Just for starters, two years ago, the affirmative action case out of the University of Michigan, you know, she was the person who wrote the opinion that said that the affirmative action policy at the University of Michigan Law School, not the undergraduate school, was constitutional.
As I said at the time, the decision by Justice Antonin Scalia changed class-action law in a subtle but powerful way, injecting the facts of the case at the earliest stages and giving defendants the chance to end a lawsuit before it gains so much momentum they are forced to settle.
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That is the conclusion of Joseph Grundfest, a securities class-action expert, professor of law and business at Stanford Law School and former commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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"There's little if any evidence that they try to negotiate a better price, " says Joseph Grundfest, a professor at Stanford Law School who runs the Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.
The assault weapons ban was a complicated law and even firearms like the .223 Bushmaster believed used by the gunman Friday, wouldn't necessarily have been illegal under that law, said Jonathan Lowy, director of the legal action project at the Brady Center to Prevent Handgun Violence.
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All of which underscores to me the importance from a law and order perspective of avoiding at all costs this sort of police action.
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Under union law, union executives need to give notice that they are taking strike action at least seven days before action is taken although individuals do not have to tell their employer they intend to strike.
If pension assets are at risk, there is no doubt that fiduciaries are required by law to take action.
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At a minimum, Commerce should defer further decontrol action pending the outcome of a report required by law last year on the foreign availability process due to be submitted to the Congress on 15 April.
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