DOJ Investigates Police Brutality in Seattle
Earlier this week, the DOJ Civil Rights Division announced that it was launching a formal investigation into use of force […]
Amicus, Criminal Justice, Human Rights
Criminal Justice
Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Human Rights
Immunity of Government Officials Is Not A License to Ignore the Constitution
The Supreme Court head argument on March 2 in the case of Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, questioning whether John Ashcroft is entitled to immunity from charges that Abdullah Al-Kidd was held under the act allowing detention of material witnesses, but was treated as a suspect and was in fact never intended to be a witness in any trial. Ashcroft v. Iqbal did enough to undermine the ability of those wrongfully detained by an overzealous government to challenge their detentions, and now Ashcroft asks the court to go even further. The Court needs to take a strong stance that waving the flag of fighting terrorism is not a license to ignore the democratic freedoms government officials claim to be protecting.
Amicus, Criminal Justice, Events
Panel Discussion: Developments in Material Support Law
The HLS Middle East Law Students Association presents: Developments in Material Support Law
March 3, 2011 at 6pm, Austin North at Harvard Law School
This panel will explore the implications of the the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and the current landscape for material support prosecutions in the US.
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at HLS, the Islamic Legal Studies Program at HLS, Justice for Palestine at HLS, the National Lawyers Guild – HLS Chapter, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, ACLU-HLS, and ACS.
Amicus, Criminal Justice, Sex Equality
Eliminating the rape kit backlog, but at what price?
Last year saw unprecedented advocacy for policy change regarding the tens of thousands of untested sexual assault evidence collection kits
Amicus, Criminal Justice, Human Rights
Dearth of Death Penalty Drug Buys Time for Convicts
Hospira, the Illinois-based company that manufactures sodium thiopental, will no longer manufacture the drug after Italy expressed concerns over the
Amicus, Criminal Justice
Would the Gun Lobby let Loughner plead insanity?
As Alan Dershowitz points out in his recent New York Times Op Ed, there has been an interesting dichotomy in
Amicus, Criminal Justice, Human Rights
"There is nothing . . . to forbid the officers' consideration of the information that at least two of the van's occupants 'appeared' to be Middle Eastern."
In United States v. Ramos (1st Cir. Dec. 17), plaintiff Edgar Ramos was arrested for and pled guilty to illegally
Amicus, Criminal Justice
Cash for Incarceration
Time for the inaugural round of the exciting new game Name the Source of that Quotation! After each of the following
Amicus, Criminal Justice
Buy Gun, get gunned free? Walmart employees shot with ammo sold in-store
Police said Monday that a Nevada man bought ammo at a Walmart store and then shot three workers in that
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Bronx hate crime charges dropped for three of 11 suspects
Charges were dropped Tuesday for three of the 11 suspects in the ongoing Bronx hate crime case. The prosecutors said there
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AP Investigation: NYC pays out nearly $1B to settle claims against the NYPD in past decade
From a report on an Associated Press investigation: “Nearly $1 billion has been paid over the past decade to resolve