Wednesday, April 2, 2025

2d Circuit clarifies reasonable accommodations under the ADA

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This case raises an issue that the Second Circuit not previously resolved under the Americans with Disabilities Act: is the plaintiff entitl...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Second Circuit rejects Bivens case against Metropolitan Detention Center

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These federal inmates sued the government over the conditions of their confinement. The claims fail under a limited Supreme Court doctrine c...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Supreme Court said the government may regulate mail-order gun kits

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The Supreme Court has taken its gun jurisprudence into the modern age, holding that a gun-control law from 1968 allowed the Biden administra...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Inmates win constitutional claim against State prison system

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The Court of Appeals has upheld a permanent injunction against the New York State prison system, agreeing with the district court that DOCCS...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Lawyer properly convicted of threatening his former partners

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When does the First Amendment allow you to make threats against other people? When do these threats become "true threats" that are...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Two justices want to revisit McDonnell Douglas in Title VII cases

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Two justices on the U.S. Supreme Court want to alter the 52-year-old framework for resolving employment discrimination claims, arguing that ...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Employer cannot publicly attack plaintiff who won her prior lawsuit

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The Court of Appeals holds that an employer, in the course of a long-running lawsuit, must be enjoined from further publishing identifying...