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Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Monday, November 3, 2025

7 years since shocking hate crime, civil rights suit over Nantucket public meeting surfaces racial tension

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Nantucket African Meeting House, 1880 Nantucket Historical Association A shocking hate crime of vandalism on storied Nantucket Island in 201...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Litigator loses case, writes musical comedy about it

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Shangri-La-La poster at Arlington Drafthouse When a lawyer loses a case, the lawyer moves on. The experience might be quickly forgotten as r...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Government used soccer tattoo, 'rock'n'roll salute' as evidence against Venezuelan deportee, lawyer asserts

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According to his lawyer, a tattoo and a hand gesture are the sum of evidence against at least one Venezuelan man who was deported to the El ...
Friday, March 28, 2025

In negligence claims over child welfare, bus fight, Mass. high court opines on qualified, sovereign immunity

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Two immunity cases ended with different outcomes for public officials in the Massachusetts high court on two successive Fridays, and the cas...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Court's pass on Wynn bid to revisit 'actual malice' makes sense, but standard still fuels misinformation

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Wynn operates the Encore Casino in Everett, Mass., since a dust-up with authorities over ownership. Holiday Point via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Book details knotty business of higher ed counsel

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By attorney Louis H. Guard and academic Joyce P. Jacobsen , All the Campus Lawyers (2024) is a compelling recent read for anyone intereste...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Amos, King: love one another; defend the oppressed; plead the cause of the innocent, the powerless

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David Erickson CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons On this Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, I was blessed with the opportunity to stand in the ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Florida A&M moves to fire Latina law prof who spoke on public concern; Hispanic law students resist

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You may review and sign on to a letter of the FAMU Hispanic American Law Student Association opposing Reyes's termination here.   Prof. ...