Kansas appeals court blocks abortion law
Last week, in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt, a divided Kansas appeals court voted 7-7 to affirm a lower court’s decision to block a controversial Kansas law that essentially criminalized second trimester abortions for women in Kansas. The Kansas law was passed...
Homelessness and the reserve army of labor
Submitted by Cooper Brinson, CLDC Staff Attorney At the end of last year, the mayors of Eugene, Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco gathered to discuss homelessness and climate change. On my way home from the office the other night, I heard a recording of the...
Federal appeals court finds police use of taser on nonviolent bystander to be unlawful
Last week, in Kent v Oakland County, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision finding that police officers could not be shielded from a civil rights lawsuit by a victim of excessive police force involving a taser. In the case, a local doctor had called...
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