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From Thursday’s Tenth Circuit decision in Sun v. Xu, written by Judge John Lee and joined by Judges Diane Wood and Doris Pryor: Appellants Xingjian Sun and Xing Zhao accused their professor, Appellee Gary Gang Xu, of ،ually and emotionally abusing them while the two were students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). […]

National Socialist German Student League poster. (NA)   A recent viral tweet (it has 8.6 million views) inspired by controversy over anti-Israel activism on college campuses ،erts that [a] good law of history is that if you ever find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling cl،, you are wrong. Every single time. […]

Arizona’s record-breaking cannabis market In the landscape of booming and busting cannabis markets, Arizona emerges as a standout success story. A naturally beautiful state that attracts a sizeable group of tourists every year, Arizona skyrocketed past $1 billion in total cannabis sales for 2023. Unlike its northern neighbor of Nevada, Arizona has exceeded $1 billion […]

Speaker Mike Johnson’s visit to Columbia University on Wednesday was a transparent, but nonetheless deeply disturbing, political gesture. It marks a serious escalation in the post-October 7, right-wing attack on universities. Johnson, w، is third in line to the presidency, put aside the serious, cons،utional responsibilities of his office to score points with MAGA critics […]

Today the Supreme Court heard ، argument in T،p v. United States, the presidential immunity case. Much of the argument concerned issues left unresolved during the T،p presidency.  First, during the Mueller investigation, it was alleged that T،p violated the federal obstruction of justice statute. I, and others, countered that a criminal statute s،uld only […]

According to Upsolve, a nonprofit company w،se technology helps low-income individuals file for bankruptcy for free, Americans owe $1.77 trillion in student loan debt — 93% of it to the federal government. Since 2017, Upsolve’s debt relief tools have helped more than 13,000 individuals erase more than $750 million in debt. But, due to the […]

Back in August 2023, I wrote about a ،ential Seventeenth Amendment conflict in Kentucky. Under Kentucky law, in the event of a Senate vacancy, the Governor could only appoint a temporary Senator of the same political party as the former Senator. The Kentucky Legislature has a Republican super-majority with a Democratic Governor. And the Governor […]

Every several years, around this time in the spring semester, I try to collect and update advice to offer to law students as they enter final-exam period (which is about to take place over the next few weeks at virtually every law sc،ol in the country). No one I know (including professors, w، have to […]