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New Faculty Publications – Summer 2024

16 Jul 2024, 4:06 pm by Jacob Fishman

At a juncture when both democratic and authoritarian regimes across the world are vested to persecuting their host Muslim populations, The New Crusades interrogates–through trenchant analysis and direct testimony of Muslims on the ground–how Islamophobia stands as a unifying global thread of both state and societal bigotry. [read post]

Ross-Blakley Law Library Blog - http://lawlibnews.lawnews-asu.org/

Reviewing a determination of the New York State Comptroller denying petitioner's application for a recalculation of his final average salary for the purposed of determining the pension portion of his retirement benefit to be paid by the New York State and Local Retirement System

16 Jul 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Letitia James, Attorney General, Albany (Kevin C. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Reviewing a determination of the New York State Comptroller denying petitioner's application for a recalculation of his final average salary for the purposed of determining the pension portion of his retirement benefit to be paid by the New York State and Local Retirement System

16 Jul 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Letitia James, Attorney General, Albany (Kevin C. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Judge Cannon Finds Special Counsel Unconstitutional in Trump Classified Documents Case: What’s Next for Jack Smith?

15 Jul 2024, 4:44 pm by Adam Klasfeld

A Historical Departure Inside a small federal courtroom in south Florida in late June, prosecutor James Pearce painted a sweeping history of the role that special prosecutors — a phrase often used interchangeably with the more formal and contemporary “special counsel” — have played in the United States. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

2nd Circuit: Trial Court Must Make Further Findings in Wedding Photographer's Challenge to NY Public Accommodation Law

15 Jul 2024, 9:20 am by Howard Friedman

In Emilee Carpenter, LLC, dba Emilee Carpenter Photography v. [read post]

Religion Clause - http://religionclause.blogspot.com/

Charting a Path for Climate Rights

15 Jul 2024, 2:00 am by Rachel Neave

Proponents of this viewpoint also pointed to the landmark case of Brown v. [read post]

Pace Environmental Law Review Blog - https://pelr.blogs.pace.edu/

Case Review: Farmer-Paellmann v Smithsonian Inst.

11 Jul 2024, 9:24 am by centerforartlaw

The Act of Establishment created the Smithsonian upon the bequeathment of the assets by James Smithson to the United States, “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men”[13]. [read post]

Center for Art Law Blog - http://itsartlaw.com

[Orin S. Kerr] Accessing Google Location History Records Is Not a Search — At Least When Limited — Fourth Circuit Rules

10 Jul 2024, 4:14 pm by Orin S. Kerr

[An important case on "The Digital Fourth Amendment"] Regular readers may recall my prior coverage of United States v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

"Smith’s team pushed the court into adopting a legal rule that massively constrained prosecutorial power vis-à-vis former presidents, not just for Trump but for all future presidents."

10 Jul 2024, 7:35 am

Said James Burnham, "a former law clerk for Justice Neil M. [read post]

Althouse - https://althouse.blogspot.com

Does the Biden Stay-or-Go Debate Matter If We Are Already a Dead Democracy Walking?

9 Jul 2024, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

In Trump v. [read post]