Connecticut Editorial Board

June 08, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Recent incidents have revealed ways white people—often specifically white women—are still using the law to maintain white dominance in the northern states.

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May 25, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The members of the editorial board were shocked and deeply saddened to hear that a beloved member, Thomas J. Ullmann, died in a hiking accident on April 13, 2018, in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York.

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May 15, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

With the increasing use of arbitration as a means of resolving disputes throughout the state and at the federal level, this is a positive step toward revising and modernizing arbitration procedures.

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March 30, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Superior Court Rules Committee adopted MCLE in June 2016 to be effective Jan. 1, 2017, and its implementation in the intervening year has demonstrated unequivocally that the fear of—and opposition to—MCLE was completely unwarranted.

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March 06, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The nomination of Justice Andrew McDonald to become our state Supreme Court's next chief justice has caused quite the legislative stir.

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March 06, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

An independent judiciary is paramount to a free society. We call on our legislators, once again, to approve the nomination of Justice Andrew McDonald because he is qualified to do the job as chief justice. That's really the only relevant question.

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March 02, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Within the swirl of political activity of 2017 lay yet another attack on the Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that serves as the single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans.

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February 22, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Mississippi should commission the creation of a new statue to recognize a real state hero, Hiram Robles Revels, to be placed in the National Statuary Hall as the first black U.S. senator to serve.

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February 09, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

As Connecticut continues its financial convulsions, nary a word has been uttered about attempting to make the operation of the judicial branch more efficient.

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January 18, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In the spring of 2016 four Yale law students founded an organization to respond to the unmet legal needs of Central American refugee families fleeing…

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