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17 Jan 2015, 8:52 am by William Eskridge
   When substance fails the advocate, procedure is a last resort. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 1:37 pm
In addition, the same-sex marriage advocates have won the vast majority of lower court cases on the issue, since Windsor. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 12:30 pm by Benjamin Wittes
It is, after all, government to which we turn to vindicate our rights, to prosecute those who injure us, and to thwart or deter those who would harm us. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 11:05 am by Doorey
 Section 2 (d), viewed purposively, protects three classes of activities:  (1) the right to join with others and form associations; (2) the right to join with others in the pursuit of other constitutional rights; and (3) the right to join with others to meet on more equal terms the power and strength of other groups or entities. 68. [read post]
13 Jan 2015, 8:18 am by Mark Jaycox and Lee Tien
And instead of increasing penalties under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, we've long advocated common sense reform to decrease them. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 2:23 pm by Lyle Denniston
  The judge also found that it violated the rights of six same-sex couples in the state to legal equality under the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 2:06 pm by Bill Otis
"  Here is the first excerpt from the article, as quoted by Doug:In her first book, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison in America, historian Naomi Murakawa demonstrates how the American prison state emerged not out of race-baiting states'-rights advocates nor tough-on-crime drug warriors but rather from federal legislation written by liberals working to guarantee racial equality under the law. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 7:32 am by William Consovoy
At least some disparate-impact housing cases thus will trigger strict scrutiny even under the lenient rule the Project’s amici advocate. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 6:00 am by Administrator
At the time, “Canadian citizenship was virtually a universal requirement for admittance to any of the provincial law societies” and law societies were strong advocates of the limiting entry to the profession to Canadian citizens. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 7:08 am by John Paul Schnapper-Casteras
Many of these official policies continued until the mid-1960s, influenced the conduct of private actors, and were only abolished after civil rights advocates successfully drew attention to the fact that segregation in housing – and elsewhere – inflicts a deep and lasting insult to the dignity of the humans it constrains. [read post]
2 Jan 2015, 12:37 pm by Lloyd J. Jassin
 Contracts with cross collateralization clauses deservedly get bad reviews from author advocates. [read post]
2 Jan 2015, 4:45 am by Florian Mueller
But Google's lawyers know that the Supreme Court would reject a petition for writ of certiorari that overtly advocates the unconstitutional abolition of software copyright as a whole. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 2:41 pm
The move toward extraterritorial application of the law of some (usually home) states to the legal situation of objects of human rights norms within host states presents even graver problems within an international system ostensibly grounded in the notion of equality among states. [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm by RegBlog
  Instead, it is often described by equally vague concepts such as “tone at the top,” and “walk the talk. [read post]
25 Dec 2014, 7:39 am
” The article goes on to quote me as saying “that marriage equality is still many years away from becoming a reality in China. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 12:48 pm by Giles Peaker
Even though LBR has offered to pay a deposit and first months rent on a privately rented property RBG refuses to give the parents advocates or LBR the list of acceptable private properties as the parents are not assessed as being in sufficient need; e. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 8:10 am
The right-wing claim that the protestors have inspired the murder of the two New York officers is reminiscent of equally dubious left-wing charges that the shooting of Rep. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 7:59 am by Mark S. Goldstein
Responding to pressure from Public Advocate Letitia James, Mayor de Blasio, on November 21, 2014, appointed an employee-plaintiffs’ side attorney, Carmelyn Malalis, as the Agency’s new chair. [read post]
Our failure to reckon with these crimes has already damaged the global struggle against torture, and it seriously calls into question our commitment to the principle of equality before the law. [read post]