Judge Edwin H. Stern, on behalf of a unanimous panel, ruled in one case that defendants could raise profiling issues for the first time on direct appeal if they were convicted or pleaded guilty before Mr. Verniero's 1999 report on profiling.
The panel then issued a per-curiam opinion — an anonymous decision on behalf of the panel as a whole — asserting, in eight sentences, that while "we are not unsympathetic to the plaintiffs' expression of frustration... it simply does not follow that [Ricci] had a viable Title VII claim".
Action 6.1: NDG Office to draft a response on behalf of the Panel to the Royal Free to confirm the Panel's understanding of the discussion and the project and to raise any additional questions.
"Appellants sustained their burden of showing injury by alleging that they paid artificially fixed higher prices," Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote on behalf of the panel.
Ion Badoi, head of the gymnastics school in Deva where Raducan trains, said yesterday that Ion Tiriac, who resigned as head of his country's Olympic committee over the Raducan affair, had initiated the lawsuit on behalf of the panel.
Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist's version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations' climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore.
Selina Hossain, on behalf of the panel, also spoke in the award ceremony.
Writing last week on behalf of the appeals panel, Judge Stanley Marcus, a New Yorker whom President Bill Clinton promoted from trial judge in 1997, found that Georgia's racial bonus "does not even come close" to meeting Justice Powell's standard.
In a statement on behalf of the judging panel, Erdich called Morrison's work "revelatory, intelligent, bold".
President Clinton had invited Dr. Hopkins to the White House to thank her on behalf of the nation, and put her at the head of a panel on equal pay.
