Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Emily Cousins | December 15, 2023
"It allows us to move forward and push our case to the District Court to reject the claims, which are entirely baseless on the merits," American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut's Elana Bildner said. "It doesn't endorse the plaintiffs' very distorted view of what Title IX means."
By Allison Dunn | December 14, 2023
"The West Point School Board violated that constitutional command when it tried to force Vlaming to endorse the school's ideological viewpoints on gender identity," the plaintiff's counsel, Chris Schandevel, said in a statement Thursday. "And the Virginia Supreme Court rightly vindicated Vlaming's right to stand by his convictions in its decision."
By Avalon Zoppo | December 14, 2023
In the lawsuit, Erma Wilson alleges that Midland County violated her due process rights by employing Ralph Petty as a prosecutor at the same time that, unbeknownst to her, he worked as a law clerk for the county judge who handled Wilson's drug-possession case.
By Mason Lawlor | December 13, 2023
A federal lawsuit has accused Morehouse College in Atlanta of unlawfully dismissing a formal Title IX complaint of sexual assault against one of its students for allegedly adding a sexual stimulant to another student's alcohol without her knowledge in order to commit rape.
By Jeffrey M. Winn | December 12, 2023
Prior to the United States' entrance into World War II, the U.S. Supreme Court -- mostly nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, had issued several important decisions that enforced the civil rights of a variety of Americans against government discrimination. But after America became a combatant, the court would issue morally corrosive rulings that ultimately deprived 120,000 people of the equal protection of the laws.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | December 10, 2023
We urge colleges, law schools, CLE providers and others to highlight New Jersey's own 1947 ERA. And we urge New Jerseyans and others to renew the campaign to recognize the federal ERA as a ratified provision of our U.S. Constitution.
By Allison Dunn | December 8, 2023
"It is immaterial that Muldrow identified as straight. A juror could reasonably hear the evidence at trial and assume that Muldrow was homosexual or identified with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual. It is the jury's perception of the defendant as homosexual that is the relevant consideration," Judge Joseph M. Getty wrote.
By Riley Brennan | December 7, 2023
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By Colleen Murphy | December 7, 2023
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New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Christopher Dunn | December 6, 2023
In the quiet of the Thanksgiving week, the New York Court of Appeals delivered a blockbuster batch of decisions that herald a new day for constitutional claims presented by criminal defendants in New York. The 12 decisions released on Nov. 21 are the first significant group of rulings in criminal cases from the newly constituted Court of Appeals and signal a dramatic realignment of the court's seven judges.
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