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Virginia Court Reinstates Teacher Suspended For Opposing Trans Inclusion Policy, Arthur S. Leonard

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Indiana Federal Court Rejects Public School Teacher’S Religious Discrimination Claim Over Misgendering Discharge, Arthur S. Leonard

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Court Rejects Web Designer’S Challenge To Colorado Anti-Discrimination Law, Arthur S. Leonard

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Scotus Denies Review To Florist Who Refused To Serve Same-Sex Couple, Arthur S. Leonard

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Slamming The Courthouse Door: 25 Years Of Evidence For Repealing The Prison Litigation Reform Act, Andrea Fenster, Margo Schlanger

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Twenty-five years ago today, in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Prison Litigation Reform Act. The “PLRA,” as it is often called, makes it much harder for incarcerated people to file and win federal civil rights lawsuits. For two-and-a-half decades, the legislation has created a double standard that limits incarcerated people’s access to the courts at all stages: it requires courts to dismiss civil rights cases from incarcerated people for minor technical reasons before even reaching the case merits, requires incarcerated people to pay filing fees that low-income people on the outside are exempt from, makes it hard to find …

Federal Court Bars Enforcement Of Louisville Public Accommodations Ordinance Against A Wedding Photographer Who Opposes Marriage Equality, Arthur S. Leonard

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Government Misconduct And Convicting The Innocent: The Role Of Prosecutors, Police And Other Law Enforcement, Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlin Jackson Roll, Klara Huber Stephens

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This is a report about the role of official misconduct in the conviction of innocent people. We discuss cases that are listed in the National Registry of Exonerations, an ongoing online archive that includes all known exonerations in the United States since 1989, 2,663 as of this writing. This Report describes official misconduct in the first 2,400 exonerations in the Registry, those posted by February 27, 2019.

In general, we classify a case as an “exoneration” if a person who was convicted of a crime is officially and completely cleared based on new evidence of innocence.

The Report is …

Decisive Win For Lesbians In Oregon Cake Case, Arthur S. Leonard

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Two New Job Discrimination Petitions To Scotus, Arthur S. Leonard

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Cisgender Students Rebuffed In Illinois Bathroom Case, Arthur S. Leonard

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Trump Anti-Trans Regs Vulnerable To Challenge, Arthur S. Leonard

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“Jane Crow” Laws And Contemporary Sexual Harassment, Richard H. Chused

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This post originally appeared on https://www.richardchused.org/2017/12/24/jane-crow-laws-contemporary-sexual-harassment/

On Nyc’S Paratransit, Fighting For Safety, Respect, And Human Dignity, Britney Wilson

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Another Fed Court Win For Trans Students, Arthur S. Leonard

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Supreme Court Denies Review In Gay Rights Case, Arthur S. Leonard

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Scotus Denies Review In Gay Rights Case, Arthur S. Leonard

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A Battle Over Statutory Interpretation: Title Vii And Claims Of Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity Discrimination, Arthur S. Leonard

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How The Ada Regulates And Restricts Solitary Confinement For People With Mental Disabilities, Margo Schlanger

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In a landmark decision two decades ago, United States District Judge Thelton Henderson emphasized the toxic effects of solitary confinement for inmates with mental illness. In Madrid v. Gomez, a case about California’s Pelican Bay prison, Judge Henderson wrote that isolated conditions in the Special Housing Unit, or SHU, while not amounting to cruel and unusual punishment for all prisoners, were unconstitutional for those “at a particularly high risk for suffering very serious or severe injury to their mental health . . . .” Vulnerable prisoners included those with pre-existing mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and brain damage. Henderson concluded that …

Supreme Court Takes Up School Bathroom Issue, Arthur S. Leonard

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On Pride’S Eve, The State Of Transgender Equality, Arthur S. Leonard

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Lgbt Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard

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We'll Always Be Bosom Buddies, Arthur S. Leonard

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Only Straight Students Protected From Homophobic Harassment!, Arthur S. Leonard

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Fired Anti-Gay Atlanta Fire Chief Strikes Back In Lawsuit, Arthur S. Leonard

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Eeoc Win Shows What Trump Era Might Undo, Arthur S. Leonard

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$1.6 Million Employment Bias Award Upheld By Manhattan Appeals Court, Arthur S. Leonard

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Same-Sex Couples Denied Employer Benefits Will Get Their Day In Court, Arthur S. Leonard

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$4.5 Million Defamation Award Against Anti-Gay Official Upheld, Arthur S. Leonard

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You Kill Me: Why I Don’T Want To Live Around People With Guns, Brandt Goldstein

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2 Anti-Gay 1st Amendment Losses, Arthur S. Leonard

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