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View More News9/6/1983: The City of Richmond solicited bids for installing plumbing fixtures at the city jail. The J.A. Croson Company’s bid was denied because it did not meet the “set-aside requirement” for minority contractors. The Supreme Court declared this decision unconstitutional in City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. (1989). The Rehnquist Court (1989) Read the full article here
An interesting perspective from D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Glickman concurring in Douglas v. Deutsche Bank Nat’l Trust Co. (more on that case here): The panel opinion, which I join, states that “every attorney who signed the brief bears some responsibility” for inclusion of fake citations. I agree with that general principle, subject to a clarification as to what I think it must entail. The opinion also quotes, with evident approval, the Ninth Circuit’s declaration that “[a] competent and diligent attorney cannot decline to ‘vet’ citations, in a brief he signs, for substantive validity—in other words, to read the…
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