For a case that could have far reaching implications not only for employment practices in the United States but also for Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s LAW ’79 nomination to the Supreme Court, legal experts agreed that the ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano was an unusual one. In fact, the case’s very eccentricities had onlookers, pundits and Supreme Court justices alike wondering whether the ruling had only further muddled the constitutional issues at hand. (June 30)

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Updated Monday 7:45 p.m. The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of 20 New Haven firefighters who claimed in a reverse discrimination case that they were denied promotion because of their race. The Court's 5-4 ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano sets a new standard that raises the amount of evidence that must be present to throw out an employment or promotion test. Read more.


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The screening of a documentary about artist Tom Luckey will be the first of more than a dozen free and public events - including exhibitions, lectures and symposia - at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) this fall. (July 2)

Fifty million years ago, the North and South Poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth. Researchers at Yale University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Sheffield now show that land plants saved the Earth from a deep frozen fate by buffering the removal of atmospheric CO2 over the past 24 million years. (July 1)

Food advertising on television increases automatic snacking on available foods in children and adults, according to a series of experimental studies conducted by researchers from Yale University. The research appears in the July issue of the journal Health Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association. (July 1)