"Things like the job a person does, existing health problems, and socioeconomic disadvantage are more likely to have an effect an individual's risk of disease," says Vicki Jackson, a statistical geneticist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research who was not involved in the study,
A court-appointed lawyer, Harvard Law School professor Vicki Jackson, told the justices that Republican leaders in the House did not have proper standing to defend the law and that the Obama administration was not a viable party, because it agreed with the lower courts.
The court has also cast an important supporting actress in the drama Harvard law professor Vicki Jackson, who will get 20 minutes at arguments March 27 to argue that the court doesnt have jurisdiction to hear the challenge to the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act. The law, passed by bipartisa
Date: Mar 04, 2013
Category: U.S.
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US top court taps Harvard professor to argue in gay marriage case
The high court named law professor Vicki Jackson to address issues that affect the court's ability to rule on the case, not the validity of the law under the U.S. Constitution. The nine justices have an interest in hearing the argument on this issue, although it is a position neither side in the cas