Category: American Society
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What happens at a slumber party… is no business of the principal. So says a judge in a student speech case in Indiana.
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An atheist organization is suing to prevent the installation of a cross-shaped piece of debris at Ground Zero. Their case has come under fire, but Fred Lane looks at the constitutional issues at stake.
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The exam room is like a confessional. Patricia Harman writes about some of the lessons she’s learned from her patients.
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Can a student insult a school administrator online? David Hudson looks at a tricky free speech case.
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Jay Wexler clears up pressing Constitutional issues in Cars 2–that is, if Constitution applied to cars.
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For kids in the juvenile justice system, “graduation day” means signing some paperwork and taking a bus ride back to the same violent neighborhood.
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Now out in paperback: Charles Euchner’s powerful history of one of our nation’s most important moments.
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The American Academy of Pediatric recently issued a report recommending that kids avoid drinking sports drinks and stick to water. But can youth sports organizations overcome their addiction to the marketing dollars linked to sports drinks?
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Jay Wexler discusses one of the Odd Clauses of the Constitution, and whether President Obama has the authority to raise the debt ceiling.
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Michael Avery is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Suffolk University School of Law. Saturday, July 2, was Thurgood Marshall’s birthday, and it is high time President Obama remembers who Marshall was and what he meant to the struggle for civil rights and social justice in this country. Obama should announce now that at the…
