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A federal appeals court has ruled against a Massachusetts eighth-grader whose school forbade him from wearing a T-shirt with the message "There Are Only Two Genders" -- a decision he is likely to further appeal.
Massachusetts prison officials violated an inmate’s due process rights by placing him in solitary confinement for nearly two years, but they are entitled to qualified immunity, the First Circuit ruled, affirming a grant of summary judgment to the defendants.
To the parties in Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Coughlin, to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on April 24, the issue boils down to a simple matter of textual interpretation: what to make of the fact that Section 106(a) of title 11 of the Bankruptcy Code does not
Rhode Island's federal bankruptcy judge has been named chief judge of the 1st Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge David J. Barron announced on April 18. Judge Diane Finkle will begin a four-year term as chief judge on May 17, succeeding Judge Edward A. Godoy of the District of Puerto
1st Circuit Judge Norman H. Stahl passed away on April 8 at age 92. He had served on the 1st Circuit bench since 1992. “Norm, as I knew him, welcomed me to the court that he loved from my first days on it,” Chief Judge David J. Barron said. “He loved the law, in an