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Prior posts on this blog have discussed recent conflicts in Alabama and Mississippi that frame our country's ongoing efforts to define the scope of federalism.

Should you have human rights specific to the new digital age? The answer is a clear YES, according to Gerd Leonhard, the author of the new book titled "Technology vs. Humanity."

The global law firm Jones Day and Rotary Action Group Against Slavery (RAGAS) today announced the launch of a Global Compendium of Laws on human trafficking.

President Joseph R. Biden signed a new Executive Order to expand the scope of prohibitions contained in E.O. 13405.

Within hours of his inauguration on January 20, 2021, President Biden signed his Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.

Pryor Cashman joins our friends and family to celebrate and acknowledge the immense importance of the Juneteenth holiday in 2021.

On August 24, 2018, Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law Public Act 100-1066, which makes several significant changes to the Illinois Human Rights Act (IHRA).

On June 4, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States settled a controversy stemming from a bakery's refusal to make a cake for a same-sex couple's wedding reception

Effective July 23, 2020, Suffolk County, New York amended its Human Rights Law to ban race and religious discrimination based on hairstyle, hair texture, and religious garments as components...

An anxious mother, detained in a separate facility from her son, is informed that authorities had lost track of him. A devastated father is deported without his child.

On June 16, the U.N. Human Rights Council formally endorsed Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights prepared by the U.N. Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie.

The U.N. Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, John Ruggie, has released his final report, Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations "Protect, Respect, and Remedy" Framework.

On June 11, 2025, the Washington State Supreme Court's Minority and Justice Commission hosted a nine-hour Symposium regarding Indigenous human rights, with a focus on federal Indian boarding schools.

In 2019, a Baltimore County police officer needlessly shot and killed Eric Sopp, an unarmed man whom the officer had pulled over on Interstate 83 just two minutes earlier

MoFo attorneys on January 13, 2020, began trying a case challenging what they allege are inhumane conditions at the Arizona detention centers of the U.S. Border Patrol

The U.S. Supreme Court has definitively ruled on the constitutional question of birthright citizenship, upholding the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee that children born on American soil acquire citizenship regardless of their parents' immigration status. This landmark decision strikes down an executive order that attempted to deny citizenship to certain U.S.-born children, reaffirming over a century of settled constitutional law.

A "direct-review statute" vests in the court of appeals the exclusive jurisdiction to review orders of certain agencies in certain circumstances.

Last fall we had occasion to address the extent to which public displays of art and attempts at controlling the content of them can run afoul of the First Amendment.