The recent U.S. Supreme Court term ended in a flood of cases on topics that captured the public imagination: searching teenage girls; race discrimination in firefighter examinations and DNA testing.
A case, lost amid the clamor, addressed a more prosaic subject — Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(5) — but carries with it the seeds for far-reaching and harmful consequences for advocates and their public interest lawyers, like those who work at the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, who sue to enforce federal law against state officials.
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