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Courts, other essential institutions, and the general public stand against the current Federal administration as it seeks to run roughshod over rights and responsibilities

The new regime continues to pursue radical changes to impose its extremist agenda. The current Federal administration has done everything from deporting young children – including a severely ill cancer patient – who are United States citizens, to… Read More

The Federal administration’s assault against worker rights and civil liberties intensifies

While continuing to pursue its anti-union and pro-corporate agenda, the Federal administration recently rescinded multiple legal measures that addressed chronic problems with government contracting. The current administration rescinded Executive Orde… Read More

The extremism of the new (old) Federal administration on immediate display

In its first week, the incoming Federal administration took radical action in numerous ways. For example, it revoked Executive Order 11246 – which both Republican and Democratic administrations enforced for 60 years to uncover and eliminate discrim… Read More

A majority of the Justices on the increasingly unpopular Supreme Court disregards settled precedent -- again -- when eliminating privacy protections

In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a majority of Supreme Court Justices cast aside 50 years of precedent that guaranteed women’s right to make their healthcare and family-planning decisions for themselves. For the past 5 decades, co… Read More

The way ahead in 2022

As a turbulent 2021 comes to a close, the uncertainty persisting throughout much of year appears likely to continue in 2022. Regarding labor & employment law and civil rights, in particular, various factors make it difficult to predict with preci… Read More

Despite repeated examples of deadly police misconduct, the Supreme Court strengthens defense for police in misconduct cases

The United States Supreme Court adopted the defense of qualified immunity many years ago to prevent public employees from being sued successfully for what they do (or do not do) in the line of duty. This defense turns on the idea that public servants… Read More

Surveillance state advances?

The fast-moving development of artificial intelligence (“AI”) technologies offers much promise but also potentially peril. In particular, the multi-billion dollar industry of AI-driven video analytics is now infiltrating the surveillance camera s… Read More

Trump presidency triggers immediate legal and direct action

In a per curiam decision, State of Washington, et al. v. Trump, et al., a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently and unanimously affirmed a landmark ruling against the Trump Administration’s travel ban concerning people from certain n… Read More

Welcome to the surveillance state?!

The Center for Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University Law Center recently issued a report, “The Perpetual Line-Up,” which determined that half of the nation’s adults are in at least one facial-recognition database used by police or o… Read More

Escalating legal action against domestic surveillance

The ongoing revelations about spying on United States citizens here at home as well as on the nation’s key allies abroad have caused a political uproar that has triggered, for example, the abrupt expulsion of the Central Intelligence Agency(“CIA�… Read More