Earlier this week, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed an executive order that prohibits state agencies from requiring job applicants to disclose their criminal history in initial application forms. In doing so, Georgia joined 13 other states (including Illinois, Massachusetts, and
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A Look Inside the Local Government Wing of ALEC
By COWS
Last summer, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) announced the launch of a spinoff organization aimed at local government. The American City County Exchange (ACCE) aims to "advance limited government and free market principles in local government through model policies,…
Prevention is Key: Reactive Lead-gislation Does Not Address Chronic Lead Exposure
Current Laws Do Not Adequately Protect Against Lead HazardsMost laws in place today, at the federal, state and local level, react to the dangers of lead poisoning, yet do little to prevent negative health outcomes. The majority of current laws…
Right to Work Comes to Wisconsin
By COWS
Last Friday, Wisconsin State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald introduced a "right to work" bill and announced he would call an extraordinary session this week to pass it. Within hours, Governor Scott Walker, who as recently as December had maintained that…
Transgender Litigant Challenges ADA’s Exclusion of “Gender Identity Disorder”
By Kevin Barry
Thanks to the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, the ADA now protects far more people with disabilities than it once did. However, the Amendments did nothing to change the ADA’s blanket exclusion of a small subset of impairments that includes…
Save the Date and CFP for 2016 Poverty Law Conference
By Sara Rankin
Dear friends:We invite proposals for presentations at a Spring 2016 conference, “Poverty Law: Academic Activism” to be held on Feb. 19-20, 2016, hosted by Seattle University School of Law. The conference will focus on the connection between academics and activism,…
Every State Flunks Fair Tax Test
By Sara Rankin
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a non-profit, non-partisan research organization that works on federal, state, and local tax policy issues, just released the 5th edition of its annual assessment of the fairness of the state and local…
The Baffling Problem of Unpublished Decisions
By Sara Rankin
Why are the majority of federal appellate court decisions unpublished? As a law student long ago, I learned not only that unpublished decisions have no precedential value, but also that courts opt to deem a decision unpublished as a sort…
Supreme Court Halts Missouri Execution, Then Reverses Eighth Circuit, Sending Case Back for Conflict-Free Counsel to Litigate Equitable Tolling of Blown Statute of Limitations
Losing the Hunger Games…Again
Recently, there has been a lot of press surrounding increases in hirings and gains in hourly wages, but this overlooks the millions of people that continue to struggle to make ends meet. For some of those individuals, the struggle to…