Politics | Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action is one of the last remaining, non-violent, legal recourses available to societies that are at risk of one population group committing systematic cultural, economic, and/or mortal genocide against another.

2010-03-16: Headlines

In These Times: Jim Crow Redux 2010-03-16
... which means that they are inclined to focus on issues like affirmative action while remaining silent on the exploding black prison population.
Reuters: JSE to launch trading board for black shareholders 2010-03-16
South African companies have to meet affirmative action targets on a range of ownerships, employment and procurement as part of the government's drive ...
DeHavilland: Lords approve Criminal Defence Service Regulations 2010-03-16
These two sets of regulations are made by the Lord Chancellor under the Access to Justice Act 1999 and are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure ...
This is London: Criminals allowed to walk free: Report blasts London CPS for incompetence 2010-03-16
I read somewhere that staff are not appointed on merit but on affirmative action. Some could not even speak English properly and could not understand fine ...
DeHavilland: Lords approve Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 2010 2010-03-16
It would then be subject to affirmative resolution in this House, but this is not something that is set in stone. On the question of whether drinking water ...
The Progressive Pulse: State Health Plan responds to university faculty 2010-03-16
In the past if state employees did not take affirmative action to change enrollment in the State Health Plan workers were enrolled in the standard 80/20 ...
Leagle.com: MHC FINANCING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP TWO v. CITY OF SANTEE 2010-03-16
... within the constitutional provision at issue, an affirmative intent either to authorize or to withhold a damages action to remedy a violation.
Leagle.com: PEOPLE v. GUERRERO 2010-03-16
Belmontes (1988) 45 Cal.3d 744, 793 [to withdraw from a conspiracy the defendant must "make an affirmative repudiation communicated to his coconspirators"].
Leagle.com: U.S. v. FRANK 2010-03-16
That is, our "Constitution cannot compel such specific, affirmative action by foreign sovereigns." Kilday, 481 F.2d at 656. Two exceptions to this general ...
Leagle.com: GELLERMAN v. ALDRICH 2010-03-16
It is the plaintiff's affirmative burden to produce evidence on this question. (Adams v. Murakami, supra, 54 Cal.3d at p. 120.) We decline to evaluate ...
Newsome Law: Florida Decision Weekly Wrap-up 03/12 2010-03-16
Because an error concerning a trial court ruling on an affirmative defense can be corrected on appeal from a final order, the court held that the defendant ...
Winnipeg Free Press: Irresponsible pet owners ruin it for everyone 2010-03-16
If we are to recognize and take affirmative action to assist those with allergies to smoking in public places, food with nuts for kids in school ...
Trading Markets: STAR EXCIMER LASER SYSTEM & VISX WAVESCAN WAVEFRONT SYSTEM MAINTENANCE 2010-03-16
... FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; FAR 52.222-48, Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Act; FAR 52.222-50 ...
Leagle.com: GOMEZ v. AUTOZONE STORES, INC. 2010-03-16
The trial court denied such a defense request to hold a bifurcated trial on the affirmative defense of that privilege. That was an appropriate ruling ...
Leagle.com: ANTOINETTI v. NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE AUTHORITY 2010-03-16
Adhering to the court's directions, plaintiff's counsel indicated, via email, that he wanted the court to charge the jury that HMS Host had an affirmative ...
Business Day: A real freedom fighter 2010-03-16
I felt like crying when I read Temba Nolutshungu's recent piece on affirmative action (Racially shaped policies will always be a lose-lose game, March 12).
Leagle.com: AVERILL v. FARMERS INSURANCE COMPANY OF WASHINGTON 2010-03-16
[ 9 ] WAC 284-30-393 in fact changed an insurer's affirmative obligations concerning recovery of deductibles. Therefore, the new regulation may not ...
Leagle.com: HAIRSTON v. McMILLAN 2010-03-16
Nothing in the record suggests the special referee did not view the evidence properly and the lack of an affirmative statement to that effect is not enough ...
