Shortly after the terrible attacks of 911, on Sept. 11, 2001, the Federal Government created a database of people that it held could not board an airplane.  Many of these people were US citizens and had never been convicted of a crime.  But when they tried to buy an...

David Nacht defends University of Michigan fraternity sued for admitting women, non-binary members. While the lawsuit is steeped in arguments around issues of trademark, it raises a host of questions, including whether women should be allowed to join a fraternity on a...

Every once in a while a decision comes down from a court that shows incredibly poor judgment. Judge Murray has decided that the Michigan Secretary of State cannot ban guns at polling places. Our firm has brought a case defending gun owners from facing discrimination...

We are about to get another supreme court justice.  Non-lawyers sometimes think that the personal political preferences of judges is what is most important in selecting them.  I say it is a useful way of understanding how a judge views society, but it does not...

When a university destroys a professor’s career because some students are insulted, we expect them to do so only in the most extreme cases. We would expect a university to look at how reasonable it is for the students to be insulted, and the social harm caused by the...

There is a big difference between political belief in the abstract and legal and career consequences   Many professors support the notion of rules that prohibit the creation of a hostile environment on campus.  But when humorless bureaucrats interpret such policies to...

Many Americans are critical of labor unions.  They see unions as organizations that keep bad employees on the job.  Or they see them as controlling who gets on the job at all. We can and do dispute those characterizations. But what most Americans forget is that in...

NachtLaw obtained an important opinion for a Wayne State University Professor continuing NachtLaw’s string of victories for professors and students at universities in Michigan (prior successful opinions in the last 18 months  include cases concerning  University...

We have criminalized the failure to pay civil infraction tickets, such as parking or speeding or driving with a busted tail light.  How?  We suspend driver’s licenses for these folks, and then we charge them with the misdemeanor of driving on a suspended license. As I...

I have blogged before about the tremendous drop in crime In the past 20 years but the never dropping fear of crime by Americans.  In this thoughtful piece of cultural criticism, the TV critic, James Poniewozik, for the New York Times blames television police and crime...