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Showing posts with label due process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label due process. Show all posts
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, December 14, 2020

Emergency orders survive constitutional scrutiny; Mass. Court cites Korean War, smallpox cases

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled Thursday that pandemic emergency orders of the Commonwealth Governor were valid under t...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Poland scholars explain turmoil in streets over court decision nearly outlawing abortion; what next?

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Protesters take to the streets in Kraków on October 25. (Silar CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Social stability in Poland has been increasingly shaky since ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

COVID-19 stresses United States on domestic borders; war analog might foster state solidarity upon federal power

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Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo was recently threatened with a lawsuit by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.  U.S. Air National Guard P...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

Takings are out of control; whither went democracy?

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My colleague Prof. Ralph Clifford is cited and quoted in this item from the Pacific Legal Foundation . The PLF opined with disapproval up...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Student prevails in part in UMass Amherst due process disciplinary case in First Circuit

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Last week the First Circuit held in favor of a student accused of a violent assault; however, the court largely upheld as constitutional th...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Civil rights suit claims a right to education.
The problem might be bigger.

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My UMass Dartmouth colleague in history, Professor Mark Santow , also a member of the Providence, R.I., School Board, is part of litigati...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

John Does on sex-offender registry lose all civil rights claims against state, despite possible errors in listings

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Persons listed on a part of the Massachusetts sex-offender registry for perpetrators who "moved out of state" have no constitution...
Friday, January 19, 2018

#MeToo much?

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On Boston Public Radio yesterday , the usually staunchly civil rights-sensitive Jim Braude, a former union attorney, and media personality ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Mass. SJC remands internet jurisdiction, defamation case

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) last week remanded an internet jurisdiction case because the lower court jumped to constitut...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Policy proposal threatens academic freedom at University of Arkansas

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Watchdogs in my former home state of Arkansas have alerted me to a major proposed change to University of Arkansas Board of Trustees tenure ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

The World Cup of Human Rights?

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I prepared this map for the Inter-Disciplinary.Net conference, Sport: Sport Places, Money, and Politics , the 5th global meeting of the ...