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First Amendment

Federal judge blocks school from disciplining teacher if she outs transgender students to their parents

Sixth Amendment

Judge’s COVID-19 protocols violated defendant’s right to a public trial, 9th Circuit rules

Law Firms

Judge criticizes ‘nasty litigation tactics’ while sanctioning BigLaw firm

Judiciary

This federal appeals judge has hired only male law clerks, with one exception, since 1990, survey finds

Legal Education

Stanford Law announces elimination of tuition based on family income

Judiciary

New law toughens stock disclosure requirements for federal judges; separate ethics bill faces ‘steep climb’

U.S. Supreme Court

Gorsuch dissents with liberals when SCOTUS bars immigrant’s challenge to alleged factual error

Judiciary

Judge involved in White Castle fracas is suspended after arrest for alleged domestic battery

Law Firms

Law firm leaders are still mostly white and male, ABA diversity survey says

Mind Your Business

The Great Resignation: The toll taken on the legal field and what comes next

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court sides with Ted Cruz in challenge to a campaign finance restriction

U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Thomas: Leaked draft opinion on abortion is ‘like kind of an infidelity’

LGBTQ Legal Issues

Top Texas court blocks probe of transgender teen’s parents over medical treatment but won’t go further

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Judge lifts Trump sanction, for now; $997M settlement offered in condo collapse

Animal Law

Happy the elephant’s quest for personhood heads to top state court; rice and lakes also file suit

U.S. Supreme Court

Alito sidesteps question about collegiality during remote appearance at law school

First Amendment

Texas law banning censoring of social media users for viewpoints can take effect, 5th Circuit says

Criminal Justice

Prosecutors will seek 18 to 24 months in prison for 2 lawyers accused in Molotov cocktail attack on cop car

Law in Popular Culture

The Defamation Trial of Johnny Depp: When thespians testify, who can you believe?

Criminal Justice

Could SCOTUS leaker be charged with crime? Espionage Act wouldn’t apply, but other laws might

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