... year. "There's always risk when you go to the Supreme Court. You never want to put all your eggs in one basket," said Janson Wu, staff attorney at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders. Wu has been busy in Rhode Island, where bills to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed were introduced in both chambers of the legislature and where the ... speaker of the House has promised a floor vote this month. Both sides agree the measure is likely to pass the House. Wu says he's "cautiously optimistic" of a win in the Senate, followed by the governor's signature, while Brown says, "I think we're goin...

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... admissions program" for minority applicants. -"Allan Bakke, a white, male, thirty-seven-year-old professional engineer whose application to the University of California-Davis medical school had been turned down twice." (Wu, 1998). Bakke argued that he was more qualified than all of the minorities that were accepted during the two year period he was denied admission. There aren't many different ground ... ...

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