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Due Process
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Education Law Prof Blog
Colorado Court Upholds the Constructive Dismissal of Veteran Teachers Without Process
By Derek Black
Back in January, the Colorado Education Association filed a class action lawsuit citing concerns over the “mutual consent” provision of the state’s teacher effectiveness law. Under this provision, school districts…
The Right Coast
Is tenure unconstitutional in California? « Hot Air
The reaction in the video from the union official is at least somewhat overwrought. It does not appear that Judge Treu overturned all forms of due process for teachers, or even…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Challenge to Sexual Misconduct Cases
By John Kang
From the Chicago Tribune: Peter Yu, Drew Sterrett and Lewis McLeod were headed toward bright futures at prestigious colleges and universities when each got involved in one-night sexual encounters.All three…
The Appellate Strategist
Illinois Supreme Court Rejects Due Process Challenge to Liquor License Revocation
By Kirk Jenkins
When a liquor licensee’s former manager is convicted of conspiring to violate the federal Money Laundering Act, can the licensee be summarily stripped of its liquor license, based upon the…
Consumer Class Defense Blog
California Supreme Court Limits Use Of Statistical Sampling In Class Actions
By Scott M. Pearson, Jeffrey A. Berman, Eric M. Lloyd and Kiran Aftab Seldon On May 29, 2014, the California Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated opinion in Duran v. U.S.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrants Held Indefinitely Without a Hearing? Another Court Says No
Earlier this week, a federal district court in Massachusetts ordered the government to end its practice of putting immigrants in long-term lock up without ever providing them the basic due…
The Right Coast
Punishment First, Trial Later, or Never: The Education Department s Investigation of Tufts University
Imagine if you could be expelled from your dorm, or a class, just because someone accused you of something even if the accusation was so weak or thinly-grounded that it…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Pennsylvania District Judge Declares State’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn his opinion in Whitewood v. Wolf, Judge John E. Jones, III, announced that Pennsylvania would "join the twelve…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Georgia Supreme Court rejects attack on execution drug secrecy
Main May 20, 2014Georgia Supreme Court rejects attack on execution drug secrecyAs reported in this local article, yesterday the Georgia Supreme Court "upheld the constitutionality of a state law that…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Idaho Federal Judge Declares State Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Unconstitutional
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn a 57 page opinion today in Latta v. Otter, federal judge Candy Wagahoff Dale concluded that Idaho's statutory and…