Litigation

Activist Lorena Jeanne Tinker, Involved in Landmark Supreme Court Rights Case, Dies at 86
Activist Lorena Jeanne Tinker, Involved in Landmark Supreme Court Rights Case, Dies at 86 :: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

Morgentaler at 20: An Activist reflects
On January 28, 1988, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark judgment in R. v. Morgentaler. To mark this month’s twentieth anniversary, The Court.ca has commissioned contributions from some of those involved in the case...

Last Brown v. Board Plaintiff Dies at Age 88
Zelma Henderson passed away today at the age of 88. She was one of the 13 plaintiffs in the landmark Supreme Court of the United States case of Brown v. Board of Education, the case that finally...

CrimProf Sheri Lynn Johnson Speaks during Death Penalty Awareness Week
In January, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Baze v. Rees, a landmark case considering whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment that violates the Eighth Amendment...

Landmark Online Public Release of Federal Cases
Two previous postings on this blog in Oct. 2007, alerted readers about two important projects directed to making federal case law publicly accessible & searchable. ?Activist Carl Malamud Challenges Westlaw With Online Project? and ?AltLaw...

Mildred Jeter Loving Dies
Mildred Loving, one of the parties in the landmark case Loving v. Virginia, has passed away. NPR has this audio story. Timothy Hutton and Lela Jeter starred in a made-for-television movie that dramatized the case, which made it to the Supreme Court in 1967...

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Parody is a Protected Form of Speech
Targets of criticism seek to shut down Internet sites that poke fun

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Free Speech
Canterbury agrees to pay $60,000 settlement in civil rights lawsuit.

Wyeth
to Pay Amputee $6.7 Million in Landmark Case

Payments Begin in Landmark $16 Million Medicaid Class Action
Payments Begin in Landmark $16 Million Medicaid Class Action

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

Placebos Instead of Meds
Nearly Half of US Doctors Involved

Hershey Co. et al.
allegedly involved in a chocolate price fixing scheme.