Leagle.com: U.S. v. REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2621 BRADFORD DRIVE 2010-03-16
Innocent ownership is an affirmative defense on which the claimant bears the burden of proof to show by a preponderance of the evidence that she lacked ...
Leagle.com: WONG v. PAPE MACHINERY, INC. 2010-03-16
Since Wong's requested accommodation is not reasonable, Pape need not demonstrate the affirmative defense of undue hardship. See Raine v.
Leagle.com: HANIL DEVELOPMENT, INC. v. AHN 2010-03-16
In the cross-complaint, appellant and his wife alleged causes of action for themselves and derivative causes of action on HDI's behalf.
The Jacksonville Observer: Texas Kicks Out Liberal Bias From Textbooks 2010-03-16
History textbooks will now be required to cover the “unintended consequences” of Great Society legislation, affirmative action and Title IX legislation.
FINS: Investment Analyst 2010-03-16
Prudential and its affiliates, Newark, New Jersey are Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employers and are committed to diversity in our workforce.
NEXT: Women fight for equity 2010-03-16
... Cross River State again brought to the fore the problems of women in developing countries and the need for an affirmative action to address them.
Leagle.com: BOARD OF EDUCATION OF BOROUGH OF MOUNTAINSIDE v. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... 2010-03-16
On August 1, Berkeley Heights filed an answer that denied it overcharged Mountainside, and pled as an affirmative defense the "applicable statutes ...
Solomon Star: Temotu Pele 2010 hopefuls 2010-03-16
The circle will repeat itself until someone capable holistically addresses the root problems with affirmative action. There are also Home base intending ...
Negros Chronicle: Church sponsors candidates forum 2010-03-16
... National Secretariat for Social Action), and joined recently a people's group in Dumaguete, the AAGOGO (Affirmative Action for Good Governance).
UM Maneater: MU should encourage gay rights 2010-03-16
Call it a form of LGBTQ affirmative action. I know the concepts of increasing health care coverage, providing for more employees' familie ...
Leagle.com: M.L. v. BOURBONNAIS SCHOOL DISTRICT 53 2010-03-16
On September 19, 2008, the District filed its Answer, Affirmative Defense and Counterclaim (#6). In its Counterclaim, the District claimed that ...
Socialist Worker Online: Maximum sentence for the minimum crime 2010-03-16
... and welfare to attract poor and working class white voters who were resentful of, and threatened by, desegregation, busing, and affirmative action.
Leagle.com: STATE v. HEVERLY 2010-03-16
The presumption can be overcome when there is an affirmative showing that the sentence is "`strikingly inconsistent' with the applicable factors.
New York Times: Ways to React to New Housing in East Jerusalem 2010-03-16
This could be done in one of two ways: affirmative action (reserving 800 of the apartments for Palestinians) or nondiscriminatory rentals (for instance ...
Leagle.com: U.S. v. DAVIS 2010-03-16
According to Davis, the district court's choice of words implied that it thought it needed an affirmative reason to stray from the Guideline ...
The Nut Graph: The real deal with Perkasa 2010-03-16
In this first of a two-part interview, Ibrahim defends Perkasa's goals and the need for affirmative action for Malay Malaysians.
The Malaysian Insider: Muhyiddin: NEM will be fair to all 2010-03-16
Unlike the race-based affirmative action-driven New Economic Policy (NEP), the NEM plans to open up the economy from widespread Malay largesse.

2010-03-15: Headlines

Trading Markets: ANTENNA CONTROLLERS (TRIVEC-AVANT CORP PART) 2010-03-15
... FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities (Jun 1998)(29 USC 793); FAR 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons (Feb 2009);
Asian Tribune: Burma: It's time for the NLD to flex its muscles 2010-03-15
Many would agree in the affirmative, “yes.” Than Shwe has gone out his mind. What is wrong with him is the power. Power crazy.
AllAfrica.com: Ghana: Gender Equality Necessary to Achieve MDGs 2010-03-15
... (GE) is one critical vessel to the achievement of the MDGs, Ghana should consider a way forward in a gender-affirmative action policy and implement it.
