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7 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
For many law students, membership in and service on an academic journal is a highlight of the law school experience. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
A recent controversy over an invited-speaker event at the University of Pittsburgh (a public university in Pennsylvania known as “Pitt”) illustrates how both sides in free speech controversies at public universities seem to do and say untenable things, and also how the Supreme Court could improve matters by providing more clarity on key doctrinal and practical questions.The following factual contentions are drawn (and quote) from a demand letter sent to Pitt officials by the Alliance… [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 9:03 pm
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently handed down an important 2-1 ruling in a case involving changes in the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (“Thomas Jefferson” or “TJ”) in Alexandria, Virginia, a public STEM-focused school that has a selective admissions process and that has traditionally served high-performing students. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 826, a landmark measure that requires each publicly held corporation whose principal executive offices are located in California to have, by the end of 2019, at least one woman on its board of directors. [read post]
16 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
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10 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm
Near the end of its most recent term, in Dobbs v. [read post]
30 Apr 2023, 9:00 pm
On Friday the North Carolina Supreme Court pulled what the Wall Street Journal editorial board called a “switcheroo. [read post]
8 May 2022, 9:01 pm
When a federal court (especially a U.S. [read post]
10 May 2022, 9:01 pm
In Part One of this series, we discussed the historical and doctrinal background of so-called certification, a practice by which federal courts (especially federal appellate courts) certify questions to state high courts when cases in federal court might turn in whole or in part on unresolved questions of state law. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
One shouldn’t push the cases too far because (as Amar noted in his critique of them) members of the U.S. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm
In our two previous columns on the recent lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR) for its use of race and gender in selecting its members and authors for publication, we explored challenges the plaintiff faces in establishing standing to sue in federal court, the relationship of Title VI and IX (the statutory provisions the plaintiff has invoked) to the constitutional… [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 11:05 am
Show Notes This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
As readers of this series will no doubt recall, in 2012 the Supreme Court in National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) v. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Jason: Vik, as you know, last month three Virginia couples sued their state in federal court challenging a law requiring them to identify and report their race on the state’s marriage license application form. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 9:00 pm
National attention has recently been directed to the boisterous protest by Stanford Law School (SLS) students at a Federalist Society Event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative Trump-appointed judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [read post]
24 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month, in Trump v. [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
The two of us just finished co-teaching a law school class focused on the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, and this semester has not lacked for plenty of cutting-edge, ripped-from-the headlines fodder for us to explore with our students. [read post]
29 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In this, the second of a two-part essay series, we continue to explore the constitutional issues raised by a recent episode in which a public high school (Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina) imposed disciplinary suspension on a student, Christian McGhee, for invoking the term “illegal alien” when asking a question to his teacher about an assignment. [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:01 pm
That is why Jason and I urged the Court to immediately grant review in a case from Ohio—Huffman v. [read post]
19 Apr 2020, 9:00 pm
In spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that the Supreme Court’s per curiam opinion two weeks ago in the Wisconsin election case, Republican National Committee (RNC) v. [read post]
