Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board

October 17, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Every judge who must now decide this and similar cases knows that his or her decision will inevitably offend many people.

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October 10, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Plyler decision is one of most inspiring and, at times, poetic opinions ever written. The court's discussion of the contradictions and complexities affecting the undocumented population in the U.S. was remarkably prescient.

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October 05, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The U.S. Supreme Court's warped interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act means there's nothing our General Assembly can do to blunt the scourge of forced arbitration.

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September 20, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

While we do not ignore Jim's failings, we should not define him by his weaknesses.

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September 13, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A seemingly endless string of disappointments has failed to bring closure or resolve unanswered questions.

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September 07, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When Sullivan took over the high court, it had just endured a long period of stormy dissents and the "footnote wars" between associate justices Robert I. Berdon and David M. Borden, nicknamed the 'killer B's.' His tenure marked a new calm and greater consensus.

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August 30, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The aftermath of Cummings is not difficult to predict. Without the promise of monetary recovery, fewer plaintiffs will have cause to stand up, and fewer lawyers will be able to take their cases.

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August 24, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut's Department of Revenue Services has lost 25% of its enforcement and collection staff and 10% of its audit staff in the past decade.

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August 15, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

One does not have to subscribe to biblical principles to recognize that human beings, who established the courts and the laws applied in them, have a unique place in the law.

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August 05, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut's failure fully to include farmworkers in its basic labor protections tracks similar exclusions at the federal level. These exclusions, however, are rooted in racial prejudice and have no place in our modern laws.

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