Those restrictions could be issued next year, when, the court said this week, it intends to consider two cases challenging racial preferences in admissions at the University of Michigan.
Since patients had already been prescribed the drug by an ophthalmologist, the GPs felt they were not in a position to challenge patients' preferences or beliefs, considering it safer to follow the ophthalmologist's advice.
Affirmative action questions are certainly on the minds of the nine high court justices, since on Oct. 31 they will hear for a second time a case challenging limited racial preferences in a federal transportation contracting program.
As Colorado's attorney general until 1999, Ms. Norton declined to defend the state in a lawsuit challenging a minority-preference rule for highway contracts, a rule that she said she could not support.
He began challenging the American preference for deterrence and containment of foreign threats in favor of preëmptive action, and he argued that, since there were already more than a dozen valid Security Council resolutions on the books demanding that Saddam Hussein disarm, no further U.N. authority was needed.
Capturing the full ubiquitylated proteome by ubiquitin traps is challenging due to potential preferences for specific types of chains and preferences for polyubiquitylation versus monoubiquitylation.
Critics of such proposals contend that the political challenges are too daunting, because attacking countless special preferences means challenging innumerable powerful lobbying groups -- from oil companies that want their tax credits for drilling to home builders wanting to save the tax deduction for mortgage interest.
When challenging a patient's preferences, health workers should start out by attempting to give a balanced and informative account of their medical perspective on the patient's symptoms and possible causes [ 4, 5].
The merits of the latter and the demerits of the former were also outlined, in order to challenge our instinctive preferences.
