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Due Process
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The Faculty Lounge
Call for Proposals: Dignity, Tradition & Constitutional Due Process – Competing Paradigms
This just in: SYMPOSIUM: DIGNITY, TRADITION, & CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS: COMPETING JUDICIAL PARADIGMS The William S. Boyd School of Law (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) will host a symposium entitled:…
ImmigrationProf Blog
NYT on Immigration Courts, Immigration Judges, Case Quotas and Due Process
Liz Robbins writes in the New York Times about the Department of Justice's new case completion quotas for immigration judges to complete 700 cases each year, which are scheduled to…
The Right Coast
Betsy DeVos is getting savaged for closing campus kangaroo courts
The Education Department is preparing new rules that would roll back the monstrously unfair Obama-era requirements for how colleges handle sexual-assault and harassment allegations. It will be a significant advance…
Nahmod Law
A DeShaney Danger Creation Case that Survived Summary Judgment
Over the years I have posted many times about the difficulty plaintiffs have in surmounting the no-affirmative duty substantive due process rule of DeShaney v. Winnebago County Dept. of Social Services,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Representing Immigrants: The Role of Lawyers in Immigration Bond Hearings by Emily Ryo
Representing Immigrants: The Role of Lawyers in Immigration Bond Hearings by Emily Ryo, Law & Society ReviewAbstractDo immigration lawyers matter, and if so, how? Drawing on a rich source of…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Thinking Clearly about the Quid Pro Quo
I wanted to make some comments about the recent Kansas quid pro quo case, Johnson v. U.S. Food Serv. I won’t repeat the facts here—it is enough to know that…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
Teaching the Internment to the Resistance
By Frank H. Wu
In standing up and speaking out for racial justice, we ought to advance the best argument. That is not necessarily what we suppose it is, especially taking into account the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Federal Judge Declares Cash Bail Practice in New Orleans Unconstitutional
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law In his opinion in Caliste v. Cantrell, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana Eldon Fallon…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Judge Kavanaugh in 2009: “I think acquitted conduct should be barred from the guidelines calculation.”
Main July 31, 2018Judge Kavanaugh in 2009: "I think acquitted conduct should be barred from the guidelines calculation."I blogged here about how Justice Kennedy's replacement would likely be a greater…
The Faculty Lounge
Zero Tolerance and the Fourteenth Amendment
Guest blogger Rob Baker and I had an oped on the Daily Beast last Saturday, which was the 150th anniversary of the certification of the Fourteenth Amendment. The piece compares…