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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that Michigan's voter approved initiative to ban consideration of race for applications to public universities is unconstitutional . In a split 8-7 decision, the court...

The Michigan Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that a proposal to preserve collective bargaining should be put on the upcoming November 6 ballot. The proposal would add a new article allowing workers to organize...

JURIST Guest Columnist Tony Niescier, Fordham Law School Class of 2012, is a research assistant at the Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property and Information Law Clinic. He argues for the use of virtual court rooms in addressing cases that originate in cyberspace,...

JURIST Guest Columnist William Araiza of the Brooklyn Law School says that if either the Ninth or Sixth Circuit strikes down state constitutional amendments ending affirmative action in college admissions using older lines of Supreme Court case law, the Supreme...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari order list, PDF] Monday in Arizona v. United States to determine whether Arizona's controversial immigration law is preempted by federal law....

JURIST Guest Columnist Ed Goldman of the University of Michigan says that fetal personhood laws, which would declare a fetus to be a person from the time of conception, would have a wide range of consequences for women's medical care,...

Elizabeth Lower-Basch, a Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Law and Social Policy, argues that Florida's drug testing policy for receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance is harmful to the people the policy is designed to...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has agreed to a rehearing en banc to determine the constitutionality of an amendment to the Michigan Constitution banning affirmative action. Proposal 2 [text;...

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on Friday appealed a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturning the state's affirmative action ban. Proposal 2 , an amendment to...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday that Proposal 2 , an amendment to the Michigan Constitution banning affirmative action in public employment, public education and...