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…
When it comes to graduate school, law isn’t known for being cheap. And if the cost isn’t enough, accepted students often have to move long distances to attend their classes in person. COVID shocked our systems and prompted many schools to move their lessons to virtual classrooms, but there was a general understanding that this…
Real average salaries for full-time faculty members remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2023–24, highlights trends in faculty compensation, tenure and contingency, pay equity, and institutional finances in higher education. Its findings come from…
At some point in your life — likely the snippy preteen/teenage years — you undoubtedly heard the phrase, it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. And that’s very much the lesson from Brown Rudnick partner Gerard Cicero’s attempt to increase his billing rate in a bankruptcy case from $1000 to $1500. That…
Early elementary school teachers view chronically absent students less positively, even when they cause no trouble in the classroom, according to a new study published in AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. Michael GottfriedThe study by Drs. Michael A. Gottfried and Phil H. Kim at the University of Pennsylvania and…
I appeared in bankruptcy court exactly one time. Many years ago, the firm I worked for extended credit enough to get through trial, to the tune of about $40,000 worth of legal fees, to a client who then promptly filed for bankruptcy. Knowing that unsecured legal debts were exactly the kind of thing bankruptcy was…
A new issue brief from the American Council on Education (ACE) calls on institutions to take care to ensure that voting resources offered to their students are nonpartisan and that their communications with students are received that way. Peter McDonough“Student Voting and College Political Campaign-Related Activities in 2024” is an update of ACE’s 2023 publication…
Is it possible that post-Dobbs Supreme Court jurisprudence on abortion isn’t the absolute worst? Bloomberg Law is reporting that earlier today, the decision in Moyle v. United States, Idaho v. United States was inadvertently published on the Supreme Court’s website. The Supreme Court just can’t help but leak abortion cases, can it? The case is…