{"id":8157,"date":"2014-11-01T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/crcl\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2014-11-02T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:06:23","slug":"nov-1-weekly-news-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/crcl\/nov-1-weekly-news-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov. 1: Weekly News Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been considerable coverage on the new Harvard University sexual harassment\u00a0policy<\/a>. \u00a0On Oct. 15, a group of 28 HLS faculty members published this op-ed<\/a> in the Boston Globe arguing that the new university policy 1) violates principles of Due Process, 2) inappropriately expanded prohibited conduct \u00a0past what was required by Titles VII and IX; and, 3) violated the norms of faculty governance and individual school rule in disciplinary matters through how it was decided. \u00a0Following this,\u00a0the Harvard Crimson<\/a>\u00a0(Oct. 20) group of HLS alumnae<\/a>\u00a0(Oct. 24)\u00a0published response op-eds in support of the policy, and a group of HLS students and organizations circulated an open letter<\/a>\u00a0critiquing the professors’ critique.\u00a0 On October 26, Professor Janet Halley, one of the original faculty signatories, published a 26-page Memorandum and Call to Action<\/a>\u00a0articulating her concerns with the policy\u00a0on the HLS American Constitution Society website.<\/p>\n

Why Innocent People Plead Guilty<\/a><\/p>\n

Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York published this Op-Ed in the forthcoming issue of the New York Review of Books. \u00a0He briefly recounts the history of the rise of plea bargaining and more stringent sentencing laws,\u00a0arguing that it is now more strategic for the innocent defendant to take a plea bargain rather than risk a conviction. \u00a0Judge Rakoff objects that this practice 1) is one-sided; 2) secretly done by prosecutors with little to no review by judges; and, 3) leads many innocents to take plea deals.\u00a0 He\u00a0proposes adopting a strategy that Florida and Connecticut have begun experimenting with: involving\u00a0judges in the plea-bargaining process.<\/p>\n

Arguments in gay marriage cases from Louisiana and Texas set for January\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fifth Circuit has announced that oral arguments for the gay same-sex marriage cases have been set for the week of January 5. \u00a0With the Supreme Court having declined the cases heretofore appealed to it,\u00a0the Conservative Fifth Circuit is seen as a key candidate to create a circuit split that is seen as forcing the Court to grant review, if the pending Sixth Circuit case does not create the split first.<\/p>\n

Sixth Circuit agrees to rehear \u201checkler\u2019s veto\u201d decision<\/a><\/p>\n

Eugene Volokh posts in the Washington Post that the Sixth Circuit has agreed to rehear en banc<\/em>\u00a0a “heckler’s veto” case in\u00a0Bible Believers v. Wayne County<\/em>, in which a panel had affirmed a lower court dismissal of a 1st Amendment challenge by a group of Christians who were evangelizing at the Wayne County, MI, Arab International Festival were asked to leave\u00a0by police officers. \u00a0One protestor carried a severed pig’s head on a stick “to repel those who feared it” and castigated the crowd for following a “pedophile prophet.” \u00a0The crowd harangued them and \u00a0started throwing rocks and debris at them, and the police asked the Christian group to leave under threat of citation for disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n

Silent Treatment\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Last Saturday at 5 a.m., the Supreme Court denied without opinion a request to lift a Fifth Circuit stay on a district court injunction’s on Texas’ voting ID requirements that the district court had found intentionally racially discriminatory. \u00a0Justice Ginsburg, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, issued a dissent.<\/p>\n

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