Christopher Dunn

June 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Christopher Dunn

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April 20, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Christopher Dunn, the associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, writes that a dramatic ruling last month from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit - in a case in which New York City participated - threatens to derail gun-control measures but may provide the Supreme Court with an opportunity to address definitively the meaning of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

By Christopher Dunn

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June 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Christopher Dunn

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June 29, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In his Civil Rights and Civil Liberties column, Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, writes that the U.S. Supreme Court opened this decade with a watershed decision turning back a frontal assault on Miranda warnings. Since then, however, an increasingly conservative Court has narrowed the Fifth Amendment's protections against self-incrimination in a piecemeal fashion.

By Christopher Dunn

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June 27, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Christopher Dunn, the associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, reviews the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, which narrowed the constitutional protections afforded public employees. Ironically, while handing government employers a legal victory, the decision likely will result in government agencies far more often reading about scandals in the newspaper rather than first hearing about them from their employees.

By Christopher Dunn

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February 24, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, writes: Important as President Obama's signing of legislation negating a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that seriously undermined sex-discrimination protections in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was, it was just the first "fix" of many being considered to address Supreme Court decisions that have seriously damaged the Civil Rights Act. Of particular significance is possible legislative restoration of essential protections against race discrimination that the Court eviscerated in 2001.

By Christopher Dunn

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October 05, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

The "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations against capitalism have morphed into police controversies with the arrest of about 700 people on the Brooklyn Bridge last Saturday and the Union Square pepper-spray incident the weekend before.

By Christopher Dunn

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August 24, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In his Civil Rights and Civil Liberties column, Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's recent rulings in favor of convicted prisoners claiming constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel.

By Christopher Dunn

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August 03, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Christopher Dunn, the associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, examines opinions authored by Judge John G. Roberts during his brief stint on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that dealt with substantial civil rights and civil liberties issues.

By Christopher Dunn

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February 23, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Christopher Dunn, the associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union and an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, writes: Later this term the U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that presents one of the most fundamental but not recently encountered questions in the area of individual rights and liberties: Does a provision of the Bill of Rights apply to states and localities, as opposed to only the federal government?

By Christopher Dunn

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