As an attorney representing the rights of individuals rather than those of corporations, I can tell you that the "Journey to Justice" is slanted against the right of the individual; that it is seeded with landmines placed by corporate, banking, insurance, and vested...
Year: 2009
Of Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
One of the fundamental tensions in true constitutional thought is the tension between encouraging and protecting the freedom of speech on the one hand, and the societal duty to discourage and/or punish hate speech, on the other.Anyone--whether a lawyer or not--who...
Plausibility and Common Sense DANGER
One of the must consequential decisions of the Supreme Court's last term didn't look so consequential at first, but it has since.In the case of Ashcroft v. Iqbal, an Arab-American sued the Bush Administration for abuse borne of racial profiling after the 9/11...
I Didn’t Sexually Harass Her But They Fired Me Anyway
We've heard this many times, nearly always from men facing allegations from women in the workplace. The standard fact pattern was usually a "he said, she said" scenario, where, given a choice of whom to believe, the employer chooses the female accuser over the male...