Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins ’97 has filed a motion to vacate more than 100 drug convictions that were based on evidence tested by former state chemist Annie Dookhan. “This shameful chapter of our history will take dedication and perseverance to undo,” said Rollins “and I will and we must.”
I would be surprised if the court ruled in a way that completely decapitated the governor’s ability to respond to the pandemic, Professor Wendy Parmet tells Law360. “I don’t think we have a dynamic here that we have in some states with that level of tension between the governor and the legislature.”
The Reverend Willie Bodrick II ’20 is profiled as one of Boston’s 20 most promising young leaders in the Boston Foundation’s annual report.
As the Supreme Court sits on the cusp of becoming more conservative, Ginsburg’s absence will be felt most deeply by the many people seeking abortions that she fought to protect, writes Professor Aziza Ahmed in a symposium piece for the SCOTUS Blog.
“The consequence of longtime Gates strategies is that they go along with corporate control over supply,” Professor Brook Baker, policy analyst for Health GAP, tells The New York Times. “In a pandemic, that is a real problem.”
“We need to be thinking much more boldly,” says Professor Leo Beletsky, who presented his proposal that the City of Boston should consider commandeering private property for temporary shelter use during a virtual hearing last week.
In an op-ed for The Boston Globe, Professor Carol Steinberg ’80 calls on the Massachusetts Legislature to fulfill the promise of the ADA in its 30th anniversary year: “We must rally together to see that H.4425 is passed this session.”
In a piece for SCOTUSblog, Professor Blaine Saito writes about the issues at stake in CIC Services v. Internal Revenue Service, a tax case to be argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow that has “great implications for jurisdiction, administrative law and the tax system overall.”
Listen back: On WYNC’s The Takeaway, Professor Margo Lindauer ’07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, describes how survivors of domestic violence are affected by COVID’s impact on the courts.
Professor Deborah Ramirez is quoted in The Boston Globe about a fund that has been set up in memory of her husband, Chief Justice Ralph Gants: “My husband really worked his heart out, trying to rid the criminal justice system of racism and trying to improve access to justice.”