Civil Attorneys

One of the biggest media scandals in Canada over the past two years, it was the nature and systematic manner, by the mainstream press has ignored the plight of Caledonia, Ont. Where native thugs gesetzloses have a life of hell for local residents and businesses. (This newspaper is, as I suggest, is a notable exception. Findlay John The trial was recently published in the commentary pages of the Post neat exhaustive and definitive account of the whole chaos to date . I am also proud of our latest editorial At this topic.)

But Caledonians have not. Over the past few months, more importantly, I am impressed with the way citizens have darangemacht, history, a report that the major media ignored. This site was a hub particularly useful for members of the community - and has a wide range of knowledge and the few stories circulating media, which occurs on the subject.

Local activists have also helped to produce their own messages. In February, Michael Bryant, Ontario Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, went to the beach Caledonia videotape on a few segments to show him with the people in finding solutions for people born in a tight spot. Given that The Post reports today, optimistic, self-Nature aims to Caledonians has exasperated many clips, and a few creates a montage of videos from Youtube show, “people are afraid to take the government.” (The script was Lisa’s parents, the number of footage.) Based on the reports today, in the media - including the tube on page A2 of the Post - I would say get the Caledonians over Bryant.

Look at the videos, if you can. Irrespective of this, if you convincingly or not, you have the energy consumption and harvesting small militants in the city, who absolutely refuse, leave the shame of the Indigenous Law, in his home town of Ontario under the ‘agenda. It’s free speech of the highest quality.

Lhasa is normal umgestimmt long after the bunkers of the government under the law disorders moved by a group of types of snowshoes, broken, stoned, looted and committed arson, March 14. Citizens of all ethnic groups in Tibet Autonomous Region, have to recognize that their personal experience, that the defence of social harmony and stability is a sine qua non to maintain the momentum of reform and development, and a common will and fundamental interests of all ethnic groups are in the region.

Without a condition for stability, nothing, and a multitude of successes could lost. Xiangba, a Tibetan and a native Neighbourhood chairman of the Committee of the Chengguan Town of Qamdo (or Chambdu) Landkreis acknowledged that “of all things under heaven, harmony and stability is very important.”

Without stability, there would be no better off-Tibet, Tibet or in peace and harmony. Longzhu, a worker retired from the Tibetan medicine People’s Regional Hospital in Lhasa, said: “I was very happy and satisfied with my life of retirement. These days, however, the law breakers filled us with fear constant, and the children were scared, almost At school, to go back home. Sabotage by harmony and stability in Tibet, the Dalai clique simply not, let us live a life of carefree and comfortable. ”

The attempt of a handful of Randalierer harmony, regional stability and goes against the will of local people, government officials and Buddhists in Tibet. Norzhui Yuxi, a local resident of Lhasa, said he felt shocked and tortured at the sight of the burned-down, dilapidated houses, innocent people, under intense medical care in hospitals and the police, the police wounded in the interests of people in need of protection.

Living Buddha Tsongkang Norzui had to say: “The uprising has met with great sadness and anger, and Buddhists Randalierer, violence, not only on the violation of national laws and regulations, but the principles and rules of Buddhism ( Tibet). ” There is absolutely no other way to the route of the “independence of Tibet”, he warned, and the riots that strike, break, and durchwühlend arson, is totally unacceptable.

The harmony and stability is a popular, a common aspiration of the common people, and a general tendency is not changed. The nation needs stability, the stability of our society requires it, and human beings, including the necessary stability. This corresponds to a unanimous consensus, people of all ethnic groups throughout China for its long and wide practice of the history of evolution, particularly since the introduction of reform and opening to the world , three decades ago, and, consequently, it is an invaluable experience.

All things in the world, their construction is much more difficult and exhausting as their destruction. The harmony and stability of the Chinese nation is the result of long, painstaking efforts, people of all ethnic groups in China, including Tibetans, which are not easy to obtain.

The violence in Lhasa and some other Tibetan ethnic territories has once again demonstrated that it is possible that the sabotage of harmony and stability in a region or a part-sector would have a negative impact on the stability and the harmony in Germany. Since harmony and stability is difficult deserved, we should be reinforced with a frame treasure.

