On Tuesday, May 19, 2020, a class action lawsuit was filed against the College Entrance Examination Board ("College Board") in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of high school students who took Advanced Placement ("AP") testing online as a result of the shift to distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More.
Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. (filed 5/6/20)
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Martinko et al v. Whitmer (filed 4/14/20)
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Wendy Gish et al v. Gavin Newsom et al (filed 4/13/20)
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Abiding Place Ministries v. Wooten et al (filed 4/9/20)
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
The One Police Reform That Both the Left and the Right Support
The New York Times, June 2, 2020
Breonna Taylor’s family wants justice. This obscure legal protection for police officers may get in the way.
Does John Roberts Need to Check His Own Biases?
The New York Times, June 2, 2020
Evidence from recent Supreme Court arguments suggests that the chief justice, like most people, may have ideological and gender blind spots.
Opinion analysis: Justices reject limitations on enforcement of arbitration agreements by nonsignatory businesses
SCOTUSblog, June 2, 2020
GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v Outokumpu Stainless USA is a bit different from the typical Supreme Court arbitration case. Most of those cases involve a predispute arbitration agreement between a consumer and a business, in which a lower court has found some reason to allow the consumer to evade arbitration and the Supreme…
Campaign Funds for Judges Warp Criminal Justice, Study Finds
The New York Times, June 1, 2020
Judges in Harris County, Texas, were far more likely to appoint lawyers who had donated to their campaigns to represent poor criminal defendants.
The Things That Are Caesar’s
Justia's Verdict, May 20, 2020
Cornell law professor Sherry F. Colb comments on the recent oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, which raises the question how broadly to construe the word “minister” within the ministerial exception to anti-discrimination law required by the First Amendment. Colb explains where the ministerial exception doctrine might be headed and suggests that an exemption even for criminal misconduct against ministers might be within the existing doctrine.
Press Release Regarding Justice Ginsburg
Supreme Court of the United States, May 5, 2020
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