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University of Illinois (Chicago) Law Professor Sues Over Exam Controversy

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The law school dean, along with other defendants, invoked UIC’s Violence Prevention Plan to convene a Behavioral Threat Assessment Team (“BTAT”) to assess this purported “threat” of imminent physical violence. COUNT II Violation of University of Illinois Statutes. COUNT III Violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. But the Texas statute, and the rationales set forth in English and Duke , are outliers.” The majority opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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UNC Law Student Who Questioned Racial Incident Is Disqualified From Running For New Office

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The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. . Sharma was targeted at UNC Law School because he would not agree that a recent exchange between law students involved a racial insult. General Construction Co. , 269 U.S.

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Biden’s “Come on, Man” Defense Will Not Fly on Religious Freedom

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This week, Jessica Levinson, a clinical professor of law at Loyola Marymount Law School in Los Angeles, wrote a column for MSNBC entitled “Covid Vaccine Religious Exemptions Should Not Exist.” The categorical rejection of any religious-exemption case runs against the grain of the Constitution as well as federal statutes.

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Term limits emerge as popular proposal at latest meeting of court-reform commission

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But the group does support a constitutional amendment imposing 18-year term limits and allowing each sitting president to fill two seats per four-year term, although the group believes that term limits imposed by statute would pose constitutional issues. Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, presented a different view.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years.

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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

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For example, a new poll out of Marquette University Law School showed 2-1 support for Roe , but a greater number of respondents (37 percent) supported the 15-week limit in Dobbs than opposed it (32 percent). The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. Today, the country remains deeply divided.