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28 Apr 2015, 8:16 am by Michelle O'Neil
However, Justice Kennedy is also a state’s rights advocate. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 5:50 pm by Amy Howe
  Pushing back against the plaintiffs’ argument that marriage is a fundamental right to which they are simply seeking equal access, the states counter that the Supreme Court has described the right to marry as a fundamental one “precisely because marriage and procreation are fundamental to the existence of society. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 11:34 am
Patrick’s Day] parade organizers to include a group advocating a [gay rights] message that the parade organizers did not support, [Hurley v. [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 7:37 am by Jim Sedor
Bush has spent months developing a plan to give Right to Rise the authority to run activities such as advertising, phone banking, and data analysis for his campaign. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 3:52 pm by Bill Otis
 The advocates claiming that Supermax-type security is the answer to future prison homicides are the very same people who, in the courtroom right across the hall, are arguing that no one should be confined in Supermax at all because the conditions are so appalling and inhumane that they violate the Eighth Amendment. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Republicans in Congress in the 1990s added a provision to the law requiring that the IRS’s Office of the Taxpayer Advocate (OTA) provide frequent public reports about how the IRS is performing its many required tasks. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 7:32 pm
In his follow-up post, Bernstein does not dispute any of the above, but rather argues that “’Palestinian armed struggle’ in practice is overwhelmingly directed against Israeli civilians” and, therefore, ISM’s recognition of the right of Palestinians to use legitimate armed struggle against their occupiers equals support for terrorists. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 7:00 am by Bob Kraft
What appears on the law firm or lawyer’s page that comes up in the search engine is equally important. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 1:14 pm by ALDF
Odette Wilkens, executive director of the Equal Justice Alliance, explained how the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) labels a wide range of legal activism as “terrorism” and the dangerous chilling effect this has on law-abiding animal advocates. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 9:03 pm by Lyle Denniston
There are also a considerable stack of briefs filed by family welfare and family equality groups that take up the defense of the child in a same-sex marriage. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 6:21 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Native American Bar Association hereby declares that it is immoral and unethical for any lawyer to advocate for or contribute to the divestment or restriction of the American indigenous right of tribal citizenship, without equal protection at law or due process of law or an effective remedy for the violation of such rights. [read post]
12 Apr 2015, 9:08 pm by Lyle Denniston
Gay rights advocates have been pressing in the courts for the right to marry since the early 1990s, beginning with a test case in Hawaii, Baehr v. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 12:33 pm by Lisa J. Laplante
It is my position that a collective memory is the first step towards cultivating its collective consciousness which leads to a conscience that can influence how its members buy into this culture of rights, accountability, equality and other essential attributes to sustainable peace. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 12:18 pm by Nassiri Law
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit More Blog Entries: California Equal Pay Act Introduced by Female Democrats, April 6, 2015, Orange County Wage and Hour Lawyer Blog [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 8:04 am by John-Paul Boyd
I also discussed how lawyers’ duty to promote settlement is not only complimentary to but in fact helps to satisfy our duty to advocate for our clients’ interests. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
But oftentimes (as in the SCV case) striking down a law on First Amendment grounds may in fact lead to less speech, but it still can be the right constitutional thing to do. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 2:26 pm by Guest Blogger
  But disparate impact does not equal “class legislation,” at least as that term is defined in the Cato Brief.But suppose that Jack is right (as I concede, sincerely, he might be): once we acknowledge that original meaning is not confined to “expected applications,” there is no viable stopping point short of the “grand principles” approach that he and the Cato Brief advocate and practice. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 7:06 am by Colin Lachance
Category 1 consisted of matters where I was right and category 2 consisted of matters that didn’t matter. [read post]