Today, on the last day of this year's term, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its
opinion in
Ricci v.
DeStefano, the latest in the Court's line of decisions on
Title VII and the role of race in employment decisions. The famous case centers on white firefighters' claims of
race discrimination following the town of New Haven's decision to scuttle a
promotion exam after white test takers performed disproportionately better than black firefighters.
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posted by Law Talkin' Guy
on Jun 29, 2009 -
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Awakening on a mattress atop a wooden slab, the bare walls of your 7' x 12'
cell come into focus, illuminated by the constant glare of an overhead light. Through the narrow window in the back of your cell, you can peer out into the prison yard. In the window in the reinforced steel door, you can catch an occasional glimpse of a prison guard as they bring your meals, usually the only interruption of the silence and isolation that pervade your living conditions. Those walls are the boundaries of your world for 23 hours a day in the
Departmental Disciplinary Unit-- the
supermax prison maintained in Walpole, Massachusetts, one of
dozens of such institutions currently operated in the United States, in spite of growing
outcry based on human rights violations.
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posted by Law Talkin' Guy
on Feb 15, 2009 -
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Two Yale Law School graduates who allege they were subjected to a campaign of online
harassment file
suit against the
site's owner and two dozen
internet trolls for copyright infringement, defamation, and a variety of other tort and IP claims. In the latest developments, the website's owner was
dropped from the lawsuit, and another
defendant moved (seemingly pro se) to
quash a subpoena served originally on their ISP to reveal their identity.
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posted by Law Talkin' Guy
on Feb 28, 2008 -
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