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You may be familiar with the dust-up in Wake County, North Carolina. The school board and parents wanted to end the busing policy and promote the common sense idea of neighborhood schools. Horrible people, wanting kids to attend schools closer to home. After the board approved the new plan, people protested like Bull Connor himself [...]

In a case tried  at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico over two days in January of this year, Bertha Keylon — who persevered for four years to get justice from the City of Albuquerque — secured a ,000 verdict stemming from a 2003 wrongful arrest charge. Ms. Keylon was wrongfully arrested [...]

In Vaynberg v. Seton Hall University, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 112634 (D NJ, Oct. 21, 2010), a New Jersey federal district court dismissed a religious discrimination claim brought against Seton Hall University by a Jewish student who was dismissed from the school’s doctoral program in physical therapy for failing to maintain a 3.0 GPA. Plaintiff Farakh Vaynberg [...]

On Friday, a petition for certiorari (full text) to the U.S. Supreme Court was filed in Cooke v. Tubra.  In the case, an Oregon state appellate court held that jurisdiction over an interim pastor’s defamation claim against his former church and two of its officers is not necessarily barred by the First Amendment. (See prior posting.) [...]