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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...
As fall approaches, there is a great deal of uncertainty about whether Michigan Universities, Colleges, and Secondary Schools are going to require teachers and other employees to return to in-person classes and work. And many employees have already returned 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...
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...
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...