(Guest post by Greg Forster)
A judge in LA has ruled that doing layoffs strictly by seniority is illegal because it denies low-income students their right to an education under the state constitution. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of three inner-city schools by civil rights groups, has the backing of Gov. Schwarzenegger, Mayor Villaraigosa (whose nonprofit operation manages two of the plaintiff schools), the state board of education, the city superintendent, and I don’t know who-all else.
The unions are saying they can’t comment because they spent the last several decades endorsing this kind of legally bogus judicial power grab and now it’s come back to bite them in the they haven’t read the decision yet.
I honestly don’t know whom to root for, the judicial tyrants who will cut down all the laws to do their will (which in this case happens to be good except for the cutting-down-all-the-laws-to-do-it part) or the unions, who are of course execrabale, but who, for once, are the legitimately aggreived party here.
You remember what Sellar and Yeatman wrote about the Cavaliers and the Roundheads, right?
HT Whitney Tilson
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