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Due Process
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The Right Coast
A Deceptive California Bill on Campus Rape
Yet whatever benefitmight come from the medical examination provision is more than overcome by SB967's hostility to due process. The measure seeks to codify as California lawthe terms of the…
Legal Profession Blog
Judge And Witness Were Facebook Friends But Conviction Affirmed
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed a conviction in a drug distribution case notwithstanding the fact that the judge was Facebook friends with an undercover informant who was a key state…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Is anyone making a broadside constitutional attack against private prisons?
Main February 8, 2014Is anyone making a broadside constitutional attack against private prisons?The question in the title of this post is prompted by this notable new blog post by Professor…
The Right Coast
The Innocent Can Be Punished in Columbia Sex Cases
As has almost become routine, Columbia's policy violates basic principles of due process and fairness--even as it promises to treat accused students with "respect, dignity, and sensitivity throughout the process."…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
En Banc Sixth Circuit To Hear Michigan City Benefits Case in March
By Lauren Kuley
Legal fallout from a Michigan financial crisis will soon be before the en banc Sixth Circuit. Responding to the City of Pontiac’s deficits, Pontiac’s emergency manager modified collective bargaining agreements…
School Law
Maryland School District Sued by Former Students for School Suspensions
Two former high school lacrosse players have filed suit in federal court alleging that their Maryland high school violated their constitutional rights to due process and protections against unreasonable searches. …
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
We are Never, Ever, Ever, Getting Back Together
By Tracy Thomas
Taking a line from Taylor Swift, Jessica Smith (Seton Hall), has posted her paper We are Never Ever Getting Back Together: Domestic Violence Victims, Defendants and Due Process, 35 Cardozo L.Rev. (2013).This…
New Jersey Law Blog
Domestic Violence and Due Process
By John S. Eory
The issuance of a Domestic Violence Final Restraining Order carries a good deal of legal freight in terms of the proscribing a defendant's conduct, providing for serious sanctions in the…
inversecondemnation.com
Cert Briefs In Admin Due Process Case
Here are the cert briefs in Kellberg v. Yuen, No. SCWC-12-0000266 (Haw. Jan. 22, 2014), the case in which the Hawaii Supreme Court held that there is only one "final…
Education Law Prof Blog
Fired After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Teachers Win Class Action Appeal
The Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeal recently upheld part of a judgment for 7,000 New Orleans teachers who were found to have been wrongfully terminated after Hurricane Katrina. The…