Constitutional Law

ACS Week in Review: June 23 - June 27, 2008

Stories

• An examination of the Supreme Court decision in the Second Amendment case D.C. v. Heller by Adam Winkler, professor of law, UCLA School of Law; a critique of the decision by Linda Singer, former Washington, D.C. Attorney General; and additional ACS resources on Heller.
• An analysis of the issues central to the recent Supreme Court punitive damages decision in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker by Alexandra B. Klass, associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform, and a criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision to reduce punitive damages by Doug Kendall, founder and president of the Constitutional Accountability Center.
• An overview of the main findings of a recent Center for American Progress study examining media bias in economic news coverage by David Madland, Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress.
• Reflections on the life and work of comedian George Carlin by Ronald Collins, a scholar at the First Amendment Center at the Newseum and co-author of The Trials of Lenny Bruce.
• Coverage of a government report showing that top officials at the Department of Justice passed over qualified attorneys and law students for its career honors and summer intern programs because of their affiliations with progressive legal organizations, including the American Constitution Society, and ACS’s reaction to the report.

Resources

• A newly released ACS Issue Brief on material support laws that examines how federal laws aimed at curtailing terrorism have unintentionally hampered the nation’s efforts to provide humanitarian aid, by ACLU Attorney Ahilan T. Arulanantham.
• Coverage of four Supreme Court decisions handed down on Wednesday.
• A review of the ACS National Convention panel discussion entitled “A Bill of Rights for the 21st Century.”

Full post as published by ACS Blog on June 27, 2008 (boomark / email).