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Fresh off her victory in November, Massachusetts Attorney General-elect Martha Coakley has already begun fattening her campaign coffers again in very public fashion. This despite the fact that Coakley barely spent any money on a campaign that ran uncontested in the Democratic primary and only faced token Republican opposition in the general election...
Although there are many situations that warrant the use of an exclamation point, a legal brief being submitted to the Supreme Court probably isn't one of them. But Teddy Gordon may have been too revved up to restrain his grammar. The Louisville, Ky., attorney, who has long dreamed of arguing before the highest court in the land and who in recent months had a sign in his office that said "Washington D.C. or Bust," has been on a mission to overturn the racial guidelines Kentucky's Jefferson County adopted to keep its public schools integrated. The student-assignment policy...
...tolerance crackdown in the '90s. Calculate in average recidivism rates of 40% for those released from federal penitentiaries and 67% for those who leave state facilities, and it's clear that more crimes are being committed because there are simply more criminals around to commit them. Says Milwaukee district attorney E. Michael McCann: "We're charging the same guys who came through our doors 10 or 20 years...
...program are also trained to be “savvy consumers” of statistics, analyzing real data on local high schools to make informed decisions about where to apply, Dugas says.All 8GA students participate in a special apprenticeship with lawyers from Boston law firms, the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, and the Boston Bar Association to hone their persuasive writing skills. “It makes the work they’re doing in school relevant to their futures—that’s why apprenticeship learning for this age group is so powerful...
...Attorney Liliana M. Garces, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, filed a brief on behalf of 553 social scientists urging the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of two school districts' race-conscious student-assignment plans. The Nov. 29 article "GSE Hosts Panel on Racial Balance" incorrectly stated that she filed the brief on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, her former employer...