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Supreme Court OKs state’s corporate consent-to-jurisdiction law, but door is ajar for future challenges
June 29, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a Pennsylvania law that requires companies to consent to personal jurisdiction in state courts if they do business…
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Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, appeared on Anderson Cooper 360°, where he discussed the audio recordings…
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Advocates Say Wage Theft Fight Needs Community Orgs
June 27, 2023
Worker advocates Rachel Deutsch and Terri Gerstein want to highlight how pivotal community enforcement programs are to advancing workers’ wage rights, particularly as government agencies…
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An Era of Debt Crisis Catastrophe Is Dawning
June 27, 2023
As of this article’s publication, the Zambian government is reportedly—at long last—on the verge of a restructuring agreement with its bilateral creditors. Whereas Silicon Valley…
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‘Hot FERC Summer’?: Energy Lawyers Watching for Burst of Action From Overworked Agency
June 27, 2023
It started as an attempt to draw attention to an understaffed agency and over permitted process. Rep Sean Casten, D-Illinois, took to the floor of…
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Essay by Terri Gerstein, Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Center for Labor and a Just Economy: Last…
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DOJ ‘likely’ to indict Trump’s ‘whole criminal gang’ for conspiracy to ‘overthrow the government’: legal expert
June 27, 2023
Special Counsel Jack Smith is “likely” to indict Donald Trump and those who assisted him in conspiring “to overturn the presidential election and overthrow the…
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Appellate lawyers can go their whole careers without experiencing a stretch of arguments like the one Weil, Gotshal & Manges associate [and Harvard lecturer on…
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July marks two years since the Biden administration announced it would open a fast-tracked immigration court in Boston. The so-called “Dedicated Docket” was supposed to…
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Missing Tax Court Deadline By A New York Minute
June 27, 2023
Antawn Jamal Sanders has probably set a record although he is not likely pleased. How close can you get to having a Tax Court petition…
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Why generative AI is a minefield for copyright law
June 27, 2023
Essay co-authored by Jessica Fjeld, lecturer on law at Harvard Law School: Copyright laws were created to promote the arts and creative thinking. But the…
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Biden officials promised Boston’s special immigration program would be fast, but fair. Advocates say it fails at both.
June 22, 2023
When the Biden administration announced in July 2021 a new immigration court program in Boston, top officials promised it would make asylum cases faster and…
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An article by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In the next few weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to declare it unlawful for colleges and universities to…
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Defeated former president Donald Trump has it all wrong. He apparently thought he could avoid prosecution by running for president; instead, he forced languid Attorney…
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More Americans than ever are saving for retirement and more than ever they are doing that by investing in 401(k) plans. That’s helped usher in a…
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The Supreme Court, in the midst of a run of decisions that have stress-tested the core principles of US democracy, has rarely been so aggressive…
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Juneteenth, Then and Now; Teachers Call in on Tentative Contract; Where Does a Family Name Come From?; Father’s Day Gifts
June 22, 2023
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University professor and the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family and On Juneteenth (Liveright, 2021), talks about the history…
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… Professor Laurence Tribe offered tempered criticism of his former student (Merrick Garland), tweeting: ‘Great journalism has shown Garland and Monaco well-intentioned but profoundly unwise…
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Starbucks Corp. has agreed to give back pay to baristas unlawfully denied shifts at a University of Washington cafe, in a settlement that signals the…
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Supreme Court Was Sensibly Conservative on Tribal Rights
June 16, 2023
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion for the Supreme Court in Haaland v. Brackeen is conservative in the good, old-fashioned…
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Jonathan Goodman, the magistrate judge assigned to handle Donald J. Trump’s arraignment, did something of a double take during the proceeding on Tuesday, when the…