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Business Insider
SCOTUS Expert Carolyn Shapiro Says Court Must Not Kick Decision on Whether Trump Can Stay on Ballot to Congress
“We need a clear answer to the question of Trump’s eligibility as soon as possible,” said Carolyn Shapiro, the founder of Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute of the Supreme Court of the United States. “The significant risks of chaos and even violence will only escalate without that certainty.”
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Court Watch
Chicago-Kent Professor Carolyn Shapiro Runs Down Supreme Court's Packed Docket
“I think (the Supreme Court) can issue an opinion (on whether Trump can stay on the ballot) very quickly. They did that in Bush v. Gore in 2000 in a matter of days. And they certainly want to do that,” said Professor Carolyn Shapiro of the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “There are ways the court could punt, and I think that would be a big mistake. They need to resolve the underlying question now so that everybody knows whether or not Trump is elegible to be president again.”
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Bloomberg Law
Professor Harold Krent Discusses Supreme Court Weighing Overturning Chevron Doctrine
“The (conservative) justices are opposed (to Chevron) I think for two different reasons, and the first is, in all other contexts, judges make the final call as to what Congress meant in passing statutes. ... So under Chevron, the courts have to share this special function with agencies who they view as unelected bureaucrats or politicians,” said Harold Krent, constitutional law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “... The other reason is that this particular court is very skeptical of administrative agencies and administrative agencies’ power. They love presidential power, but they don’t like the power of the bureaucrats beneath him.”
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Christian Science Monitor
Chicago-Kent Professor Carolyn Shapiro Breaks Down Supreme Court’s Suddenly Blockbuster Term
With the Supreme Court set to hear cases with mammoth implications for both the 2024 election and abortion access, the term “has taken on tremendous weight that was not evident at the start,” says Carolyn Shapiro, co-director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States. “On the other hand, it’s not entirely unpredictable we find ourselves in this situation,” she adds.
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Bloomberg Law
Assistant Professor Jordana Goodman Discusses Gender Disparity in Patent Law
“A lot of people think that you need a STEM degree in order to practice patent litigation, and that’s just not true,” said Jordana R. Goodman, an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. “But even among law professors, I find people discouraging people” from a career in patent litigation “simply because of their undergraduate degree, and that’s really disheartening.”
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Business Insider
Justices Will Be Thinking About Ramifications of Decision in Trump Ballot Ban Case, Says Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro
“They will be thinking about the ramifications of this decision in many respects, including the ramifications for the Court itself and the ramifications for the country more broadly,” Carolyn Shapiro, founder of Chicago-Kent's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States, told Business Insider.
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WTTW
Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Expects Supreme Court to Find Reasons of Process to Reverse Trump’s Ballot Ban
“My guess would be that they find that there is insufficient process that was undertaken in both Colorado and Maine to determine that he in fact committed insurrection,” said Harold Krent, constitutional specialist and law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “We need to have some kind of adjudication with safeguards as to whether someone committed an insurrection before they’re kicked off the ballot.”
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Axios
23andMe's Change in Terms of Service Likely Won't Shield It From Fallout, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Nancy Kim
Nancy Kim, a Chicago-Kent College of Law professor who is an expert in online contracts, said if 23andMe was attempting to shield itself from fallout from the data breach, it's unlikely that most courts would uphold such an effort. Kim said updating terms is usually perfectly legal if consumers are given reasonable notice and the option to opt-out. But, she added, 23andMe will likely struggle to prove it provided both to its customers.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago-Kent Law Professor Richard Kling Says Smollett’s Argument That He Had Deal With Prosecutors May Help on Appeal
Richard Kling, a professor at Chicago–Kent College of Law, said the question of whether a second round of charges against actor Jussie Smollett violated his agreement with Cook County prosecutors may be interesting enough for the state Supreme Court to consider, noting that actor Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction was overturned by Pennsylvania’s highest court on similar arguments. “I think that’s (Smollett’s) strongest argument and best chance,” Kling said.
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SHRM
Keep an Eye on Whether Labor Movement Can Build on UAW’s, Teamsters’ Deals Next Year, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Emeritus Martin Malin
The key question to watch in the next year is whether the UAW’s deals with the automakers and the Teamsters’ agreement with UPS can be converted into organizing victories, said Martin Malin, founding director of Chicago-Kent College of Law's Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace in Chicago. “Under its prior leadership, the UAW failed miserably in organizing the nonunionized auto sector,” he said. “We’ll see if (UAW President) Shawn Fain and his team can do better.”