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18 hours agoFederal judge allows parts of discrimination lawsuit against NYC agency to proceed
The lawsuit was filed by Deshanae L. Brown, who alleges she was subjected to discrimination based on her race, sex, and disability, citing violations of federal and state laws including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Law
US politics
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1 day ago'Amateur hour at the U.S. attorney's office': L.A. prosecutors face more losses in protest cases
Prosecutors faced significant challenges in two separate trials for assault on federal officers in Los Angeles, with one case potentially dismissed due to discovery issues.
fromemptywheel
2 weeks agoMixing The Mixed Constitution - emptywheel
Burke's was a broadside that not only excoriated the social upheavals effected by the French revolutionaries and (by extension) commended by Marx, but the continual economic and social instability prized by modern liberal economic philosophy and practice. Against a new class of elites-mainly, an alliance between ideological progressive theorists and a rising financial oligarchy-Burke urged protection of the stability, tradition, and social continuities vital for the flourishing of ordinary people.
Left-wing politics
Intellectual property law
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4 weeks agoPatently Unreasonable: Hyatt's Return to the Supreme Court and the Fight Over Prosecution Laches
Gilbert Hyatt petitions the Supreme Court to challenge the Federal Circuit's prosecution laches doctrine, arguing it conflicts with statutory patent timing provisions in the Patent Act.
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fromAbove the Law
5 days agoBiglaw To D.C. Circuit: This Isn't Just About Us - It's About Whether The President Can Put Lawyers On A Leash - Above the Law
The fight over Trump-era executive orders targeting Biglaw firms intensifies as firms argue these orders threaten constitutional independence and the rule of law.
Social justice
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks agoThis Harvard Law School Grad Has The Progressive Answer To FedSoc - Above the Law
Lawyers can drive systemic change through community organizing and alternative pathways that challenge corporate power and legal inequities rather than relying solely on institutional approaches.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks agoMorning Docket: 03.18.26 - Above the Law
Chief Justice Roberts calls for ending personal attacks on judges, while questions arise about presidential official acts; meanwhile, legal developments span judicial conduct, cryptocurrency regulation, Section 230 reform, and national security concerns.
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fromAbove the Law
3 weeks agoLaw School Student Disciplined Over Charlie Kirk Flyers, Calls It A Free Speech Violation - Above the Law
Campbell University School of Law removed a student's non-violent political flyers and disciplined him under a vague policy, prompting free speech advocacy intervention.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks agoThe Rule Of Law Joins America's Dead Pets On The Rainbow Bridge - Above the Law
Trump attorney John Lauro claimed the DOJ improved under Attorney General Pam Bondi, contradicting legal observers who view current conditions as a constitutional crisis threatening prosecutorial independence.
fromemptywheel
2 months agoThis Is Not A Constitutional Moment - emptywheel
This script is based on a theory proposed by Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School. Ackerman's idea is laid out in his 1991 book We The People: Foundations, and is discussed in the second of his Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures of 2006. It's gained prominence since the 2024 election and the wholesale assault on our governmental system by Trump.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
1 month agoThousands Of Law Students Demand Congress Allow The Constitution To Apply To ICE - Above the Law
A student-led coalition has gathered more than 2,600 signatures from law students, legal academics, and law student organizations across 109 law schools calling on Congress to pass the Federal Officer Accountability Act. As the Department of Homeland Security disappears suspected migrants without due process, arbitrarily harasses citizens, and point blank kills innocent people on camera, a shocked public has learned what lawyers have talked about for years: the government has stacked the immunity deck to functionally shield law enforcement from accountability.
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