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JULY 24, 2023

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MARCH 18, 2024

the morning of a critical meeting at Harvard Law School, where I worked. Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 14, 2023

The modern American notion of a boycott stirs the moral imagination, conjuring images of the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott , when Black citizens refused to ride on city buses in 1950’s Alabama, or the 1990’s consumer boycott of Nike to protest the company’s human rights violations.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Shadow docket” was coined in 2015 by University of Chicago Law School professor William Baude, a former clerk for the chief justice. Edmund LaCour, the solicitor general of Alabama, called the Texas ruling “entirely ordinary” and emphasized the importance of an emergency docket in judicial functioning. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.,

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. If the court had ordered that Jackson Giles and his 5,000 co-plaintiffs be registered as voters, it’s likely that, as Holmes feared, many Alabama officials would have defied the ruling. I corresponded with Canellos about his book. The back story. RONALD COLLINS: Welcome, Peter.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The US two-party system seems logical in theory, but having heard people at law school talking about gerrymandering, I feel less confident about it. Of course, that is how a two-party system is set up, but it is still an unsettling feeling when people tell you that voting in New York or Alabama hardly matters.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2023

The first is from segregationist Alabama Gov. Georgetown University Law School Professor Rosa Brooks was celebrated for her appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” after declaring that Americans are “slaves” to the U.S. Those two statements were made roughly 60 years apart. George Wallace (D).

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. The hue and cry in the media and from law schools would be deafening. Biden came to office declaring a return to the “rule of law” but has actually racked up an impressive array of court losses.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Elise Boddie, professor of law and Judge Robert L.

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Above The Law

MAY 23, 2024

Texas Lawyer ] * Meanwhile, when it's not convenient for their cronies, a Trump judge in Alabama is threatening to jail LGBTQ rights attorneys for "forum shopping" by trying to bring an Alabama case in Alabama. Alabama Political Reporter ] * Republican move to block college athletes from becoming university employees.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Boynton went on to spend his career as a civil rights lawyer (even though his home state of Alabama refused to give him a law license for six years because of his involvement in the Supreme Court case). Among the Freedom Riders was Congressman John Lewis, who also died this year. Drew Saunders Days III. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Once declared unconstitutional, the California law would return to little more than a soundbite (to quote Macbeth) full of “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”. Hunt , in which the Court struck down an Alabama law imposing a fee on all interstate waste coming into the state under the Dormant Commerce Clause.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

An Alabama jury awarded $4,000 in compensatory damages for the loss of value in having a factory paint job, but then added $4 million in punitive damages. Even when the Alabama Supreme Court reduced that to $2 million, the U.S. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

His vote was key in the 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. He is also the President-elect of the Association of American Law Schools. Justice Brett Kavanaugh for example voted to uphold the nationwide moratorium on the eviction of renters issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. seven times. The Montgomery Public Safety commissioner, L. He was awarded $500,000 — a huge judgment for the time.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Even though the Alabama Supreme Court previously reduced the punitive award by half, the U.S. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

She wrote in Lazy B that she “felt poorly prepared compared to the other freshmen,” but she was admitted to a program that allowed her to start law school at Stanford in her senior year, as one of only four women in her class.

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