Bay Area Indymedia: The New Jim Crow 2010-03-15
Affirmative action, though, has put a happy face on this racial reality. Seeing black people graduate from Harvard and Yale and become CEOs or corporate ...
NPR: The Nation: The New Jim Crow 2010-03-15
Affirmative action, though, has put a happy face on this racial reality. Seeing black people graduate from Harvard and Yale and become CEOs or corporate ...
Huffington Post: You'll Never Work in TV 2010-03-15
But please don't bring up affirmative action. I don't apply for TV jobs because there aren't enough black men. Instead, I realize that "the harvest is ripe ...
News Hounds: In Response to Raines Article, O'Reilly Invokes Names of Fox Newsies ... 2010-03-15
He was forced to resign his position at the Times largely because of the Jayson Blair scandal, where a young reporter who benefited from affirmative acti ...
News Hounds: Steve Doocy And Texas Board Of Education Right Winger, Cynthia Dunbar, Advance ... 2010-03-15
... amendments says “that students should study “the unintended consequences” of the Great Society legislation, affirmative action and Title IX legislation.
clusterflock: Rewriting History 2010-03-15
... an amendment saying students should study “the unintended consequences” of the Great Society legislation, affirmative action and Title IX legislation.
Atlanta Journal Constitution: On political spending, voters agree with Obama, not Roberts 2010-03-15
Just like the great majority of the American public feels that affirmative action is illegal racial discrimination. Just like the great majority of ...
Dakota Voice: We Are SICK of Racism! 2010-03-15
Civil rights legislation, forced desegregation, and “affirmative action” policies have been implemented, and welfare “entitlement” has exploded in recent ...
Lincoln Journal Star: Woods charitable fund awards grants 2010-03-15
... and the Progressive Student Coalition, to defend and expand affirmative action and other efforts to promote full inclusion of people of color and women.
Scoop.co.nz: Anthony Ravlich: Freedom from our social prisons 2010-03-15
Most obviously because of the exclusion of the above ground of discrimination on the grounds of social origin (social status at birth) affirmative acti ...
NHPR: Texas Conservatives Win Change to Curriculum 2010-03-15
... 1980s and 90s and the moral majority, include lessons on the “unintended consequences” of affirmative action, and defend the actions behind McCarthyism.
Today's THV: US Senator Blanche Lincolns discusses important topics 2010-03-15
Being a woman in the political arena, Blanche Lincoln says she knows first hand how important affirmative action can be. "As a woman I'm in that minority ...
Leagle.com: PAYNE v. PAYNE 2010-03-15
... the trial upon the party asserting the affirmative of the issue and unless he [or she] meets this obligation upon the whole case, he [or she] fails.
Leagle.com: POTTER COUNTY v. TUCKNESS 2010-03-15
The County interposed the affirmative defense of governmental immunity and filed a plea to the jurisdiction asserting the trial court lacked subject-matter ...
Walrus Magazine: Citizen Saul 2010-03-15
Depending on your point of view, the Adisokaun Site is either a shining example of affirmative action or the artistic equivalent of an Indian reservation.
Leagle.com: PORZILLO v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 2010-03-15
She also asserted two affirmative defenses. First, she argued that she was removed for making disclosures protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act ...
Today's Zaman: Women's votes to shape outcome of referendum 2010-03-15
Inserting compelling articles in the package such as affirmative action policies for women, children and disadvantaged groups, Erdogan hinted at ...
Leagle.com: SOLEY v. WASSERMAN 2010-03-15
... to refrain from filing a timely action." Pahlad v. Brustman, 33 AD3d 518, 519 (App. Div. 1st Dep't 2006). The defendant's "affirmative wrongdoing" must ...
Leagle.com: SALSMAN v. SEARS, ROEBUCK AND COMPANY 2010-03-15
[ 2 ] The court dismissed Appellants' action on the grounds that: (1) they failed to timely file it within the one-year statute of limitations set forth ...