In addition, the unrest in Tibet, to strike, to break durchwühlend and arson, it was further sharpened our vigilance and alert. So, we were aware that it is a long-term task, ensuring social harmony and stability requirements, consciously, the tireless efforts of the entire Chinese people.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - Most of his players and has now dressed, New York City, the first black Major League Manager was alone in his office, in the tradition of Field, weakening of the hour another afternoon. Beside him, charts, broke his current list of Mets. There were decisions are made on the fact that the list and preparations for the coming season. But now so many pressing issues plagued him.

“Think about it,” said Willie Randolph, in a tone more surprised than confused. “I am the first African-American in New York Manager. They do not really believe that. People are talking about the fact that we are indeed arrived. This only shows that we still have a long way to go.”

The issue is deeply personal Randolph, whose livelihood is dependent on a man he had never been filled, and a struggle, it is seldom had to fight. Over time, Randolph was old enough to fully understand the scope of the civil rights movement, the greatest injustices have already been repaired. Randolph never to drink from a separate well or sleep in a hotel. But the fight is not yet completed, and so Randolph still burns.

He wishes, it is often something that would have been to grow, as at that time, as the only skin are also many aspects of his life. It ramp in the mind. That’s why for Randolph, this Saturday of the Civil Rights Thursday was also a sense of purpose. This, in Memphis, along with Martin Luther King Jr. “Death, Randolph is forced to take a break and the past he has never had to endure.

“There will be a training for all of us,” said Randolph. “It’s something that would be very interesting to go there and a little knowledge about really, as he was, and to feel and see. This is true for all players - African-Americans, Latin American players, what we have here. It should be something we look forward to. ”

Randolph’s only vis-à-vis the King exposure came from the dusty pages of textbooks and the image grainy documentaries. It was not much. But the more he began to discover what this world was all about, in addition, he noted that many say that a man who, like many others, that man is his own life affected. Born in a different time, in another culture, Randolph may never saw his big dream league is for you.

Permanent here, in Florida, in its bright blue jacket Mets, Randolph can see that everyone, but he can not help but anyway feel separated. Here, it can open your eyes and you will see an empty office, a few chairs in the corner, the names of his players on the wall. Here, it may be the past, but a snap in the present, when it sees fit.

Not in Memphis this weekend, while another kind of reality is devouring.

“It is an emotional nature for me to be there and, in my opinion, reflect on what it is to have been like at that time,” said Randolph. “I am standing in my opinion, and I think that if I, I hol a better idea.”

The shuttle Rev. Fred Worth, have the effect, civil rights protests in Birmingham in the 1960’s, before going to Ohio, met with colleagues from the movement in a hospital in Birmingham, where it is in the rehabilitation of a stroke during the last year.

The 86-year Shuttle Worth said he feels well and is improving, but his speech is to stop, and he uses a wheelchair or walker.

“I thank God for the courage,” says the shuttle Worth. “He never left us alone.”

The Rev. F.D. Reese, the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Selma and a leader in the Selma-Montgomery March, and Fred Gray, the lawyer representing the Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In the bus boycott in Montgomery, prayed with the shuttle Worth Health South, on Wednesday Lakeshore Rehabilitation Clinic.

LEAD: Six experts in constitutional law said today, a committee of the policy of the National Endowment for the Arts, it was not wise to require that grant recipients, under oath, it is not with federal money to create works obscene.

Six experts in constitutional law said today, a committee of the policy of the National Endowment for the Arts, it was not wise to require that grant recipients, under oath, it is not with federal money to create works obscene.

The law experts said the oath had a disturbing effect on creativity. They also said in a joint statement that if the Congress elects the funding of art, it can not ensure that, in a manner that the Supreme Court has said,”is the suppression of dangerous ideas.”

The balance ideological group consisted of Geoffrey Stone, dean of the University of Chicago Law School; Kathleen Sullivan, a professor at Harvard Law School, Michael McConnell, an assistant to the Federal Attorney General of the Reagan administration and is now a professor at the University of Chicago Law School; Theodore Olsen, the Deputy Attorney General during the Reagan years, which is now in its own practice; Monighan Henry, a professor at Columbia University Law School, Floyd Abrams, and the New York company Cahill Gordon & Reindel.

