Politics Roundtable
American Constitutional Society
This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on corporate misconduct and laws regulating corporations. In a letter to the Committee, the Constitutional Accountability Center, a progressive think-tank and law firm, criticized the Court’s “recent ...
A federal appeals court unanimously upheld a jury verdict against Wal-Mart for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act for discriminating against an employee with cerebral palsy. The New York Law Journal explained that the court held that an employer has a duty to ...
by Harper Jean Tobin and Simon Lazarus, attorneys with the National Senior Citizens Law Center
At the end of a week of widely noted blockbuster rulings, the Supreme Court on June 27 quietly ...
by Kia Franklin, Attorney and Fellow at the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
As a young African American woman and the first lawyer in my family, I find Justice Thurgood Marshall’s life both professionally and personally inspiring. But ...
by Richard L. Revesz, Dean of New York University School of Law, and Michael A. Livermore, the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Regulation at New York University School of Law. Together, ...
High Court Decisions Handed Down Today:
Kennedy v. Louisiana
In Kennedy v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court held 5-4 that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty for the crime of child rape, invalidating a Louisiana law that authorized the death sentence for rape of a ...
by Alexandra B. Klass, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform. She is the author of Punitive Damages and Valuing Harm, which discusses ...
By Doug Kendall, founder and president of the Constitutional Accountability Center
At a time when gas prices and oil company profits are at record highs, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken $2 billion from 32,000 Americans who lost their livelihood in the worst oil ...
The Supreme Court handed down four decisions today: Kennedy v. Louisiana, striking down the death penalty for child rape; Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, limiting punitive damages in maritime cases; Giles v. California, curtailing an exception to the Confrontation Clause; and Plains Commerce Bank v. Long ...
The U.S. Justice Department’s inspector general office and the U.S. Office of Professional Responsibility issued a report today revealing that top officials in the Department of Justice used political and ideological considerations in staffing its honors and summer intern programs. The report says ...