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Fourteenth Amendment State and Local Government Standing

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Equal Protection Not on the Menu This Time

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In North End Chamber of Commerce (“NECC”) v. City of Boston, the NECC and several restaurants in the North End neighborhood of Boston (“Plaintiffs”) filed suit against the City of Boston (“City”), alleging that the City...more

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Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

On Thursday, January 23, 2025, a federal judge in Seattle, Washington blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order limiting birthright citizenship after four states (Washington, Illinois, Arizona,...more

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Who Me? Couldn’t Be: Eleventh Circuit Finds Plaintiffs Lack Standing to Sue Ala. Attorney General in Equal Protection Lawsuit

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Plaintiffs often select a state’s Attorney General, the official who ordinarily exercises power to enforce state laws, as the defendant to sue in cases involving a constitutional challenge to a state law....more

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Eleventh Circuit Denies Plaintiffs’ Right to Challenge Alabama Law as Discriminatory

On December 13, 2019, a split Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (sitting en banc) ruled that several black plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the discriminatory intent behind an Alabama law that blocked the city of...more

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