A US federal judge has blocked the enforcement of a Texas law that punishes contractors and businesses that support the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS). The law, which was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in 2017, requires contractors to certify that they do not boycott the Jewish state. It prohibits all…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Republican Gov. Mike DeWine says he’s pursuing a “red flag” law for Ohio to allow guns to be seized temporarily from owners believed to be a threat to themselves or others. DeWine says his team is trying to come up with a version that could pass the GOP-dominated Legislature, which rejected…
I wholeheartedly agree with the recent letteraddressing Law Journal political bias. Over the last two years I see, for the first time in my 45+ years of practice, a political slant to the Law Journal. And it is particularly disturbing. You are cloaked with government imprimatur as being designated the repository of court calendars…
WASHINGTON — About a month and a half ago, a woman who had just gone through the process of reporting harassment at her job in Washington approached Ally Coll. Coll, the president and cofounder of the Purple Campaign, a group aimed at ending workplace sexual harassment, has been outspoken on harassment issues, and the woman…
President Trump says he’ll “fight all subpoenas” from House Democrats and urges aides to stonewall, too. Is there an impending constitutional crisis? Guests Rep. Gerry Connolly, Democratic representative for Virginia’s 11th District. Senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations. (@GerryConnolly) Claire Finkelstein, teaches law…
When the Legislature passed the California Consumer Privacy Act last year, it touched a match to a tinderbox of concerns about how much of our personal information is outside the protection of federal laws. Now companies of all kinds are lining up to support federal data-privacy rules — so long as those would preempt the…
Police and firefighters would have expanded access to mental health services under a proposal by State Sen. Terry Link, D-Indian Creek, which has passed the Illinois Senate and is headed to the House for a vote. “The men and women who dedicate their lives to the protection of their neighbors do so under extremely stressful…
What happens at our nation’s elite law schools rarely stays there. That is why recent events at Yale Law School are so disturbing. In an effort to appease campus protesters, Yale announced that it would begin discriminating against religious students. This should concern all who value intellectual diversity and religious freedom. But even more troubling is the fact…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would decide whether a federal law prohibits employers from discriminating against gay and transgender workers. The law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbids employment discrimination based on sex. The question for the justices is whether that language bars discrimination based on…
AUSTIN — Jail time for groping. Flagging college students who are expelled for sexual assault. Money to test forensic evidence in thousands of “rape kits” to resume stalled investigations. In the first Texas legislative session since the #MeToo movement exposed the plight of women who endure sexual harassment and violence by men in power, lawmakers…
