Tag: Supreme Court
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Appeals court hears arguments in admissions case
A three-judge panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in the appeal of a ruling last fall that found Harvard’s admissions policies do not discriminate on the basis of race.
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Making the case for reproductive rights
Harvard Law Today spoke with Julie Rikelman, ’93, J.D. ’97, about her Supreme Court win and the case’s implications for reproductive rights.
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Harvard experts call ruling on LGBT rights a landmark
Harvard faculty members in law and gender issues declared Monday’s Supreme Court ruling protecting gay and transgender workers a landmark for LGBT rights.
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Gateway City: Viewed as an intersection of slavery, capitalism, imperialism
A new book by historian Walter Johnson sees the history of St. Louis as emblematic of the racial, economic, and legal schisms in America.
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High court press
Harvard men’s basketball team got a behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court.
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Hundreds rally to defend DACA
A crowd of 250 students, faculty, and staff gathered on the steps of Harvard’s Memorial Church on Veterans Day for a Defend DACA rally that was part of a nationwide student walkout.
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Hooked on Mueller probe? Law School student’s blog posts are must-reads
Harvard Law School student Sarah Grant, J.D. ’19, a U.S. Marine captain, is the mind behind some of the most widely discussed legal analyses on the blog Lawfare about the special counsel’s investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign was involved in Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.
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Whither that wall
Weeks into a federal government shutdown over the president’s request for money to build a border wall to keep out migrants coming from Central America and Mexico, Harvard analysts discuss the practical, legal, and historical implications of Donald Trump’s possible move to declare a national emergency to bypass congressional opposition.
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Sotomayor: Judges should pull together
Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor comes to Harvard Law School to talk to students, suggests that judges cooperate more.
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Impact of Justice Kennedy’s retirement examined
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the country’s top court Wednesday. Kennedy has long been a crucial swing vote on key Supreme Court decisions, and his replacement…
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Thurgood Marshall: The soundtrack of their lives
Five former law clerks of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall took part in a panel discussion at Harvard Law School about his life and legacy.
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For Supreme Court justices, faith in law
In Harvard visit, Supreme Court Associate Justices Gorsuch, Breyer emphasized their deep faith in the rule and primacy of law.
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Behind the Gorsuch nomination
Just a day after Neil Gorsuch survived a political firestorm and was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Kelly Ayotte, the former senator from New Hampshire, talked about her experience guiding him through the confirmation process.
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The makings of Merrick Garland
Addressing the incoming class at Harvard Law School on Friday, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland ’74, J.D. ’77, recalled how, as a federal prosecutor, he helped convict the Oklahoma…
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Limitations on the undocumented
A divided Supreme Court ruled against President Obama’s executive actions that could have aided 5 million illegal immigrants, and Harvard analysts reacted.
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Affirming whole-person admissions
Universities may continue to consider racial and ethnic backgrounds in evaluating their applicants for admission, Supreme Court rules.
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Clean Power Plan’s legal future ‘a mess’
The future of the President Obama’s Clean Power Plan hangs in the balance with the Supreme Court vote to freeze the plan in place, halting implementation while legal issues are decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and, likely, by the Supreme Court itself.
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Death of a judicial giant
Harvard reacts to the death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Agreeing to disagree
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer discusses the dynamics on the Supreme Court, his role and view on sentencing reform and Citizens United, and how American democracy is strengthened by our understanding of the legal thinking of other nations.
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Another turning point for Obamacare
Panelists at the Harvard Chan School weighed the possible implications of the latest Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
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Again, Obamacare under siege
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor John McDonough looks at the latest Supreme Court challenge to Obama’s signature health care reform law, being argued in court this week.
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Death penalty, in retreat
Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker is devoting her Radcliffe Fellowship year to working on a book with her brother about the past half-century’s experiment with the constitutional regulation of capital punishment in America.
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Justice Ginsburg to receive Radcliffe Medal
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will receive this year’s Radcliffe Medal on May 29 during Radcliffe Day, an annual celebration of Radcliffe’s past, present, and future.
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The politics of money
Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman discusses whom the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent ruling on campaign contributions will affect, and what the decision means for the future of campaign-finance reform, and for American politics.
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Genes without patents
The ACLU’s lead attorney and other participants in the Supreme Court case that overturned the common practice of patenting human genes discussed the ramifications in an event at the Science Center.
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The Supreme Court, redux
Scholars from Harvard Law School reviewed some of the critical decisions the U.S. Supreme Court handed down in its spring rulings.
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Affirmative action policies remain
The U.S. Supreme Court returned the question of affirmative action in college admissions to the lower courts for reconsideration.