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...
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Fear has entered the academy
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...
Strong unions help make safer workplaces
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 Beats Wayne State University
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...
Solving Uneven Enforcement and Driving While Black
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...
‘Cops’ Is Off the Air. But Will We Ever Get It Out of Our Heads?
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...
The Boogaloo: Extremists’ New Slang Term for A Coming Civil War | Anti-Defamation League
In my last blog, I expressed concern about the tendency of a few on the Left to embrace violence to property. However, as this piece makes clear, the much more significant danger to the Republic from domestic terrorism lies on the Right, in which a merger of...
How two promising lawyers found themselves facing life in prison for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails during protests in NYC
Don’t lose faith in the law. Who is Obi-Wan and who is Darth Vader? How do we know when we cross from good to evil? In this very sad case, two promising young lawyers are accused of violent acts. It is easy to lose faith in the law, and the ability of the people to...
David Nacht proposes Michigan law to fight police misconduct
On June 13, 2020, Ann Arbor civil rights lawyer David Nacht released language that he has proposed to Michigan legislators to combat police misconduct. Nacht, who previously served as a legislative aide to US Senator John Glenn, wants to turn the public conversation...
Healthcare fraud defense
Healthcare fraud is a major problem, and it is good that the Federal Government is targeting it. Sometimes, however, doctors and other professionals are targeted for criminal investigation simply because they practice in certain specialties. For instance, NachtLaw has...