Fordham Law Professor Jennifer Gordon, employment and labor law expert, is quoted in a Bloomberg Law article describing a newly proposed rule from the US Department of Labor. “What that does is open up a window within which the Department of Labor could act,” said Jennifer Gordon, a professor at Fordham University School of Law who focuses on labor and migration issues. “The fact that H-2A workers are not covered by the National Labor Relations Act doesn’t mean they’re not allowed to have those protections; it means Congress hasn’t said anything about those protections.” Fourteen states including California, Washington, and…
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Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader discusses the indictment of Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, and explains what may have happened with his plea deal. Prosecutors have wide discretion to defer prosecution or seek diversion programs and often do so in cases like Biden’s in which the offender has no criminal record, the charges are minor and the case does not involve aggravating circumstances such as use of the firearm in a criminal act, according to Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor who runs the Criminal Defense Clinic at Fordham Law. Read “Hunter Biden indicted on federal gun…
Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, criminal law and death penalty expert, told NewsNation that executions by firing squad are not as grisly as people might think. “Heart deaths, according to an experiment that was done in Utah in 1938, should occur within a minute, or under a minute, which is going faster than any other method of execution currently,” she said. Denno said cases of lethal injection that didn’t go as planned have resulted in much more suffering. “In the case of Rommel Broom in Ohio, he actually survived over two hours at a lethal injection execution. They were poking him…
Professor James Brudney, Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law, spoke with Law360 on how the abrupt dismissal of UAW general counsel Abigail Carter at the end of June might impact negotiations James Brudney is co-chair of the UAW-created Public Review Board, a neutral panel of legal experts that hears appeals from union members against either their local or international chapter, including from members who work for the union itself. Brudney, who holds a professor chair in labor and employment law at Fordham University School of Law, told Law360 Pulse that he did not hear of Carter’s ouster through an appeal…
Fordham Law Professor Janet Freilich talked to Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal about how a rise in patent salience could change how we all do business. “There are so many patents out there and they cover so many different things that it is practically impossible to get through your day without doing something that infringes on some patent.” Listen to the full segment here.
In his Election and Political Law column, Fordham Law Professor Jerry Goldfeder addresses the ways in which the 2024 presidential election is already shaping up to be unlike any other in history. Read “2024: Like No Other Presidential Election in Our History” in New York Law Journal.
Professor Deborah Denno gave her thoughts on Alabama’s controversial proposal to become the first state to execute an inmate by making him breathe pure nitrogen. Alabama’s report is the first time any state has made a nitrogen hypoxia protocol public, said Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert and professor at Fordham Law School. “Yet, at no time does Alabama ever state, step-by-step, how such a nitrogen hypoxia execution shall proceed,” Denno told Newsweek. “The reader only deduces the procedure that executioners will use by way of heavily redacted depictions of what will occur.” Unlike lethal injection and electrocution, which have been…
Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh, a South Carolina lawyer convicted of murder, are seeking a new trial claiming that the clerk of the court had inappropriate conversations with jurors and committed other misconduct during the trial. Professor Bruce Green outlines for the New York Times the explosive nature of these allegations. Bruce A. Green, a law professor at Fordham University who specializes in criminal law and ethics, said he had never before heard of a clerk of court publishing a book about a trial in which she was involved. Professor Green said that the actions alleged in Mr. Murdaugh’s motion would…
A new generation of political attack ads are here — AI-assisted, and largely unregulated, deepfake clips of their clients. Professor Catherine Powell outlined for Bloomberg Law what is actually on the line during an election cycle featuring such ads. AI-powered deepfake political ads aren’t just a threat to candidates and their races, they also threaten government stability, according to Catherine Powell, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. “This has serious risks for knowing the truth and for democracy,” Powell said. Read “Deepfake political Ads Are ‘Wild West’ for Campaign Lawyer” in Bloomberg Law.
A number of recent health incidents involving members of Congress has raised questions about what to do when lawmakers are incapacitated. Senior Fellow John Rogan ’14, who co-teaches the Rule of Law Clinic, argues how to protect democratic legitimacy in those moments. Congress needs a better way to handle the mass-incapacity problem. Reformed procedures should include two steps: a process for quickly declaring incapacities followed by the immediate succession of temporary replacement members to serve while the elected lawmakers are incapacitated. Proposals to authorize a group of individuals to declare lawmaker incapacities are sensible for scenarios involving a limited number…