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The Jacksonville City Council may be ready to settle with civil rights activists who successfully sued last year over redistricting. Jacksonville’s general counsel filed a…
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Florida Can’t Take Trans Teens From Their Parents
April 21, 2023
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives have passed a bill authorizing the state to take custody of children if…
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4th Circ.’s Chief Judge Must Sit For Depo In Harassment Suit
April 21, 2023
A former federal public defender in North Carolina can depose the chief judge of the Fourth Circuit in her sexual harassment suit against the federal…
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The Federal Trade Commission’s public comment period for its proposal to ban noncompete agreements closed Wednesday, just as major business groups ramped up their campaign…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Tunisia’s tragic descent from Arab Spring democracy into dictatorship is continuing with the arrest and detention of Rached Ghannouchi, the…
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Defendants, United, Could Strike the State Blindsided
April 21, 2023
An op-ed written by Andrew Manuel Crespo: Social movements are surging in ways unseen in a generation, with issues of racial justice and workers’ rights…
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U.S. News & World Report, already under scrutiny for the way it ranks some college programs, is delaying the release of its influential annual list…
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Maine jury rules clean energy transmission line from Canada to New England can proceed
April 21, 2023
A Maine jury ruled Thursday that construction can proceed on a transmission line that will carry clean hydropower from Quebec to New England, saving a…
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51% #1761: The Battle for Mifepristone
April 21, 2023
The accessibility of the key abortion medication mifepristone hangs in the balance after a federal judge in Texas ruled earlier this month to suspend the…
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The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social
April 20, 2023
Nearly two decades ago, Facebook exploded on college campuses as a site for students to stay in touch. Then came Twitter, where people posted about…
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Artificial intelligence isn’t just the future of law, it’s the now. That was perhaps the message that weaved its way through all the speakers and…
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An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: In November 2018, when then-president Donald Trump challenged a federal judge’s impartiality by calling him an “Obama judge,” Supreme Court…
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Twitter quietly changes its hateful conduct policy to remove standing protections for its transgender users
April 19, 2023
Twitter sparked backlash this week after some users noticed it had quietly removed language in its hateful conduct policy that explicitly protected transgender people from…
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Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal held a role-play session for managers about how to defeat union drives, a task the training materials for the exercise said was…
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The oil and gas industry is emitting way more of this potent, planet-warming gas than the EPA has estimated, study shows
April 18, 2023
Planet-warming methane pollution from the US oil and gas industry was 70% higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s own estimates between 2010 and 2019, scientists…
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Podcast Episode: Safer Sex Work Makes a Safer Internet
April 18, 2023
An internet that is safe for sex workers is an internet that is safer for everyone. Though the effects of stigmatization and criminalization run deep,…
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could expand religious protections for workers under a law changed in 1972, an interpretation…
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Where the legal battle over Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence stands a decade after the Marathon bombing
April 17, 2023
As Boston marks 10 years since the city’s deadliest terrorist attack, the legal battle drags on in federal court to determine the fate of the…
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Susan Crawford’s new book focuses like a laser on Charleston for a reason. Here is where one can observe best how a long history of…
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If an enemy agent was looking for the ideal place to publish US government secrets, they might pick Facebook or Twitter. But probably not Discord,…
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Aggressive rules proposed by the Biden administration to drastically speed up the country’s transition to electric vehicles, and significantly cut the auto pollution that is…