A Black Montgomery County man has been charged with first-degree murder after shooting a white neighbor who was attacking him while shouting racial slurs. Prof. Jules Epstein suggests that prosecutorial discretion might be appropriate: “This was not a planned execution.” Read More

Prof. Craig Green on the reduced power of regulators in a post-Chevron landscape: “This is true across the board, that’s what we’re told, Chevron is not just abolished for one agency or one field of law, but rather for administrative agencies across the board. And this produces uncertainty, it produces weakness, and it produces risk.” Read More

Even with a deal of such size and consequence — approximately $2.8 billion, more than 184,000 athletes in the class, all the Power Five conferences named and with decades of court rulings leading up to it — the settlement over name, image and likeness compensation in the Grant House-led class action against the NCAA is best seen as a beginning, rather than an end. Read More

Temple Law’s 2023 graduates set a new highwater mark for job placement with exceptionally strong performance in law firm placement, public interest, and government jobs. Read More

The Conversation turns to Prof. Jules Epstein for insight into what to expect during closing arguments in the trial of former president Donald Trump. Read More

Even as the Supreme Court preserves access to medication abortion on procedural grounds, conservative states vow to bring new claims. “That’s the world we live in [now]. We should expect this kind of conflict between an agency [and] a state … between states themselves,” says Dean Rebouche. Read More

Prof. Laura Little offered praise for the judicial system in the wake of Donald Trump’s trial: “That is a lot of checks, a lot of process, to try to account for the fact we’re human, and we make mistakes,” Little said. “The courts are the crucial step in maintaining the rule of law.” Read More

Pro-choice ballot measures have been widely successful, but could be undone by a Trump administration or the Supreme Court. Still, Dean Rachel Rebouche tells Jezebel, their “real power … is contradicting the narrative that Americans do not support abortion rights, or that we are a deeply, entirely fractured country.” Read More

Prof. Craig Green discusses the fallout from former president Trump’s historic felony conviction with China Global News, including his predictions on sentencing and impact with voters. Watch

Dean Rebouche cautions that while the Supreme Court has “preserved the status quo” in abortion care for now, “it doesn’t signal that these are dead arguments that others aren’t going to try and pursue.” Read More