Part of a compromise amendment

The issues that you have visible figure in the debate over the fate of the Foundation. The restrictions were part of a compromise reached by the House of Representatives and a Senate of the Committee during the last autumn conference of the Foundation of art has been under attack by members of Congress as well as conservative and of political and religious organizations for the care of art, as some believe, obscene or blasphemous.

The compromise independent of the Commission, and today’s meeting in the building of the Old Post Office has been reduced to find ways that can help the Foundation again the full support of Congress. The 12 seats Commission, which was appointed by President Bush, it is expected that the report on the practices of the life insurance capital in September, in time for the next Congress, the debate on the future of the Agency. Without radical changes proposed, the members of Congress, it is perhaps easier to vote for the equipment largely intact.

Leonard Garment, a Washington lawyer, is one of the co-chairs of the Commission, asked the Constitution, the three experts in the group, Mr. Pierre, Ms. Sullivan and Mr. McConnell, if it were allowed, under the Constitution to Congress to give instructions Stiftung”in art in the form of a Präambel”zu its legal mandate of the Agency to prolong life.

Mr. Stone said,”If the preamble of no legal effect, you can say what you want.”Ms. Sullivan and Mr. McConnell agreed.

More citizen participation

Sullivan told later that the Commission, if the problem of the Foundation ist”Klasse war - America strikes back, because the art world is exhausted, the elite and un-American,”while Lösung mehr”citizen involvement in Peers - Review Panel process.”This solution may, in their opinion, would avoid legal problems dass”verfassungsrechtlich language.”

Mr. Olsen disputed. I think ,”,” he said, that the power Kongress”aufbauen in the statutes of certain standards, and the courts to grant substantial expenditure of collegiality in the top of public funds, even if the First Amendment is involved.”

A said Monighan such restrictive language would be unconstitutional. ”It is important to resist this attempt, subject to the relatively autonomous art, the world of discipline and intolerance of the majority of political democracy,”he said.

FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - Deutsche Bahn AG, said concerned that a bill, which should lead to its privatisation in May against the constitutional law are “without foundation”, citing two independent assessments.

The bill “absolutely consistent with the provisions of the guidelines,” said the company in a statement quoted by the opinion of the law Rupert Scholz professor of corporate law and Professor Peter Hommelhoffa.

Germany Basic Law only requires that public enterprises, the door must remain largely controlled by the government, but this does not mean that the government must itself more than half the share of the company, with Deutsche Bahn Scholz quoted words.

Hommelhoffa added that the government does not guarantee the control of the operational activity of the company, according to the report by Deutsche Bahn.

Deutsche Bahn is partly the object floating in an Initial Public Offering in 2009.

The actions of George W. Bush ’s presidential campaign-to prevent the textbooks tell a vote in Florida is legally weak, but the tactics can be beneficial, Democratic and Republican legal experts said Sunday.

Bases Scientists have said it would be very difficult to convince the federal judge, that the mere act of manual recounts irreparable damage, the rights of both Bush, Republican candidate in Florida or seven Republicans, voters are his co - Claimants . Federal Middle District Judge Donald M. Brooks has scheduled a consultation in the case this morning in Miami.

Arriving in the case of the Federal Court, but could be built for the Republicans, which Brooks Middle invited to take control of all the cases with regard to the vote in Florida. Although Middle Brooks is a representative of the Clinton administration, of the Federal Constitution, the Court of Appeal, the Florida court case, it is dominated by members appointed Republican. On the other hand, national courts heard the case in Florida are mostly Democratic.

At the head of the legal system, one of the current majority of the Supreme Court of the United States were judges appointed by the Republican president. By contrast, six of the seven justices of the Supreme Court of Florida were appointed governors of democracy. The seventh was appointed by an agreement between the two parties, former Gov. Lawton Chiles, a Democrat, and current Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, and George W. Bush, younger brother candidate.

“I think people in the Bush camp, a decision they wanted to Federal Court, and I can see why she would have preferred Forum,” said prosecutor David E. Cardwell Orlando, represented the two The major political parties in the voting disputes in Florida.

It is not surprising that the first stage of the Democratic Legal Team - headed by Professor of Harvard Law School Laurence Tribe - was not only to assert that the Republicans costume had no merit but was told that dispute in state court.