Central Chronicle: 'Her'story made ...But will males be fair? 2010-03-15
Thus, affirmative action was an essential instrument to jump-start the process of equality. It would wash away the reality of inequality and translate ...
Leagle.com: MORTON v. HALL 2010-03-15
Defendants subsequently moved for summary judgment and argued, inter alia, the affirmative defenses of failure to exhaust administrative remedies under ...
Leagle.com: INTERGRAPH CORPORATION v. BENTLEY SYSTEMS INCORPORATED 2010-03-15
... period ... an evergreen maintenance agreement does not renew, but continues until such time as one party takes affirmative action to terminate it.
Malaysia Star: Knowledge with purpose 2010-03-15
A Muslim will definitely answer in the affirmative. He is taught that realities of things are firmly established and that objective knowledge about them ...
Hindustan Times: Govt okays bill, foreign varsities in India soon 2010-03-15
Like private universities in the country, the foreign ones too — whether private or state-owned — won't have to implement affirmative action-driven quot ...
Leagle.com: FRANCO v. CRONFEL 2010-03-15
... negate at least one essential element of each of the plaintiff's causes of action or conclusively establish each element of an affirmative defense.
Business Times: KL policy reversals piling up over 'public feedback' 2010-03-15
While nothing has been made public, there is speculation that Mr Najib intends to roll back some of Malaysia's affirmative action policies that favour ...
Leagle.com: DORNS v. GEITHNER 2010-03-15
First, she claims that failure to exhaust administrative remedies is an affirmative defense and that "an affirmative defense not raised by the answer c ...
Leagle.com: MELTON v. BOUSTRED 2010-03-15
In other words, "one `who has not created a peril is not liable in tort merely for failure to take affirmative action to assist or protect another' from ...
Toledo On The Move: Mayor's 'Plan B': Toledo Police, city worker layoffs 2010-03-15
... being eliminated include those in the divisions of Recreation, Neighborhoods, Human Resources, Plan Commission, Foresty, and Affirmative Action.
NEXT: Women fight for equity 2010-03-15
... Cross River State again brought to the fore the problems of women in developing countries and the need for an affirmative action to address them.
Leagle.com: NOISETTE v. GEITHNER 2010-03-15
"In the DC Circuit, it is clear that `[b]ecause untimely exhaustion of administrative remedies is an affirmative defense, the defendant bears the burden ...
Leagle.com: RYDER v. MABRY 2010-03-15
Ryder, acting pro se, filed an answer denying liability and asserting, as an affirmative defense, that the trial court lacked in personam jurisdiction over ...
Leagle.com: SHEHATA v. SALVATION ARMY 2010-03-15
The commission decided that "Shehata's false statements and concealment of his work status, when he had an affirmative duty to disclose it" could support ...
Leagle.com: COLVIN v. SHEETS 2010-03-15
... performance of his "duty, in order to protect the integrity of the trial, to take prompt and affirmative action to stop . . . professional misconduct.
mydigitalfc.com: India: towards new awakening 2010-03-15
What works in today's world is affirmative action. We should look at affirmative action for policies we want to adopt. We need to provide the right ...
Leagle.com: SCHULTZ v. BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. 2010-03-15
Under the facts of this case, we answer the first and third questions in the affirmative and the second question in the negative.
Afrik.com: Zimbabwe: French oil group Total victim of Black empowerment regulation? 2010-03-15
Late last year Germany protested to the Zimbabwe government after the Affirmative Action Group (AAG) threatened to expel Bonn-based international courier ...
Leagle.com: U.S. v. MITCHELL 2010-03-15
Still, in order to prevent abuses of the Speedy Trial Act's deadlines, this court requires a showing of "some affirmative justification" by the government ...
Leagle.com: ZANKE-JODWAY v. CAPITAL CONSULTANTS, INC. 2010-03-15
In December 2008 the plaintiffs filed their first amended complaint, and the defendants filed answers and affirmative defenses in December 2008 and January ...
