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Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Florida A&M moves to fire Latina law prof who spoke on public concern; Hispanic law students resist

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You may review and sign on to a letter of the FAMU Hispanic American Law Student Association opposing Reyes's termination here.   Prof. ...
Friday, May 19, 2023

NYPD seizes adorable dog, person too, in retaliation for video-recording in public, attorney-plaintiff alleges

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A New York legal aid attorney was arrested, along with her dog, when she started video-recording police, and then she sued for civil rights ...
Monday, April 24, 2023

No right to physician aid in dying, Mass. high court holds, rejecting analogy to same-sex marriage right

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In 2017, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and D.C. residents protest to protect "death with dignity" law from congressional med...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Lawsuit alleges excessive force against federal immigration detainees held near public law school

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⚠ Warning: indecent language. Latino detainees of the Bristol County House of Corrections, which is located just three-quarters of a mile ...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

While Pope apologizes in Canada, U.S. reckons with legacy of federal Indian boarding schools

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Children at Rehoboth Mission School, New Mexico (from DOI report p. 39, credited: Hartog, C. (1910). Rehoboth School [Photograph]. Indian mi...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Judge excoriates city in public records row

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Worcester, Mass., City Hall (Mass. Office of Travel & Tourism CC BY-ND 2.0 via Flickr ) In a remarkable opinion in January 2022, the Ma...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Employer may not fire for personnel rebuttal, high court holds, even though statute provides no remedy

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Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Reversing a problematic and divided intermediate appellate court decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Cour...
Friday, January 21, 2022

SCOTUS lets stand First Amendment protection of citizen newsgathering via secret recording of police

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Pixabay by Bruce Emmerling Denying review in November 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand court decisions declaring the Massachusetts w...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Justices test Harvard property claims, as civil rights attorney pleads passionately for return of slave images

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Lanier's story in a 2020 short by Connecticut Public This morning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in the c...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Student comment calls on police unions to do their part for accountability reform, revelation of truth

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Michelle M.K. Hatfield , an alum of my Torts I-II classes, has published a comment, Can Police Unions Help Change American Policing?    This...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

FOIA committee ponders access amid privatization

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I had the great privilege last week to speak to the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , working under the aegis of t...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Netflix's 'The Chair' satirizes academic politics with troubling truths of contemporary campus culture

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Netflix's The Chair is an enjoyable six-episode sit com on the absurdity of academic politics in American higher education today.  The ...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Remembering journalist Paul Greenberg, 1937-2021

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pxhere CC0 1.0 In April, our world lost a great American writer : Paul Greenberg died at age 84. Long a nationally syndicated columnist ...