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By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the seventh in a series of Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the laws that have shaped our lives in countless ways. The latest tape in the series, focusing on the regents of the University of California v. Bakke affirmative action case in 1978, will be heard on C-SPAN Radio ...
Firefighters Case Looms Large for Sotomayor
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWhen the Supreme Court issues its final rulings of this term on Monday morning, the White House and senators from both parties will be watching most intently for the results of one particular case. That case is Ricci et al. v. DeStefano et al. , a reverse-discrimination case in which 20 firefighters from New Haven, Conn., known as the New Haven 20, are suing the City of New Haven over the civil service test the city administered as a part of the promotion process for the fire department. **UPDATE- The Supreme Court has reversed the Ricci decision, on a 5-4 vote.** ...
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