“The state of the method of appointment of its Chairman voters is undeniable, and in essence, a question of law,” Tribe argued in a federal court in the short Sunday night in Miami. “Preserving the integrity of electoral system of the state and to ensure that the voices of all voters counted well, it is the main interest of the State are possible. ”

Bush and democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Al Gore have maintained top-flight lawyers represented in this unprecedented legal battle.

Among the GOP lawyers Theodore Olson, a former official at the Department of Justice under President Reagan and now a partner in the Washington office, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a large firm, which is based in Los Angeles. Olson’s colleagues in the same spirit of George J. Terwilliger - a deputy attorney general under the presidency of Mr. Bush, in Washington today - and Richard Barry, considered one of the best lawyers of the Court of Appeal of Florida.

LEAD: In a direct countermove to the United States Supreme Court, Minnesota has expanded its human rights law to broaden the rights of employees and subcontractors who want to take job discrimination complaints to the state’s courts.

In a direct countermove to the United States Supreme Court, Minnesota has expanded its human rights law to broaden the rights of employees and subcontractors who want to take job discrimination complaints to the state’s courts.

Gov. Rudy Perpich, a Democrat, has signed legislation that is the most far-reaching so far in seeking to overturn the effects of Supreme Court decisions last June on employment discrimination.

Civil rights advocates have said the rulings by the High Court made it more difficult for people to press discrimination lawsuits under Federal law.

The Minnesota legislation, would help a plaintiff in an employment discrimination case in three ways:

* It would permit a person to claim discrimination not only in hiring decisions, but also at any time after the person was hired. Subcontractors could make similar discrimination claims against a contractor.

* It would require the employer to prove that a job requirement that has the effect of screening out minority members or women is justified as a ”business necessity.”

* It would give the plaintiff more time to file a suit alleging that an employer’s seniority system was discriminatory.

The amendments to the state law, signed into law by the Governor on May 3, are patterned in part after rights legislation proposed in Congress by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts. The Kennedy bill is opposed by business interests, and President Bush has vowed to veto it if it reaches him.

The Kennedy legislation recently cleared the Senate Labor Committee on an 11-to-5 vote and is expected to reach the Senate floor in June. The measure passed the House Education and Labor Committee on Tuesday, 23-10. A committee staff member said he expected the bill to reach the House floor late this spring.

Prospects for Congressional passage are said to be good, but Capitol Hill aides say it is unclear whether the House bill could survive a veto.

Other States Are Considered

Julius Chambers, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said Minnesota was the first state to confront the the Supreme Court decisions so broadly. Earlier this year, he said, Massachusetts passed a much narrower bill, overturning limits that the Supreme Court imposed in interpreting a 1866 law that has been used as a basis for suing over employment discrimination.

Mr. Chambers said legislation like Minnesota’s was under consideration in Indiana, Wisconsin and North Carolina. ”The Minnesota action closes a big gap,” he said. ”It has important lessons for people in Washington and other states.”

Stephen Cooper, the Minnesota Commissioner of Human Rights, said the intent of the legislation adopted ”is to restore to people the rights they enjoyed before the Supreme Court took its buzzsaw to them in the last session.”

Battle in the Legislature

The Legal Defense Fund concluded last fall that because of the Supreme Court’s actions, scores of racial discrmination claims had been dismissed or withdrawn because the plaintiffs found it nearly impossible to keep the cases going.

The amendments to the Minnesota law passed the Democratic-controlled Legislature unanimously this spring after state business organizations agreed to drop their opposition.

The amendments also had broad support among civil rights organizations in Minnesota, including the Urban Coalition of Minneapolis, the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans and the Minnesota chapter of the National Organization for Women.

State Representative Howard Orenstein of St. Paul, an author of the legislation, said the state’s support of the law underscored a long tradition of civil rights leadership in the tradition of Hubert H. Humphrey.

LEAD: David Wolper, the executive producer of Murder in Mississippi”,” a new TV movie, ABC, the show will be held on Monday at 9 am, insists that his film is quite anders” ‘ ‘aus Mississippi Burning’,”1988, a movie about the murder of three rights workers 26 years.” ‘Mississippi Burning “begins where our story ends,”Mr

David Wolper, the executive producer of Murder in Mississippi”,” a new TV movie, ABC, the show will be held on Monday 9 1988 for the movie about the murder of three rights workers 26 years. ” ‘Mississippi Burning “begins where our story ends,’’says Wolper.

