ACS Member News: Week of September 16, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps appeared on “How the U.S. Supreme Court Has Shaped Our Understanding of the Constitution” on Detroit Today. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “What’s Next in the Legal Fight Against Texas’s Extreme Abortion Ban" in New York Magazine.  

ACS Faculty Advisor for University of Montana, Alexander Blewett III School of Law Anthony Johnstone was quoted in “Biden’s vaccine rules to set off barrage of legal challenges” in Associated Press.   

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored "Shadow docket revealed, along with host of problems it poses” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.  

ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisor Member Daniel Bromberg  was appointed to lead the appellate practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. 

ACS Member News: Week of September 9, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “The Sinister Origins of the Texas Abortion Law, and Why Democrats Are So Unprepared to Do Anything About It” in Slate. 

 ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “How the Supreme Court Quietly Undercut Roe v. Wade” in The New York Times. 

 ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “How the Texas abortion law could spawn threats to other constitutional rights” in the Los Angeles Times. 

 ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman appeared on “The Lone State of Emergency” on What A Day podcast; and also appeared on “DOJ Pressed To Rein in Abortion Law” on Bloomberg Balance of Power. 

 ACS State AG Advisory Committee Member Carolyn Shapiro was quoted in “What Could the Texas Abortion Law Mean for Illinois? Expert Weighs In in NBC Chicago.  

 ACS Faculty Advisor for Creighton University School of Law Michael J. Kelly authored “RBG “I Told You So” Re: Roe v. Wade” in Jurist 

 ACS Faculty Advisor for Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Katrina Lee was appointed to the Ohio State University President & Provost's Council on Women. 

 ACS Faculty Advisor for the University of Virginia School of Law Richard Schragger was quoted “Virginia high court clears way for removal of state-owned Confederate statue” in Court House News.

ACS Member News: Week of September 2, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin appeared on Morning Edition for a segment on “What Texas’ 6-Week Abortion Ban Might Mean For Roe v. Wade Means For Roe” on KPCC. 

 ACS Board of Directors member Aziz Huq was quoted in Texas schools are surveilling students online, often without their knowledge or consent” in the Dallas Morning News.  

 ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber for a segment on “Florida's fights over COVID have increasingly turned to the courts, which is a kind of a statement of breakdown;” and was also quoted in “Texas is tackling Roe v. Wade with a 'vigilante' economy, where rewards of $10,000 or more go to lawsuits against anyone thought to even aid an abortion” in Business insider.  

 ACS Board of Advisors Member Linda Greenhouse was quoted in “The Missed Opportunities Haunting The Supreme Court’s Abortion Move” in Above the Law. 

 ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “California’s recall process is dangerously flawed. Here’s what needs to change” in The Fresno Bee.    

 ACS Board of Advisors Member Geoffrey Stone Honored with Norman Maclean Faculty Award by the UChicago Alumni Association and the Alumni Board 

 ACS Faculty Advisor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Kate Shaw was quoted in Of Course This Supreme Court Ended Roe v. Wade by Doing Nothing” in Slate.  

 ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “Balls and strikes all depend on size of strike zone at SCOTUS” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

 ACS Hoosier Lawyer Chapter Board Member Annie Xie was named 2022 Ones to Watch by Best Lawyers®.” 

 ACS Member Christopher Poulos was appointed to the DOJ Steering Committee for its Justice Counts initiative. 

 ACS member Rick Hasen was quoted in “The new GOP rage-fest at Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger contains a big tell in The Washington Post.  

 

ACS Member News: Week of August 23, 2021

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in “The Supreme Court's sloppiness reveals its radicalism” in Salon.

ACS Tampa Lawyer Chapter Chair Rashad Green quoted in “‘Bill Filed To Name Tallahassee Federal Courthouse After Judge Hatchett” in the Florida Bar News.

ACS University of Texas School of Law Co-President Kenna Titus authored “Opinion: Texas Republicans Want to Jail People in Poverty Indefinitely and Call It ‘Reform’” in The Austin Chronicle.

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “A Supreme Court that has gone wrong” in the New York Times.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck authored “I live in Texas and I am really angry” in CNN.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “‘The Words That Made Us’ examines groundwork that shaped SCOTUS” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

 

 

ACS Member News: Week of August 16, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared in a segment “Capitol Police officer widow sues alleged MAGA attacker for his death” on The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC. 

 

ACS Board of Directors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Meet the Lawyers Behind Those Ambulance-Chasing Billboards Across L.A.” in Los Angeles Magazine.

 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Federal lawsuit challenges California recall as unconstitutional” in Politico.  

 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Nancy Gertner authored “The continuing persecution of attorney Steven Donzigerl” in the Concord Monitor.  

 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck appeared on “Pearls Are in the Eye of the Beholder” on LawFares’s National Security Law Podcast.

 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “The shadow COVID-19 docket of the U.S. Supreme Court” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

 

ACS Philadelphia Lawyer Chapter Judicial Recommendations Chair Marian K. Schneider authored “Mastriano's 'wild vote chase': Pa. Senate leaders must put a stop to this” in the York Daily Record. 

 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors Member Jerry Brown was named one of Chicago Defender’s 2021 Men of Excellence. 

 

ACS Student Chapter Leader at Quinnipiac Law School Meghan Doyle was appointed to the Milford, Connecticut School Board.

 

ACS Member News: August 9, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Daniel Goldman appeared in a segment “legal consequence for damaging democracy in this country” on The Last Word with Lawerence O’Donnell on MSNBC. 

 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared in a segment “Trump DOJ veteran pressured to try to overturn the election” on The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC. 

 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Christopher Kang quoted in “Biden speeds ahead on installing judges” in the Hill. 

 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler quoted in “Taking aim at ghost guns” in The Economist. 

 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “The rebellion against pro-Trump, anti-mask GOP governors is gaining steam in the Washington Post.

 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “Justice Harlan, known for his dissents, was not without flaws” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

 

ACS Dallas-Forth Worth Lawyer Chapter Leader Leo Yu released “A Constitutional Crisis, or a Classic Lawyer's Drama?” on the Plead the Fifth podcast

 

ACS Next Generation Leader Jaylin McClinton was selected by the Victory Institute as a 2021 Victory Empowerment Fellow.

 

ACS member Rick Hasen quoted in “John Roberts and the Supreme Court might block anything Democrats do on voting rights” in CNN. 

 

ACS Member Luke Brussel was elected the Chairperson of the NY State Democratic Judicial Nominating Convention for the 9th Judicial District.