Affirmative action opponents ask U.S. Supreme Court to take up Harvard case Reuters 2/25/2021
By Nate Raymond
BOSTON (Reuters) - Opponents of policies used by universities to increase their numbers of Black and Hispanic students asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to prohibit Harvard University s consideration of race in undergraduate admissions in a case that could end such affirmative action programs.
Students for Fair Admissions, a group founded by anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum, asked the justices to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling upholding Harvard s race-conscious admissions. A lawsuit backed by Blum accused Harvard of discriminating against Asian-American applicants.
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Scott F. Johnson, Professor of Law, Concord Law School
After a high school cheerleader in Pennsylvania dropped a series of F-bombs about her school in a Snapchat post over a weekend in the spring of 2017, she was suspended from the cheerleading team and sued the school district, claiming the suspension violated her First Amendment rights.
Social media has an ever-growing presence in students’ daily lives. As a result, schools are increasingly faced with the question of whether they can discipline students for remarks made online about school or school officials. The answer is not entirely clear because of different court decisions in different judicial districts.
Jesse Fish s claim to Anastasia Island played out for decades
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The battle for Anastasia
There is an epilogue to the story in Monday’s Record about the new Fish Island Park and its progenitor, “that infamous Floridian” Jesse Fish.
In 1795 Jesse Fish received a land grant from the king of Spain that encompassed all of Anastasia Island, save for two small land grants and the “King’s Quarries” for coquina stone, all located near the northern end of the island. After Fish’s death, the controversy over this land grant would cast a dark shadow over legal titles to properties on Anastasia and retard development on the island for years.
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