In January 2021, firm principal David Nacht won a victory for a real estate entrepreneur who left his former employer to consult for an innovative start-up real estate agency. The entrepreneur was hit with a thirteen-count lawsuit alleging everything from breach of a...
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Demand that individuals receive careful process and justice
In the late 1960s-1970s, China empowered young people to accuse elders of thought crimes and hidden capitalist agendas. Professors and other intellectuals were made to face public shame and removed from their positions. Sometimes they were sent to re-education...
Police Need to Stop Lying to Suspects
As readers of this blog know, I have called attention to the dangerous and widespread practice of allowing police to lie to suspects. Obviously, sometimes this tactic works. But one cannot prove that this tactic works by looking to a confession as proof of guilt....
One in Four Black Workers Report Discrimination at Work
Most non-Black Americans will be surprised to learn that a quarter of all African-American employees report experiencing racial discrimination during the past year. Many white people find themselves frustrated with the attention paid to racial difference and...
Deceptive interrogations and false confessions are all too common
Why should police officers be allowed to lie to citizens? They should not— but it is a standard practice and, amazingly, legal. Routinely, interrogators obtain confessions by lying to defendants. “We already have your fingerprints—just tell us what happened” when...
It is fitting to end a rough year with a sad story from the past
It is one thing to know about slavery and about racial segregation. But whites, including me until well into adulthood, tend to be unaware of the scale of violence visited by whites on blacks in the 20th century. One good place to begin is Isabel Wilkerson’s The...
Supreme Court allows Religious Victims of US Government Bureaucrats to Sue
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...
University of Michigan fraternity sued for admitting women, non-binary members
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...
Judge strikes down Benson order banning guns at polls
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...
What I look for in a judge
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...