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Guest Post: Building Better Civil Justice Systems Isn’t Just About The Funding

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It is written by Mark Chandler , former chief legal officer at Cisco Systems from 2001- 2021 and now a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and a fellow at the Stanford’s Deborah L. And forms often change with little or no warning to litigants who may be operating on old information.

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Paralegals: What If Your Client Claims Innocence?

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Cooley Law School. We discuss the Innocence Project and the Post Conviction DNA Testing Statutes that opened the door for exoneration of the innocent around the country. In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work.

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Arthrex on Remand: Commissioner of Patents Drew Hirshfeld and the Problem of Shadow Acting Officials

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Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Law Review article titled “ The Permissibility of Acting Officials: May the President Work Around Senate Confirmation? 1) The litigation background.

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The Nuclear Option: States Could Take Over College Admissions

JonathanTurley

Long before the opinion was released, universities were already sensing that the use of race in admissions was coming to an end after decades of intense litigation. He told students : “I’ll give you an example from our law school, but if ever I’m deposed, I’m going to deny I said this to you.

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

JonathanTurley

Likewise, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals this month affirmed such a preliminary injunction against Western Michigan University. The issue reached the Supreme Court this week when health workers challenged a similar law in Maine allowing for medical but not religious exemptions.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

JonathanTurley

Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.

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