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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Taxpayers help to fatten Big Law in prosecution that Chinese community chalks up to racial profiling

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Rawpixel CC0 The American trend to embrace attorney fee-shifting is a cash cow for the corporate defense bar. A pending case speaks to the ...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Disputed allegations in malicious prosecution suits against Apple raise data protection issues

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Apple Store Osaka ( Sébastien Bertrand CC BY 2.0 ) A case of identity theft, now the subject of lawsuits against Apple and a security contr...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Collateral to drug-testing race discrimination suit, Boston wins chance to demand indemnity by lab

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National Archives Is hair-follicle drug testing racially discriminatory? That was not the question before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial...
Monday, February 1, 2021

See America in black and white

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13th Amendment With the imprimatur of federal law , today is National Freedom Day , celebrating the day that President Abraham Lincoln signe...
Monday, January 25, 2021

'For the first time, we're seen as we should be seen,' Martin Luther King Jr. told Star Trek's 'Uhura'

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Prepping the spring semester when classes start the day after an involuntary furlough is prone to put a particular professor perpetually a ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

First Amendment jedi 'Luke Skyywalker' turns 60, recounts storied battles for equality, liberty

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My daughter co-directed this promotional video , published yesterday, for the multi-talented Jerrika Karlae . I like hip-hop and rap, but n...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

'Miss Juneteenth' speaks both to problems of our times and to timeless problems

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Thanks to the Duke (University) Screen/Society , yesterday, I virtually attended a screening and discussion of the 2020 film from Vertical E...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Oberlin case leaves no doubt, 'racist' accusation is capable of defamatory meaning; Koppel reports

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An Ohio jury in June awarded $44m to a family-owned bakery that proved defamation by Oberlin College in a case of false accusations of rac...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Poli sci panels span U.S. con law, Tunisian Arab Spring, Japanese ag reg, Chinese investment in Africa

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On the final day of the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Saturday, April 27, I was treated to more intriguin...