Nearly everything about it was novel, from its focus on training public-interest lawyers to a curriculum centered on how to practice law rather than on legal theory, to its eagerness to take in large numbers of minority students, even those with low law school admissions test scores.
In Seattle, marijuana has been a low law enforcement priority since 2003.
In 2003, Seattle voters passed a ballot initiative making marijuana arrests the lowest law enforcement priority.
California legalized medical marijuana, in 1996, and Oakland made the drug a matter of "lowest law enforcement priority," in 2004 and just two weeks ago decided to permit large-scale indoor marijuana plantations.
California legalized medical marijuana, in 1996, and Oakland made the drug a matter of "lowest law enforcement priority," in 2004 — and just two weeks ago decided to permit large-scale indoor marijuana plantations.
Remember when Denver's voters decided back in November to make pot "the city's lowest law-enforcement priority?" The ballot measure joined another, passed in 2005, saying that residents had the right to carry less than an ounce of marijuana, leading to hopes that marijuana arrests were about to become a thing of the past in the Mile High City.
Rattner understands that the new free-trade regime gives low-wage, low-tax, low-law countries an advantage: "In Mexico, where each autoworker earned $7.80 per hour in 2012, auto industry officials say productivity is as high as in the United States, where total compensation costs were $45.34 per hour".
But with only 40percentt passing last year, and the low rate driving down law school applications, the government is almost certain to miss its goal.
What did it mean that even someone with his name and social resources could be laid so low by laws and lawyers?
Britain's biggest independent co-op has made the highest single payout to a worker for breaching low pay laws and is examining whether 200 others may have been paid below the minimum wage, the Guardian can reveal.
