BRIEFLY

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

Jun 29, 2012

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...

Jun 26, 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...

Jun 12, 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...

Jun 7, 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...