And a brilliant lawyer who wrote for he did not work for pay but the general counsel he spotted what he said would be a determinative gender discrimination case. 1970 and the and the Supreme Court had never seen an gender classification. This case was decided by the Supreme Court of idaho. It was about a woman named sally lee who was divorced when her son was a tender years so sally got custody. When the boy became a teenager he now needs to be prepared for a a mans world so the father wanted him to live with him. The boy one day take out one of his fathers many rifles and killed himself. Sally wanted to be appointed administrator of his estate not because of monetary gain but for sentimental reasons. He had a guitar Record Collection a small bank account. That was it. Her former husband applied to the administrator. A couple of weeks later sally thought she would get the appointment because she applied 1st but the Probate Court judge said this leaves me know choice. Entitled to admini
Country. There was a women in the Law Conference i attended at i think the first one was at yale. And we were getting out materials to i rode with my friends, herman cain and kenneth davidson, one of the published cases on sex discrimination and the law. But we came to see by the way, i should say who the we were. A brilliant lawyer, marvin kilpack, he was one of the general counsel. He spotted in law week what he said is going to be the turning point gender discrimination case. The year is 1970 and the Supreme Court has never seen a gender classification that it thought was unconstitutional. This case was decided by the Supreme Court of idaho. It was about a woman named sally reid who was divorced when her son was what the law calls of tender years so sally got custody. When the boy got to be a teenager the father said he now needs to be prepared for a mans world, so i want him to live with me. Sally thought that was a bad idea. Ill cut part of the story short, but the boy one day too
The flagship collection we have here in corpus. He made it his life to help local and beyond mexican americans learn to be more civically active and to get the benefits they had coming to them as veterans which were sometimes very difficult for them to obtain. This represents a case of private longoria which was an incident that occurred early in the g. I. Forum. Private longoria served the United States during world war ii and was killed by a japanese sniper toward the end of the war. His widow arranged to have his funeral conducted by the only funeral home in her hometown of three rivers texas, which is near Corpus Christi. They were willing to conduct the funeral but not willing to allow his body to remain there in the funeral home overnight for fear of offending the white citizens of the area. She appeals to dr. Garcia, and he conducted a Letter Writing Campaign to people with positions of influence. A response came from Lyndon Johnson who had been recently elected senator. He stat
He seems like a really smart guy, a really great guy im sure andy ernst i can say about him he earns, you know, sort of my job was to ask tough questions on behalf of see, they have 107 lobbyists on capitol hill. They are swarming capitol hill their lobbyists. But ive got 100000 i had 100,000 people, more than 1000 people write me their objections. And so the first thing i would do is stop this deal. I would not let this go through if i were its not up to me. Senator franken weighs in on the proposed comcasttime warner cable merger monday on the communicators at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Booktv continues with arundhati roy. She talks about the effect of economic globalization on third world countries and argues that the exploitation of workers on the margins of the global capitalist system goes largely unnoticed even though the negative impact is huge. This is about an hour and a half half. Thank you everybody. Can you all hear me . Yeah . Okay. What im going to do is to talk a little
Gathered evidence late last year about President Trumps role in silencing women with hush payments during the 2016 campaign, mr. Trump called Matthew Whitaker, his newly installed a. G. , with a question. He asked whether jeff berman, the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, and a trump ally, could be put in charge of the widening investigation. Thats according to several american officials with direct knowledge of the call. The times also writes this, mr. Whitaker, who had privately told associates that part of his role at the Justice Department was to, quote, jump on a grenade for the president. Knew that he could not put mr. Berman in charge since mr. E er e berman had already recused himself from the investigation. The president would soon sour on whitaker as he often does with his aides and complained about his inability to pull levers at the Justice Department that could make the president s many legal problems go away. The news that President Trump may have trie