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Civil Rights

Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division

First Amendment

Lawyer arrested at state bar meeting for carrying petitions reaches settlement

Bar Exam

LA wildfires will not stop California’s plans to offer new bar exam next month

Judiciary

Justice Jackson wore cowrie shell collar to inauguration; was it ‘a sartorial expression of her dissent’?

Legal Education

As Los Angeles deals with wildfires, law schools offer support

U.S. Supreme Court

Death row inmate can pursue due process appeal over sex-life evidence admitted at trial, Supreme Court says

Immigration Law

DOJ says it will prosecute local officials over immigration enforcement

Animal Law

Elephants don’t have standing to sue to leave the zoo, top Colorado court rules

Constitutional Law

States, civil rights groups sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order

Judiciary

Federal judge fed up with ‘fiddle-faddle’ requires lawyers to meet for lunch; how did it go?

Law Professors

Penn Law is quicker to discipline whites than minorities, controversial prof alleges in lawsuit

Executive Branch

Trump’s executive orders already face pushback, legal challenges

U.S. Supreme Court

SCOTUS will decide whether schools can require LGBTQ-themed books at story time with no opt-outs

Sentencing/Post Conviction

Trump pardons almost all involved in Jan. 6 riot, commutes remaining 14 sentences

Executive Branch

Here are the executive actions and orders Trump signed on Day 1

Constitutional Law

Biden reaffirms belief that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law

Executive Branch

Biden commutes sentences of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders

Immigration Law

ABA calls on senators to oppose ‘deeply concerning’ immigration bill

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban-or-sale law set to start Sunday

Tax Law

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein faces tax evasion charges

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