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Connecticut High School Student Arrested For Posting Racist Slur

JonathanTurley

Both of those concerns seem to have coalesced in the arrest of a Connecticut high school student accused of posting racist comments about a classmate. The arrest appears to have been made under a state hate crime law that has long been criticized by some of us in the free speech community as dangerously vague. Mosley , 408 U.S.

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SCOTUS Clarifies Reach of FAA Exemption for Transportation Workers

Constitutional Law Reporter

Petitioners Neal Bissonnette and Tyler Wojnarowski owned the rights to distribute Flowers products in certain parts of Connecticut. Pursuant to the FAA, arbitration agreements are “valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”

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SCOTUS to Clarify Standard for Determining Whether True Threat Exception Applies

Constitutional Law Reporter

She subsequently reported Counterman to law enforcement. Law enforcement arrested Counterman on May 12, 2016, and charged him one count of stalking (credible threat), section 18-3-602(1)(b) ; one count of stalking (serious emotional distress), section 18-3-602(1)(c) ; and one count of harassment, section 18-9-111(1)(e), C.R.S.

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IN Sen Mike Braun Takes Principled Stand Against Interracial Marriage, Before Remembering Bigotry Is Bad Actually

Above The Law

The post IN Sen Mike Braun Takes Principled Stand Against Interracial Marriage, Before Remembering Bigotry Is Bad Actually appeared first on Above the Law. Where have we heard that one before?

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“I’m Holding Myself Accountable”: California Teacher Cancels Herself As A White Person Teaching Spanish

JonathanTurley

Last year, we discussed the controversy over the acting Northwestern Law Dean declaring publicly to “I am James Speta and I am a racist.” At CUNY, the Law Dean Mary Lou Bilek cancelled herself for once referring to herself as a “slaveholder” in a meeting jn arguing for greater protections for minority students.

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Can Universities Offer Faculty Race-Based Benefits in Seeking Tenure?

JonathanTurley

There is an interesting controversy brewing at Central Connecticut State University where faculty are being offered funding to assist them in securing tenure. However, CCSU is limiting access to such support to “members of minority and other protected groups.”

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The “great chief” and the “super chief”: A final showdown in Supreme Court March Madness

SCOTUSBlog

Both reshaped American law and society. Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Marshall found the Constitution paper; and he made it power,” President James Garfield wrote. Connecticut ) and race ( Brown and Loving v.

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