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Judicial goes for the colour but no one in New York has yet gone for the soul and the calendar
California’s
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Diversity Quota Defeat
A judge tosses the Golden State’s mandate for corporate boards.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law a bill that establishes a task force to come up with recommendations on how to give reparations to Black Americans in Sacramento, Calif. in September of 2020.
PHOTO: /ASSOCIATED PRESS
Did California lawmakers consult a lawyer before passing a law that mandates diversity quotas for corporate boards? A state judge late Friday tossed the law on summary judgment, suggesting it was so obviously unconstitutional that it didn’t merit a full trial.
The 2020 law required public companies headquartered in California to include at least one board director who identifies as a racial or ethnic minority or as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender by the end of last year. Companies with five to eight board seats would have to include two “underrepresented” members by the end of this year.
The conservative legal outfit Judicial Watch sued, arguing the law violated the state Constitution’s equal protection clause by establishing explicit set-asides based on racial, ethnic or sexual preference. The law also flouts the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bakkeprecedent (1978), which struck down strict racial quotas in college admissions.
Democrats say the law is necessary to counter discrimination and advance social justice. Or as Gov. Gavin Newsom put it when signing the bill, “When we talk about racial justice, we talk about empowerment, we talk about power, we need to talk about seats at the table.” But the law wasn’t narrowly tailored to achieve this government interest.
State judge Terry Green didn’t explain his reasoning for enjoining the law, perhaps because it so clearly violates equal protection. Many colleges discreetly use racial preferences in admissions because quotas are prohibited, and this fall the Supreme Court will consider whether Harvard’s use of race discriminates against Asian-Americans.
Most businesses these days work hard to diversify their leadership, and most large public companies are meeting California’s quotas. But some smaller firms struggle to recruit such directors as large companies get the most qualified candidates.
Only 301 of the 716 public companies headquartered in California complied with the law last year, according to the Secretary of State. The others could be dunned $100,000. One-party Democratic states are increasingly resorting to government coercion to impose their social values, which is one more reason so many people and businesses are moving elsewhere.
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