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ACLU
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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
ACLU’s David Cole on Constitutional Change
Check out Ben Wofford's interview at Politico with David Cole (Georgetown), the ACLU's recently appointed legal director. Cole talks about the ACLU agenda for the Trump presidency, and, drawing on…
Minding Your Business
California High Court Questions Privileged Nature of Attorney Invoices
In Disney’s The Lion King, the wise lion Mufasa sits atop a rock crag with his heir, the cub Simba, looking down on the Serengeti below. “Everything the light touches,”…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Does What Happened to This Journalist at the US-Canada Border Herald a Darker Trend? By Hugh Handeyside, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
This report last week from the ACLU on a border search of a Canadian photojournalist should serve as a warning to everyone concerned about press freedom these days. Ed Ou is…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Not So Safe and Sound by Jamil Dakwar
Not So Safe and Sound by Jamil Dakwar, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) July 7, 2016 SUR 23 - v.13 n.23, 49 - 60, 2016Abstract: Despite its historical role…
Cannabis
Decriminalized Marijuana Doesn’t Level the Playing Field
At least seven states are poised to vote on marijuana legalization this year. But don’t expect it to fix all the problems. As marijuana legalization and decriminalization has rolled out…
The Right Coast
The ACLU s deadly anti-Catholic vendetta | New York Post
For example, in trying to raise public hackles over the fact that Catholic institutions don t perform abortions, the ACLU reminded everyone, in a report issued late last week, of…
Legal Profession Blog
The Stoner Precedent
The Washington State Court of Appeals has held that a non-attorney private citizen cannot sue the ACLU and a chapter of NORML over their respective roles in the decision to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asian American Law Professors Conference at UC Davis
California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin LiuUC Davis School of Law is proud to host the 2016 Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CALALF) this weekend. There is a new…
Employment Discrimination Report
ACLU Seeks to Flush North Carolina’s Public Facilities Law
Just days after North Carolina lawmakers passed the controversial Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act ("Act"), the American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") has filed a lawsuit challenging the law. Although the title of…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Books: ACLU Lawyer Pens “Because of Sex” on Histories of Workplace Discrimination
By Tracy Thomas
Gillian Thomas, Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work Because of Sex takes readers through ten landmark sex discrimination cases that helped…