Everything’s at Stake: Preserving Authority to Prevent Gun Violence in the Second Amendment’s Third Chapter
By Jonathan E. Lowy, Christa Nicols, & Kelly Sampson. Full Text. In New York State Rifle and Pistol Association (“NYSRPA”) v. Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide to what extent New York (or any state) can restrict carrying concealed handguns in public. “Gun rights” advocates seek to establish a sweeping interpretation of the Second Amendment,…
Continue ReadingAdvancing Student Achievement Through Elementary and Secondary Education Act Waivers
By Justin Lam. Full Text. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 allows the Secretary of Education to waive most of its statutory or regulatory requirements. For the Secretary to do so, a state educational agency, local educational agency, or a tribe must request a waiver and show how a requested waiver would “advance…
Continue ReadingAdvancing Student Achievement Through Elementary and Secondary Education Act Waivers
By Justin Lam. Full Text. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 allows the Secretary of Education to waive most of its statutory or regulatory requirements. For the Secretary to do so, a state educational agency, local educational agency, or a tribe must request a waiver and show how a requested waiver would “advance…
Continue ReadingReproducing Race in an Era of Reckoning
By Dov Fox. Full Text. What place should racial preferences have when people make a family? People might have all sorts of reasons for caring about race in their search for a romantic partner, sperm or egg donor, or child to foster or adopt. Maybe they think such resemblance will make it easier for them…
Continue ReadingCase-Linked Jurisdiction and Busybody States
By Howard M. Erichson, John C.P. Goldberg, and Benjamin C. Zipursky. Full Text. Abstract: Beginning with Justice Ginsburg’s 2011 opinion in the Goodyear case—and echoed in Justice Thomas’s 2014 opinion in Walden v. Fiore and Justice Alito’s 2017 opinion in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court—the Supreme Court has suggested that the distinctiveness of specific personal…
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