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29 May 2024, 3:52 pm by Reference Staff
”In discussing bias in language and legal analysis, Seattle University School of Law legal writing professors Lorraine Bannai & Anne Enquist wrote in their law review article (Un)Examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students to Recognize Bias in Legal Analysis and Language:Whether the issue is one of gender, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability, the overriding principles governing word choice are the same:(1) realize that what a person is called… [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Bernard Bell
Many state and local officials host social media sites and use them to converse with followers on matters related to their governmental responsibilities, among other things.[1]  Not surprisingly, many choose to block from their sites certain members of the public they find disagreeable.[2] Being disagreeable, or at least in disagreement with such actions, blocked followers sometimes sue alleging that their exclusion violates the First Amendment.[3]  One of the most notable examples was a… [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding
As Adam Smith recognized in The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, business as an institution depends on certain basic moral principles and understandings.[15] Even in his more famous and influential The Wealth of Nations,[16] Smith recognized that promoting excessively “high profits” for capitalists could undermine the economic wealth and moral well-being of a nation as a whole.[17] In my article, I draw also on the contemporary social philosopher Axel Honneth, who… [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 9:35 am by fjhinojosa
Cole Durham & Robert Smith, Religious Organizations and the Law, §32:14. [read post]
5 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But Chief Justice John Roberts did not address any of those contemporary issues in his annual “Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 7:45 pm by Jim Sedor
Supreme Court Says It Can’t Determine Who Leaked Draft Dobbs Opinion MSN – Robert Barnes and Ann Marimow (Washington Post) | Published: 1/19/2023 The U.S. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 1:36 am by Jim Sedor
Two States Still Observe King-Lee Day, Honoring Robert E. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Conservative Group Pressing States to Adopt Laws Protecting Companies from ‘Political Boycotts’: Report Yahoo News – Jared Gans (The Hill) | Published: 11/11/2022 A conservative group is planning to push state lawmakers across the country to adopt legislation to shield American companies from “political boycotts. [read post]
9 May 2022, 4:26 am by Emma Snell
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told his Ukrainian counterpart that this progress — marked by Kyiv Embassy charge d’affaires Kristina Kvien’s visit yesterday to commemorate V-E Day — is a testament to Ukraine’s success and Moscow’s failure in the early phase of the war. [read post]
25 Apr 2022, 9:05 pm by Stephen M. Bainbridge
The question of corporate purpose has been much in the news of late, triggering renewed attention by legal scholars to corporate social responsibility, ESG, and shareholder value maximization. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 7:21 am by Roger Parloff
  … [W]e will also have well armed and equipped QRF [quick reaction force] teams on standby, outside DC, in the event of a worst case scenario, where the President calls us up as part of the militia to assist him inside DC. [read post]