ACS Member News: January 2023

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray and ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member  Leah Litman were quoted in “US Supreme Court ‘Shadow Docket’ Quieter So Far This Term” in Bloomberg Law. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Joyce Vance was quoted in “Trump Hints FBI Should Raid White House, Biden's Homes Over Classified Docs” in Newsweek. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam WinklerWhy a federal appeals court ruling on Trump's bump stock ban is more about agency power than guns” in USA Today. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Expect another wave of significant rulings as the Supreme Court returns” in ABA Journal and was mentioned in “Trump Attorney That's About to Take Over as a Law School Dean Gets Some Curious Support” in Above The Law.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in US Supreme Court declines to hear another longshot 2020 election fraud challenge” in CBS News. 

Next Generation Leader Taru Taylor authored “Badges and Incidents of Slavery” in CELDF. 

ACS Minneapolis-St. Paul Lawyer Chapter Board Member, Rachel Kitze Collins has been named partner by Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Daniel Cotter authored “U.S. Supreme Court is back in session with attorney-client privilege on docket” and “Supreme Court mulls attorney-client privilege: ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’” in Chicago Daily Bulletin.

ACS Northeast Ohio Chapter Board of Advisors Member Sarah Rathke was featured inTop Lawyers: Sarah Rathke of Squire Patton Boggs on the 5 Things You Need to Become a Top Lawyer in Your Specific Field of Law” in Medium.  

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ACS Member News: December 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq authored “The Democrats’ Democratic Dividend” in Project Syndicate.  

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “Alito Slammed for Joke About KKK During Oral Argument: 'So Inappropriate'” in Newsweek. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Alison Siegler was quoted in “Federal magistrates, prosecutors misunderstand bail law, jailing people who should go free” in USA Today.  

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Does the First Amendment protect a right to discriminate?” in West Central Tribune and was featured in “At Berkeley Law, a Debate Over Zionism, Free Speech and Campus Ideals” in The New York Times. 

Next Generation Leader David Adeleye was selected as a Lawyers of Color 2022 ‘Top Lobbyist’ Honoree by Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.  

Next Generation Leader Ethan Dawson was awarded second place in the 17th Annual Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice by If/When/How and Center for Reproductive Rights. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors Member David Shapiro was announced as the next Executive Director of Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, beginning January 17, 2023, by Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. 

ACS Milwaukee Lawyer Chapter Chair Craig Mastantuono was featured in “Bigger Than The Cases” in Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2022 Magazine. 

ACS Member Julie Werner-Simon authored “When buying gifts, consider each state’s reproductive access laws” in Daily Journal.  

ACS Member Allie Maldonado was appointed to the Michigan Court of Appeals by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.   

ACS Member Anthony Box was mentioned in “Day 2: Inside the Lamar Johnson hearing” in KMOV4.  

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ACS Member News: November 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was quoted in “How a GOP House could affect the student loan forgiveness plan” in The Hill and in “The tragedy of John Roberts” in The Washington Post. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “O’Connor’s Affirmative Action Timeline May Undermine Precedent” in Bloomberg Law.       

ACS Board of Directors Member Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin (Ret.) authored Democrats: Fill All Judicial Vacancies Now! in Newsweek. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Stakes are high as Supreme Court considers affirmative action cases” in ABA Journal, and was quoted in “Supreme Court poised to sharply advance the law to the right” in The New Yorker.    

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in “The Trump-appointed judge who blocked Biden's student-loan forgiveness compared the debt relief to a law enabling Hitler” in Business Insider and, in “The Democrats’ Last Stand in Wisconsin” in The New York Times.    

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “Conservative U.S. judge mocks Federalist Society's critics at annual convention” in Reuters; in “11th Circuit judge pokes fun at Federalist Society critics in convention remarks” in ABA Journal; in “Why a Trump-appointed Texas judge blocked Biden's student-debt cancellation plan” in Business Insider; and authored “The judge blocking student loan relief for millions is wrong about the law” in CNN.     

Next Generation Leader Taru Taylor authored Mayor Bibb and Issue 24 - a police reform spokesmodelin Cleveland.com.   

ACS Duke Law School Co-Faculty Advisor Neil Siegel was quoted in “Harvard Law School Panel Reviews Proposed Plans to Reform SCOTUS” in The Harvard Crimson. 

