Police Call It “Excited Delirium.” Civil Rights Groups Call It a Sham.
Since 2000, more than one thousand people in the U.S. have died shortly after being stunned with a Taser by police officers. These deaths share several commonalities: the deceased often were mentally ill or under the influence of drugs at the time of death, they tend...
Can You See Me Now? Facial Surveillance Is a Civil Liberties Issue
Technology frequently progresses faster than legal institutions are able to keep up. Facial surveillance – the use by police and other entities of technology which can recognize people and identify them by their faces – is one such area. Facial recognition...
Strip Searches Deny Prisoners Their Constitutional Rights
In March of 2011, a tactical team at Lincoln Correctional Center in Illinois rounded up and marched 200 handcuffed female prisoners into a gymnasium. Without saying why, guards took groups of four to ten prisoners into one of two adjoining rooms, both of which were...
New DOJ Policy Gives Genealogy Website Users Weak Privacy Protections From Law Enforcement
The arrest of the infamous Golden State killer in April 2018 prompted controversy over law enforcement’s use of genealogy databases. The California case ran cold decades ago, but a well-preserved DNA sample was uploaded by detectives into the public database,...
Where the Confrontation Clause Gets it Wrong: Police Brutality Cases
As police officers continue to shoot and kill unarmed civilians, we must examine the disparity between police brutality and police accountability. Too many officers kill unarmed Black people with little to no consequences. One barrier to accountability is gathering...
CR-CL is live blogging the Semi-Final Round of the Ames Moot Court Competition tonight! Check out our updates starting at 6:15 pm EST at https://harvardcrcl.org/ames-semi-final-round-march-9-2020/
This weekend, we celebrated 55 years of pushing the bounds of legal scholarship. Special thanks to our keynote speaker @vanitaguptaCR, our more than thirty panelists, and our entire CR-CL community. To the next 55!
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We need to get the #FAIRAct through the Senate—but until that happens, it's up to states to respond to the forced arbitration crisis. Fantastic new @HarvardCRCL post from @BennJennett & @daveyseligman on how states can take action.
#EndForcedArbitration
https://harvardcrcl.org/sunshine-is-not-enough-state-responses-to-the-enforcement-crisis-caused-by-forced-arbitration/
Still hoping that courts will revive a general liberty or expression right to student dress freedom as @djuna22 and I advocated in @HarvardCRCL. In the meantime, Equal Protection, Free Exercise, and compelled speech doing a decent job policing the boundaries of gov’t overreach. https://twitter.com/galenleigh/status/1199442702582059008
Another thing to be thankful for this week: declaratory judgment finding that the provision of Charter Day School dress code requiring girls to wear skirts violates Equal Protection, & order permanently enjoining the school from establishing or enforcing the provision. Justice!
As someone who used to assist accused students in Title IX proceedings, I think I’m in a good position to say that DeVos’s “due process” regs are unnecessary and dangerous. When they were proposed, I wrote about it for @HarvardCRCL’s blog: http://harvardcrcl.org/why-betsy-devo… https://twitter.com/azbrodsky/status/1192104171664822274
We are expecting @BetsyDeVosED’s final regulations on Title IX and sexual harassment within the month. Based on the previously published proposed rules, we have good reason to think they will be bad.
CR-CL's annual HLS Ames Final Live-blog is LIVE with blow-by-blow commentary by Nicole Franklin as the student competitors face-off before a panel of judges, including Judge Merrick Garland! https://harvardcrcl.org/2019-ames-moot-court-finals-live-blog/.