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Courts Must Be Fairer In Cases Alleging Police Brutality
Our failure to correct the error made by the courts below leaves in place a judgment that accepts the word of one party over the word of...
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Newville PLC
- Dec 7, 2017
Newville Speaks About Sexual Orientation Discrimination Case at Supreme Court.
Joshua Newville was quoted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune regarding the Supreme Court’s consideration Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado...
Josh Newville
- May 24, 2016
U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Filing Deadline in Constructive Discharge Claims
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling affecting the statute of limitations (the period of time in which one is allowed to...
Josh Newville
- Apr 4, 2016
Supreme Court Lets Stand $188 Million Award Against Wal-Mart
In a win for employees, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review an award to a class of plaintiffs against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc...
Newville PLC
- Aug 11, 2015
8th CIRCUIT AFFIRMS HISTORIC MARRIAGE EQUALITY DECISION IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Today, in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015), the United States Court of Appeals for the...
Newville PLC
- Jun 2, 2015
Abercrombie Loses Religious Headscarf Case At Supreme Court
In a nearly unanimous Supreme Court decision released yesterday, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch...
Josh Newville
- May 3, 2015
The Supreme Court To Address Marriage Equality Litigation
Historic, unprecedented, monumental… no single word fully encapsulates the magnitude and impact the past three years have had on marriage...
Newville PLC
- Feb 10, 2015
Newville Files Emergency Motion for Marriage Equality Case in South Dakota
United States District Court District of South Dakota Rosenbrahn, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Daugaard, et al., Defendants. Case No....
Newville PLC
- Jan 11, 2015
NEWVILLE WINS LANDMARK FREEDOM TO MARRY RULING IN SOUTH DAKOTA
(Sioux Falls, SD)– On January 12, 2015, on behalf of six same-sex couples, Joshua Newville won a historic civil rights victory in a...
Newville PLC
- Nov 14, 2014
Federal Court Denies South Dakota’s Motion to Dismiss Marriage Equality Lawsuit
–FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— (Sioux Falls, SD, Nov. 14, 2014)—South Dakota’s marriage equality lawsuit is moving forward after United States...
Josh Newville
- Nov 13, 2014
#Pointergate Highlights Mpls Police Union As Barrier To Accountability
In August 2012, I wrote about the problem with the City of Minneapolis dispensing with civilian review of police officers’ conduct. That...
Josh Newville
- Oct 6, 2014
Supreme Court Order Brings Marriage Equality States to 30
Today, the United States Supreme Court denied to review opinions issued by three appellate courts that declared bans on same-sex marriage...
Newville PLC
- Jul 23, 2014
Newville Seeks to Bypass Trial in North Dakota Marriage Equality Lawsuit
Joshua Newville filed a motion for summary judgment Tuesday in the historic lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s ban on same-sex marriage....
Josh Newville
- Jun 8, 2014
June 2014: Joshua Newville Files Historic Marriage Equality Lawsuit in North Dakota
On June 6, 2014, Attorney Joshua Newville filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven same-sex couples in North Dakota. The lawsuit, Ramsay, et...
Josh Newville
- May 29, 2014
May 2014: Joshua Newville Files Historic Lawsuit Challenging South Dakota Marriage Equality Ban
On May 22, 2014, on behalf of twelve South Dakota residents, Attorney Joshua Newville filed a federal lawsuit in United States District...
Josh Newville
- Jun 28, 2013
SCOTUS Kills DOMA and Prop 8; Sexual Orientation Discrimination Lives On
It’s been a busy week for employment law and civil rights. The impact of the past week’s Supreme Court decisions on these two areas of...
Josh Newville
- Jun 25, 2013
Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act
Today, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”), which is considered...
Josh Newville
- Jun 24, 2013
Supreme Court Weakens Title VII Protections
From Justice Ginsburg’s dissent in today’s Supreme Court Decision in Vance v. Ball State, which narrowly defined “supervisor” so as to...
Josh Newville
- Aug 29, 2012
Evidence Law & Spousal Privilege (or Lack Thereof) for Gay and Lesbian Couples
The rights, privileges, and responsibilities afforded to married individuals in the United States are vast and varied. As a matter of...
Josh Newville
- Jun 29, 2012
How Your Vote Affects Civil Rights Decisions
Andrew Cohen, contributing editor at The Atlantic, discusses in Supreme Court Review: The Tyranny of the Majority how four of this week’s...
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