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11 Mar 2023, 4:24 am
J: After the United States led the world to adopt the Washington Principles in 1998, survivors and their heirs were losing in court on time-bar grounds, such as the statute of limitations, civil law prescription doctrine, or the equitable doctrine of laches. [read post]
11 Mar 2023, 3:21 am
” ● International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Leuven. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 4:49 am
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Florida can constitutionally ban adults under 21 from purchasing guns, upholding a state law enacted weeks after the 2018 school massacre in Parkland. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 3:00 am
” The coalition of plaintiffs argued their members’ rights were unfairly hindered by the law preventing third-party PACs from spending more than $600,000 on advertising and other activities in the 12 months before an election. [read post]
5 Mar 2023, 3:50 pm
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5 Mar 2023, 12:30 am
There is no right not to be offended. [read post]
4 Mar 2023, 3:05 am
This issue came up in a little reported exchange in the oral argument in Students for Fair Admissions v. the University of North Carolina between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and David Hinojosa is the director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: JUSTICE BARRETT: One question. [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 4:04 pm
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sex, including subjecting employees a hostile work environment based on sex. [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 2:51 pm
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26 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm
The Sustainable Investments Institute 2022 Proxy Preview report, for example, states that “while still primarily focused on governance and disclosure, [these proposals] increasingly question which issues company-connected money supports,” including climate-related matters, civil rights, and healthcare access. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 8:16 am
Since Jan. 11, 2023 the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee has held, almost on a daily basis, hearings dedicated to the judicial reform package under the provocative heading, “Zion shall be redeemed by justice: restoring justice to the legal system. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 5:01 am
Without Section 230 protection, the risk is vast: Platforms using LLMs would be subject to a wide array of suits under federal and state law. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 1:07 pm
The orders were neither ultra vires nor exceptional—The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have been moving toward greater ownership transparency for years, the advisory committees have recommended that judges have the right to such disclosure and are considering further requirements,[21] and similar requirements in Federal District courts across the nation have been in place for years, in districts in, for example, California, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan,… [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 12:11 am
In an amicus brief to the court, Managing Attorney of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law David Brody emphasized that the court has the potential to shape online civil rights law. [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 6:41 am
Dep’t of Justice, Re: Amenability of the President, Vice President and Other Civil Officers to Federal Criminal Prosecution While in Office, at 36 (Sept. 24, 1973) (“With respect to his responsibility as tie breaker his immunity from prosecution should be analogized to that of Members of Congress under Article I, section 6, clause 1 of the Constitution. [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 5:16 am
Like most other parts of the government apparatus in Israel, government lawyers are civil servants appointed through public tenders. [read post]
20 Feb 2023, 7:09 am
” Gonzalez instead argues that courts should understand “publisher” using the term’s definition under defamation law—meaning a communicator of information, which can be held liable for the communication of that information. [read post]
19 Feb 2023, 12:02 pm
The amount is the maximum civil money penalty allowed by federal law. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 6:11 am
Another brief that makes this argument: Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 5:58 am
These changes brought U.S. law far closer to its obligations under international law, including the Geneva Conventions. [read post]