Oct 11
Posted 223 days ago by Editorial Staff
Later this week, the blog will feature a guest post from Nic Riley, a voting rights attorney in New York City. Nic recently graduated from Yale Law School, where he worked with New Haven youth to develop an advocacy campaign aimed at lowering Connecticut’s voting age.
Mar 21
Posted 427 days ago by Editorial Staff
The Supreme Court has recently decided to hear argument in the largest private-employer civil rights case in American history, Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. . . .
Mar 7
Posted 441 days ago by Editorial Staff
“We have 90 to 95 percent unemployment on the reservation. We have people on fixed incomes, and . . . [at] the furthest point from the landfill, it would cost them $90 a month to haul their trash. . . .”
Posted 448 days ago by Editorial Staff
Persons with disabilities can pose complex challenges to law enforcement officers charged with keeping the peace.
Feb 21
Posted 455 days ago by Editorial Staff
Spurred to action by crisis in global credit markets, the United States Congress passed the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (“Credit CARD Act”). In the Credit CARD Act, Congress turned away from more than thirty years of primarily disclosure-only regulation of credit cards.
Jan 28
Posted 479 days ago by Editorial Staff
Ever since the Supreme Court held in San Antonio v. Rodriguez that education is not a fundamental right protected under the United States Constitution, legal efforts to advance the educational plight of disadvantaged school children have taken to state courts, where a new legal theory is emerging.
Jan 9
Posted 499 days ago by Editorial Staff
by SENATOR TOM UDALL
The United States Senate has become a graveyard for good ideas—increasingly crippled by the partisan abuse of the institution’s own rules.
Dec 8
Posted 530 days ago by Editorial Staff
In May 2009, the Supreme Court decided Ashcroft v. Iqbal, which transformed federal civil litigation by abolishing notice pleading in favor of “plausibility” pleading. Iqbal has been and continues to be harmful to the enforcement of individual rights and socially beneficial litigation.
Dec 1
Posted 537 days ago by Editorial Staff
In February 2006, an ambulance rushed four-year-old Jarnell Brown to a hospital in Minneapolis. Three days later, Jarnell was clinically brain dead. The heart-shaped object removed from Jarnell’s stomach during the autopsy was a small charm, manufactured in China.
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