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View More NewsSome short excerpts from the long Ganz v. Nassau County, decided Monday by Magistrate Judge James Wicks (E.D.N.Y.): The Plaintiffs are residents of Nassau County, New York and have held New York State pistol licenses since 2020. The licenses were issued to Plaintiffs by the NCPD PLS [Pistol License Section]…. In February of 2024, the Plaintiffs’ daughter, who was enrolled in the SUNY Old Westbury College …, was admitted to a Massachusetts hospital for mental health treatment. In September 2024, a patient at the Massachusetts hospital contacted the SUNY school to report that Plaintiffs’ daughter had drawn threatening images. Plaintiffs’…
The thing about raiding law offices is that they tend to be filled with people who actually know the law. A bunch of opportunistic ICE officers thought they might be able to talk their way into an illegal search, but that initiative (is that the word for this?) died out almost immediately when the interloping officers were greeted by a small group of immigration lawyers. As is to be expected, this attempted illegal raid occurred in a “blue” state — the states that are still seeing large amounts of immigration officer activity just because their populations refused to throw a…
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What follows is an excerpt from The Status of Scholarly Standards in Sociology, by Ashley T. Rubin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Professor Rubin’s report was published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Research Blind Spots and Intellectual Narrowing Sociology shows a heavy emphasis on some topics and not on others. Some topics’ popularity have declined over time…
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