Post Tagged with: "Supreme Court"

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  CR-CL Podcast – Episode 11 – Identity-Affirming School Speech and the Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity

  Courts, Criminal Justice, Education, First Amendment, LGBTQ Rights, Podcast, Poverty and Economic Justice April 21, 2012 3:20 pm no comments

  Noah interviews Professor Ari Ezra Waldman about students’ right to speak affirmingly about sexual orientation, same-sex marriage, and gay identity in schools. Noah and Matt discuss the retroactivity of the Fair Sentencing Act, passed to address the disparity between federal sentences for crack and powder cocaine possession, how that disparity came about, and whether even the lessened disparity is justified.

   
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  CR-CL Podcast – Episode 9 – Jail Strip Searches, Online Privacy, and the Right to Be Forgotten

  Consumers and Corporations, Courts, Criminal Justice, Podcast, Privacy and National Security April 9, 2012 8:41 am no comments

  Noah and Matt are joined in the studio this week by HarvardCRCL.org Technology and Privacy blogger Andrew Mamo. Matt fills us in on the recent Supreme Court decision in Florence v. Board of Freeholders and the potential impact of a blanket rule allowing strip searches for jail intake even for minor offenses. Andrew discusses the recent concern over Google’s unified privacy policy, the Consumer Online Privacy Bill of Rights, and efforts in Europe to establish a right to be forgotten.

   

• CR-CL Podcast – Episode 8 – The Individual Mandate and Juvenile Constitutional Rights

  Courts, Criminal Justice, Podcast April 2, 2012 2:44 pm 2 comments

  Noah and Matt jump on the media bandwagon and provide their take on the week’s arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, particularly the individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Next, they take a look at the issues discussed in CR-CL’s latest colloquium, Roper, Graham, and J.D.B.: Re-Defining Juvenile’s Constitutional Rights.

   

• Colloquium Video: "Roper, Graham, and J.D.B.: Re-defining Juveniles' Constitutional Rights"

  Criminal Justice, Education, Events March 21, 2012 9:06 am no comments

  Article drafts and video of CR-CL’s recent colloquium. On Monday, March 26, 2012, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, in conjunction with the Juvenile Law Center and the Milbank Foundation, presented a colloquium: Roper, Graham, and J.D.B.: Redefining Juveniles’ Constitutional Rights. Guests at the event included Martin Guggenheim of NYU Law School, Marsha Levick and Robert Schwartz of the Juvenile Law Center, Michael Dale, of the Nova Southeastern Law Center, and the Hon. Jay Blitzman, chief judge of the Middlesex County Juvenile Court.

   

• Making Sense of the Establishment Clause Test for Public Displays of Religion

  First Amendment March 1, 2012 11:28 pm 2 comments

  Each year, over 50,000 skiers and snowboarders visit the ski slopes at Big Mountain in northwest Montana, just 66 miles from the Canadian border.  This year, the mountain has set the stage for a battle between atheists and religious groups over the fate of a six-foot statue of Jesus that [...]

   

• Health Care: Should Justice Kagan Recuse Herself?

  By Alex Groden, Courts, Issue Areas February 27, 2012 9:34 am no comments

  If it is true that Kagan expressed an opinion on the merits, the dilemma she faces pits the integrity of the Court against what she (and many others) may see as a greater purpose: to fight for and protect a law she apparently believes in passionately. She likely also feels loyalty to the man who put her on the court; after all, if this law is overturned, it might do serious damage to his reelection chances. But should these considerations matter? What about the public’s confidence in an independent and objective judiciary?

   

• [Update3] SCOTUS Fails to Intervene to Prevent Execution of Mentally Ill Defendant

  By Noah Kaplan, Courts, Criminal Justice, Human Rights February 8, 2012 10:29 pm no comments

  [Update3 - 10PM February 8] Edwin Hart Turner was executed at 7:21PM EST after receiving a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Turner, represented by attorneys from the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, had filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court arguing that the execution would violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments because at the time of his offense Mr. Turner suffered from a serious mental illness.

   
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  CR-CL Podcast – Episode 0 – U.S. v. Jones and SOPA/PIPA

  Podcast February 6, 2012 7:55 pm no comments

  Harvard CR-CL is proud to publish the first episode of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Podcast! In this inaugural episode, Senior Online Editor Noah Kaplan talks with Executive Online Editor Matt Giffin about the recent Supreme Court decision about GPS tracking units, United States v. Jones, and about the response to the proposed copyright protection legislation SOPA and PIPA.

   

• Supreme Court to Address the Unreliability of Eyewitness Testimony

  By Bill O'Neil, Courts, Criminal Justice, Original Content October 31, 2011 8:02 pm 2 comments

  Eyewitness identification is widely considered to be one of the most powerful pieces of evidence a prosecutor can offer at a criminal trial.  But psychologists continue to debate whether witnesses to a crime can accurately relay what they saw.  The Supreme Court has debated the due process implications of such [...]

   

• Update: SCOTUS hears oral arguments in strip search case

  By Bill O'Neil, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Original Content October 16, 2011 3:51 pm no comments

  At the conclusion of oral arguments on Wednesday, pundits were left guessing whether the Supreme Court would declare that Americans’ constitutional right to privacy bars prison officials from strip searching them if and when they are jailed for minor, nonviolent offenses.  The case, Florence v. Bd. of Freeholders, explores both [...]