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Climate Change Blog 47 Facts on the Ground: In early March, Australia’s eastern coast endured record rainfall, some of the worst flooding in Australian history, which inundated parts of two of its largest cities, Lismore, in the state of New South ...

By Michael Diederich, Jr. [1] As a civil rights practitioner who personally believes that vaccination is a vital tool for protecting society against viruses such as COVID-19, I ask myself: What “civil liberties” are we talking about regarding Covid ...

Climate Change Blog 46 Facts on the Ground: Extreme weather is now a fact of life on a scale humanity has never experienced with such ferocity and frequency. The new year continued where 2021 left off. There were three tornado reports in northern ...

I’ve written a bunch of posts on the erosion of Voting Rights, starting with the Shelby County case from 2012 which began the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [i] The fruits of those attacks are coming home to roost. Chief Justice ...

I posted a piece on the Employment Law Section's blog-- https://communities.nysba.org/blogs/michael-diederich/2022/02/09/will-scotus-uphold-a-caste-system-of-nys-justice-c -- the first portion of which is as follows for anyone on the Committee on Civil ...