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Being race-conscious is a necessary and effective tool to address racism and discrimination — including for Asian Americans

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University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. As we fast approach the Supreme Court hearings on race-conscious admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, Asian Americans have been thrust into the spotlight. Our immigration stories are similarly diverse.

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Guest Post: The Year in Justice Tech: 2023 Report and News Roundup

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Clearbox builds solutions to simplify the US immigration process for DIY applicants. Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024.

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Lawyer Tech Tips: Collaboration Tools

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Prior to joining LAWPRO, he was a policy lawyer at the Law Society of Ontario and practiced litigation with a focus on professional liability, public law and civil disputes. External collaborators may be clients, opposing counsel, co-counsel and service providers like marketing, virtual assistants or litigation support.

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Diversity by diktat: An obscure 1977 OMB memo forms the basis for today’s affirmative-action programs

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University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. No university has ever explained, in litigation or otherwise, why a diversity of students from these specific statistical categories are appropriate proxies for ethnic diversity. President & Fellows of Harvard College. A preview of the case is here.

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California law on sale of pork raises concerns about interstate moral disputes in a “balkanized” nation

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As they considered the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 12, the justices wondered aloud how the case would affect hypothetical state efforts to ban products from out-of-state companies that employ unauthorized immigrants, forbid labor unions, or refuse to fund certain types of health care.

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Court agrees to hear Title VII employer discrimination case

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Singh (consolidated for one hour of oral argument), in which the justices will consider notice requirements in immigration cases; McElrath v. Garland and Garland v. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Sotomayor, dissented from the denial of review in Harness v.

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In North Carolina voter-ID case, another question of intervention driven by partisan tension

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The argument comes less than a month after the justices heard oral argument in a dispute over whether a group of Republican-led states can defend a contentious Trump-era immigration policy after the Biden administration opted not to do so. The North Carolina legislature passed the voter-ID law at the center of the case in December 2018.