By MICHAEL MARCIANO | September 14, 2017
A 1940s Connecticut "Crime of the Century" courtroom drama, written by Connecticut attorney Michael Koskoff and exploring the rich personality of a young Thurgood Marshall, hits big screens nationwide next month.
By Barry Black and John B. Madden explore "Corporation of Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos," where the court upheld the validity of a statutory exception to the prohibition against discrimination on the basis of religion contained in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and further discuss other examples of the law's special treatment of religious institutions and clergy members. | September 13, 2017
Thirty years ago, in Corporation of Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos, 483 U.S. 327 (1987), the U.S. Supreme…
By Michael Booth | September 12, 2017
A state prosecutor asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to reinstate the criminal conviction of a man who added offensive comments to a co-worker's wedding photos and posted them as flyers.
By William M. Pinzler | September 12, 2017
William M. Pinzler discusses "Masterpiece Cakeshop and Jack Phillips v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and Craig and Mullins," a case the Supreme Court has granted certiorari which presents the question of whether applying Colorado's public accommodations law to compel a "cake artist" (a baker) to prepare a cake in honor of a customer's gay wedding violates his "sincerely held religious beliefs" about gay marriage and thus violates the Free Speech or Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 12, 2017
The district court barred plaintiff's stigma-plus claim under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for alleged reputational injury against a third party, finding that the actions constituting the stigma and the plus must both be performed by the defendant employer. The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's complaint with prejudice.
By Marcia Coyle | September 7, 2017
The Trump administration delivered a new blow to the gay and lesbian community on Thursday when the U.S. Justice Department sided against a same-sex couple in a major discrimination case at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Justice Department filed a brief backing a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple. "Weddings are sacred rites in the religious realm and profoundly symbolic ceremonies in the secular one," Jeffrey Wall, the acting U.S. solicitor general, wrote in the amicus brief.
By Josefa Velasquez and B. Colby Hamilton | September 6, 2017
New York's AG and 15 other states and D.C. filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York alleging the Trump administration's undoing of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action violates constitutional protections.
By Kristen Rasmussen | September 6, 2017
Two top pharmaceutical trade groups have asked a federal judge to block a Nevada law requiring certain diabetes drugmakers to disclose information to the state about the cost of making and marketing the medications.
By Sue Reisinger | September 5, 2017
The white nationalist leader had been scheduled to speak at the university, but was initially rebuffed after the crowd at a similar speech in Charlottesville turned violent.
By Julie Watson | September 1, 2017
SeaWorld is seeking a restraining order against three animal rights activists who disrupted a killer whale show at its San Diego park last month in a protest led by actor James Cromwell.
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