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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Secret civil justice undermines employee rights

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Pintera Studios A story investigated by ProPublica and featured on Planet Money highlights the problem of secret justice in perpetuating the...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Ciao and shalom, it's Columbus Day

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It was painful and offensive to me to see the Columbus statue in Baltimore ripped down and thrown into the harbor on the Fourth of July. I ...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Oops. We accidentally linked healthcare to your job.

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mohamed_hassan (pixabay.com) I stand with the rest of the world in awestruck horror of America's stubborn insistence that access to heal...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Arkansas defense of healthcare law invites Supreme Court justices to weigh in on federal preemption

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The State of Arkansas defended a state healthcare law in the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday . The state argued against federal ERISA and Medicar...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Could 'inverse' First Amendment save us from ourselves?

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Journalism professor Stephen Bates , J.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas, has published a fascinating article in The Atlantic on "the...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Texas indictment surfaces problem of elected prosecutors; First Amendment protects Netflix film

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Actor, model, and District Attorney Lucas Babin (Steve Stewart CC BY 4.0 ) A Tyler County, Texas, grand jury has indicted Netflix for lewd ...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Ted Lasso heads to UK, will coach AFC Richmond

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From The Daily Show with Trevor Noah ( Oct. 6, 2020 ) A new Apple TV+ show has Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudekis playing southern-d...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Tesla owner may keep 'FKGAS' license plate for now

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⚠ Warning: Explicit language ahead. Vehicle license plate cases occupy their own bizarre niche of First Amendment law.  Many a law student h...
Monday, October 5, 2020

U.S. White Paper on 'Schrems II': Emperor still clothed

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A new U.S. white paper on data protection means favorably to supplement the record on U.S. surveillance practices that, in part, fueled the...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

'Hidden Brain' tackles Ford Pinto product liability, hindsight bias, inevitable accident

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Classic yellow Ford Pinto (Michael Dorausch CC BY-SA 2.0 ) In a two-for-one bonus for torts teachers, Shankar Vedantam at National Public R...