ACS Member News: Week of March 14, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “Missouri’s Proposed Anti-Abortion Law Has an Eerie Resemblance to the Fugitive Slave Act” in Mother Jones. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on The Guardian for a podcast segment on “How Ketanji Brown Jackson became Biden’s supreme court nominee.” 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “Red state attacks on transgender residents are getting more unhinged” in the Las Vegas Sun.  

ACS Southern Methodist University Faculty Advisor Leo Yu released “’Do I need to listen to the Supreme Court?’ The Fifth Circuit Has Doubts.”on Plead the Fifth podcast.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Daniel A. Cotter authored “Hold the justice’s beer, and hold those cases better suited for the regular docket” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.  

ACS State AG Project Advisory Committee Member Terri Gerstein was mentioned in “How Gig Workers in Canada are Fighting for Employee Rights” in The Real News Network.    

ACS Next Generation Leader Adam Morfeld was mentioned in “Public Defenders Shake Up Key Prosecutor Races from Arkansas to Oregon” in Bolts.  

ACS Next Generation Leader and ACS Montana Lawyer Chapter Leader Rylee Sommers-Flanagan was quoted in “Making the case on voting rights” in the Montana Free Press.  

ACS Members Margaret Hu and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia  authored “One year ago in Atlanta, historical exclusion and long-standing prejudices proved fatal” in The Washington Post.  

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ACS Member News: Week of March 7, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray authored “Amy Coney Barrett Was a Supermom. So Is Ketanji Brown Jackson.” in the New York Times. 

ACS Board of Directors member Franita Tolson was quoted in “Georgia's race to oversee voting pits an election denier against an election defender” in NPR. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “Column: Texas and Idaho show that red state attacks on transgender residents are getting more unhinged” in Los Angeles Times. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in “Jackson could be galvanizing force on Supreme Court, legal experts say” in The Hill. 

ACS Co-Faculty Advisor at the University of Dayton School of Law Dalindyebo Shabalala has been promoted to Full Professor of Law with tenure. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Member Dan Cotter authored “How lawyers can pitch in to bring more civics lessons to area schools” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS Western New York Lawyer Chapter Chair Frank Housh was featured on Conversations with Jim Anderson on WUFO POWER 96.5. 

ACS Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University Student Chapter Leader Freeman Halle authored “Carving up the Copper State: A Look at the Redistricting Process in Arizona” in Law Journal For Social Justice.  

ACS member Scott Greytak authored “Biden Wants to Crack Down on Foreign Corruption. Here's How” in Newsweek.  

ACS member Stephen F. Rosenthal authored “Ketanji Brown Jackson was a hall of famer even in my high school” in CNN.

 

ACS Member News: Week of February 28, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Members Michele Goodwin was quoted in “History made: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court” in The 19th News. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on MSNBC for a segment on “Ketanji Brown Jackson makes clear that the Black experience is not monolithic.” 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “SCOTUS could make significant ruling on EPA’s authority to fight climate change—or not” in ABA Journal. 

ACS Next Generation Leader Ian Courts authored “MADAM-JUSTICE: A Quick History of the Black Women Judges Who Pioneered in American Jurisprudence” in Medium.  

ACS Boston Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors Member Dan Urman was quoted in “Biden’s Supreme Court pick will be, if confirmed, far more than the first Black woman on the highest U.S. bench” in The Globe and Mail.  

ACS State AG Project Advisory Committee Member Terri Gerstein authored “Washington State About to Deprive Its Gig Drivers of Basic Rights” in The American Prospect.   

ACS Harvard Student Chapter Leader Ryan Donahue was quoted in “Harvard Law 2L Walks Away From Summer Associate Position to Protest Law Firm's Work in Russia” in Law.com. 

ACS member Christian Menefee was quoted in “DAs Refuse TX Gov. Abbott’s Order to Investigate Parents of Trans Kids” in The Advocate. 

ACS Executive Vice President Zinelle October was quoted in “On Capitol Hill, Democrats celebrate Judge Jackson while Republicans pledge a respectful review” in The New York Times.  

ACS Strategic Engagement Associate Eliza Stup authored “We need a Court that represents our nation’s diversity of lived experiences” in Loudoun Times. 

ACS Member News: Week of February 21, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps authored “Walter Dellinger’s House of Mirth” in The Washington Monthly. 

ACS Board of Directors Members Michele Goodwin appeared on “Restrictive abortion laws in Texas and Mississippi jeopardize women's health and burden low-income women and girls of color” on Your Call, KALW. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “How California Judge Leondra Kruger Rose to Be on Biden's Supreme Court Short List” on KQED.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was mentioned in “Here’s why UC Berkeley may be forced to slash 3,000 seats from its fall class” in Los Angeles Times. 

ACS State AG Project Advisory Committee Member Terri Gerstein was quoted in “After five years of #MeToo movement, a modest win for women's workplace rights in Reuters.  

ACS Member News: Week of February 14, 2022

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “White House Takes Aim at Environmental Racism, but Won’t Mention Race” in The New York Times. 

ACS State AG Project Advisory Committee Member Terri Gerstein authored “Forced arbitration in workplace sexual assault cases is ending. But what about other disputes? in NBC News THINK.  

ACS Member Maritza Pérez was elected President of the 2022 Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia Board of Directors. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Geoff Stone was quoted in “If Sarah Palin Wins, Fox News Could Lose” in New York Magazine.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “At Supreme Court, it’s do as I say not as I do in Courthouse News Service. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “State Supreme Court finds exceptions to workers’ comp exclusive remedy in The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS Houston Lawyer Chapter Chair Matthew Hansel named Partner of Hanszen Laporte. 

ACS Member News: Week of February 7, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq authored “Why Biden Should Pick a Scalia to Replace a Breyer” in Politico.  

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps authored “Donald Trump Promised He Wouldn’t Nominate a Black Woman to the Supreme Court” in Washington Monthly.  

ASC Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin hosted an episode of Road to Confirmation: Biden Promised a Black Woman Supreme Court Nominee. Now What?” featuring ACS Executive Vice President Zinelle October, ACS Board of Directors member Franita Tolson, ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Steve Vladeck, and ACS member Danielle Holley-Walker for Ms. Magazine. 

ACS Board of Advisors member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “If the Supreme Court bans affirmative action, it continues the U.S. legacy of racial discrimination” in Los Angeles Times.  

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Jamal Greene was featured on “Let’s Talk About How Truly Bizarre Our Supreme Court Is” on the Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times Podcast.  

ACS Next Generation Leader Zachary Kolodin was announced as Chief Infrastructure Officer and Director of the Michigan Infrastructure Office.  

ACS Nashville Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors member Shanna Singh Hughey, and ACS Members Robert Stewart and Brianna Lennon were selected as the 2022 Democracy Cohort of Emerson Collective Fellows.  

ACS Harvard Student Chapter Leader Alex Tobin authored “The Warren Court and Living Constitutionalism” in the Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality.  

ACS Member Jeff Mandell was quoted in “Wisconsin Is Ground Zero for the MAGA Effort to Steal the Next Election” in Rolling Stone.  

ACS Associate Director of Chapters Jordan Blisk was awarded the 2022 Stonewall Award by the American Bar Association.