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Law professor sues University of California for admissions data about race

A newly-formed nonprofit purportedly serving Asian Americans and a professor who studies affirmative action are suing the University of California (UC) for access to data that they say could show whet... read more

Taking Surprise Medical Bills To Court

The Virginia Supreme Court last year ruled in favor of a hospital, saying admission paperwork patient Glenn Dennis signed in the emergency room was a valid contract. The hospital had sued him ... Nati... read more

U. files brief supporting Harvard’s race-conscious admission policy

Brown was one of 16 highly selective schools to sign an amicus brief July 30 supporting Harvard’s consideration of race in admission decisions. Harvard is currently being sued ... David Card, professo... read more

Standing with Harvard in admissions case

The briefs supporting Harvard argue that the College’s race ... by law. The filing also reiterated the findings of David Card, a leading economist and professor at the University of California, Berkel... read more

Eliminating inequalities needs affirmative action

She sued the university after she was denied admission on the grounds that the university’s race-conscious admissions ... Stacy Hawkins is an associate professor at Rutgers University, where she teach... read more

As California Hospitals Sweep Up Physician Practices, Patients See Higher Bills

Acquisitions of physician practices by hospitals tend to be small and typically fly under the radar, said Richard Scheffler, the study’s lead author and professor of health economics and public policy ... read more

Gender, Race and Affirmative Action

For the second time in nine months, an African-American assistant professor at the University of Michigan has sued the school for denying tenure based on race ... STUDENTS offered admission to the Uni... read more

How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus

Although the reliability of blood-spatter analysis was never proven or quantified, its steady admission by courts ... Kirk, a professor of biochemistry and criminalistics at the University of Californ... read more

The fascinating life of Penny Pritzker (so far)

Her mother, Sue, picked out the staff uniforms and made sure secretaries’ birthdays were celebrated. “They were building a business together,” Penny Pritzker recalls ... 90s when he was a University o... read more

When Scientists Develop Products From Personal Medical Data, Who Gets To Profit?

Moore sued. In 1990, The California ... the data don't belong to the patients. "Right now as the law defines it, your medical images are property of the health system," she says. "You don't own the im... read more

TRADE SECRETS: A MOYERS REPORT

They were retained by two law firms to study the Ross archive. DAVID ROSNER, Ph.D., COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: They certainly never ... But by the industry's own admission, very little data exists to prove ... read more

The Stanford Professor Who Fought the Tax Lobby

This is how Joe Bankman, a professor of tax law at Stanford University ... In 2004, staffers from California’s tax agency, the Franchise Tax Board (FTB), told Bankman they had this other idea: They re... read more