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Sotomayor Resigns From Women's Group
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Friday resigned from an all-women group in an effort to avoid claims that she belonged to a discriminatory organization, according to a letter she wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the Wall Street Journal reports. The group, the Belizean Grove, calls itself a "constellation of influential women" formed in response to the all-male Bohemian Club. Sotomayor wrote, "I believe the Belizean Grove does not practice invidious discrimination, and my membership did not violate the Judicial Code of Ethics, but I do not want questions about this to distract anyone from my qualifications and record." A Senate Republican aide said that GOP members did not plan to object to Sotomayor"s involvement in the group but aimed to compare their position with Democratic objections to previous judicial nominees who were members of all-male groups (Bravin, Wall Street Journal, 6/20).Sotomayor also sent Leahy and Sessions a list of events taken from her own handwritten calendar between 1992 and 1995, which included several entries about events where she spoke. Sessions had told Leahy that he would delay the confirmation proceedings if she did not provide missing information on about 50 speeches she had given. Sotomayor told the senators that she was unable to find drafts or recording of the speeches, noting that her calendar notes did not include details from the speeches (Swanson, The Hill, 6/19).In related news, the New York Times on Saturday examined how "it is far from clear that [Sotomayor"s] judicial record supports the accusation that she is an activist," who, as some critics have claimed, "legislates from the bench." According to the Times, "[s]everal empirical studies have concluded that she is not particularly prone to overriding policy decisions by elected branches." Her decisions that have "attracted the most criticism from conservatives" are "instances in which she deferred to policy decisions by elected branches that conservatives hoped judges would strike down," according to the Times (Savage, New York Times, 6/20). Don't forget to buy zoloft online no prescription.

Peplin Completes Enrolment In Its Phase 3 Clinical Trials For PEP005 Gel In AK On The Face And Scalp
Peplin, Inc. (ASX:PLI) announced the completion of enrolment of its two Phase 3 clinical trials for the use of PEP005 (ingenol mebutate) Gel to treat actinic (solar) keratoses (AK), a common pre-cancerous skin lesion, on head treatment areas, which include the face and scalp.

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Program Once Reserved For Alabama Inmates With HIV/AIDS Expanded To All Inmates

The Alabama Department of Corrections has expanded to all inmates a re-entry program that provides newly released inmates with HIV/AIDS "with information on obtaining licenses [and] other documents and preparing for returning to life outside prison," the AP/USA Today/Montgomery Advertiser reports (Hunter, 7/22). "In the past, prisoners at the end of their sentences were sent back into the free world with minimal assistance, not the in-depth services the inmates with HIV and AIDS had received," according to AP/WZTV.com. The expanded Alabama Prison Initiative will allow all inmates to enroll in classes that provide them with "practical tips" and guidance "that will hopefully help keep them from returning," the AP/WZTV.com reports (7/22). AIDS Alabama CEO Kathie Hiers said, "We"ve seen it help so much in the HIV community. They"re smart to take a good program and expand it" (Hunter, 7/22). This information was reprinted from dailyreports.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at dailyreports.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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