The Expansion of the Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine – Why You Should Care
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...
A Lawsuit in Hartford, Connecticut Seeks to Undermine the State’s Landmark Desegregation Case
The Harvard admissions trial isn’t the only place where impact litigators are working to undermine affirmative action and school desegregation policies. In February of 2018, Lawyers from the Pacific Legal Foundation, a California-based legal organization, descended on...
Book Review: The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind, by Justin Driver
What is the purpose of the public school? Professor Justin Driver of the University of Chicago Law School tackles this question in his new book, The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind, a comprehensive survey of...
SFFA v. Harvard: Access to Higher Education and The Limitations of The Courtroom
On November 17th, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), an organization established and presided over by Edward Blum, filed a complaint against Harvard University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs in Students for Fair...
This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: April 12
Criminal Legal System Our unemployment rate fails to account for mass incarceration. Mass incarceration disproportionately affects black communities. Unemployment data fails to account for this, which makes the disparity between black and white men in employment...
In Masterpiece v. Colorado, Justice Gorsuch argues there is no principled way, on First Amendment grounds, to distinguish refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding versus refusing to make a cake with anti-LGBT words and symbols.
I argue that this conclusion is mistaken. https://t.co/TF7zhkuYIo
Thoughtful piece co-authored by Alisha Jarwala, an alum of @relmanlaw. Breaking new ground. Watch out for this new generation of civil rights warriors! https://t.co/11pghTAtJu
This is an excellent piece about an important problem that too few people know about. Well worth the read. https://t.co/QCXdqajl50
Chronic nuisance ordinances evict people for being people of color, survivors, disabled, or some combination of all three. That’s why Alisha and I argue that they violate the Fair Housing Act, the ADA, and the Constitution. You can read it for free here: https://t.co/pNpZlTU1KS
Predictably, nuisance ordinances impact people of color — for example, @NYCLU found they were enforced almost 5x as much in the parts of the city with the most people of color. @just_shelter found that CNOs were enforced 2.5x as often in predominantly black parts of Milwaukee.