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From Saturday’s decision in Rogers v. Low Income Investment Fund, decided by Judge William Alsup (N.D. Cal.): In this employment-discrimination action, a non-profit community development organization and its then-employees move for summary judgment against a job applicant’s claims that they did not hire him for a job monitoring grants in low-income communities because he is black. The head of human resources who communicated the denial and bore the brunt of his accusations now also moves for summary judgment. […]

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The UCLA Law Library has a new guide by librarian Lynn McClelland with recommendations on that, Understanding Scholarly Metrics and Retractions for Law Students. Let me know, please, what law reviews that you’ve worked with have done along these lines. Likewise, if your law firm often cites scientific articles (social, physical, medical, or otherwise), please let me know if you have a procedure for checking whether there the cited articles have been retracted. The post Does Your Law […]

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This week’s featured article is “The Great American City Upon a Hill Is Always Under Construction” by M. Nolan Gray. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: “Deep in Thought” by CTRL S and “Sunsettling” by Man With Roses The post <I>The Best of Reason</I>: The Great American City Upon a Hill Is Always Under Construction appeared first on Reason.com.

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Restrictive policies in response to COVID-19 did a huge amount of damage to our liberty, prosperity, kids’ education, and even our sanity. But now there’s evidence supporting what many of us suspected: Lockdowns also contributed to a surge in crime that temporarily reversed a decades-long decline in homicides. According to a new Brookings Institution report, forcing young men out of work and out of school fueled a surge in violence. Worse, this outcome was predicted. A Surge in […]

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