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance was quoted in “Donald Trump Might Announce White House Run On The Day He’s Scheduled To Testify Before January 6 Committee” in Vanity Fair; in “Trump Tries To Avoid Testifying Yet Again By Suing January 6 Committee” in Vanity Fair; in “Pence Condemns Trump for January 6 Attack as Both Prep for Presidential Runs” in Truthout; and in “Inside the Justice Department’s decision on whether to charge Trump in Mar-a-Lago case” in NBC News.   

ACS Chicago-Kent Faculty Advisor Carolyn Shapiro was quoted in “What’s at stake in Supreme Court battle over controversial legal theory about who controls elections in NBC News.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Dan Cotter authored “Deference to administrative agencies comes under top court’s microscope” and, “Negative SCOTUS action? Affirmative action on court’s chopping block” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors Geoffrey R. Stone was quoted in “Has America Outgrown Affirmative Action?” in The New York Times, and in “Supreme Court Appears Fully Ready To Gut Affirmative Action” in Vanity Fair.   

ACS Director of Chapters Peggy Li and ACS Houston Lawyer Chapter Board Member Robert Landicho, were recognized as Election Heroes by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.   

ACS Member Ciara Torres-Spelliscy was featured in “Candidates and political action committees spent nearly $17 billion on midterms” on NPR. 

ACS Member Caleb Hayes-Deats authored “Why the Senate Must Start Confirming Federal Judges, and Fast” in Bloomberg Law. 

Former ACS Board Member Alejandra Y. Castillo was featured in “Building A Stronger And More Equitable Economy: A Conversation With Alejandra Y. Castillo, Assistant Secretary Of The U.S. Economic Development Administration in Forbes. 

Former ACS Chapter leader Jamie Long was appointed as the next majority leader of Minnesota House of Representatives. 

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ACS Member News: October 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “It’s been 100 days since Dobbs. What has changed?” in 19th News and in “Clarence Thomas Failing to Note Wife Ginni's $680k Side Income Resurfaces” in Newsweek.  

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was featured in “A Q&A with Melissa Murray on the Dobbs decision's impact on assisted reproductive technology” in NYU Law News and in “Black Americans see complications in adulation of Queen Elizabeth II” in The Washington Post.     

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was mentioned in “Maybe Federal Law Clerk Hiring Practices Should—Just Spit balling Here—Be More Normal?” in New Republic. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “U.S. Supreme Court begins new term following the overturning of Roe v. Wade” in USC Annenberg Media and in “Gun Nuts Throw Saddest Tantrum Ever Learning That There Was A World Before Heller” in Above The Law. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in: “‘Force to be reckoned with’: Ketanji Brown Jackson shines in first week” in The Guardian; in “US Braces for New Round of Divisive Supreme Court Clashes” in Bloomberg Law; and, in “Supreme Court starts new term in political spotlight, tilted right” in Rollcall.    

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck authored “How Trump’s terrible day went from bad to worse” and “ The ‘shadow docket’ further erodes the Supreme Court’s legitimacy” in CNN; and was quoted in “DOJ urges Supreme Court to stay out of Mar-a-Lago documents fight” in CNN.    

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “There Are No ‘Jewish-Free’ Zones on the UC-Berkeley Campus” in The Daily Beast; and authored “Supreme Court poised to sharply advance the law to the right” in ABA Journal.  

Next Generation Leader Taru Taylor authored “Trial by jury is a democratic imperative that the people must take seriously” in Cleveland.com.  

Next Generation Leader Francesco Arreaga co-authored “Remedying Past Unlawful Military Interventions: The Case of the Dominican Republic” in the Harvard Journal on Legislation. 

ACS Duke Law School Co-Faculty Advisor Neil Siegel was quoted in “Fact check: Hines claims Nickel supports abortion 'post-birth” in WRAL News.  

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance was quoted in “Trump Rally Speech Shows He's 'Guilty and Scared': Former Prosecutor” in Newsweek; and in “Alabama leader reacts to Tommy Tuberville: ‘The bull**** is that this guy is a US Senator’” in AL.com.   

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Dan Cotter authored “On the basis of sex: Totenberg reflects on friendship with Justice Ginsburg” and, “Opening day near for high court’s new term — get ready to rumble” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors Geoffrey R. Stone co-authored The End of Affirmative Action Would Be a Disaster” in The Atlantic.  

