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Media Mentions
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: In a surprising twist to America’s ongoing opioid crisis, the Supreme Court has thrown out a legal settlement that would…
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This Cambridge startup can churn out AI-generated music in 30 seconds. The recording industry would like a word.
June 27, 2024
The song “Down To The Deep” recounts the sinking of the Titanic, in the style of classic Chicago blues. It sounds just like something the…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: In a careful, precise opinion, the US Supreme Court has rejected a demand that it prohibit the executive branch from…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: For the second time in two years, an abortion-related decision from the Supreme Court has appeared before its due date.
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A Harvard law professor testified Monday in a multibillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit over the NFL’s Sunday Ticket that pooling teams’ television rights into exclusive deals is…
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The Ground Is Shifting Under Biden and Trump
June 26, 2024
Have Democrats and Republicans traded places? How has the ascendance of well-educated, relatively affluent liberals among Democrats, alongside the dominance of non-college voters in the…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Almost 20 years after Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks, his legal saga appears to be over with a guilty plea to…
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled on a case regarding a decades-long water allocation dispute among Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. In his dissenting…
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Energy sector braces for Supreme Court NEPA case
June 26, 2024
A new Supreme Court case is seeking to limit federal environmental reviews for energy infrastructure projects — throwing the spotlight on conservative justices who have…
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Supreme Court will hear gender-affirming care ban case. It could change everything for trans rights.
June 26, 2024
Earlier today, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear a case about a ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors in Tennessee. The case,…
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Chevron’s climate test
June 26, 2024
Buckle up for a major Supreme Court decision this week that could curtail the power of federal agencies to set policy on a range of…
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Two Christian-owned companies in Texas, Braidwood Management and Kelley Orthodontics, sued the federal government in 2020 over the ACA’s requirement that their health plans cover…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Two years later, the overturning of Roe v. Wade is still sending aftershocks through the legal system. Apart from the…
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An article by Sharon Block: Tipped workers in our country have a serious problem — many of them don’t get paid enough to support themselves…
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The push this week by a coalition of health, environmental, and labor groups for FEMA to use a key federal law to combat extreme heat…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Gun rights are not unlimited according to an 8-1 Supreme Court decision that draws back from the extreme Second Amendment…
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“Intentional”: Harvard legal scholar says SCOTUS “deliberately delayed” Trump immunity ruling
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court’s delay in deciding Donald Trump’s immunity case makes a trial before election highly unlikely, legal experts say. Special counsel Jack Smith, who…
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Six Republican governors in the Deep South want their constituents to know that they’re looking out for them. That’s why they issued a joint statement…
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Supreme Court Just Made It Easier to Be Convicted
June 21, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman Can the prosecution call a cop as an expert witness to testify in a drug-trafficking case that most drug couriers…
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Miranda Stovall’s lawsuit against her local Kentucky school board in June transformed a national debate over parental access to education into a copyright dispute when…
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Most Mass. workers are unprotected from extreme heat on the job — and reliant on preparation, education
June 21, 2024
As the stifling heat bore down Wednesday, construction workers building a parking garage near Kendall Square sat down in the shade to take a break.