Bryan Lammon argues that qualified immunity has generated an appellate-procedure morass that prevents victims from getting justice when government officials, including police, violate their rights.
Month: July 2020
States' efforts to regulate advertising of plant-based products have reduced competition and confused consumers. Daly Brower says federal preemption can solve these problems.
Reid Coleman argues that Congress's impulse to use the judiciary to oversee the executive branch has practical and constitutional flaws.
Last August, the New Mexico Supreme Court repudiated the spousal evidentiary privilege on feminist grounds. Alexandra Aparicio argues that in so doing, the court overlooked feminism's complexity—and the right result.
J. Sam Bonafede argues that to protect our civil litigation system, the Second Circuit should block DOJ's efforts to circumvent civil protective orders covering foreign-based discovery materials through well-timed grand jury subpoenas.
Amid a national conversation about race, affirmative action in universities has become a key issue of contention, with California set to revisit its affirmative action ban this November. Host Taiyee Chien leads a spirited discussion with Adam Mortara and Professor Geoffrey Stone about affirmative action and its future.