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Human Rights at Home Blog
Do Women Racially Discriminate Against Their Own Fetuses?
By Sital Kalantry According to Arizona state legislators some minority women abort fetuses because of their race. In 2011, Arizona passed a law prohibiting an abortion provider from performing…
EvidenceProf Blog
Supreme Court of Virginia Rejects Criminal Discovery Revisions, Leaving Lawyers & Judges Flabbergasted
By Colin Miller
In 2014, the Supreme Court of Virginia appointed a special committee on criminal discovery rules. On March 3rd of this year, that Committee issued a 60 page report. That report asked…
Media Law Prof Blog
ACLU Seeks Applications From Students For Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, Summer 2016
The ACLU is offering a Summer 2016 Legal Internship Opportunity with its foundation to work with the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. See below for some information; more information is…
Socially Aware Blog
Status Updates: AZ’s anti-revenge-porn law scrapped; civil rights claim against blogging prosecutor dismissed; Match buys PlentyOfFish
By Aaron Rubin
There oughta be a law? As we’ve reported previously, states all around the country have enacted laws that criminalize the posting of revenge porn—nude photographs published without the subject’s consent,…
Legal Profession Blog
Prosecution Of Defense Attorneys Draws Scrutiny
The Charlotte Observer has picked up on the stories that we ran concerning the North Carolina State Bar prosecution of two death penalty defense attorneys.Two defense attorneys face accusations of…
The Right Coast
The New Intolerance – WSJ
The same reversal of tolerance applies to religious liberty. When RFRA passed in 1993, liberal outfits like the ACLU were joined at the hip with the Christian Coalition. But now…
Legal Profession Blog
Second Attorney Charged In Death Penalty Defense Litigation
We recently reported on (and were highly critical of) ethics charges filed in North Carolina against an ACLU attorney for her role in preparing two affidavits for use in a…
Legal Profession Blog
ACLU Lawyer Charged With Ethics Violations
The North Carolina State Bar has filed a complaint alleging misconduct by a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project in a death penalty appeal.The allegations…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Groups Sue to Stop NSA’s Upstream Surveillance
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe ACLU filed suit this week on behalf of several media and human rights organizations challenging the NSA's "upstream surveillance" program. The plaintiffs argue…
ImmigrationProf Blog
MSPC v. Johnson – The Doom of Expedited Removals? by Tim Dugdale
In December, the Supreme Court will hear two cases concerning filing deadlines and equitable tolling, US v. Wong and US v. June. This is an important issue for the court…