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Education Law Prof Blog
Tennessee Lawsuit Accuses Nashville Schools of Removing Students From Classes To Raise District’s Year-End Exam Scores
In a short complaint filed this week in Tennessee Chancery Court, a student alleges that that the Nashville Metropolitan Public Schools' uses a "cynical and self-serving" practice of prematurely removing students…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Supreme Court takes up Montana case to resolve applicability of Sixth Amendment speedy trial right to sentencing
Main December 6, 2015Supreme Court takes up Montana case to resolve applicability of Sixth Amendment speedy trial right to sentencingThe major matter among the cases that the Supreme Court decided…
SDNY Blog
Judge Swain: CPLR “Leave and Mail” Service Insufficient for Nonresidents Where Claims Arise Outside New York
In an opinion yesterday, Judge Swain ruled that “leave and mail” service under the CPLR was inconsistent with due process when used on a nonresident, at least where the case…
Education Law Prof Blog
New Mexico’s Teacher Evaluation System Struck Down, Raising Equally Serious Questions About the Challenge to Tenure in Other States
By Derek Black
On Wednesday, the trial court in Stewart v. New Mexico enjoined New Mexico's value added method [VAM] of teacher evaluation. Although the state is free to continue to use its VAM…
Media Law Prof Blog
Scott Skinner-Thompson on the Due Process Clause and the Right to Privacy
Scott Skinner-Thompson, New York University School of Law, is publishing Outing Privacy in volume 110 of the Northwestern University Law Review (2015). Here is the abstract.The government regularly outs information…
Nebraska Debt & Bankruptcy Blog
Lawsuit Served on 10 Year Old Daughter
By Sam Turco
Sentencing Law and Policy
States find (unsurprisingly) that civil commitment for sex offenders not a simple solution
Main October 29, 2015States find (unsurprisingly) that civil commitment for sex offenders not a simple solutionThis lengthy New York Times article, headlined "States Struggle With What to Do With Sex…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The Supreme Court’sJohnson v. United StatesRuling: A Vagueness Doctrine Revolution?”
Main October 9, 2015"The Supreme Court’s Johnson v. United States Ruling: A Vagueness Doctrine Revolution?"The title of this post is the title of this helpful "Legal Backgrounder" coming from the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Glenn Reynolds: The unilateral war on college men
By John Kang
Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at Tennessee, has an op-ed in USA Today. Here are some excerpts: It appears to many — including me — as if theObama administration is engaged in…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Grants Review of Bias of Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Justice in Death Penalty Case
The Court has granted certiorari in Williams v. Pennsylvania on issues of due process and the Eighth Amendment revolving around former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ronald Castille…