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Law.com
Professor Sarah Fackrell Explains How Schedule A IP Infringement Cases May Turn Conventional Judge Shopping Wisdom on Its Head
“One reason why the amend down to one and refile (strategy) seems to work seems to be exactly because it is a large district and everything is diffuse. If there were only three judges, you might notice what's going on a little (more quickly) than you would if there were 30,” said Chicago-Kent College of Law professor Sarah Fackrell.
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Fox32 Chicago
Despite What Trump Says, There’s No Mechanism to Nationalize Elections, Says Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro
“The Constitution provides that states handle elections. Congress has some ability to regulate things like time, place, and manner ... and most of the rest is up to the states,” says Carolyn Shapiro, professor of constitutional law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “There’s no infrastructure, there’s no mechanism, and there’s no constitutional authority to nationalize elections.”
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Minnesota Public Radio
Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Says FBI Restricting Access to Evidence Hinders but Doesn’t Make Local Investigations Impossible in Minneapolis Shooting Death
“Of course, state investigators would want” access to federal investigators’ evidence and files, said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, “but even in the absence of it, they can continue to talk to witnesses, they can review all the videos that are available and make their own determination based on the evidence they can gather.”
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SCOTUS Blog
Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro: The Worst Supreme Court Case You’ve Never Heard Of, and What It Tells Us About Trump’s Immigration Enforcement
The horror and brutality of American slavery stand alone. But reading the news today, I am repeatedly reminded of Prigg and its larger historical context.
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Chicago Tribune
Trump Administration Testing Bounds of First Amendment with Prosecution of ‘Broadview Six,’ Says Law Professor Steven Heyman
“I think (conviction),” said Steven Heyman, a law professor with the Chicago-Kent College of Law, “would send a real strong message that the government is capable of taking severe measures to suppress, I would say, legitimate dissent.”
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WTTW
Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Assesses New Illinois Law Protecting Immigrants from Arrest Near Courthouses
“What the legislature is trying to do is head off this collision or clash that we’ve seen of ICE agents or Border Patrol agents coming into the court, disrupting court relations, and grabbing individuals who were there to testify,” said Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Harold Krent. “This obviously is undermining the sanctity of Illinois’ justice system.”
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Block Club Chicago
Government's Victory in Appellate Court Likely a Factor in Chicago Media Groups’ Decision to Drop Use of Force Lawsuit, Says Professor Richard Kling
“(Attorneys are) thinking, ‘What’s the likelihood they’re going to affirm the decision or they’re going to reverse the decision?'” said Richard Kling, clinical professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “Obviously they thought it was in their advantage to dismiss it.”
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Chicago Tribune
Supreme Court Doesn’t Seem to Think There’s an Emergency Justifying National Guard Troops in Chicago, Says Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro
“Even the lower courts that have ruled against the president believe that the president is entitled to a fair amount of deference. I don’t think that’s a controversial view. But the (federal) government is taking the position that the president’s decisions in this are completely unreviewable,” said Carolyn Shapiro, founder and co-director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States. “I think that’s completely wrong, and it seems unlikely to me that there are five votes for that position, because if there were, they would have already granted a stay.”
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Bloomberg Law
Law Professor Harold Krent Discusses Ruling That Appointment of Alina Habba as New Jersey U.S. Attorney Was Illegal
“The administration is trying to dispense with the niceties of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which Congress has passed in order to structure who can fill vacant positions,” said constitutional law professor Harold Krent. “The administration obviously wanted Alina Habba to be the interim U.S. attorney and had the right under the statute to appoint her … but under that particular statutory provision, it only lasted for 120 days.”
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Raw Story
Supreme Court Poised to Let President Fire Heads of Independent Agencies, Says Law Professor Harold Krent
“For the most part the idea of an independent-expert-type agency will be over” if 90-year-old precedent allowing Congress to limit the president's ability to fire independent agency officials is overturned, said Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Harold Krent. “It's incredibly significant. It gives the president even more powerful control over these agencies.”