Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain is quoted in a New York Times article weighing in on a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving online platforms and free speech. Olivier Sylvain, a law professor at Fordham University, said that Monday’s ruling could open the door for the court or regulators to consider those more complicated issues. That could include how to handle commercial speech online, like platforms that amplify discriminatory advertising, rather than the political viewpoints at the heart of Monday’s ruling. “Texas and Florida were taken by an ideological political spat that social media companies are biased against conservative viewpoints,” he…
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Fordham Law Professor Abner Greene is quoted in a recent Reuters article discussing the U.S. Supreme Court overturning a 1984 precedent known as the “Chevron deference.” Legal scholars debated how far the rulings undermined the power of regulatory agencies. Abner Greene, a Fordham University School of Law expert in regulatory law, said the court has taken “another step toward dismantling the federal regulatory state” by limiting the ability of Congress to use agencies to “develop federal policy over time and in response to complex circumstances.” Read, “US Supreme Court’s conservatives flex muscles to curb regulatory agencies” in Reuters.
Fordham Law Professor John Brooks, a tax law and policy expert, is quoted in a recent Law360 article discussing how the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed, but did not entirely block the path to billionaire income tax legislation. It’s worth noting that the opinion didn’t say anything particularly negative about taxing unrealized gains, according to John Brooks, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. The four justices who found that the Constitution requires realization had the benefit of not having to write the opinion and therefore didn’t have to determine how such a requirement would be workable, he said. “I would put maybe higher…
Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, spoke to La Voce di New York to discuss the practice of death row inmates being offered a “last meal” before their executions. “Food is a focal point for all of us. It’s a point of enjoyment and pleasure and comfort, and that’s sort of its reputation,” said Deborah Denno, law professor and founding director of the Neuroscience and Law Center at Fordham University. “It seems that we would provide this for somebody who’s going to eat for the very last time, and…
Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández is quoted in an El País article describing how Afro-Latinos fear being erased from next United States census. Afro-Latino researchers like Tanya Katerí Hernández explain that the change will end up confusing people more. “When you put Latino/Hispanic in the same list with racial categories, that leads the Latino to think, ‘Oh, those are the categories for English-speaking Americans. They don’t mean me because my box is the Latino box,’” says the Fordham University School of Law professor and author of the book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality.…
Adam Shlahet, director of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center, spoke with Salon to discuss former President Trump’s sentencing hearing scheduled for July 11. “When I first started thinking about this case, I thought that the judge sentencing him to incarceration was very unlikely,” said Adam Shlahet, director of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center at Fordham Law. “I’m thinking it’s more likely now.” Still, Shlahet said Trump’s put himself in an uncommonly vulnerable position ahead of sentencing because he hasn’t expressed remorse and because Judge Juan Merchan found him in contempt of court 10 times for violating a gag…
Adam Shlahet, director of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center, is quoted in a USA Today article fact checking false claims that the jury in former President Trump’s hush money trial did not need a unanimous verdict to convict. Adam Shlahet, director of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center at Fordham Law School, told USA TODAY there was nothing improper or unusual about the instructions not requiring unanimity on that component of the charges. The charges filed and the statute did not require prosecutors to prove which specific “unlawful means” were used, just that at least one was used for…
Fordham Law Prof. Cheryl Bader spoke with NBC Philadelphia to discuss how Trump may appeal criminal conviction. Cheryl Bader, a clinical associate professor of law at Fordham University School of Law, said these motions are typical when a defendant is convicted. The defense attorneys will ask the judge to overturn the jury’s conviction. “It’s rarely, rarely granted, and I don’t think there’s a chance that will happen in this case,” she told us in a phone interview. Bader, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, walked us through the appeals process. “The case is considered completed…
Fordham Law Professor Jerry Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, is quoted in a Salon article describing the unlikely chance that the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes in the criminal conviction of former President Donald Trump. Election and campaign finance lawyer Jerry Goldfeder said the law is quite clear, and that so were Merchan’s jury instructions. “I don’t see any of that being successful,” said Goldfeder, who is director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, and a longtime legal counsel for mayors, governors and presidential candidate. “The prosecution made out a very solid…
Adam Shlahet, Director of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center, appeared on the NPR podcast “Consider This” to discuss the the closing arguments in the hush money trial against former President Donald Trump. Listen to the full episode “Closing arguments for Trump’s trial have been made. What now?” on NPR.