Legal Commentary

ACLU Files Suit Over Single-Sex Education
On behalf of students and parents in Kentucky, the ACLU is suing the Department of Education over the 2006 regulations that relaxed restrictions on single-sex education...

Kentucky: ACLU Challenges Sex-Segregated Classrooms
"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Kentucky filed an amended complaint on behalf of five families last month against the Breckinridge County Middle Schools, asserting that instituting sex-segregated classes is both illegal and discriminatory...

Massachusetts Opens its Arms
Add this to the billion reasons I’m proud to be a Masshole. After the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that “equal protection” means… well, “equal protection,” and thus gays could marry (being entitled to equal rights under the law), then-governor Mitt Romney was apoplectic...

Garda on Seperate But Equal
Robert A. Garda Jr. (Loyola New Orleans) has posted Coming Full Circle: The Journey from Separate but Equal to Separate and Unequal Schools (Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol...

Extra classes means extra fun
With NCLB focusing on math and language arts classes, districts across the country have changed around their school-day schedules to add in extra help courses so that students can higher achieve in these two subjects...

Two-hour v. One-hour Class Blocks
When I attended law school, all the four-hour courses were taught in two separate two-hour blocks...

I was fired on June 3, 2002 in Massachusetts because I reported discriminatory behavior by the employer towards a particular nationality. In July I filed a discrimination/retaliation complaint against the employer with t
It seem sin your case that the fact you filed the complaint prior to being dissa...

What role does financial means determine which parent gains custody?
was(am) a single male that gained custody of my daughter when she was three. Thi...

If a non custodial parent was paying court ordered child support to the custodial parent and the custodial parent moves out of the household and no longer lives with the child, would the non custodial parent still be obl
No. The non custodial parent needs to go and show proof that the child is no lon...

Divorce in the Philippines between a national and a foreigner?
first of all,eventhough divorce is not legal in the Phil,the fact that you are m...

I live on 10 acres in a "residental" area of homes. Even though we are not zoned commercial my next door neighbor obtained a variance from the county and is running a business. The traffic is right next to my
The time to protest was when the variance was being deliberated by the County. Y...

Massachusetts Employment Law
alleging violations of Massachusetts labor laws including overtime pay, discrimination, harassment and more.

Massachusetts Turnpike Class Action

Goldman Sachs
Agrees $60 Million Subprime Settlement in Massachusetts