Cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and in California should terminate closed shops.
Terry Pell, The National Law Journal
March 10, 2014
A U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the forced unionization of Illinois home health care providers and a federal teacher suit challenging the constitutionality of compulsory union dues suggest that the
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October 2, 2013
by Terence J. Pell
Get ready to see a major New York campaign-finance rule get tossed out by the courts.
The state’s limit on PAC donations, even when the PAC is spending independently of a campaign, is plainly unconstitutional.
For more than a quarter century, courts have been
Read More → Posted in Staff ArticlesHuman Events
11-23-2011
by Terry Pell
Together with election law attorney Christian Adams, author of Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department (Regnery), the Center for Individual Rights today filed suit against the Government of Guam challenging its plan to hold a race-exclusive plebiscite on the question of whether Guam should seek
Read More → Posted in Staff ArticlesSome means are by no means necessary.
By Terence Pell
That’s what Federal District Court Judge David Lawson decided last month about the efforts of a Michigan advocacy group that calls itself the “Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary” or, more
Read More → Posted in Staff ArticlesBy Terence J. Pell
Detroit News, January 7, 2007
On Nov. 7, Michigan overwhelmingly voted to amend the Michigan Constitution to forbid its public institutions from considering “race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin” in state programs, including admissions to the three major state universities.
Though the amendment clearly states that Michigan colleges
Read More → Posted in Articles, Staff ArticlesBy Michael Rosman
The Jurist Online, September 5, 2003
In bringing several lawsuits against the University of Michigan (“UM”) for its admissions policies — one involving the policies of the Law School (Grutter v. Bollinger) and the other involving the policies of the undergraduate School of Literature, Science and Arts (Gratz v.
Read More → Posted in News, Staff ArticlesBy Michael E. Rosman
Missouri Law Review, July 8, 1995
In 1980, one of the leading authorities on housing law noted that the Supreme Court had been “especially active” in the 1970’s in addressing standing problems in cases with allegations of housing discrimination; n1 indeed, he wrote that “standing problems in fair
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