by Rebecca Fate | Nov 20, 2018 | Amicus, Education & Youth
Should a religiously affiliated high school be held responsible for failure to protect a student who is being bullied while in their care if the school asserts that its decisions about how to treat and take care of students were made on the basis of religious...
by Michael Haley | Apr 14, 2017 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Guest Author, Policing and Law Enforcement, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice
The Harvard CR-CL Amicus blog posts solicited content in an effort to feature debate and various perspectives. Elizabeth McIntyre, the contributor for this post, is an attorney in Greater Boston Legal Services’ School to Prison Pipeline Intervention Project. She...
by Bill O'Neil | Sep 18, 2011 | Amicus, Freedom of Expression
Last week, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that a California school district did not violate a teacher’s free speech rights by ordering him to remove posters bearing the national motto, among other phrases. In late 2006,...
by Robin | Apr 12, 2011 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Freedom of Expression
Stanley Fish of the NY Times has glowing words for Justice Kagan on the occasion of her first dissent since joining the Court. In her dissent to the opinion in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, Kagan pokes holes in the majority’s argument,...