Surfer Attorney at Law. Civil Rights lawyer @loevyandloevy, Assistant Professor @UWSchoolofLaw, and freedom fighter with @exonerationproj.
Seattle, WA
Joined July 2009
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I was thrilled to have the opportunity to offer my insights on the Harvard-UNC affirmative action cases. Thank you to @HarvLRev for the opportunity to share them! @BU_Law harvardlawreview.org/print/v…
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🚨New working paper!🚨
We document a striking -- and important! -- feature of modern U.S. policing that deserves a place in conversations alongside QI, unions, training, etc.: the stasis of police labor forces. A 🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
w/ @AurelieOuss & @jonathanmasur
Excited my essay about affirmative action, the fourth amendment, how race-conscious admissions might continue if fancy schools admit & quantify their own prior acts of racial exclusion, etc. is forthcoming @SocialChangeNYU.
Please send comments! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Congratulations to the team @InnocenceNW in securing the exoneration and the dismissal of the charges.
"Convicted at 16, exonerated at 42: Yakima murder conviction dismissed" seattletimes.com/seattle-new… via @seattletimes
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🚨 🚨 Huge NPR piece on the horrors of immigration detention & the govt’s own findings on barbaric conditions. Time for @POTUS to follow through on campaign promises and END use of private prisons for immigration detention (as a start…)
npr.org/2023/08/16/119076761…
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Yesterday, our client Louis Robinson saw freedom for the first time in 27 years after the Court vacated his homicide conviction. He was framed for a 1996 murder and lost almost three decades of his life.
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I’ve litigated wrongful conviction cases for 15 years and read everything under the sun on the topic. This is the best piece I’ve ever read. Remarkable @amandaknox
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Surprise: I don’t think the solution to police violence is more police.
Great reporting @gracesdeng for @WAStateStandard
Less than 1/3 of WA police certified in deescalation & mental health training washingtonstatestandard.com/… via @WAStateStandard
@UWSchoolofLaw @LoevyAndLoevy
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From me in @BLaw news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
Now on SSRN: further thoughts on how race equality claims in the aff action cases ring hollow when 4th Amend law lets police use race to determine who to seize. It's a shell game, folks.
Thanks @rcalo, @tamaraflawson , @dorfonlaw , @GGKrishnamoomoo
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Some thoughts on the affirmative action decision, mostly not about AA, but about the 4th Amend, biased policing, how the decision is narrow, and the “color of your skin.” Thanks @dorfonlaw for the spot! An honor. dorfonlaw.org/2023/07/its-no…
@OrinKerr here is an alternative sort of response, which I saw you were looking for.
The long and the short of it, as I see it, is that (1) it is troubling police are permitted to use race to apprehend people, but impermissible to achieve educational equity goals,(2) the failure in this case is not as absolute as it feels
Don't sleep on the fact #SCOTUS just denied remedy to the family of Nicholas Lombardo, who was killed in the manner George Floyd was killed, and Ryan Stokes, who was unarmed and shot in the back by police. Sotomayor, again, on-point ... in dissent
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So glad to see @adamliptak focus in his latest column on my @CardozoLaw colleague @aar718's new piece in the @CalifLRev, identifying a new basis for reconsidering the Supreme Court's deeply flawed qualified immunity jurisprudence
nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/po…
We all agree lessening access and availability of fentanyl = less drug death. Guns too. Less access & availability = less gun death. Yet here we sit w/children dying because of a gun lobby and now court telling us the constitution is stuck in a time of muskets & slavery. Absurd
Not sure where I’ll be but my Chicago folks should go! @LoevyAndLoevy, @ExonerationProj, @ElliotSlosar, @NateSwams, @NateSwams, @alexavanbrunt,
Come and meet @JCSchwartzProf and get a personally signed copy of her book, while enjoying brief remarks, appetizers, drinks, and--if the weather cooperates--a gorgeous outdoor patio.
Interesting stuff @djsziff . @WilliamBaude didn’t you write something about this, too?
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