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July 24, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Clarence Thomas's Misuse of History: Ask Amy Coney Barrett

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is an insatiable "Originalist" always eager to expound his historical version of constitutional adjudication, felt the need to invoke history to support his position on a criminal matter before the court. While Justice Amy Comey Barrett voted with her senior colleague, she "ridiculed Thomas for his misuse of history," a Law Journal columnist writes.
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November 28, 2022 | New York Law Journal

'Skinner v. Oklahoma' Revisited

Despite this passage of time, this seminal 1942 case retains a practical and symbolic importance worth recalling and revisiting.
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August 15, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Lemonade From the 'Dobbs' Lemon

Much as we abhor 'Dobbs', one aspect of it may, surprisingly, prove useful for civil liberties. 'Dobbs' may open the door in the future to some welcome and long overdue Supreme Court course corrections.
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June 10, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal

Appellate Division Denies Challenge to NJ Law Allowing Terminally Ill Patients to End Their Lives

Judge Arnold L. Natali, in his written opinion for the court, stated that the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, signed into law in 2019, was the result of "nearly a decade of deliberations." According to court documents, 95 New Jersey residents have invoked the act and ended their lives with no reports of impropriety or illegality.
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April 26, 2022 | New York Law Journal

'I Felt Afraid to Ask': Law Students With Disabilities Are Often Torn Between Trying to Fit In and Seeking Accommodations

This is the first installment of a new Law.com series called, "Disabling Ableism: Making the Legal Profession More Accessible," which aims to highlight both the challenges and opportunities law students with disabilities face before, during and after law school, as well as how the legal industry can better embrace disability as a form of diversity.
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April 26, 2022 | Law.com

'I Felt Afraid to Ask': Law Students With Disabilities Are Often Torn Between Trying to Fit In and Seeking Accommodations

This is the first installment of a new Law.com series called, "Disabling Ableism: Making the Legal Profession More Accessible," which aims to highlight both the challenges and opportunities law students with disabilities face before, during and after law school, as well as how the legal industry can better embrace disability as a form of diversity.
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January 12, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal

Federal Courts Are Failing Criminal Defendants in New Jersey

What has become of us when courts are closed but the malls are open? One hopes that a judicial epiphany with respect to the importance of this fundamental constitutional right of criminal defendants, even in the face of COVID-19, will come sooner rather than later.
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July 08, 2021 | Law.com

Why Britney Spears Can't Get Out of Her Conservatorship—and Why She's Not the Only One

"One of the real problems with conservatorship in general is that it's very often perceived as sort of a benign system," said Zoe Brennan-Krohn, a staff attorney with the ACLU's Disability Rights Project. But the legal construct is not designed to unlock if it's not benign.
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July 08, 2021 | The Recorder

Why Britney Spears Can't Get Out of Her Conservatorship—and Why She's Not the Only One

"One of the real problems with conservatorship in general is that it's very often perceived as sort of a benign system," said Zoe Brennan-Krohn, a staff attorney with the ACLU's Disability Rights Project. But the legal construct is not designed to unlock if it's not benign.
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April 13, 2021 | National Law Journal

Move to 'Coronate' Key Roberts Abortion Ruling Draws Ire From 6th Circuit Dissenters

"Hiding in the shadows of this case is the fact that a majority of this court believes that there is no constitutional right to abortion access," one judge said in dissent.
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