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It seems inevitable that “affirmative action,” aka racial preferences, will return to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court’s eight-year-old decisions Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger haven’t stopped tax-supported schools from using broad preferences policies or the lower courts from rendering conflicting decisions. Part of the problem was the court’s capitulation in allowing tax-supported [...]

In Nelson v. Baker, (KY App., April 1, 2011), the Kentucky Court of Appeal dismissed a lawsuit brought by members of a Baptist church complaining, among other things, that defendants were not reporting to members on the church’s financial affairs. the Court of Appeals held that, based on the First Amendment, it lacked jurisdiction over [...]

Haaretz today reports on a decision by an Israeli district court in Tel Aviv taking the unusual step of reversing a decision of a rabbinical court as being in violation of public policy. At issue is an illegal agreement between two Haredi (strictly-Orthodox) real estate developers.  When the Jewish Agency invited tenders for the purchase [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C Continued here: Embryonic | Courts To Stem Funding? Advance Stem Cell Research