It is true that the Mississippi Burning””ist a federal law on the investigation of the killings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, and dass”Murder in Mississippi”Schluss with murder. Still, Mississippi Burning”,”, has been criticized because of the importance of playing in the black civil rights movement, has hit makers von”Murder Mississippi,”was made on the final form of television - the cinema.

In 1985, Tova Laiter, co-executive producer of Murder in Mississippi”,”, the proposal of a game film on the murders of several studios. Most of them have rejected the idea that non-commercial, but Mark Canton, the president of production at Warner Brothers, have responded enthusiastically. The studio hired Stanley Weiser, whose previous credits umfassen”Project X”und”Wall Street,”to write a script.

Interview participants

Mr. Ms. Weiser Laiter and Mississippians interviewed many witnesses, the civil rights demonstrations in 1964, as well as the rights of citizens and heads of group of parents Chaney and Goodman. (Rita Schwerner, the widow of Michael Schwerner, would not agree that the film through interviews with decision-makers.) Once the script is complete, Director Oliver Stone expressed interest in the film, but finally decided, ‘ ‘Born on July fourth’ ‘Rather. So Warner’s rented Chris Menges, who was praised for his leadership”,”, A World Apart for the film.

But if Mississippi Burning””wurde Orion at the end of 1988, the leaders of Warner Brothers grew up with nervous. Warner’s’’spürte the wind was taken from our sails,’’said Mrs. Laiter. ”I do not really understand why the studios have the feeling they can reach 100 films on the Holocaust or on Vietnam, but only a film about the civil rights movement. They wanted to look forward to a year and then they said they were going to the project.”

Instead, Mr. and Mrs. Weiser Laiter invited the studio for the film for television. Mr. Wolper, had produced roots”,” had a long-term contract with Warner Brothers, making it a logical person to approach. He sold the project to NBC in a row.

First, Mr. Weiser script has been compressed. A TV Film”hat a smaller scale,’’says Wolper. You can pas”une scene 25000 Ku Klux Klansmen march through the city.”Thus, the emphasis has been on reducing relationship between Chaney (a black teenager from Meridian, Miss., played by Blair Underwood) and Schwerner (one white social workers in New York, the portrait of Tom Hulce).

Accommodating criticism

Mr sage said he was aware that critics of the Mississippi Burning””hatte offended the role of blacks, and he has a number of changes in the script of its outcome. And a woman Laiter recognized that, although they have first thought the story from the viewpoint of white volunteers, it had changed its mind. If on”a been won by the Mississippi and met the man, “said Laiter”,” we realized that it is indeed a black movement, and it would be a betrayal to tell the story of white point of view.”

Mr sage said he wrote the script, the role of Chaney blacks, and other civil rights movement of workers. Similarly, he said, he changed the end of the film to see Mississippi Burning”.”” Initially, I conclude Rita Schwerner praised at the funeral,’’said Dr. Weiser. But after” ‘Mississippi Burning’ fate, I have a new extension, which is very angry is a vindication of Dave Dennis, the boss of CORE, Jackson, Miss there were actually two eulogies, I decided, but I wanted an end to a strong statement of black leader.”

LEAD: Republicans in the movement for the rights of the citizens by creating laws, the Democratic Party?

Republicans in the movement for the rights of the citizens by creating laws, the Democratic Party?

The Democrats are saying that there is no other way of describing the clever and ironic, politics, in which the Republican party, and the Bush administration has, on numerous aligned with black and Hispanic groups willing to extend the right to vote.

Even Republicans acknowledge irony in their new aggressive interest in the implementation of the insurance Voting Rights Act, the year 1982 was to strengthen efforts on the objections of the Reagan administration.

So why the turn toward the black, Hispanic voters who are among the most loyal Democrats?

”I do not believe that the position of the Republican National Committee of the voting rights is necessarily motivated by a feeling totally disinterested towards minorities,’’said Frank Parker, the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights.

Some members would agree with a minority, but only grudgingly umklappen help.

