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Whatever the merits of Meredith's case, even her supporters can admit she is hardly the ideal plaintiff. She didn't attempt to sign her son up for kindergarten until August, despite numerous radio and TV announcements and signs posted in day-care centers and Laundromats reminding parents to apply for their choice of school by March. By the time Meredith (who declined to be interviewed for this article) did apply, most of the seats had been allocated. Cheryl Wirth, a waitress at Waffle House whose son attends a magnet school, thinks this alone ought to be enough to dispose...
...allegations could be made without the suspects having the chance to examine and respond to them - deferred to Lebrot. Lebrot's office declined to comment, citing pending litigation by Rabehi and seven colleagues who challenged the revocations in court. Pending the court ruling expected next week, Rabehi and another plaintiff had their badges returned to them - proving, Rabehi said, "the authorities acknowledge the information against us was wrong. How can you not doubt the other cases...
...universities could provide special consideration to minorities, as long as they didn't use strict point systems like the one that the University of Michigan's undergraduate program had used. (The school gave 20 points on a 150-point scale for being black or Hispanic, and Gratz was the plaintiff in the suit that ruled it unconstitutional...
...thing they didn't do was sue, which emboldened Brown to show the letters to a lawyer. One thing led to another, and last June she found herself before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia as the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the collection agency. Her lawyer, Cary Flitter, argued that, because the agency never intended to sue, only to scare her and some 13,000 others who had received similar letters in Pennsylvania, it had engaged in a "deceptive" practice prohibited by federal law. A U.S. district court had already dismissed this argument, pointing...
...rating for a particular film are not allowed to cite movies with similar scenes that got a milder rating. "It's not like a legal proceeding where you can quote precedent," says Wayne Kramer, director of The Cooler. The legal equivalent to this strange rule would be that every plaintiff in a racial prejudice case before the Supreme Court was obliged to argue Brown v. Education all over again...