MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'affirmative action'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:41 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2588178&cid=t_128416_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FhG5hDI-6Ubc%2F Nothing has changed in the six short weeks since Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to the Supreme Court: she remains a symbol of the racial politics she embraces. While we celebrate her story and professional achievements, we must realize that she — an average federal judge with a passel of unimpressive decisions — would not even be part of the conversation if she weren’t a Hispanic woman. As Americans increasingly call for the abolition of affirmative action, Sotomayor supports racial preferences. As poll after poll shows that Americans demand that judges apply the law as written, the “wise Latina” denies that this is ever an objective exercise and urges judges to view cases through ethnic and gender lenses. At next week’s hearings, Sotomayor will have to a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2588178 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:36:28 +0100 2588178 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2364935&cid=t_128416_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXGWf0nuPO-M%2F Today the Supreme Court heard argument in Ricci v. DeStefano, the “reverse discrimination” case in which the city of New Haven refused to certify the results of a race-neutral promotion exam whose objective results would have required, under civil service rules, the promotion of only white and Hispanic (but no black) firefighters. The firefighters who were thus denied promotions sued the city, claiming racial discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Remarkably, a panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals—including oft-mentioned Supreme Court contender Sonia Sotomayor—summarily affirmed the district court’s ruling against the firefighters, though Judge José Cabranes (a Clinton appointee) later excoriate... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2364935 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:02:44 +0100 2364935 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2217406&cid=t_128416_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FC4xLikcx6GE%2F Yesterday Cato filed a brief in what will be one of the most talked-about cases in the current Supeme Court term, Ricci v. DeStefano. In Ricci, the City of New Haven, Connecticut developed an exam for firefighters seeking promotion to command positions. The city went out of its way to ensure that the exam was race-neutral and tested only relevant skills and abilities. When the exam results came down, however, white candidates had done better than their African-American and Hispanic peers. Given the few command positions available and the city’s rule that the highest scorers on an exam be promoted first, few minority firefighters would thus have been eligible for promotion. After a series of meetings and political machinations, the city refused to certify the results of the exam and p... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2217406 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:39:27 +0100 2217406 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1943627&cid=t_128416_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F08%2Fwhat-stigma-abstract%2F Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Emily Houh, and Mary Campbell have posted an intriguing article, “Cracking the Egg: Which Came First - Stigma or Affirmative Action?” (forthcoming 96 California Law Review (2008)) on SSRN.  Here’s the abstract. * * * This Article examines the strength of arguments concerning the causal connection between racial stigma and affirmative action. In so doing, this article reports and analyzes the results of a survey on internal stigma (feelings of dependency, inadequacy, or guilt) and external stigma (the burden of others’ resentment or doubt about one’s qualifications) for the Class of 2009 at seven public law schools, four of which employed race-based affirmative action policies when the Class of 2009 was admitted and three of which did n... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1943627 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:54:04 +0100 1943627 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=705778&cid=t_128416_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Flouisvillians-dubious-claim-to-fame.html A Louisvillian's dubious claim to fameCrystal Meredith? Went to school with her.Not that I agree with her suit. (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger) Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=705778 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:10:00 +0100 705778