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26 Aug 2013, 6:52 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
The defendants, including the police, tried to get the case against them dismissed on prosecutorial immunity, but the Court of Appeals reverses summary judgment and remands the case.As the Second Circuit (Walker, Katzmann and Lynch) reminds us, "a prosecutor acting in the role of an advocate in connection with a judicial proceeding is entitled to absolute immunity for all acts intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process." [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 6:41 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
"The district court got it wrong, the Court of Appeals (Katzmann, Walker and Calabresi) says, because it did not address an important precedent, Glatt v. [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 6:38 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
The Court of Appeals (Pooler, Walker and Sack) says the plaintiff has a potential discrimination case, but it pauses to discuss Eleventh Amendment immunity. [read post]
10 Jun 2018, 7:29 am by Brooke
Anders Walker's The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America is reviewed in The Nation. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 6:36 am by Sheldon Toplitt
Walker and Debra Ann Livingston upheld a ruling by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York that Spitzer and E-zine Slate did not defame William Gilman, former executive marketing director for Marsh & McClennan, in an Aug. 22, 2010 Slate column (see "TUOL" post 8/23/11).In 2005, Marsh paid $850 million to settle a civil suit brought by the State of New York eight months before Gilman and seven other Marsh execs were indicted on kickback charges and other… [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 11:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
.'"Judges Walker and Richardson filed a separate dissent suggesting a writ of mandamus was the right legal vehicle rather than a habeas corpus writ. [read post]
5 Jun 2015, 8:53 am
Proclaiming itself a philosophy of individualism, with no overt celebrations of either patriarchy or racism, libertarianism still ends up being monochromatic and male....Jesse Walker, an editor at Reason magazine, agrees that the libertarian gender gap is real... [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 7:57 am by Jim Walker
Photo Credit: Allure of the Seas (in Falmouth Jamaica) - Jim Walker [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 6:18 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
I have not seen yet seen a case where the plaintiff's testimony had this kind of discrepancy in the course of two separate depositions, but the Court of Appeals says that plaintiff had the chance to testify about Syed's admission during the first deposition but failed to do so, and that she offers no plausible reason why the second deposition produced this testimony, which under normal circumstances would send this case to a jury and deny the employer's motion for summary judgment… [read post]
7 Jun 2014, 7:21 pm by Howard Friedman
Walker, (WD WI, June 6, 2014), a Wisconsin federal district court, in n 88-page opinion, struck down Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 4:49 pm by Unknown
Walker River Irrigation District (Water Rights)Sisto v. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 3:03 pm by Michel-Adrien
Blanton, Executive Director, National Security Archive, George Washington University, Washington, DC  Stephen B Walker, Executive Director, Information Management and Open Government, Treasury Board of Canada SecretariatDr. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 5:56 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
The Court of Appeals (Jacobs and Walker) holds that the arresting officers are entitled to qualified immunity, which gives public officials the benefit of the doubt in close cases if an objective police officer would have also made the arrest. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 5:55 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
The drawback for plaintiffs is that, in Article 78's, the colleges get the benefit of the doubt in cases involving academic decisionmaking on the theory that colleges are best suited to address these issues unless they abuse their discretion and issue a crackpot ruling on the academic dispute.The Court of Appeals (Katzmann, Walker and Cabranes) now holds that federal law is available to resolve these disputes as well, if the students raise federal claims. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 8:46 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Not so, the Court of Appeals (Kearse, Walker and Jacobs) says, because the Supreme Court in Heller said its ruling will not "cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings. [read post]
2 Jun 2018, 10:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" See coverage from the Dallas News.Missing interrogation recording can't be used as a 'sword' against defendantIn a recent CCA ruling favoring the defense, Judge Scott Walker ruled that a partially recorded interrogation was unfair and inadmissible after the prosecutor used the failure of the state to record the conversation to accuse the defendant of lying. [read post]
18 Aug 2017, 3:07 pm
Dana Schutz’s painting 'Open Casket' depicting Emmett Till, the murdered African-American teenager, in the Whitney Biennial, and Sam Durant’s sculpture gallows 'Scaffold,' at the Walker Art Center’s sculpture garden, which was denounced by Native American groups for recalling an act of genocide. [read post]