Master Plan is denied

Republicans fact, they are not in the plan that the Democrats engaged, but they recognize that this is racial minorities, as well as for the Republicans.

What they have come to the knowledge, it is essential that, in specific cases - the creation of new districts, the Congress of Deputies in the debate on primary runoffs, actions, the strengthening of the power black or Hispanics are often the result of a weakening of the independence Democratic Party.

”I think that the administration and the national commission provides, in the Voting Rights Act, a very powerful tool for the promotion of the Republican establishment,’’said one Republican representative, who has been to the anonymity.

Among the alliances

Here are two examples of what the policy of the total voting rights, the Republicans and Democrats traditionally supporters of the minority more power in the vote.

First, the voting rights groups yearn for next year is the creation of over electoral redistricting, the high minority, which increases the likelihood that a member of a minority may be chosen. Republicans know that such movements in rates would remove a minority of voters from other constituencies where they were white in the election of Democrats.

”It is much easier to choose a white, S-Republican, it’s not so black in his district,’’said Charles Schroder, executive director of the Democratic Party in Georgia. Thus, the result could be more representative black Republican representative.

Secondly, the elimination of the primary runoffs if no candidate obtains a majority of votes in primary education could help to win over minority Democrat members appointments. Republicans believe they would have a better chance of winning the general election, as some waive the white minority Democratic nominee.

LEAD: Civil rights leaders here voiced satisfaction today over a Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of Federal judges to make local officials raise taxes to remedy problems left by a history of Kansas City school segregation.

Civil rights leaders here voiced satisfaction today over a Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of Federal judges to make local officials raise taxes to remedy problems left by a history of Kansas City school segregation.

But William Webster, the Missouri Attorney General, who had appealed lower-court decisions requiring costly actions by both the state and the Kansas City School District, found some consolation in the Court’s ruling. He noted that the Court found that although a judge can order a local governing body to raise taxes, the court cannot directly impose the tax increase itself.

”It’s a victory for civil rights litigants,” said Arthur A. Benson 2d, a lawyer for a group of plaintiffs in the city’s long-running battle over desegregation. ”It affirms the principle that constitutional violations can and must be remedied, even if the remedy requires the constitutional violators to raise taxes, and whether or not their constituents are in favor of new taxes.”

Board President ‘Delighted’

At a news conference this afternoon, Mr. Webster said requiring tax increases to be imposed by the school board was ”a positive step,” because ”these school board members are elected and therefore accountable to those whom they represent.”

The school board has consistently sided with the plaintiffs in this case. ”I’m delighted,” the board president, Julia Hill, said of today’s ruling.

The legal battle began in 1977 when Mr. Benson, representing a group of schoolchildren and their parents, filed suit seeking to reverse the effects of local school segregation. Over the years, many whites had fled the school district, putting their children in mostly white private or suburban schools. Voters in the city, meanwhile, had rejected a series of proposed tax increases to pay for school improvements.

After a series of complicated interim rulings, Federal District Judge Russell G. Clark in 1986 ordered the state and the Kansas City School District to share the cost of a plan for city school improvements. When voters rejected tax increases to pay for them, Judge Clark in 1987 issued an order increasing the school district’s property tax and imposing an income tax surcharge.

Many Paid Under Protest

The state appealed, with the Landmark Legal Foundation, a private group, joining the appeal on behalf of district taxpayers. At the Landmark Legal Foundation’s urging, many residents paid the increased taxes under protest. That money was put into escrow.

In 1988, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in St. Louis, overturned the surcharge. It upheld the property tax increase, but it made a key modification. It required that the school board impose the increase, rather than Judge Clark.

The Supreme Court ruling today upheld that modification.

Since Judge Clark’s original order, $36 million in tax increases have been paid under protest and held in escrow, according to Jerry Hill, president of Landmark.

About $10 million of the protested taxes were paid in 1987, the year of the direct imposition ordered by Judge Clark. Both Mr. Webster and Mr. Hill said today that they thought the money in escrow would be refunded to taxpayers, and Mr. Hill argued that all the increased taxes paid that year ($17 million was paid without protest) should be subject to refunds because they were unconstitutionally imposed by Judge Clark.

Questions about the taxes paid in protest since 1987, a total of $26 million, were settled by the Supreme Court today when it said they were properly imposed and collected.