Leagle.com: CABLEVISION SYSTEMS CORPORATION v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 2010-03-15
Where there is no evidence of any urgent need for preventive action, the agency is not entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
Today's THV: Representative David Cook says, "I'm not a career politician" 2010-03-15
In a perfect world, Cook says affirmative action wouldn't be an issue, but says right now it still holds value. "There's glass ceilings everywhere ...
Dispatch Online: Cope caught at crossroads 2010-03-15
“We were unhappy during the general elections on his statements on affirmative action, which were interpreted as racist to please white people.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Higher-Education Groups Back U. of Texas in Affirmative-Action Case 2010-03-15
Fourteen national higher-education associations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold ...
TODAY Newspaper: Govt. berates youths' lackadaisy towards skills acquisition 2010-03-15
... there is need for affirmative action to harness the potentials of the young people for effective participation in national development processes.
Lexology: Introduction to federal government contracting 2010-03-15
For instance, work on federal government contracts must be regulated for nondiscrimination and sometimes for affirmative action in hiring.
Irish Times: This time of crisis affords us great opportunity to redefine ourselves 2010-03-15
... ranging from a revised electoral system, increasing voter participation, reform of the Seanad, supporting affirmative action when it comes to increasing ...

2010-03-14: Headlines

The Australian: PM should beware the Laurie driven by Gillard 2010-03-14
But he then lost it again in a draw from a hat due to an affirmative action loading. This time around, without a Left candidate, Holland could have pulled ...
Salt Lake Tribune: Rolly: The petty games legislators play 2010-03-14
... Oda's joint resolution to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot designed to do away with any kind of affirmative action programs.
Charleston: NYT: “Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change” - Daily Mail 2010-03-14
... an amendment saying students should study 'the unintended consequences' of the Great Society legislation, affirmative action and Title IX legislation.
Business Times: Recent policy reversals unnerving to investors 2010-03-14
In the case of the New Economic Policy - the affirmative action policy that was meant to eliminate the identification of race with economic function but ...
New York Times: Your Reality TV 2010-03-14
In the big University of Michigan affirmative action case of 2003, the court again only released audiotapes. Cameras in the court would allow Americans ...
El Paso Inc: EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES 2010-03-14
In the big University of Michigan affirmative action case of 2003, the court again only released audiotapes. Cameras in the court would allow Americans ...
The Sun Daily: Whistleblowers need protection 2010-03-14
We have spent enough time discussing the options and time has come for affirmative action. R. Nadeswaran is heartened to know that three senior government ...
Livemint: A woman 'sarpanch' finds her place in the sun 2010-03-14
“If women sarpanchs conduct meetings, undertake development initiatives and lead by example, this will bear out promises of every affirmative action policy ...
Daily Mirror: Why Tamils Need a Pragmatic Political Leadership 2010-03-14
'Affirmative action' of the kind has been known to the rest of the world, and has worked well. It is more so in the Third World, but the First World h ...
Jamaica Gleaner: No Top-Class cover girls? 2010-03-14
That young men need affirmative action in order to achieve? Are we teaching young people that media images are far more powerful than grand 'equal ...
Charleston: NYT: “Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change” - Daily Mail 2010-03-14
... an amendment saying students should study 'the unintended consequences' of the Great Society legislation, affirmative action and Title IX legislation.
Bemidji Pioneer: Beaulieu opposes Persell for 4A bid 2010-03-14
John Persell do anything about helping people living in poverty as a result of the lack of enforcement of affirmative action which is only one of the many ...
THISDAY: SIMON KOLAWOLE Live!, Email: simonkolawole@thisdayonline.com, 03.14.2010 2010-03-14
... if not the governor; and they want some form of affirmative action to guarantee them some political offices (like council chairmanship).
Sydney Morning Herald: Reds no longer a punchline? 2010-03-14
Unable to decide his next course of action, he plain old dropped the ball over the sideline. It simply didn't matter. Cooper just smiled. So did O'Conn ...
