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Due Process
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UPDATES IN MICHIGAN FAMILY LAW
Service of Process via Facebook and/or Email
In these days of social distancing, shelter-in-place orders, during the Covid-19 epidemic, being able to serve process upon a defendant has become a difficult issue. Many lawyers express concern about…
Simple Justice
How Do You Stop A Problem Like University of Michigan?
When the Sixth Circuit ruled in Doe v. Baum, following up on its decision in Doe v. University of Cincinnati, the law appeared settled: The male students accused of sexual…
The Right Coast
University of Michigan officials can be held personally liable for violating accused student s rights: judge | The College Fix
The University of Michigan s refusal to recognize an accused student s clearly established due process rights led a federal judge to deny its administrators qualified immunity in the student…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Ruling 6-3, SCOTUS holds that Due Process does not compel a state to provide a traditional insanity defense in its criminal laws
The Supreme Court this morning handed down its opinion in the fascinating case of Kahler v. Kansas, No. 18-6135 (S. Ct. March 23, 2020) (available here). Justice Kagan authored the…
Human Rights at Home Blog
In These Times – Who Are We? What Is Justice?
By guest editor UMass Law Professor Irene ScharfAn editorial in The Boston Globe in late February lamented the “mid-case deportations” that ICE has been conducting in Massachusetts and presumably elsewhere. …
The Right Coast
Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization | RealClearPolitics
While the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, China is fighting a propaganda war. Beijing s war aim is simple: shift away from China all blame for the outbreak, the botched…
Lawyers on Strike
Bait and Switch
By John Regan
So let’s look a little closer at the cert petition in Farrar. It’s such a threat to do more harm than good we find it hard to believe that’s not…
Simple Justice
Jenny From The Court
Ever watch a panel discussion where the range of views runs from bad to worse, a fast death to brutal slow death, as if it reflects the full gamut of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. Supreme Court argument preview: What process is due in expedited removal?
The Supreme Court has a full docket of immigration cases this Term. Kari Hong on SCOTUSBlog offers a preview of the oral argument before the Supreme Court in Department of…
Lawyers on Strike
Weinstein Redux
By John Regan
A very thoughtful article here, from a periodical that no doubt would like to see a conviction but acknowledges that it’s a “weak case”. We here at LoS? Not so…