- LRAP Campaign Makes Goal
With the support of students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends, the UW
School of Law is proud to announce that we have met the challenge by the
Washington legislature to raise $250,000 by June 30, 2008 for a loan
repayment assistance program (LRAP) endowment fund.
- Disparities found in child welfare - Seattle Times
Native American,
black kids more likely to end up in foster care - Seattle P-I
State
intervenes more often with minority children - The Olympian
On Wednesday, June 25, 2008 a statewide advisory committee presented to DSHS
Secretary Robin Arnold-Williams its report on Racial Disproportionality in
Washington's Child Welfare System. The report finds that Native American,
Black and Hispanic children are over-represented in the child welfare system
compared with White children. A conference addressing racial disproportionality in child-welfare
systems is being held at the UW School of Law June 26 and 27, 2008.
- Supreme Court drastically cuts payouts for plaintiffs in Exxon Valdez oil spill- Seattle Times
Exxon damages slashed- Seattle PI
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday slashed the amount of punitive damages that
Exxon must pay for the epic Exxon Valdez oil spill. In a 5-3 decision, the
court found that punitive damages could not be larger than the compensatory
damages for actual losses from the spill, which totaled $507.5 million -
less than a tenth of the original $2.5 billion in damages claimed by the
plaintiffs. "Crime pays, and environmental crime pays really well," said
William Rodgers
, UW law professor and expert on the Exxon Valdez case.
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