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Posts from Joshua Newville, a Minnesota employment lawyer, civil rights attorney, and mediator.


How Your Vote Affects Civil Rights Decisions
Andrew Cohen, contributing editor at The Atlantic, discusses in Supreme Court Review: The Tyranny of the Majority how four of this week’s...
Joshua Newville
Jun 29, 2012


Off-Duty Minneapolis Police Officer Punches Man in Head
Minneapolis Police Sergeant David Clifford, 47, is the executive member of the SWAT team and a 19-year department veteran who has twice...
Joshua Newville
Jun 26, 2012


Lawsuit Alleges Old Boys’ Club in Young Industry
In Bradwell v. Illinois, (U.S. 1873), the Supreme Court declared that allowing a woman to practice law would surely destroy her...
Joshua Newville
Jun 12, 2012


Supreme Court to Review Prop 8 and Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Tuesday’s decision in Perry v. Brown (the “Prop 8” case) means that roughly one year from now, it is likely that the United States...
Joshua Newville
Jun 7, 2012
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