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Business v. Class Action
An article in the New York Times caught my attention today. It's about the fallout from the 2011 Supreme Court decision in AT&T v. Concepcion, which stated that corporations can...
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Videotaping Police: Dangerous, Lucrative, and Constitutionally Protected
Two court settlements have come down this week that shine light on the increasingly-common practice of videotaping police officers. In Las Vegas, Mitchell Crooks was beaten up by a police...
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Free Speech Lawsuit Settled for $75,000
The First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech to all people, even if you don't agree with what they're saying. The town of South Hadley in Massachusetts learned that...
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Banned Basketball Mom Wins $63k in Civil Rights Settlement
A Pittsburgh mother who was banned from her daughter's high school basketball games has won a $63,500 settlement with her school district in a discrimination dispute. Diane Wickstrom claimed that...
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$6.2 Million Settlement for Arrested Protestors
Last week, the City of Chicago agreed to settle with the group of Iraq War protesters who were unjustly arrested in 2003 to the tune of $6.2 million. The Chicago...