Abbe R. Gluck to Congress: Key Doctrine Upholding ACA is “Settled Law”
One day after an appeals court heard a case that could strike down the Affordable Care Act, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy Abbe R. Gluck ’00 testified before Congress as lawmakers grappled with the potential implications of the law being overturned.
Court Agrees with Ethics Bureau that Judge in Terrorism Case Acted Improperly
A federal appeals court agreed with the Ethics Bureau at Yale that the military judge in the USS Cole bombing case acted improperly, ruling that years of proceedings under that judge must be thrown out.
MFIA Argues Against Iowa Law that Criminalizes Undercover Reporting
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit urging that an Iowa law criminalizing the use of deception to gain access to agricultural facilities violates the First Amendment.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Thousands of People Still Expecting Justice
TRIAL International and the Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic have submitted a General Allegation on barriers to justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparations, and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence.
Professor Fiona Doherty ’99 Cited in Two U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Supervised Release
An article by Clinical Professor of Law Fiona Doherty ’99 was cited in decisions for two recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, Mont v. United States and United States v. Haymond. Both cases concern supervised release, a common practice in federal sentencing.
Gruber Foundation Gift to Support Social Justice and Human Rights
As a result of the gift, the Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic will be named for business leader and philanthropist Peter Gruber.
WIRAC Suit Defending DACA Heads to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court today granted the Trump administration’s request to review a legal challenge to the termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), in a case brought by the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC). Batalla Vidal v. McAleenan, the first lawsuit that sought to challenge the termination of DACA, was brought by six New York DACA recipients and the advocacy organization Make the Road New York. They are represented by WIRAC, the National Immigration Law Center, and Make the Road New York. The Supreme Court also granted certiorari in two other cases...
Leading the Charge
Working in the public and private sectors, Yale Law School graduates keep the faith in the fight against climate change.