Federal judge orders military to halt DADT
On Tuesday, a federal judge in the Central District of California ordered the government to stop enforcing Don’t Ask, Don’t […]
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Update: ongoing PA hate crime saga takes new turn with testimony
On Tuesday, a witness in the PA hate crime case testified that one of the two teens accused of assaulting
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Humphries v. LA County: local government accountability for civil rights violations
Humphries v. Los Angeles County is one of the lesser-known cases on the Supreme Court docket this month. Although the
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No appeal from Government of adverse "Terror Trial" ruling
In a letter to federal judge Lewis Kaplan on Sunday, the U.S. government announced that it would not appeal Kaplan’s
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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: 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