Las Vegas Sun: Seize this opportunity to change higher education, regents told 2010-03-14
This is the time we can actually look at what we've done and how we've allowed this stuff to build up, and take affirmative action.

2010-03-13: Headlines

ChattahBox: Utah Republican Lawmaker's Nude Hot Tub Confession 2010-03-13
At the end of a late-night legislative session, in which right-wing lawmakers ranted against global warming as tyranny and sought to ban affirmative acti ...
Ghana News Agency: Involve women in peace negotiations - Government told 2010-03-13
He appealed to government to always ensure that affirmative action on women received equal attention like their male counterparts. Nansa Aleemyaroom said he ...
TwoCircles.net: RSS believes only Hindus are Indians! 2010-03-13
We have to cater for all the religious communities and in addition to implement affirmative action for weaker sections of society.
Los Angeles Times: Packard heir travels to GOP convention to raise money for Carly Fiorina foe 2010-03-13
... Packard criticized Fiorina's positions on Internet taxation, global warming, education, judicial nominations and affirmative action.
MetroWest Daily News: Marlborough Dems pick Sean Navin as new chairman 2010-03-13
The Committee's affirmative action officer will be Jan Krause Greene. She is now responsible for maintaining an appropriate age-ethnic-gender balance ...
The Malaysian Insider: Dump the NEP 2010-03-13
But that's not to say that we no longer need affirmative action programmes. We do. But we need these programmes to undergo a 'game-changing' re-design ...
Irish Times: Banks grumbling over Nama's demands for information 2010-03-13
But achieving this without some measure of affirmative action is extremely difficult. A recent successful use of quotas comes courtesy of the business world ...
FrumForum: Alternative Right's Ugly Racism 2010-03-13
The leftwing perspective (pro-Affirmative Action, pro-Hispanic mass immigration, pro-socialism etc.) is more compatible with the “morally superior” PC ...
DL-Online: Governor race a priority for county's DFL'ers 2010-03-13
Aaron Wittnebel and Lon Engberg were chosen as the party's secretary and treasurer, respectively, while Barb Faber was chosen as affirmative action officer.
Salt Lake Tribune: McEntee: Outcome 'a mixed bag;' but drama was assured 2010-03-13
... climate change science, the ethics debate, the proposals to rid Utah of pervasive affirmative action and to rein in federal law enforcement officers.
McKinney Courier Gazette: State curriculum shifts to the right 2010-03-13
... an amendment to ensure students study “the unintended consequences” of the Great Society legislation, affirmative action and Title IX legislation.
Toronto Star Blogs: Eyes on the prize. 2010-03-13
... correctly or otherwise, as the party of left-wing special interests - Big Government, Big Labor, feminism, affirmative action and, casting a shadow over ...
The Militant: Calif. protesters say: Stop education cuts! 2010-03-13
As a result of the elimination of affirmative action programs after the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996, today only 3.5 percent of students at Berkeley ...
Law.com: Senate Committee Approves Controversial Legal Services Corp. Nominee 2010-03-13
... funding of legal services and support of California's Proposition 209, a ballot initiative to end most affirmative action programs in that state.
Malaysia Star: Split in Indian vote likely with HRP 2010-03-13
Uthayakumar's main grouse is that Pakatan has yet to alleviate Indian poverty with affirmative action programmes and failed to alienate land for Tamil ...
Salt Lake Tribune: Outcome 'a mixed bag;' but drama was assured 2010-03-13
... climate change science, the ethics debate, the proposals to rid Utah of pervasive affirmative action and to rein in federal law enforcement officers.
Indian Express: The Great Divide 2010-03-13
It put affirmative action for SC/ST in the Constitution. Panchayati Raj came 45 years after Independence but brought along with it radical empowerment ...
Outlook: The Mandal Slayer 2010-03-13
Yet, in an astonishing display of hypocrisy, the opponent-turned-supporters of affirmative action have shied away from extending the concept of creamy layer ...