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Homelessness and the Charter: Victoria v. Adams
In a case that is being heralded as a major victory for anti-poverty advocates, and which may potentially redefine s. 7 Charter poverty law jurisprudence, the BC Supreme Court Ruled last week that a Victoria municipal by-law prohibiting sleeping in parks runs contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms...

Section 15 and Statute-Barred Charter Widows in Ravndahl v. Saskatchewan
One of my constitutional law professors once remarked that the rights-based ethic of my generation is largely informed by the fact of our coming of age in the post-Charter era. Personally, I believe that the Charter, for all of its positives, is a systemically underinclusive document...

Canadian Constitutional Law #25: Application of the Charter and Charter Standing
Whose behaviour is bound by the Charter? Sec 32 tells us it applies to government (as opposed to private actors), but in practice this is more difficult to define than it would seem...

European Charter on Freedom of the Press
Jörges hands over the Charter to Reding (Photo: EUobserver) On 25 May 25 2009, 48 editors-in-chief and leading journalists from 19 countries adopted and signed the European Charter on Freedom of the Press in Hamburg...

Charter Calls Off Deep Packet Advertising Scheme, For Now
Charter Communications has suspended the controversial program where partner NebuAd would deep-scan packets to send targeted advertising to Charter customers. While some reports consider the program dead, that may not be the case...

Colorado Charter Schools
The Jim Pfaff Show: "Colorado Charter Schools were on The Jim Pfaff Show docket on Monday. Today I talked with James Griffin, President of the Colorado League of Charter Schools, about the past, present and future of Charter Schools in Colorado and the surprising support for them from the Obama administration...

Alarie: Charter Decisions in the McLachlin Era
Andrew Green and I have just posted a new paper on SSRN in which we analyze 105 Charter decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada. Here's the abstract: This paper examines how justices on the Supreme Court of Canada voted in Charter appeals between 2000 and 2009...

Section 24(2) of the Charter: A legal fiction
In the mind of this Charter aficionado, the most significant recent development in Charter history is the Ontario Court of Appeal decision that effectively renders s. 24(2), the exclusion of unconstitutionally obtained evidence that could bring the administration of justice into disrepute provision, virtually non-existent...

Charter Cable
Faces Class Action for Unlicensed Workers

NCAA Sued for Conspiracy and Anti-competitive Practices Related to Athletic Scholarships
NCAA Sued for Conspiracy and Anti-competitive Practices Related to Athletic Scholarships

Sea Star Agrees $18.5M Settlement in Anti-trust Class Action
Sea Star Agrees $18.5M Settlement in Anti-trust Class Action

New York, NY and the NYPD
alleging false arrest for violating an unconstitutional anti-loitering law.