ACS San Diego Lawyer Chapter Advisory Board Member Johanna Schiavoni was named Chair of the Appellate Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.

ACS DC Lawyer Chapter Leader Caleb Hayes-Deats False Claims Act Action Starts Against PPP Lenders” in Bloomberg Law.  

ACS Minneapolis-St. Paul Chapter was featured in “2022 Diversity & Inclusion: Transgender Student Rights Group” in Minnesota Lawyer.  

ACS Member Olympia Duhart authored “Race still matters in educational opportunity. The Supreme Court should not pretend otherwise” in Miami Herald and “Supreme Court poised to dismantle diversity efforts in higher education” in USA Today.  

ACS Member Dipal Shah co-authored “New York, bodily autonomy really is on the ballot” in Daily News.  

ACS Member Alexis Hoag-Fordjour authored “A due-process claim from a man on death row hinges on how the justices view an Arizona procedural rule” in SCOTUS Blog. 

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ACS Member News: September 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “Child Rape Victims Have ‘Options’ and Other Wild Things the GOP Says About Abortion” in Vice News.   

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq co-authored “New Mexico official barred from office over Jan. 6 attack — under a dangerous law” in Salon; and was quoted in “Trump allowed 'special master' in case over handling of classified documents” in BBC News. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Reuben A. Guttman was quoted in “US Gets Bolder in Probing Companies for Defrauding Government” in Bloomberg Law.    

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Texas isn’t a modern-day Wild West. The Wild West had better gun laws;” and in “Abbott tells Uvalde families Texas can’t raise age to buy an AR-15. Legal experts disagree” in Houston Chronicle. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Even the Founders Didn’t Believe in Originalism” in The Atlantic; and “How the scourge of originalism is taking over the Supreme Court” in Twin Cities. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in: “Roberts joins the chorus of Supreme Court whining” in The Washington Post; in “Democracy Can’t Be Reduced to Voting in 2022 — It’s Also About Building the Future We Want” in Truthout; and, in “Republicans Are Showing Contempt for the Rules” in The New York Times.    

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “Legal experts slam special master ruling as ‘nutty’ and ‘radical’” in MSNBC; and in “A court just upheld Texas’ censorious social media law. It’s now headed for the Supreme Court.” In QZ. 

Next Generation Leader Francesco Arreaga co-authored “Remedying Past Unlawful Military Interventions: The Case of the Dominican Republic” in the Harvard Journal on Legislation.  

Next Generation Leader Jake Mazeitis co-authored The Prophet of Harvard Law James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy 

Next Generation Leader Colin Parent was quoted in “For Once, California Might Choose More Housing Over More Parking” in Slate. 

ACS Chicago-Kent Faculty Advisor Carolyn Shapiro was quoted in “What’s at stake in Supreme Court battle over controversial legal theory about who controls elections” in ABC News; and in “Justices join debate on Supreme Court's legitimacy after abortion ruling” in NBC News.    

ACS Duke Law School Co-Faculty Advisor Neil Siegel was featured in “Here’s what to read from the left and the right” in Tampa Bay Times. 

ACS University of Chicago Faculty Advisor Geof Stone was quoted in “U.S. Rep. Sean Casten says he’ll ignore Awake Illinois’ legal threat over alleged defamation” in Chicago Tribune. 

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance was quoted in “The biggest problem with Nevada’s Laxalt slamming the FBI” in NBC News; and in “Judge Cannon Assigns Special Master, Refuses to Let DOJ Examine Classified Docs” in Truthout. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Dan Cotter authored “Opening day near for high court’s new term — get ready to rumble; Chief Justice Roberts asks public not to judge, but how can we not?; and, Before looking ahead to next SCOTUS term, reflect back with these 3 books  in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.   

ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter Leader Doug Poland was featured in “Voting rights warriors” by Loyola University Chicago School of Law.  

ACS State AG Project Council of Advisors Member Terri Gerstein authored “Railroad Companies Almost Inflicted an Economic Disaster on the U.S.” in Slate.   

ACS Member Palak Sheth was featured in “Instagram's Head of Privacy Policy on Advocating for What’s Important in All That She Does” in The Fem World.  

ACS Member Michele Thorne authored “The Biden administration offers thoughts and prayers on the ERA. Can it do more?” in Chicago Tribune.  

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ACS Member News: August 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was awarded the Margaret Brent Award by the American Bar Association and ABA Commission on Women in the Profession.   

