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New York Law Journal

Barreling Toward Constitutional Tumult

With 2024 upon us, we are confronted with a presidential election that carries historic import for American democracy, its constitutional values and the rule of law. It is not too soon to look beyond the election cycle to the prospect of a second Trump administration. And as tumultuous as his first term was, Trump's current rhetoric and the changed American landscape signal an even more ominous second term when it comes to civil rights and civil liberties.
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New York Law Journal

Decision of the Day: Counsel Is Granted Permissive Withdrawal But Is Denied Charging Lien

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors. 
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Judge Denies Former Bridgeport City Employee Economic Damages After Verdict Sunk Her Sexual Harassment Claim

A Connecticut judge denied back pay to a Bridgeport youth program manager who levied hostile workplace and sexual harassment claims against the city but awarded her attorney fees.
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Daily Report Online

Rights Groups Map Strategy as Bills Targeting LGBTQ Citizens Proliferate in US Statehouses

"We've found that the Georgia legislature implements a particular strategy of weaponizing parental rights as a pretext to infringe on the rights of young trans people in the state," said ACLU First Amendment Policy Director Sarah Hunt-Blackwell.
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Law.com

Massachusetts Court Weighs In on Process Before Involuntarily Committing Defendant for Competency Determination

"The court provided guidance that where a person has had an initial clinical evaluation for competency at court, the commonwealth has the burden to prove by clear and convincing evidence that hospitalization is the least restrictive alternative to adequately determine the defendant's competency to stand trial. Now, prosecutors across the state have clear guidance and judges have clarity that they must make clear findings to support those temporary hospitalizations." Norfolk District Attorney's Office spokesman David Traub said.
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The Legal Intelligencer

2023: A Landmark Year in LGBTQ+ Rights—Legal Triumphs and Political Challenges

As we look toward 2024, we do so with renewed optimism, carrying forward the lessons and victories of the past year, ready to build a more inclusive and equitable society.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'We're Seeing the Floodgates Open': EEOC's Flip to Democratic Control Already Turbocharging Agency

"We sometimes hear employers sort of downplay the concern with the EEOC, believing they're going to slip under the agency's radar. But it's important to remember that where the EEOC leads, the private plaintiffs bar follows," Seyfarth Shaw partner Christopher DeGroff said.
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Daily Report Online

Eleventh Circuit Sets March Court Date to Hear Ahmaud Arbery's Killers' Appeals of Their Hate Crime Convictions

Arbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.
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Texas Lawyer

'That's Wrong for Several Reasons': 7 Judges Dissent in This Divisive Case

"If any principle of constitutional law ought to unite all of us as Americans, it's that the government has no business imprisoning citizens for the views they hold or the questions they ask," Circuit Judge James C. Ho wrote.
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Daily Report Online

Bill to Define Antisemitism in State Law Advances in Georgia After Stalling in 2023

What was already a fraught topic has become downright raw with the Israel-Hamas war. Some protesters chanting "Free Free Palestine!" were dragged from the Judiciary Committee room by police officers after the vote.
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