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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Rebecca Worthington

  • October 14, 2013

The new term of the Supreme Court kicks off with a “deep docket.”  (NY Times)  Supreme Court watchers speculate how long Justice Ginsberg will remain on the bench (Washington Post), and Justice Scalia gets real…

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Can I Be Fired For Being a Brony? Yes, Among A Million Other Things

by Christine Clarke

  • October 10, 2013

A Brony got fired, causing Gawker and Reddit commenters much consternation, and, of course, counter-consternation from people talking about “protected classes” and “at will” employment and other legalish things. So what’s the final word? Is it…

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Parenting Through a Government Shutdown

by Renee Cramer

  • October 9, 2013

My son is eight years old. So I think about law a lot. My thoughts about law, in this context, revolve around these questions: “how do I make him obey authority?” and “if it isn’t…

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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Rebecca Worthington

  • October 7, 2013

Second phase of the BP civil trial begins, with each side arguing how much oil was spilled.  (NY Times) All you ever wanted to know about the Antideficiency Act, a law enacted in the late…

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Silenced: No Prison Access, No Prison Story

by Nancy Mullane

  • October 4, 2013

On July 8th, nearly 30,000 prisoners locked up inside 24 of California’s 34 prisons began a hunger strike to protest conditions in the state’s Security Housing Units. For the next two weeks, the California Department…

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Let's Talk: How Congress and the Court Make It Work

by Scott Barclay

  • October 3, 2013

When the government isn’t shut down, courts and legislatures work together to make it happen. Public policy scholar Scott Barclay explains.  Late this summer, a few short weeks after the US Supreme Court made landmark…

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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Rebecca Worthington

  • September 30, 2013

New Jersey judge rules that state is unconstitutionally denying federal benefits to same-sex couples.  (New Jersey) Court rules that a judge may not moonlight as a comedian. (NY Daily News) Egyptian court orders a ban…

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Students on the law: It's seriously time to televise you, SCOTUS

by Joe Klein

  • September 27, 2013

This spring, Life of the Law had the exciting opportunity to work with students at Macalester College on writing about the law and their lives. This week, we’re sharing four of the blog posts that came out of…

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Students on the law: In the Emergency Contraception Debate Politics Still Trumps Science

by Rebecca Gans

  • September 26, 2013

This spring, Life of the Law had the exciting opportunity to work with students at Macalester College on writing about the law and their lives. This week, we’re sharing four of the blog posts that came out of…

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Students on the law: Why cyclists should report accidents

by Nick Matzke

  • September 25, 2013

This spring, Life of the Law had the exciting opportunity to work with students at Macalester College on writing about the law and their lives. This week, we’re sharing four of the blog posts that came out…

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