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9 May 2024, 11:30 am by Guest Blogger
  My experience as a prosecutor, which included a year locking up drug “offenders” in Washington D.C. taught me that the people who get caught are sometimes foolhardy – for example, getting high in public places in one of the most policed cities in the world, or unlucky. [read post]
7 May 2024, 7:12 am by Scott Bomboy
A rock music group sued New York City when the city required the band use a city-owned engineer to control the band’s volume in a concert in Central Park. [read post]
7 May 2024, 5:30 am by Yosi Yahoudai
Demonstrations at New York City’s Columbia University, where the protest movement began about three weeks ago, have roiled its campus. [read post]
6 May 2024, 8:51 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Flushing, NY, he pursued his passion for law, graduating with honors from Queens College of the City University of New York (B.A.), Columbia University Law School (J.D.), and New York University Law School (LL.M.). [read post]
5 May 2024, 6:35 pm by Bekim Bruka | JURIST Staff, US
The threats coincide with heightened tensions in the city, including mass arrests of pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University and New York University carried out by the NYPD. [read post]
5 May 2024, 8:05 am by Gene Takagi
(Alison Stine, Nonprofit Quarterly) Candid Learning’s Newest Free Offerings for Nonprofits (Linda Rosenthal, For Purpose Law Group) IRS Issues Final Regulations under IRC Section 509(a) for Type III Supporting Organizations (Marc Berger, BDO USA) Significant Events: “Police arrested about 300 protesters at Columbia University and the City College of New York, authorities said Wednesday morning, after officers in riot gear entered Columbia’s… [read post]
5 May 2024, 7:23 am by Jonathan H. Adler
At Columbia University, in the weeks and months before police took down encampments at the New York City campus and removed demonstrators occupying an academic building, student organizers began consulting with groups such as the National Students for Justice in Palestine, veterans of campus protests and former Black Panthers. [read post]
4 May 2024, 11:48 am
As the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta has made clear, the oppression of the Palestinian people represents a blueprint for a possible future for all of us. . . . [read post]
4 May 2024, 6:54 am
City officials have blamed 'external actors' for escalating demonstrations at Columbia University and elsewhere, but student protesters reject the claim. [read post]
4 May 2024, 3:41 am by Jack Bogdanski
The more interesting of the two is a measure increasing property taxes to upgrade flood protection on the Portland side of the Columbia River. [read post]
3 May 2024, 6:37 am
WaPo reports.Rebecca Weiner, the police department’s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said on Tuesday that officers observed an escalation in tactics at Columbia on Monday night, including people scaling buildings, creating barricades with furniture and destroying cameras. [read post]
3 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Even after a fragile calm resettled over campuses that have seen the bulk of the chaos, footage of officers in riot gear extracting students from Columbia’s Hamilton Hall sparked debates nationwide as Americans struggled to make sense of it all. [read post]
2 May 2024, 7:03 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Next was the University of the District of Columbia David A. [read post]
2 May 2024, 9:37 am by Jiahang Li | JURIST Staff, CN
The demonstration was in some ways a reponse to actions by the opposition on April 21, when about 250,000 Colombians marched in multiple cities across Columbia, including Bogota and Medellin, to protest against Petro’s reforms. [read post]
2 May 2024, 9:32 am by Yosi Yahoudai
By Wednesday afternoon, a small city sprang up inside the reenforced encampment, full of hundreds of people and tents on the campus quad. [read post]
2 May 2024, 6:05 am by Yosi Yahoudai
At least 15 protesters suffered injuries, and the tepid response by authorities drew criticism from political leaders as well as Muslim students and advocacy groups.By Wednesday afternoon a small city sprang up inside the reenforced encampment, now full of hundreds of people and tents on the campus quad. [read post]