Lewis & Clark Law Animal Law Litigation Clinic files lawsuit against USDA decision to reduce oversight at slaughterhouses
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Seven organizations dedicated to protecting the animals, people, and environments that suffer due to industrial animal agriculture filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) challenging its decision to reduce oversight at pig slaughterhouses and eliminate limits on the slaughter speeds, exposing pigs to greater suffering and…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School and the Northwest Environmental Defense Center, co-authored a petition to Oregon policymakers to establish a cap on toxic diesel emissions from non-road sources such as construction sites, distribution centers and railyards. Oregon’s clean air laws lag behind nearly every other state…
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HAVARD LAW TODAY — But according to United States Senator Mike Lee of Utah, the constitutions of repressive dictatorships often contain as many or more civil liberties than the United States. Lee made the comparison and offered his perspective on the current state of constitutional law in America at an event organized by the Harvard Federalist Society.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPD Action) and the City of Newburgh, NY filed a lawsuit on Nov. 26, 2019, in federal court in Manhattan challenging five structural deficiencies in the U.S. Census Bureau’s final operational plans for the 2020 Census. The suit contends that the Census Bureau’s decisions to hire…
Read More about Yale Rule of Law Clinic files lawsuit to prevent undercount in 2020 U.S. CensusSupreme Court hears oral arguments on DACA program
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Court considers whether the Trump administration lawfully ended a program that provides deportation relief and work authorization to hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people, including many college students.
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EDSOURCE — As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether to stop protecting some undocumented immigrants from deportation, the University of California is preparing to support immigrant students, regardless of the outcome, according to UC President Janet Napolitano.
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SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW — That was the daunting challenge recently presented at a simulation hosted by the International Rule of Law and Security program, jointly developed by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University. The event drew almost 60 law students, undergraduates and other graduate students to ASU Law’s…
Read More about Arizona State University Law students participate in diplomatic simulationUniversity of Baltimore Law professor Gregory Dolin to serve on Judiciary of the Republic of Palau
UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — Plenty of faculty take sabbaticals to explore areas of academic interest. But beginning in January 2020, Prof. Gregory Dolin will begin an entirely new phase of his legal career, as he dons robes to serve in the Judiciary of the Republic of Palau, population 21,503.
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Susan Herman, Centennial Professor of Law and president of the ACLU, was honored recently by the Dublin University Law Society of Trinity College, Dublin, with the Praeses Elit Award 2019. Herman received the award, which recognized her leadership of the ACLU, at a ceremony in Dublin, Ireland, on Oct. 10. She delivered an…
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Chabolla, now a law student at UC Irvine, will be at the Supreme Court to defend the rights of people like her to continue working and paying taxes, a right she was granted under the Obama administration with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
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