Category: Legal Reform

School Choice Ruling Sends Struggling Black Kids to the Head of the Class, by Mary Katherine Ascik

New Visions Commentary /
Black Americans won a significant victory when the Supreme Court recently ruled that a Cleveland school vouchers program created to help children escape from substandard schools was constitutional. The Ohio state legislature established the Ohio Pilot Scholarship Program in 1995 ...
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School Choice Ruling Sends Struggling Black Kids to the Head of the Class, by Mary Katherine Ascik

National Policy Analysis #423 /
Black Americans won a significant victory when the Supreme Court recently ruled that a Cleveland school vouchers program created to help children escape from substandard schools was constitutional. The Ohio state legislature established the Ohio Pilot Scholarship Program in 1995 ...
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Lawyers vs. Amusement Parks: Summer May Never be the Same

National Policy Analysis #421 /
For Tim Melago of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, the really good life is a rapid succession of ups and downs. Tim, a 1996 University of Pittsburgh graduate, may well be America's foremost roller coaster enthusiast. He's ridden 440 of them, lives ...
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Vouchers Offer Hope to Black Families; Supreme Court Decision to Permit Choice in Areas with Failing Schools

Press Release /
The U.S. Supreme Court's June 27 decision upholding the constitutionality of school vouchers is hailed by the African-American leadership network Project 21 as a major leap forward in providing inner-city minority children with access to a quality education. "The Supreme ...
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Black Group Condemns Anti-Pledge Ruling; Senate Faulted for Stalling Nominations of Qualified Nominees

Press Release /
An opinion issued by an understaffed federal court which outlawed children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as an unconstitutional promotion of religion has outraged the membership of the African-American leadership network Project 21.A panel of judges on the 9th Circuit ...
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Legal Brief: For Russia’s Sake, It’s Time for Legal Reform; Get a Night Light

For Russia's Sake, It's Time for Legal Reform Violation of the sanctity of contracts and the destruction of intellectual property rights... Unfortunately for companies doing business in Russia today, Soviet-style actions are not a thing of the past. The culprit: ...
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Senate Puts Black Arkansas Jurist at the Back of the Bus

National Policy Analysis #406 /
Bill Clinton used the fact that he was born in Hope, Arkansas to campaign for president as the "man from Hope" - using the name of his birthplace to enhance his image. Lavenski R. Smith, a trailblazing black jurist, is ...
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Senate Puts Black Arkansas Jurist at the Back of the Bus

New Visions Commentary /
Bill Clinton used the fact that he was born in Hope, Arkansas to campaign for president as the "man from Hope" - using the name of his birthplace to enhance his image. Lavenski R. Smith, a trailblazing black jurist, is ...
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Asbestos Lawsuits By Healthy Patients to Siphon Billions From U.S. Economy

National Policy Analysis #408 /
If anyone ever doubted that the growing epidemic of asbestos lawsuits on behalf of non-sick plaintiffs poses a greater threat to the nation's economy than the threat of global terrorism, a recent Wall Street Journal story1 ought to resolve all ...
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Legal Brief: Asbestos Lawsuits: Putting the Greed of the Healthy over the Needs of the Sick; On the Lighter Side: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie; Go to McDonalds Next Time

Asbestos Lawsuits: Putting the Greed of the Healthy over the Needs of the SickAn April 25 front-page Wall Street Journal report shows how the greed of plaintiffs' attorneys is short-changing tens of thousands of sick asbestos victims. Desperately ill patients, ...
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