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• Terror on Trial

  By Caitlin Connolly, Human Rights, Issue Areas, Privacy and National Security October 1, 2010 at 10:46 am 5 comments

  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 [...]

   

• Article: Using Impact Litigation As A Tool For Social Change: Jimmy Doe: A Case Study – By Lori Turner

  Amicus, Courts, Issue Areas, Outside Author August 10, 2010 at 7:05 am 2 comments

  By Lori Turner I. INTRODUCTION “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” -Louis L’Amour As civil rights lawyers, we try to get the biggest bang for our buck by aiming impact litigation to bring about the institutional reforms that will affect [...]

   

• Article: Bad Faith Exception to Prosecutorial Immunity for Brady Violations – By Bennett Gershman

  Amicus, Courts, Issue Areas, Outside Author August 10, 2010 at 6:58 am 1 comment

  By Bennett L. Gershman Introduction: Imbler v. Pachtman Thirty-Four Years Later For those of us who teach and write about the conduct of prosecutors, reading Imbler v. Pachtman thirty-four years later is a profoundly disturbing experience. Imbler is the linchpin for the doctrine that affords prosecutors absolute immunity from civil [...]

   

• Article: Ricci v. DeStefano: Declaring Civil War within Title VII – By William Yeomans

  Amicus, Courts, Issue Areas, Labor and Employment, Outside Author, Race and Immigration February 25, 2010 at 8:19 am 2 comments

  It is the height of folly to make hard and fast predictions about the impact of freshly minted Supreme Court decisions, especially when the Court announces a new standard. Yet it is safe to predict that Ricci v. DeStefano, while not as devastating as some advocates have feared, will discourage [...]

   

• Article: Making Employment Civil Rights Real – by Stephen Churchill

  Amicus, Issue Areas, Labor and Employment, Outside Author, Race and Immigration February 25, 2010 at 8:17 am 1 comment

  When Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, it was heralded as a long-overdue measure to eradicate discrimination. The law has had a profound effect on the workplace, both by helping to establish a public ethic against discrimination and by providing a mechanism by which victims of [...]

   

• Article: The Dim Side Of The Bright Line: Minority Voting Opportunity After Bartlett v. Strickland – By Ryan P. Haygood

  Amicus, Courts, Issue Areas, Outside Author, Race and Immigration, Voting and Elections February 25, 2010 at 8:16 am 0 comments

  When he left Congress in 1901, George White, an African American Republican from Tarboro, North Carolina, announced that it was “perhaps the Negro’s temporary farewell to Congress.” Mr. White’s premonition was right. Voters from North Carolina would not send another African American to Congress until 1992, nearly a century later, [...]

   

• Essay: New Public Spaces – by John Palfrey

  First Amendment, Issue Areas, Outside Author, Privacy and National Security February 25, 2010 at 8:12 am 0 comments

  Digital environments are becoming the most important public spaces of the twenty-first century. These digital spaces are where many young people—and many older people, too—spend enormous amounts of time. These spaces are akin to the public parks, schoolyards, malls, and lecture halls of the physical world.1 These are places where [...]