Monday round-up
on Aug 29, 2016 at 10:34 am
Legal action related to transgender Americans and the likelihood that those disputes will end up at the Supreme Court continue to generate coverage. Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post reports on Texas’s lawsuit challenging the federal government’s recent instructions for schools on implementing transgender-inclusive policies, while at his eponymous blog Lyle Denniston reports on a ruling Friday by a federal judge in Winston-Salem blocking enforcement against three North Carolina residents challenging the state’s “bathroom bill” (H.B. 2) while the measure is tested in courts.
Briefly:
- Jeff John Roberts of Fortune reports that Google has asked the Court to resolve a dispute over whether the Chrome browser infringes on someone else’s proprietary “web browser process,” a “nebulous phrase” the company would like the Court to define.
- For the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association, Rory Little reviews the criminal cases from the Supreme Court’s past Term.
- In an op-ed for Cleveland.com, Avidan Cover argues that there is a “Supreme Court Effect,” in which the “judiciary’s ongoing support for police officers’ unlimited discretion to stop and arrest people” emboldens officers to act aggressively while protecting them from civil and criminal liability for excessive force.
- At his eponymous blog, Kenneth Jost compares contemporary class-action waivers, in which employers require by contract that employee disputes be resolved individually through arbitration, with “yellow dog” contracts, agreements declared illegal by Congress in 1932 in which employers required potential employees to promise not to join a union, on the grounds that both “similarly force workers to forgo a right seemingly guaranteed by federal labor law.”
- For his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen reports that, as a “precursor to asking for an emergency stay from the Supreme Court,” plaintiffs in Ohio have sought a stay from the Sixth Circuit of its recent ruling allowing Ohio to eliminate “Golden Week,” a week allowing early registration and voting for the November election.
