The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a deaf student in Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, 143 S. Ct. 81 (U.S. 2022), where the Court held that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”) exhaustion requirement does not preclude claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) for money damages because the relief
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Click To Agree That Terms of Use are Incomprehensible
By Nancy Kim
Tim Samples, Katherine Ireland, and Caroline Kraczon, TL;DR: The Law and Linguistics of Social Platform Terms-of-Use, __ Berkeley Tech. L. J. __ (forthcoming 2023), available at SSRN.
Much has been written about ubiquitous online terms of service or terms of use (TOUs). But, as Samples, et. al. write in their forthcoming article,…
“The future for women law graduates is bright”
“The future for women law graduates is bright”
Emily Kempin-Spyri, first woman law graduate in Switzerland, 1888
Arabella Mansfield is often cited as the first woman lawyer in the United States, gaining admission to the bar in 1869 (although she never practiced). By the time Lavinia Goodell was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin in…
Crum on the Fifteenth Amendment
Travis Crum, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, has posted The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment, which is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal:In the legal histories of Reconstruction, the Fifteenth Amendment’s drafting and ratification is an afterthought compared to the Fourteenth Amendment. This oversight is perplexing given that the Fifteenth Amendment…
UPDATE: The Breaching of Macomb’s Dam(n) Bridge
One writing truth that I learned (relearned?) writing Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues, and Heroes Behind New York Place Names is that book publishers are serious about word limits. Unlike a law review article where the word limit is more of a suggestion, my publisher gave me a hard upper limit for words in the…
Strange Corners of Privacy Law
Afroman, the victim of the search and subsequent lawsuit, is running for President
I love this intro to a blog post at Reason:
Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy when you break into a famous rapper’s house with an AR-15 and take his money? A group of Ohio sheriff’s deputies thinks so.
The…
Spring snow.
Kunkel on a Marxian Account of AI and the Proletarianization of the Legal Profession
Rebecca Kunkel (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers Law School) has posted Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Proletarianization of the Legal Profession (Creighton Law Review, Vol. 56, 2022) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Recent advances in computer programming, broadly categorized as “artificial intelligence,” (“Al”) have renewed debates over machines as viable replacements…
Yeager on A History of Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (1916-1942) @CWSL_News
Daniel B. Yeager, California Western School of Law, has published A History of Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (1916-1942). Here is the abstract. This is a history of a little-known stage within an otherwise well-known area of criminal procedure. The subject, “fruit of the poisonous tree,” explains the exclusion from trial of evidence (the…
"Funnily enough, I don’t actually have dinner any more. I stop eating at four, and I learned that from having lunch with Bruce Springsteen."
Said Chris Martin, quoted in “Chris Martin’s one-meal-a-day diet inspired by Bruce Springsteen/Coldplay frontman says he now eats nothing after 4pm” (London Times).That’s more or less what we do at Meadhouse… but we’re 70ish. You really do need to eat less when you are old. But Martin is only 46!