Publications
On June 18, 2019, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Substitute Senate Bill 3, publicly known as the “Time’s Up” bill and identified as Public Act 19-16, “An Act Combatting Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment.” The law significantly changes the sexual harassment laws affecting Connecticut employers. A majority of these provisions will go into effect as […]
Greetings, Court Fans! On the penultimate D-day of OT18, the Court handed down three decisions, including one of the most anticipated of the term, leaving five for tomorrow morning. The biggie today was Kisor v. Wilkie (No. 18-15), in which the Court declined to overrule the so-called Auer doctrine, under which courts defer to agencies’ […]
Greetings, Court Fans! On the last decision day of the term, the Chief Justice put on his AMK hat, casting the decisive vote on opposite (political) sides in the two most politically salient cases of the term, involving the census and partisan gerrymandering. In Department of Commerce v. New York (No. 18-966) (consolidated with Lamone […]
Those seeking federal registration benefits for their scandalous or immoral trademarks are now in luck. On Monday, the United States Supreme Court held in Iancu v. Brunetti No. 18-302 (U.S. June 24, 2019) that the Lanham Act’s Section 2(a) prohibition against registration of “immoral or scandalous” marks, like Brunetti’s “FUCT” mark, violates the First Amendment. […]
Greetings, Court Fans! Earlier this month, in her annual report to the Second Circuit Judicial Conference , Justice Ginsburg remarked that, to that point, only 11 decisions of the term had produced 5-4 or 5-3 outcomes, but that she could “not predict that the relatively low sharp divisions ration will hold.” Everyone thought that hinted […]
Greetings, Court Fans! The Nine have gone their separate ways, but we’re still soldiering on (albeit from vacation and paternity leave, respectively). We’ve got six more cases for you, so we’ll split them up into manageable trios. Read on for summaries of Kisor v. Wilkie (No. 18-15), in which the Auer doctrine narrowly escaped the […]
Greetings, Court Fans! Three more decisions to report this week, adding to the list we’ll be discussing next week at the New Haven Lawn Club. We’re grateful and excited to have Professors Kate Stith and Stephen Gilles on board to help us talk through OT18’s cases and themes, as well as what to expect in […]