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Reverse-Discrimination and DEI Now Part of NY State Constitution as Proposition 1 Passes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2024 44 Comments

The Equal Protection Project fought the good fight, but always knew it was an uphill battle. Misleading marketing of the amendment by the Democrat and leftist-NGO machinery in a deep blue state using the Trojan Horse of protecting abortion and misleading ballot language made passage...

Supreme Court Sends Latest New York Gun Case Back to Appeals Court for a Re-Do

Posted by James Nault on July 04, 2024 49 Comments

Court kicks case finding New York concealed carry statute partially valid back to the Second Circuit in light of the recent SCOTUS Rahimi opinion, which held that laws temporarily disarming individuals who pose a credible threat to others are constitutional...

Court Strikes NY State Regulations Threatening Orthodox Jewish Yeshivas Under “Substantial Equivalency” Test

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 24, 2023 28 Comments

Court finds the state education department exceeded its authority in requiring religious schools to provide the substantial equivalent of secular education: "Parents should be given a reasonable opportunity to prove that the substantial equivalency requirements for their children's education are satisfied by instruction provided through...

LIVE (10/25 10 a.m.): Oral Argument In William Jacobson v. NY Health Commissioner Challenging Racially Discriminatory Covid Therapeutic Guidelines

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 24, 2022 18 Comments

The oral argument in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in my case against Mary T. Bassett, the New York State Health Commissioner, over racially discriminatory Covid Therapeutic Guidelines, will take place at 10 a.m. Eastern on October 25, 2022.

NY Times Hit Piece On Hasidic Education Published On Eve Of NY Regents Vote To Undermine All Religious Schools

Posted by Jane Coleman on September 11, 2022 47 Comments

A New York Times article attacking boys’ Hasidic schools was published today, on the eve of the New York State Board of Regents vote on regulations poised to undermine the way Jewish religious schools have operated for generations. The timing of The Times' attack appears...

NY State Proposed Regulations Threaten Orthodox Jewish Schools

Posted by Jane Coleman on July 18, 2022 41 Comments

A proposed set of regulations that require private schools to be “substantially equivalent” to public schools threaten to wreak havoc with Orthodox Jewish yeshivas in New York. Religious education leaders and parents are starting to fight back....

Appeal Briefing Complete In My Lawsuit Challenging NY’s Racially Discriminatory Covid Therapeutic Guidelines

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2022 14 Comments

"[T]he Court should instruct the district court to enter a preliminary injunction enjoining the Department from enforcing the Policy. New York, like all other states, should allocate live-saving treatments to all its residents based on neutral, objective criteria regardless of their race or ethnicity."...

My Appeal Filed Challenging New York’s Racially Discriminatory Covid Therapeutic Guidelines

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2022 11 Comments

"If the district court were correct that individuals cannot challenge the Policy until they contract COVID-19—triggering a five-day window to obtain relief before oral antiviral treatments become ineffective—then the Department would have free rein to enact racially discriminatory and unconstitutional rules without fear of judicial...

New York High Court Throws Out Democrat Gerrymandered Congressional Map “Drawn With An Unconstitutional Partisan Intent”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2022 23 Comments

"there is record support for the determination of both courts below that the district lines for congressional races were drawn with an unconstitutional partisan intent"...

NY Gerrymandering: Primary Process Can Move Forward Pending Appeal But Trial Judge Also Can Appoint Neutral Expert To Redraw Map

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2022 11 Comments

An appellate court Justice created two-tracks pending appeal, but warned: "[t]he Legislature may begin redrawing the map right now if it chooses to do so. Or the Legislature may chose to do nothing and risk the possibility of having to live with the map drawn...

Judge Throws Out NY State’s Democrat Gerrymandered Congressional Map “Unconstitutionally Drawn With Political Bias” (Update: Stay Issued)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2022 41 Comments

Sets April 11 as deadline to submit a new map, or the Judge will appoint an expert to do so: "The court finds by clear evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt that the congressional map was unconstitutionally drawn with political bias...

Motion For Preliminary Injunction Filed In My Lawsuit Challenging New York’s Racially Discriminatory Covid Therapeutic Guidelines

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2022 10 Comments

"I am upholding the highest ideals of Cornell University, which says it is for non-discrimination, so I hope people will support me...

I’m Suing To Stop New York’s Racially Discriminatory Covid Therapeutic Guidelines

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2022 69 Comments

As we previously reported, in late December 2021, NY State Announced Racially Discriminatory Standards For Rationing COVID Therapeutic Treatment. The short summary, as Jane Coleman wrote at the time, was:

NY State Advantaging Non-Whites For Covid Therapeutics Reflects Growing Racial Radicalization Of Medicine

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2022 44 Comments

This ideology of elevating race as the central focus in medical education and care is in sync with what is happening with Critical Race Theory and its variants in K-12 and higher ed. It's all part of an ideological world view that is poisonous and...

NY State Announces Racially Discriminatory Standard For Rationing COVID Therapeutic Treatment

Posted by Jane Coleman on December 31, 2021 37 Comments

Non-whites do not need to show they personally are at risk for severe illness to be eligible for treament, it is presumed from their racial and ethnic status. Whites need proof, a clearly discriminatory standard....

Natural Gas-starved NY State supply pipeline project abandoned after Gov. Cuomo vowed “any way that we can challenge it, we will”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2020 59 Comments

The State of New York has a natural gas shortage, the result of years of the administration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and environmentalists fighting the construction of new supply pipelines. A June 2019 report by The Manhattan Institute documented the shortage and its causes, Out of Gas: New York’s Blocked Pipelines Will Hurt Northeast Consumers:

NRA sues NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo for using financial regulator to “blacklist” NRA

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2018 20 Comments

The NRA has been under assault from liberal politicians and political groups for decades. But those attacks have intensified after the Parkland school shooting. Student David Hogg, backed by powerful groups like Media Matters, launched a campaign to pressure companies to sever membership discount programs with the NRA. That campaign was largely successful, but it did not stop there.

NY Dept Education apologizes for ‘Anti-Israel’ cartoon on statewide exam

Posted by Miriam Elman on February 10, 2017 11 Comments

On Wednesday, the New York State Education Department apologized for including an ‘anti-Israel’ political cartoon on its global studies Regents Exam. The exam was administered to 10th graders back on January 24. In an earlier post on the controversy, we wrote that critics—including students, teachers, and a prominent NY politician—had charged that the cartoon was offensive anti-Israel propaganda.

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