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...landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that permitted Allan Bakke, 41, a white engineer, to be admitted to medical school at the University of California at Davis. Bakke, who claimed he was a victim of "reverse discrimination," had sued the university on the ground that he had been passed over in favor of less qualified minority applicants. The decision, issued in 1978, approved affirmative action but rejected rigid quotas based solely on race. This June, Bakke will graduate from Davis and move on to a residency in anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Bakke did not discuss...
Future Justice or no, Ely probably need not worry about posterity. As a Yale law student, he helped future Court Justice Abe Fortas win the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, in which the Court declared that indigents have the constitutional rights to counsel at trials. He did a stint on the staff of the Warren Commission investigating the death of President John F. Kennedy '40, clerked for Justice Warren the next year, and worked as a public defender in San Diego...
...City Council passed a landmark ordinance to insure 1 percent of each year's municipal budget for funding for public art. Cambridge is one of only a handful of American cities to have approved such a law, and it is the first in Massachusetts...
...cereal case was also a landmark setback for the Government's novel antitrust theory that a group of companies can "share" a monopoly. The FTC's staff had charged that the three firms had a "tacit understanding" that kept cereal prices high and stopped competitors from entering the business. If the cereal makers had lost their case, the shared monopoly doctrine might have been used against autos, aluminum and other industries dominated by a few firms...
...conclusion of the two cases set an important landmark in antitrust law. Said Assistant Attorney General Baxter: "What we learned today is that a company that is large and has a large market share should be allowed to compete aggressively. Period." The giant A T & T was indeed abusing its privileged monopoly position and will be broken up. But the giant IBM has legally achieved its important position in the computer industry and will be allowed to continue in its present form. Last week's decisions will help strengthen competition in both the communications and computer industries. -By Christopher...