An Important decision has been rendered by Judge BOWIE, Chief-Justice of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, under the Civil Rights Bill. The facts of the case are briefly as follows: Dr. A. H. SOMERS, of Rockville, Montgomery County, committed an assault upon a colored man in the streets of Rockville, beating him very severely.

During an extended experience in traveling through the South, I have had occasion to record, for the benefit of the Missisippi is and has been less inclined toward is conciliatory course in the programme of restoration than any other southern state, expect, perhaps, Texas. [

LEAD: Just as President Bush was telling a Washington audience that he dreamed of the day when a black would occupy the White House, his Attorney General and press spokesman were threatening a veto of a civil rights bill now ready for Senate action. These late and lame threats are what passes for civil rights policy in the Bush Administration.

Just as President Bush was telling a Washington audience that he dreamed of the day when a black would occupy the White House, his Attorney General and press spokesman were threatening a veto of a civil rights bill now ready for Senate action. These late and lame threats are what passes for civil rights policy in the Bush Administration. The wobble is worse because it is profoundly misguided about a careful bill.

The bill deals with employment. Like most civil rights legislation over the years, it builds on a bipartisan base and may be veto-proof. It would restore rights that many Americans did not know needed restoration until the Supreme Court started misinterpreting well-established laws.

For example, last year’s Ward’s Cove decision overturned a generation of understanding, based on a unanimous 1971 Supreme Court ruling, about how hard it should be to win a job discrimination suit. In the 1971 ruling, interpreting the monumental 1964 rights law, Chief Justice Warren Burger said that once a claimant shows vast statistical disparities in hiring and promotion, it’s up to the employer to prove that his employment practices, like tests and educational requirements, meet standards of fairness and business necessity.

The ruling was just. The law frequently assigns the burden of proof to the party best positioned to have the evidence. But last year, while denying it was changing anything, the Court said the law demanded that workers prove the bias of each challenged practice as well as its irrelevance to the company’s business goals.

The Senate bill would restore Justice Burger’s reading of the law. This pains the Administration. In a veto-threatening letter to Senator Edward Kennedy, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh defends the Ward’s Cove decision as ”fine-tuning” and ”thoughtfully balanced.” That’s the sort of thinking that produced an unqualified William Lucas as Mr. Thornburgh’s first choice for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. His second choice, former New York State Senator John Dunne, has yet to be heard from on a matter of substance.

Mr. Thornburgh says the bill would encourage employers who doubt they can meet the burden of proof to impose hiring quotas. But his reasoning seems speculative. Such an assertion requires evidence from the experience under the 1971 decision.

In another unfortunate decision, the Supreme Court wildly misconstrued an 1866 civil rights law by ruling that it didn’t cover racial harassment in the workplace. Even Mr. Thornburgh endorses correction there.

The President’s fine words, adorning a hollow civil rights policy, clank.

The case of Col. MONTGOMERY, who was arrested under the Civil Rights Bill for acts committed while in command of the State militia at Lexington, and taken out of the United States Marshal’s hands by a writ of habeas corps, issued by Judge KRECKET, United States District Court, was closed on Tuesday, and a decision rendered yesterday releasing the detendant.

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In a new challenge to the Bush administration’s prolonged detention of hundreds of Muslim men after Sept. 11, a civil rights group says it will ask a federal court to declare the government’s treatment of the men biased and unconstitutional.

A class-action lawsuit prepared by the group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, accused the government of arbitrarily holding Muslim detainees in prison for months on minor immigration violations, with no hearings to determine whether the government had probable cause to hold them.

They have also been subjected to excessively harsh treatment in jails in New Jersey and Brooklyn, the complaint said, and in some cases could not practice their religion, contact their families or seek the help of their consular officials.

The lawsuit will be filed today in United States District Court in Brooklyn, said Barbara J. Olshansky, a lawyer for the center.

”We want the world to know that we are treating students, tourists, people here for short period of time, as criminals,” Ms. Olshansky said. ”We’re putting them into arbitrary detention, just like the worst totalitarian regimes we cry out all the time about in this country.”

About 1,200 Muslim men were arrested in the first weeks after the terror attacks, most eventually charged with minor immigration violations such as overstaying a visa.

