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Indicators That's Oil, Folks The owners of a struggling service station in Alabama sued opec for conspiring to fix the price of oil - and won. Didn't anyone tell them that opec was created, and openly exists, for that very reason? The ruling is virtually unenforceable. Off the Menu...
BARRED. Admission standards at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL that allow race to be a determining factor in judging applicants; by a federal judge, who declared the policies unconstitutional. The school was sued by a white woman who claimed she was denied admission in 1997 to make room for...
In a media conference call yesterday, Sachs predicted that all companies producing effective HIV drugs would eventually provide them to poor African countries at production cost, even though 30 drug companies recently sued the South African government over its attempts to legalize generic copies of HIV drugs.
As for going to court, we would first have to get past all sorts of legal hurdles, such as the doctrine of sovereign immunity, under which the government can be sued only if it allows itself to be sued. Eventually we would bang heads with Clarence Thomas and his like...
But the courts are not doing very much to clarify the issue. Two years ago, a federal court in Portland, Ore., ruled the web site was not protected by the First Amendment, and ordered the site's organizers to pay $109 million in damages to Planned Parenthood and the four...