Topic
Equal Protection
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ImmigrationProf Blog
A Colloquy about the Disappearing Equal Protection Rights of Immigrants
Professor Jenny-Brooke Condon Jenny-Brooke Condon’s recent article The Preempting of Equal Protection for Immigrants? analyzes important issues surrounding the constitutional rights of immigrants. Professor Condon in essence contends that the current…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Federal Judge Issues Preliminary Injunction Against Mississippi Law Seeking to Protect LGBT Discrimination
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn a 60 page opinion in Barber v. Bryant, United States District Judge Carlton Reeves (pictured below) found Mississippi…
School Law
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Race-Conscious Admissions Program
In a decision sending waves through the tertiary education community and beyond, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld—by a four to three vote—the University of Texas’ (the University) race-conscious admissions program…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
Race Conscious Admissions Policies Upheld in Fisher v. University of Texas II
By Atiba Ellis
Today, by a 4-3 vote, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas's affirmative action admissions program in Fisher v. University of Texas II. The Court found that the consideration…
Labor & Employment Insights
United States Supreme Court Upholds University of Texas Affirmative Action Policy
In a 4-3 decision released today, in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the United States Supreme Court affirmed that the University’s race-conscious admissions policy meets strict judicial scrutiny…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Death Row Inmate on Batson Racial Challenge to Jury Selection
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts in Foster v. Chatman, the Court reversed the finding on the Georgia…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Timothy Dugdale: Two Cert Petitions in Cases Involving the Plenary Power Doctrine
The plenary power doctrine in immigration is a Cold War relic. It's old, it's tired, and it's a menace to due process and equal protection. The War on Terror gave…
The Faculty Lounge
Is Strict Scrutiny All It’s Cracked Up To Be?
Suppose you were a feminist legal group, and a Genie offered you the chance to elevate gender to the level of a "suspect classification." Gender would receive strict judicial scrutiny,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Why I refuse to send people to jail for failure to pay fines”
Main April 22, 2016"Why I refuse to send people to jail for failure to pay fines"The title of this post is the headline of this lengthy recent Washington Post commentary…
Education Law Prof Blog
California Court of Appeal Deals Legal Assault on Teacher Tenure a Major Blow, Laying Bare Its Shallow Assumptions
By Derek Black
Last week, the California Court of Appeals reversed the trial court that sent shockwaves through the nation when it ruled that California's tenure and seniority statutes were unconstitutional in 2014…