a condition (or state) of disrepair / the current status of the arms negotiations. Hypernyms (status is a kind of...): state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of status): disorder; disorderliness (a condition in which things are not in their expected places) tautness; tenseness; tension; tensity (the physical condition of being stretched or strained) amyotonia; atonia; atonicity; atony (lack of normal muscular tension or tonus)
The issue of reverse discrimination first reached the nation's highest court in the 1970s, when a student with good grades named Allan Bakke accused a University of California medical school of twice denying him admission because he was white. Strict racial quotas were unconstitutional, the court said â affirmative action was not.
The Healthcare Act, Federal Power, and the Commerce Clause. / / / / / The Healthcare Act, Federal Power, and the Commerce Clause. Recently, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the entire Affordable Health Care Act was unconstitutional because of the individual mandate clause. The suit, representing twenty-six states, found that forcing individuals to purchase health insurance not part of the federal governmentâs power granted in the Commerce Clause. Of the four suits brought against the law, two have upheld the law and two found at least parts of the law to be unconstitutional.