Labor Law
MikLin Enterprises, Inc. v. NLRB
Eighth Circuit Holds Employee Organizing Activity Unprotected for Disloyalty Despite Lack of “Malicious Motive.”
Recent Cases
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Statutory Interpretation
New Mexico v. Department of the Interior
Tenth Circuit Holds that Severability Analysis Cannot Extend to Construing Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to Support an Administrative Remedy.
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Abortion Law
Garza v. Hargan
En Banc D.C. Circuit Upholds Order Requiring HHS to Allow an Undocumented Minor to Have an Abortion.
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Criminal Law
State v. Gray
Washington Supreme Court Affirms Child Pornography Conviction of Teenager.
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Criminal Law
Brangan v. Commonwealth
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Holds that Judges Must Issue Findings of Fact when Setting Unaffordable Bail for Indigent Defendants.
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Civil Rights
Palakovic v. Wetzel
Third Circuit Holds Parents of Mentally Ill Young Man Held in Solitary Confinement Stated Claims of Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
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Eighth Amendment
United States v. Slatten
D.C. Circuit Holds It Cruel and Unusual to Impose Mandatory Thirty-Year Sentence on Military Contractors for Gun Charge.
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Title VII
Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College
Seventh Circuit Holds Sexual Orientation Discrimination Is a Form of Sex Discrimination.
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Political Question Doctrine
bin Ali Jaber v. United States
D.C. Circuit Holds Statutory Challenge to Drone Strike is Nonjusticiable.
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Sentencing
Lucero v. People
Colorado Supreme Court Holds that Aggregate Term-of-Years Sentences Can Never Implicate Eighth Amendment Restrictions on Juvenile Life Without Parole.