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15 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
The Role of Equal Protection Doctrine Yet another set of stopping points down a slippery slope comes not from the voting rights amendments (the 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th), but from equal protection doctrine. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 8:10 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)In 2010, the faculty at Penn State Law approved the creation of a new concept course, to be named "Elements of Law". [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 2:25 am by Florian Mueller
From my point of view they're both culpable of some wrongdoing, but that doesn't mean that they're equally abusive. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 2:39 pm by Stephen Bilkis
At issue is whether a private prosecution for a crime, after the District Attorney's Office declines to prosecute, constitutes a violation of the defendant's rights to Due Process and Equal Protection, and, consequently, whether section 50 of the New York City Criminal Court Act, as applied here, is unconstitutional. [read post]
10 Aug 2013, 6:17 am by Jon Gelman
A federal appeals court affirmed the decision to throw out the claim.Unpaid interns miss out on wages and employment benefits, but they can also find themselves in "legal limbo" when it comes to civil rights, according to law professor and intern labor rights advocate David Yamada. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 7:13 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Rigidity v. flexibility: advocates for more specific defenses. [read post]
8 Aug 2013, 10:05 am by Rebecca Tushnet
She doesn’t necessarily advocate importing actual malice, just doesn’t think it would be the end of the world. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 1:02 pm by Lyle Denniston
The state’s view of the Shelby County decision is that it put the preclearance regime further out of reach of the courts because it was a unique intrusion upon the sovereignty of the states, and denied the basic guarantee that the states are equal to each other. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 2:22 pm by Ilya Somin
I’m a strong supporter of gay and lesbian equality. [read post]
3 Aug 2013, 7:44 am by Eric Muller
Julius Chambers became one of the new generation of "LDF cooperating attorneys"  who had begun their legal careers working with Jack Greenberg and other leading advocates at LDF in New York.. [read post]
2 Aug 2013, 7:20 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Second Amendment advocates argue that this fee violates the Constitution. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 6:38 am by Dan Stein
” And at JURIST, Elizabeth Wydra argues that the state-by-state strategy adopted by some marriage equality advocates after the Court’s ruling in Perry “is not what the Constitution demands” as it forgets “the true promise of the Constitution’s guarantee of equality” Briefly: At this blog, Lyle Denniston reports on a cert. petition filed in NRA v. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 11:51 am
Supreme Court decision to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) featured an article about LGBT rights in the nursing home. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 5:00 am by Matthew Waxman
At last week’s Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, advocates of closing Guantanamo, such as chairman Dick Durbin and Human Rights First president Elisa Massimino, talked about how to close Guantanamo: in particular, by transferring or releasing most detainees to other countries and then moving the remainder into the United States. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 12:48 pm by Robert May
Families hope that the doctors, nurses, CNAs (certified nursing assistants), and administrators will do right by their loved one. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 6:00 am by Alex Craigie
However, the Protocols seem to invite a dialogue, which would seem like a step in the right direction †Ms. [read post]
19 Jul 2013, 3:40 pm
On June 24, 2013, the United States Supreme Court issued two rulings that were met with a roar of approval from equal rights advocates from coast to coast. [read post]