Erwin Chemerinsky, the constitutional law scholar hired, fired and rehired last year to be the inaugural law school dean at
UC Irvine, on Thursday described the experience as “the most difficult of my life” but said the ordeal now feels like ancient history.
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Nearly 700 Ivory Coast farmworkers alleging that they became sterile from exposure to a
U.S.-made pesticide can’t claim to be victims of genocide because the producers didn’t intend harm, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is obliged by the Clean Water Act to protect the nation’s waterways, beaches and drinking water from pollution caused by real estate development and should set standards for limiting construction runoff by the end of next year, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
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Compensation awards to victims of Friday’s Metrolink train crash could easily overwhelm a $200-million cap that Congress imposed 11 years ago on a railroad’s liability in any one accident.
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Before facing reporters the day after the catastrophic train collision in Chatsworth, Metrolink spokeswoman Denise Tyrrell called the agency’s chief executive to make an unusual request.
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When Michael Kloster is conscious, he thrashes about his hospital bed in wrenching pain.
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MIAMI – Hurricane Ike tore into western Cuba today, dumping up to 20 inches of rain on already ravaged tobacco and sugar cane crops after its destructive romp across the length of the island that left four dead and forced the evacuation of 1.3 million.
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MIAMI – Hurricane Ike churned through central Cuba today with 100 mph winds, whipping up a five-story storm surge that crashed over seaside towns and villages and toppled utility poles and dilapidated buildings.
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In his 19 years as a law professor at
UCLA, Richard Sander has pondered a nagging question: Does affirmative action help or hinder African Americans who want to become lawyers?
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An extremely dangerous Hurricane Ike churned through the Caribbean on Sunday with 135-mph winds that ripped apart the quaint clapboard houses of Grand Turk Island, shredded mangroves in the Bahamas and destroyed already rain-soaked crops in Haiti and Cuba.
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