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.
Sep 24
Posted 606 days ago by HLPRonline editorial staff
By ANTHONY J. FRANZE
A leading Miranda scholar recently concluded that “[t]he best evidence now shows that, as a protective device, Miranda is largely dead. It is time to ‘pronounce the body,’ as they say on television, and move on.” And that was before the Supreme Court’s 2009-10 term.
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