Free Speech: should protesting at a funeral be protected?
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments October 6th in Snyder v. Phelps, a suit by Albert Snyder against the Westboro […]
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CR-CL’s Online Companion
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Torture: Supreme Court requests info from DOJ
The new term opened today and one of the Supreme Court’s first acts was to request that the Justice Department
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Free Speech: Restrictions at 2004 Republican National Convention upheld
A federal judge ruled October 4th for New York City in a suit by two anti-abortion protesters arrested in the
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This Week’s News Round-up
Human Rights Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized today for the intentional
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Terror on Trial
Which is more terrifying: the imminent threat of an attack on American soil or a steady but intangible loss of
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Article: Using Impact Litigation As A Tool For Social Change: Jimmy Doe: A Case Study – By Lori Turner
By Lori Turner I. INTRODUCTION “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the
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Article: Bad Faith Exception to Prosecutorial Immunity for Brady Violations – By Bennett Gershman
By Bennett L. Gershman Introduction: Imbler v. Pachtman Thirty-Four Years Later For those of us who teach and write about
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Article: Ricci v. DeStefano: Declaring Civil War within Title VII – By William Yeomans
It is the height of folly to make hard and fast predictions about the impact of freshly minted Supreme Court
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Article: Making Employment Civil Rights Real – by Stephen Churchill
When Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, it was heralded as a long-overdue measure to eradicate
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Article: The Dim Side Of The Bright Line: Minority Voting Opportunity After Bartlett v. Strickland – By Ryan P. Haygood
When he left Congress in 1901, George White, an African American Republican from Tarboro, North Carolina, announced that it was
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Essay: New Public Spaces – by John Palfrey
Digital environments are becoming the most important public spaces of the twenty-first century. These digital spaces are where many young