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “The Shifting Dynamics Around Rape and Incest Exceptions to Abortion Bans” in The Dispatch and in “In California, Abortion Could Become a Constitutional Right. So Could Birth Control.” in California Healthline.

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “Criminalization of pregnancy has already been happening to the poor and women of colorin OPB and in “Windsor Hills crash’s uncounted victim: Armani died before he took his first breathin the Los Angeles Times.  

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “Major legal fights loom over abortion pills, travel out of state” in The Washington Post.      

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition for a segment on “What legal implications arise after Indiana approves an abortion ban? 

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was quoted inPros and cons of prosecuting Donald Trumpin The Week UK and was featured in “Every President a King?in The New Republic 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Reuben A. Guttman was quoted “SEC Enriches Fraudsters, Lawyers as Secrecy Shrouds Tips Program” in Bloomberg Law.       

ACS Board of Advisors Member Reuben A. Guttman was quoted in Legal battles flare over UPMC, star surgeonsin the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Supreme Court puts almost all of California's gun control laws in danger” in SFGate and in “Newsom signs gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban, setting up Supreme Court fight” in Los Angeles Times. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “The 'Gun Dude' and a Supreme Court case that changed who can own firearms in the U.S.in NPR and in “Bill would not turn current semi-automatic weapon owners into felonsin AP.  

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky co-authored “The Electoral Count Act must be fixed. A new proposal doesn’t go far enough.” in The Washington Post and authored “With Supreme Court shift on Indian law, will it reconsider a recent landmark ruling?” in ABA Journal.     

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “California Politics: A final big gun bill in the Los Angeles Times and in Lacking power, Supreme Court’s liberals find voice in dissentin The Hill.    

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in “Michigan Supreme Court: Law bans discrimination based on sexual orientation” in Detroit Free Press.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in “There’s a bipartisan bill to codify Roe — and abortion rights groups can’t stand itin VOX.       

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was featured in “Constitutional Citizenship in the U.S. Territories” in Lawfare. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “Judge signals support for special master to review some Trump records FBI seizedin NBC News and in “Should Former Presidents Get Special Legal Treatment?in The New Yorker.  

ACS Chicago-Kent Faculty Advisor Carolyn Shapiro was quoted in “House considers potential election fallout of upcoming Supreme Court case” in Roll Call and in “Will Republicans Pushing for a Constitutional Convention Succeed?” in Newsweek.  

ACS Chicago-Kent College of Law Faculty Advisor Carolyn Shapiro was quoted in “Experts warn of election ‘havoc’ across the U.S. if North Carolina case succeedsin the Wisconsin Examiner.  

ACS Duke Law School Co-Faculty Advisor Neil Siegel was quoted in “Justice Alito mocks foreign critics of abortion reversal” in Detroit News.   

ACS Duke Law School Co-Faculty Advisor Neil Siegel was quoted in “Justice Alito’s Crusade Against a Secular America Isn’t Overin The New Yorker.  

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance was quoted in “As Jan. 6 probe expands, officials worry DOJ resources are at a breaking point” in NBC News.   

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Co-Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance was quoted in “DOJ affidavit reveals a “significant number of civilian witnesses” flipped on Trump: ex-prosecutorin Salon and in 'Temporary' Delay in Graham's Georgia Testimony 'Could Be Months': Vancein Newsweek.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Juan Thomas was appointed as the Civil Rights & Social Justice Chair for the American Bar Association.     

ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Christopher Hu was selected to Rising Stars for 2017 - 2022 by Super Lawyers.  

ACS Minneapolis – St. Paul Lawyer Chapter Co-President Rachel Kitze Collins was appointed to the Merit Selection Panel, which will advise the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on the selection of a new U.S. Magistrate Judge.  

ACS State AG Project Council of Advisors Member Terri Gerstein authored “It’s time to raise the federal minimum wage” in Lowell Sun.  

ACS State AG Project Council of Advisors Member Terri Gerstein was mentioned in “Arbitration Use by Employers Up as High Court Affirms Validityin Bloomberg Law.    

ACS Member Melanie E. Bates appeared on “Discussing Criminal Justice Reform with Melanie E. Bates, Esq.” on Desire To Dream podcast. 

ACS Member Andrew Wright was quoted in “DOJ Claims Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Used Personal Email for Official White House Records” in Law.com.  

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