OPINION ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on Jun 26, 2024 at 6:50 pm The justices ruled in Snyder v. United States on Wednesday. (J Main via Shutterstock) The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a federal anti-bribery law does not make it a crime for state and local officials to accept a gratuity for acts that…
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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts and the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, MDLs make up what percentage of the federal civil caseload? Hint: The Lawyers for Civil Justice estimate an even higher number, but both agree there’s been a…
Volunteer grants, also known as “dollars for doers” programs, are a form of corporate giving that rewards employees’ volunteerism by providing monetary donations to the organizations they support. These programs supply an invaluable source of funding for nonprofits and schools—however, identifying, pursuing, and managing funding through the programs can be challenging without the right tools…
(Photo by Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images) Are you on the edge of your seat guessing which rights the Supreme Court will strike down next? Worried over what will become of air quality if and when SCOTUS stomps all over Chevron? We can’t get rid of your anxiety,…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Faced with intensifying financial challenges, Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts is moving to close permanently after a vote by its board, according to a Tuesday announcement. The private Christian nonprofit has forged teach-out agreements with…
Jordan Ealy counts herself among the stargazers who delight in watching specks of light twinkle against the darkness of outer space. But her scholarship focuses on those stars she can barely see. “Yeah, I study small stars,” says Ealy, a Ph.D. candidate in astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park. “M dwarfs are the…
OPINION ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on Jun 26, 2024 at 4:52 pm The justices ruled in Murthy v. Missouri on Wednesday. (Katie Barlow) The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit seeking to limit the government’s ability to communicate with social media companies about their content moderation policies. By a vote of 6-3, the…
Justice Barrett remains the best of all Trump’s appointees. She’s the most serious thinker of the three justices on the Court– and her writing talent is exponentially better than Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. — Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) June 26, 2024 —Law professor Anthony Michael Kreis opining on the relative strengths of Donald Trump’s additions to…
Earlier this year, LGBTQ+ students and victims of campus sexual assault gained new protections under the Biden-Harris Administration’s finalized revision of Title IX regulations. The rules – released April 2024 after being announced in 2022 – represented a landmark effort to solidify discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as violations of Title IX…