Post Tagged with: "Supreme Court"

• SCOTUS Keeps DADT in Place

  By Jason Lee, Courts, Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights November 12, 2010 11:44 pm no comments

  The Supreme Court has denied a request by the Log Cabin Republicans that the stay of an injunction barring enforcement of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals be vacated. Translating this from lawyer-speak into regular-person speak: the ruling by District Judge Virginia A. Phillips’ declared [...]

   

• 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 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: 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 8:16 am no 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, [...]