largest national forest
Court blocks US government logging plan in largest national forest
Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 03:31:00 pm

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected a US government plan that would have allowed vast undeveloped areas of the country's largest national forest to be...

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News Privacy groups challenge DOJ effort to eavesdrop on airline passengers
Privacy groups challenge DOJ effort to eavesdrop on airline passengers
Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 02:53:00 pm

Two technology privacy groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to block a proposal that would give the US Department of Justice broad powers to listen-in on cellphone calls and monitor online computer activity by airline passengers....

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News UN denounces rights violations in Burundi
UN denounces rights violations in Burundi
Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 02:16:00 pm

Ismael Diallo, Chief of the Human Rights Division of the UN Operation in Burundi , has deplored ongoing rights violations in the central African state, indicating that 53 summary executions of civilians were reported in Burundi in July...

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Former WorldCom accountant gets prison, house arrest
Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 01:35:00 pm

Former WorldCom accounting executive Betty Vinson was sentenced Friday to five months in jail with an additional five months under house arrest for her role in the $11 billion fraud at the telecommunications giant that resulted in its bankruptcy....

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August 5, 2005 12:37:00 pm

Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Friday announced a planned summit meeting of Australian state leaders and security advisors next month to mull over ways to reduce Australia's vulnerability to terrorist attacks. Howard is debating whether terror...

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Lawsuit prompts Pentagon release of returning coffin photos
Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 11:51:00 am

The Pentagon has released 32 new or recently uncensored images of the coffins of US soldiers and agreed to quickly fulfill any future Freedom of Information Act requests for images of US war casualties. The release...

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US urges restoration of constitutional order in Mauritania
Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 10:42:00 am

US ambassador Joseph LeBaron was called Thursday to Mauritania's foreign ministry in Nouakchott by the Military Council for Justice and Democracy, a militia group that has taken control of the West African nation. LeBaron met with leaders...

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Rights group: abuses in China linked to Olympic preparations
Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 10:09:00 am

In a report issued Friday, human rights group Amnesty International claimed that the abuses currently taking place in China are directly related to the country's preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games to be held...

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Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 09:41:00 am

In a victory for Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf , the country's Supreme Court Thursday blocked a proposal by the Islamist-controlled North-West Frontier Province to introduce a set of controversial morals laws to be enforced...

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Bakke affirmative action case argued

On October 12, 1977, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, a white student denied admission to University of California Davis Medical School. The court ruled the following year that that the Davis affirmative action plan was unconstitutional; Bakke was admitted to UC Davis Medical School and eventually graduated from there with his MD. Listen to the oral arguments and the reading of opinions by Chief Justice Burger, Justice Powell and others on Oyez.

Bakke affirmative action case argued

On October 12, 1977, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, a white student denied admission to University of California Davis Medical School.

The Court ruled the following year that that the Davis affirmative action plan was unconstitutional; Bakke was admitted to UC Davis Medical School and eventually graduated from there with his MD. Listen to the oral arguments and the reading of opinions by Chief Justice Burger, Justice Powell and others on Oyez, the Supreme Court multimedia site at Northwestern University.

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