When the Class of 2023 joins Columbia’s campus later this fall, many students will have Les Goodson and Gregory Peterson to thank. In the fall of 1969, nearly 50 years ago, they too joined Columbia’s community as undergraduates, making their trek down College Walk as some of the earliest black students admitted to Columbia after the civil rights push of the 1960’s and 70’s.
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This question posed by Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido is a microcosm of a much bigger issue. In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has been frequently tasked with filling in the holes left by incomplete legislation, a task of interpretation that readily encroaches on the law-writing duties entrusted to the Congress by the Constitution. Especially in the area of age discrimination regulation, the task of flushing out crucial details has been relegated to the courts. In order to properly understand this issue, some terms need to be defined.
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