Some people talk this way about Somalis. Others talk this way about Palestinians. Others talk this way about Israelis.
Every single time, it's bigotry.
I was talking to a world class official in a different sport, and this person told me what an incredible political and technical challenge it is to officiate the world championship in his thing - it's like being elected pope or something.
That gives me a sense of how devastating his must be.
Greg Lipper
Pennsylvania has the nation’s third-highest number of people serving life without parole sentences. A state supreme court ruling this year could lead to a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 of these people.
The ACLU filed suit on behalf of a Florida man who was wrongly arrested due to a false facial recognition match, and the alleged facts are a doozy storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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when opposing lawyers let AI write their briefs and the judge uses AI to decide their punishment
Raffi Melkonian
The Mass SJC persuasively answered this Q in 2014.
It held that bc state officers are creatures of state law, when state law legalizes marijuana, it curtails the authority of state police to investigate legalized conduct — even if that conduct violates fed law. law.justia.com/cases/massac...
The Second Circuit is judge-specific! It’s judge-specific!!
My essay on the many ways that state courts interpret state constitutions in lockstep with federal doctrine is now live on the @statecourtreport.org!
statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
CJ Ciaramella
Criminal defense and civil rights lawyers should be thinking about this question, especially in state courts:
If possessing firearms is a constitutional right, then when, exactly, can the police stop and frisk people based on the suspicion that they possess firearms?
The court’s ruling could create a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 people who were automatically sentenced to life without parole for murders they themselves didn
Dr Oz: "You're not allowed to complain about Somalians, because that's racist. And the worst thing you can be in Minnesota is a racist."
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Matthew Segal
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The practice of interpreting state constitutions identically to their federal counterpart is often criticized in blanket terms. But the ways state courts lockstep vary widely.
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After Bruen established 2nd Amendment limits on criminal laws on gun possession, police observing a person in possession of a gun do not automatically have reasonable suspicion to stop them for illegal gun possession, Appellate Court of Maryland rules.
mdcourts.gov/data/opinion...
Recently-filed brief in the CA11 on cross-enforcement: Where marijuana is partly or entirely legalized at the state level, can state officers still search a car for marijuana based on probable cause of the *federal* crime of marijuana possession? US v. Hernandez, No. 26-10481.