As of mid-February, according to the only information provided by the Justice Department, 327 of the original detainees were still in custody on immigration charges.

Government officials have declined to identify the detainees or the reasons so many remain in prison, other than to say that all law enforcement agencies must first clear them of links to terrorism.

The suit names as defendants Attorney General John Ashcroft; Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the F.B.I.; James W. Ziglar, the commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Dennis Hasty, the warden of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn; and unnamed corrections officers at the detention center who are accused of beating and abusing some detainees.

A Justice Department spokesman said the agency would not comment on the complaint.

Efforts by civil rights groups and immigration lawyers to find out more about the detainees have been blocked by Mr. Ashcroft’s decision to hold hearings on the detainees behind closed doors.

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Judge Morris, of the United States District Court, to-day delivered a valuable opinion regarding the rights of colored people on passenger steamers. There were four cases in all.

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Federal prosecutors may have difficulty convicting the four New York City police officers who were acquitted in the death of Amadou Diallo on civil rights charges, legal experts say, but Justice Department guidelines for such cases are broad enough to allow them to file charges if they want to.

The guidelines have three requirements: that the case involve ”a substantial federal interest,” that the original trial left that interest ”unvindicated” and that there is strong enough evidence to win a conviction.

The arguments against a federal case are strong, the experts said, but not impossible under those terms. And lawyers for Mr. Diallo’s parents said they would go to Washington for a meeting on Thursday armed with a briefcase full of arguments intended to persuade Justice Department officials to pursue the case.

”I think there are compelling reasons to do so,” said Anthony H. Gair, who represents Mr. Diallo’s mother, Kadiatou. A civil rights prosecution could delve into issues of racial profiling, using the officers’ own testimony against them, he said. And the prosecution of the case by the Bronx district attorney’s office was flawed, ineffective and incompetent, he said, also a reason for the federal government to step in, as it did in the case of the Los Angeles police officers who were acquitted in a state court of beating Rodney G. King.

The visit is also intended to bring political pressure to bear. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has been leading demonstrations against the Police Department, and Representative Charles B. Rangel of Harlem, the dean of New York’s Congressional delegation, are to attend the session with Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder, the second-ranking official in the Justice Department.

If federal charges are filed, it would be under a Reconstruction-era law that makes it a crime for anyone acting under ”color of law” — like a police officer or state official — to willfully deprive a person of a right protected by the Constitution. The law was aimed at white officials in southern states who might refuse to prosecute people for crimes against former slaves or might arrest former slaves on frivolous pretexts.

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Stepping up his efforts to woo liberal Democrats as he pursues the party’s Presidential nomination, former Senator Bill Bradley told a gay and lesbian group here tonight that Americans should be guaranteed equal Government benefits and protection from discrimination regardless of their sexual orientation.

Bigotry against gays and lesbians should be taken as seriously as racial or religious hatred, and fighting it requires legislation, he said, adding, ”The laws do not by themselves extinguish prejudice, they restrain prejudicial behavior.”

Mr. Bradley’s efforts to enlist gay and lesbian backing have been troubled by two issues: Some activists have criticized him for insisting that the institution of marriage be limited to men and women. And some black leaders have objected to his calls for reopening civil rights legislation to include sexual orientation, warning that the Republican majority in Congress might then water down some of the protections in these laws.

Addressing a packed ballroom at a hotel here in this suburb southwest of Detroit, Mr. Bradley discussed both issues. He said that same-sex couples should have all the legal rights available to couples consisting of men and women but that the term ”marriage” carried so many religious overtones that it was not feasible to legislate it for gays and lesbians.

”If we insist on using the word, we will never get past it,” Mr. Bradley said. ”So I will not call gay unions marriage, but I will accept them.”

Mr. Bradley drew several parallels between the civil rights movement of the 1960’s and ongoing efforts to extend legal protections to gays and lesbians. While the evils of slavery and racial discrimination have lasted longer and been more extensive than discrimination against gays and lesbians, he said, American values demand that both problems be confronted by the Government.

”Where justice is concerned, no half measures are acceptable,” he said, without commenting specifically on whether there were risks in reopening civil rights legislation.

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The House of Representatives has at last reached the point which has been anticipated from the opening of the session, where the tedious war over the Civil Rights bill is …