by branden | Oct 22, 2012 | Amicus, Labor and Employment, LGBTQ Rights, Uncategorized
Jonathan Capehart’s post this morning on the Washington Post’s PostPartisan blog opines that the fact that LGBT issues have been absent from the presidential election cycle this year is not just a good thing, but “a great thing.” Capehart is...
by branden | Oct 12, 2012 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court decided United States v. Jones, a closely-watched Fourth Amendment case holding in that the government had performed an illegal search when it tracked a suspect’s car after attaching a GPS tracking unit without a valid...
by branden | Sep 13, 2012 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Labor and Employment
As a former educator myself and the spouse of a current educator, I understand the hard work that teachers and other education professionals put in, often off the clock. I understand that teachers’ salaries are often not equivalent to other professionals with...
by branden | Aug 9, 2012 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Freedom of Expression, Labor and Employment, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality
Hercules Industries, a Denver company that provides heating and air conditioning equipment recently won a preliminary injunction against the imposition of the preventive care requirement adopted pursuant to the Affordable Care Act. Predictably, conservatives lauded...
by branden | May 8, 2012 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Human Rights
[Update] Thursday, May 10: The New York Times editorial page today expressed its support for Governor’s Chafee’s stance against transferring Jason Wayne Pleau for federal prosecution and encouraged Rhode Island to seek Supreme Court review. Given the...