December 2017

12/15/17

Overburdened Mental Health Providers Thwart Police Push for Drug Treatment FCC repeals net neutrality rules; at least 2 state AGs plan to challenge NPR: Health Care Costs Push A Staggering Number Of People Into Extreme Poverty These States Are Taking Medicaid Expansion Question to Voters in 2018

12/14/17

New Job Openings Posted Symposium: The First Amendment cannot justify lying to women Grassley asks White House to reconsider 2 controversial judicial nominees Western New York Law Center Applauds Superintendent Vullo’s Action to Crack down on Discriminatory Auto Insurance Practices

12/13/17

TalkPoverty.org: For the Cost of the Tax Bill, the U.S. Could Eliminate Child Poverty. Twice. Symposium: Ensuring accurate information for patients does not violate the First Amendment ABA Journal: Supreme Court law clerks are still mostly white men; which justices had the most diverse clerks?

12/12/17

HRA Materials Updated The Takedown of Title IX No Longer Homeless, but Still Struggling in School U.S. High Court Turns Away Dispute Over Gay Worker Protections

12/11/17

Court adds seven new cases to merits docket Court blocks DACA discovery orders – at least for now CRL: Auto Lending Anti-Discrimination Guidance Must Remain Intact Ghost of Justice Scalia looms as Supreme Court debates religion and civil rights law

12/8/17

State attorney general’s office investigating Buffalo police checkpoints Argument analysis: What does it take to satisfy an award of attorney’s fees? Lawyer works and sleeps in shack to raise money for her nonprofit law firm

12/7/17

Consumer Bureau’s New Leader Steers a Sudden Reversal Brennan Center for Justice: Why the Government Should Abandon its Plan to Vet Foreigners on Social Media More than a million lower-income children are at risk of losing their health insurance next year if Congress doesn’t act soon

12/6/17

New Job Openings Posted A “view” from the courtroom: Setting the table for a major ruling TalkPoverty.org: Why Have Banks Stopped Lending to Low-Income Americans? CRL Opposes Dodd-Frank Rollback Scheduled for Senate Committee Markup Transfer of Asset Rules in Medicaid — The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005