By Ryan Tarinelli | April 5, 2021
It argues that Rochester's police department has a decades-long history of racist and inhumane use-of-force practices.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | April 4, 2021
We call on our court to use terms like "coextensive" carefully so as not to give a mistaken impression about future interpretation of state constitutional rights.
By Greg Land | April 2, 2021
A federal judge refused to dismiss claims that Polk County jailers a preacher and former inmate's right by banning baptisms deemed 'not required for their salvation.'
By Katheryn Tucker | April 2, 2021
Justice Amy Coney Barrett gave Georgia a dose of caution with its victory. "Florida has not met the exacting standard necessary to warrant the exercise of this Court's extraordinary authority to control the conduct of a coequal sovereign. We emphasize that Georgia has an obligation to make reasonable use of Basin waters in order to help conserve that increasingly scarce resource."
The American Lawyer | Commentary
By Brad S. Karp and Robert Atkins | April 1, 2021
Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp and partner Robert Atkins, co-chair of the Brennan Center for Justice, call for law firms to join corporate America in standing up to legislation that may suppress voting rights.
By Jonathan Ringel | April 1, 2021
Nominations are due no later than Friday, April 16.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Barbara Zolot | April 1, 2021
The Court of Appeals should prioritize tasking a commission with exploring Batson reforms.
By Katheryn Tucker | March 31, 2021
"S.B. 202 attacks the most sacred foundations of our democracy. But in this country, the law secures every American citizen the equal right to make their voice heard at the ballot box, no matter who they are. And we intend to vindicate that right in court," said Adam Sieff, attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Christopher Dunn | March 31, 2021
The Takings Clause was before the Supreme Court last week in a case in which a property-rights advocacy organization seeks to expand dramatically the clause's scope in an effort to curb the government's power over private property. As Christopher Dunn explains in this edition of his Civil Rights and Civil Liberties column, the bigger agenda here is to establish the proposition that the Takings Clause is triggered automatically whenever the government mandates access to private property, which ultimately could implicate public-accommodations statutes.
National Law Journal | Commentary
By Gregory L. Diskant | March 31, 2021
The current debate ignores the most important argument of all: The framers considered this in drafting the U.S. Constitution.
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