By now, the clusterf–k in America’s housing market has been pretty thoroughly documented. Thanks to the quick thinking of a Maine public interest lawyer, the country discovered that mortgage companies had been cooking the books in order to push tens of thousands of families out of their homes. But the [...]
Check out this NYT op-ed by Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith, who argues that the Obama Administration should embrace the Bush Administration policy of military detention without charge or trial. Goldsmith is writing in response to a ruling by Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan [...]
Yet another chapter was written in the charged saga surrounding the NYPD’s controversial Stop and Frisk practices at a September 28th New York City Council hearing on Stop and Frisk operations in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments. Why a hearing devoted solely to stops and frisks in public [...]
Nine attackers allegedly beat and tortured three men for being gay in NYC last week, in a series of events described by the city council leader as, “among the worst hate crimes she had ever heard of.” The beatings went on for hours, with the victims allegedly enduring forced sodomy, burns, [...]
The controversy over the Arizona deputy sheriff accused of lying about being shot by an illegal immigrant seems to have been put to rest on Friday. A test for gunpowder on Pinal County Deputy Sheriff Louie Puroll’s shirt came back negative, ruling out the possibility of a close-range shot. The [...]
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments October 6th in Snyder v. Phelps, a suit by Albert Snyder against the Westboro Baptist Church for protesting at his son’s military funeral. The case presents the important question of how much freedom relatively private individuals should have from offensive or hurtful speech. The [...]
The new term opened today and one of the Supreme Court’s first acts was to request that the Justice Department file a brief on behalf of the government giving its opinion on a case filed by Iraqis who say their relatives were tortured by contractors working at Abu Ghraib.
A federal judge ruled October 4th for New York City in a suit by two anti-abortion protesters arrested in the name of “public safety” for refusing to leave a sidewalk during the 2004 RNC. Critics say the ruling fails to address civil liberties issues raised by hundreds of pending lawsuits [...]
Human Rights Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized today for the intentional infection of hundreds of people in Guatamala with gonorrhea and syphilis by U.S. Public Health Service researchers more than sixty years ago. Criminal Law Two officers have been charged with [...]
Which is more terrifying: the imminent threat of an attack on American soil or a steady but intangible loss of civil liberties in the name of national security? This lesser-of-two-evils debate will take center stage in the controversial “terror trials” of Guantanamo detainees that kicked off Wednesday in New York [...]
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