Unhoused People’s Right To Public Bathrooms
Photo Credit: Brandi Ibrao/Unsplash The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to unhoused people’s lack of access to sanitary living conditions. The extreme dearth of shelter beds and public restrooms across the country means that unhoused people, despite...
What Nipsey Hussle Taught the Neighborhood
Guest post by Demisse Selassie. Demisse Selassie, 27, is a Prince George’s County, Maryland native. He is currently a first-year student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Demisse’s interests lie at the intersection of law, policy, and community economic...
The Fate of Private Disparate Impact Housing Claims in the Trump Era
In 2015, The Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project that seemed to finally confirm the Court’s recognition of a private right to bring “disparate impact” claims of discrimination...
On the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Where Are We?
April 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, which was passed in 1968 to fix residential segregation by preventing individuals from marginalized communities from being discriminated against in the sale or rental of housing. The Act also outlawed...
Who Are You Calling a Nuisance?: How Nuisance Ordinances Discriminate Against Families With Children
The housing crisis in the United States has garnered increasing attention over the past few years, and recent studies have begun to plumb millions of eviction records to understand the full scope of the problem. Displacement—and housing injustice in general—is a...
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threatening to sanction attorneys for bringing voting rights claims is necessary to enforce the voting rights act.
ALSO THESE CLAIMS DID NOT BORDER ON THE FRIVOLOUS JUST BC YOU DISAGREE WITH THEM https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1431316701224841216
11th Cir. holds that requiring voters who choose to vote by mail to provide their own postage stamp is not a poll tax.
Note: "Plaintiffs' claims border on the frivolous. At this time, however, we are not imposing sanctions." https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202013414.pdf
Many of my cases are just regular life disputes between family. Siblings fighting, moms mad at kids, parents arguing. Normal things we’d never see as criminal if it weren’t in criminal court, but someone got mad, called 911, didn’t know the long term ramifications + now we here
On one read, Fulton is decidedly narrow; on another, it represents a subtle but worrisome expansion of religious liberty at the expense of other fundamental rights. Read below! https://harvardcrcl.org/a-tale-of-two-fultons/ https://twitter.com/HarvardCRCL/status/1406982603094335492
New on the Amicus Blog: @samjuneneal examines the Supreme Court's limited decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, and what it means for both the future of free exercise principles and LGBTQ rights https://harvardcrcl.org/a-tale-of-two-fultons/