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29 Oct 2020, 10:38 am by Zahavah Levine, Thea Raymond-Sidel
This post is the fourth of a five-part series on litigation about mail voting during the 2020 general election. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
By 1790 both North Carolina and Rhode Island had ratified the Constitution and the proposed amendments. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 6:50 pm by kris
 Cut: fencing (MW), golf (MW), squash (MW), women’s skiing, women’s equestrian, and men’s indoor track and field, outdoor T&F, and cross-countryAdded: women's sailing, co-ed sailingAthletes mobilized quickly and worked with the ACLU of Rhode Island and not-for-profit Public Justice to challenge the elimination of the 5 women's teams as a violation of the university's 1998 agreement in Cohen v. [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 9:12 am by Eugene Volokh
Human Rights Campaign Institute for Science and Human Values Jewish Women International Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Legal Momentum Media Equity Collaborative Muslim Advocates National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity National Black Justice Coalition National Center for Lesbian Rights National Coalition Against Domestic Violence National Council of Jewish Women National Council of Women’s Organizations National Disability Rights Network National Domestic Violence Hotline… [read post]
27 Nov 2014, 7:41 am by Jim Gerl
., whose population was 5,515 in 2010.Note: Townships have been included in these counts from 12 states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin) where the primary governmental or administrative divisions of a county serve as general-purpose local governments that can perform the same governmental functions as incorporated places. [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 7:46 am by David B. Kopel
Today, American sheriffs are elected in all states except Alaska (which has no counties), Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Connecticut (where the office of sheriff was abolished in 2000). [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 10:41 am by Eugene Volokh
Free expression of religion has been a cornerstone of the inalienable rights of Americans even as the religiously persecuted separatist Puritan Pilgrims reached Plymouth Rock in 1620, as states such as Rhode Island were established solely as a haven for those persecuted for their religious beliefs, as religious freedom was established in Section 14, Article I of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, all well before the Free Exercise Clause was formally set out in the First Amendment to… [read post]
22 May 2013, 6:09 am by Marie-Andree Weiss
Across the border from Massachusetts, Rhode Island has already enacted a law giving administrators of an estate the right to request from electronic mail service providers access to or copies of the contents of the account of the deceased upon receipt of a written request or an order from the probate court. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 10:44 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Rhode Island is considering S. 0341, which would reduce the penalties for some minor offenses, such as shoplifting, disorderly conduct, and driving with a suspended license. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 12:00 am by My name
While Illinois, Mississippi and Pennsylvania exempt pension income entirely for qualified individuals, twenty-one other states exempt only a portion of pension income, and fifteen other states generally tax pension income in its entirety.6Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia impose a tax on Social Security income, at the state level, in addition to the Federal level.7 In… [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 11:06 am
Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit1998), and (3) in response to interrogation, Rhode Island v. [read post]
29 Nov 2013, 1:32 pm by Jim Gerl
., whose population was 5,515 in 2010.Note: Townships have been included in these counts from 12 states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin) where the primary governmental or administrative divisions of a county serve as general-purpose local governments that can perform the same governmental functions as incorporated places. [read post]
24 Nov 2016, 9:53 am by Jim Gerl
., whose population was 5,779.Note: Townships have been included in these counts from 12 states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin) where the primary governmental or administrative divisions of a county serve as general-purpose local governments that can perform the same governmental functions as incorporated places. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
It's what happened in the middle of the 19th century in Rhode Island during the Dorr Rebellion, which gave rise to the SCOTUS non-justiciability ruling in Luther v. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 8:36 am by Andrew Kent
Another Senate investigation of Russia-Trump connections is being led by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the chair and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. [read post]
23 Dec 2018, 7:07 am by Katharine Trendacosta
By the end of 2018, six states—Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Montana, Rhode Island, and Vermont—had executive orders preventing the state from contracting with ISPs that didn’t adhere to net neutrality principles. [read post]
8 Apr 2021, 3:56 pm by Pennsylvania Employment Lawyer
Hawaii – Unclear, but it appears it may be allowed if set forth in written drug testing policy Idaho Louisiana Montana North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Utah – if pursuant to written employer policy Vermont West Virginia – basically permits random drug testing 25 States Do Not Have Any Law Authorizing or Permitting  Random Drug Testing for Employee of Private Sector Employees According to our reading of the blr.com survey, the following states do not have any law… [read post]
15 Nov 2015, 3:51 pm by Jim Gerl
., whose population was 5,662.Note: Townships have been included in these counts from 12 states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin) where the primary governmental or administrative divisions of a county serve as general-purpose local governments that can perform the same governmental functions as incorporated places. [read post]
27 May 2016, 7:12 am
And other states have very high limits, for example Nevada at $550,000, and Massachusetts and Rhode Island at $500,000. [read post]