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9 Apr 2015, 4:23 am by Kevin LaCroix
(I will note that the Chief Justice recently stated, publicly, that the Court did not contemplate that public companies would seize upon the ruling.) [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 6:00 am by Administrator
The Supreme Court of Canada has stated that “[t]he Charter does not confer a freestanding constitutional right to health care. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 12:00 am
  Class action plaintiffs’ firms, government agencies, and attorneys general dedicated to enforcing workplace rights protected by employment law and employment discrimination statutes also can be important allies in targeting under-represented workforces. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 7:30 am by Jane Chong
This point may seem stupidly obvious when so stated, but it doesn’t get quite the recognition it deserves. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 4:20 am by Kevin LaCroix
  There are some procedural controls that are intended to try to manage this sort of thing, at least in securities class action lawsuits filed in federal court. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 9:48 am by BakerHostetler
This new actor may be a combination of the previously known actors. [read post]
15 Feb 2015, 2:29 pm by Jeremy Saland
The Court, beginning its analysis of the Martin Act by reading the statute, found that the statute on its face is directed at acts or practices and not any particular mental state on the part of the actor. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 1:12 pm
Referring to counter-terrorism cases and relevant public protocols in the UK, his presentation demonstrated the complexity of state secrets, the supervision of security intelligence agencies, and the tension between human rights and national security. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 8:57 pm by Joey Fishkin
 It extends a constitutional vision of equal opportunity into the sphere of housing by imposing requirements on many types of public and private actors (landlords, lenders, developers, etc.) whose actions shape opportunities in this sphere. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 11:05 am by Doorey
 Protecting a broad freedom to associate is fundamental to democracy and to enable individuals to respond to more powerful actors in society, including governments and employers. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 7:52 am by John Elwood
Iskanian, a limo driver, sued his employer CLS for alleged California Labor Code violations, bringing both a traditional class action and a “representative action” under the Golden State’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). [read post]
10 Jan 2015, 8:26 pm
  So detached, Western narrative can then be deployed to detach the actors from the body of society (both the one attacked and the one purported serving as the base of attack); such individuals are understood as also acting beyond reason, their actions are reduced to mere criminality or they are understood as acting beyond volition [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 9:33 am by Myron Orfield
A federal rule states there is a Fair Housing Act disparate-impact cause of action. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 8:47 am by Eric Goldman
Finally, we saw a biographical film about the life of a pornography actress protected for its critical content and an even-handed (albeit monstrously long) opinion involving digital coursepacks at Georgia State University. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 6:00 am by Jennifer Williams
But a broader unstated goal was to reshape Libya’s security sector and political institutions to privilege the Qaddafi-era officer class and allied technocrats, while excluding the militias, younger Islamists, and Misratan factions. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
The petitioner, Anthony Douglas Elonis, was prosecuted and convicted of threatening his estranged wife, the state and local police, a kindergarten class, and an FBI agent. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 5:21 pm by Marty Lederman
  In such cases, the violators would remain culpable, and subject to subsequent punishment, for the actions they undertook during the period of the executive’s nonenforcement policy:  Potential fines would accrue every day, and where the law in question is a criminal offense, the actors might later be convicted. [read post]