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Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Policing the Immigration Police: ICE Prosecutorial Discretion and the Fourth Amendment
The title of this post comes from this paper examining the role of prosecutors in upholding the Fourth Amendment in immigration cases, and what remedies might be available to noncitizens…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Policing the Immigration Police: ICE Prosecutorial Discretion and the Fourth Amendment
Prosecutorial discretion in immigration has been a hot topic the last few years. New immigration law professor Jason Cade at Georgia Law has an interesting take on the topic through…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
CRL&P’s First Cup Reads: Oct. 11, 2013
Forbes: The 1st Amendment Protects Nude Dancing, So Why Not Political Speech? Snowden’s email provider claims order for encryption keys violated Fourth Amendment, client privacy Judge denies New Jersey request for…
Workforce Bulletin
What Are Employers’ Rights During OSHA Inspections?
By Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
I was recently asked an interesting question by an industry contact: "Employers often are told to know and exercise their rights during an OSHA inspection. What exactly are employers' rights…
Education Law Prof Blog
Facebook Users Beware: The Principal Might Not Punish You, But He Can Ridicule You
By Derek Black
Several cases have come up in the past few years testing the boundaries of schools' authority to discipline students for on-line speech. The Supreme Court has yet to offer any…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Court Issues Supplemental Order in Melendres v. Arpaio: Monitor, Bias Training, Policy Changes Mandated
Yesterday, Judge Murray Snow issued a supplemental permanent injunction/judgment order in Melendres v. Arpaio. As previously reported on ImmigrationProf, the District Court after a trial ruled that Sheriff Joe Arpaio…
Education Law Prof Blog
Eleventh Circuit Denies Officers Qualified Immunity in School Macing Case
The EleventhCircuit Court of Appeals recently rejected Birmingham police officers’ claimsof qualified immunity in a lawsuit challenging the useof chemical sprays on high school students. The circuit court’s ruling on…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Settlement Reins in Border Patrol Stops on the Olympic Peninsula
Today, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) and the ACLU of Washington announced a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that challenged the Border Patrol’s practice of stopping vehicles and interrogating occupants…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Surrendering the Fourth Amendment for a better user experience?
"When they ask for my credit card." That was tech evangelist and author, Robert Scoble's (@scobleizer), answer to a Seattle audience member last year as to when he would stop…
Health Law Rx
U.S. Supreme Court tells Hospitals to Say: “Sorry Officer, I need a warrant to draw that patient’s blood.”
By Richard T. Jones, Adam R. Maingot
On April 17, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court in Missouri v. McNeely ruled that in drunk-driving investigations where Law Enforcement Officers ("LEOs") can reasonably obtain a warrant before a blood…