ND in the News: April 2022

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  1. Supreme Court takes up case of high school coach fired for praying on the football field

    “It is a case about protecting all individuals’ right to speak freely – and to pray – in the public square,” Richard W. Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said in a statement.

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    Rick Garnett

    Richard Garnett

    Notre Dame Law School

  2. Supreme Court conservatives appear sympathetic to former high school coach who led prayers after games

    “It is a case about protecting all individuals’ right to speak freely – and to pray – in the public square,” Richard W. Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said in a statement.

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    Rick Garnett

    Richard Garnett

    Notre Dame Law School

  3. BuzzFeed

    These Cartoon Doctor NFTs Promise “Exclusive Access” To Celebrity Physicians. But They Can't Legally Give You Medical Advice.

    Elizabeth Renieris, a professor of tech ethics at Notre Dame University, compared MetaDocs’ plans to Worldcoin, the crypto project collecting millions of iris scans from countries across the world in exchange for valueless cryptocurrency. “Why is it always the same playbook? Because the laws are not there and the jurisdiction is not there to hold it accountable,” she said.

  4. Supreme Court conservatives lean toward allowing football coach’s postgame prayers

    “This is not a case about re-imposing prayer in public-school classrooms. Instead, it is a case about protecting all individuals’ right to speak freely — and to pray — in the public square,” said Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett.

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    Rick Garnett

    Richard Garnett

    Notre Dame Law School

  5. Court seems to side with football coach over postgame prayers

    Richard Garnett, Notre Dame professor of law and director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State and Society, said he was encouraged to see many justices skeptical of the school district’s argument that it had to censor Coach Kennedy’s private prayer in order to avoid any appearance that it had ‘endorsed’ his religious beliefs.”

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    Rick Garnett

    Richard Garnett

    Notre Dame Law School

  6. U.S. Supreme Court: Justices question whether prayers at the 50-yard line were 'coercion" by high school coach

    Notre Dame Law School Professor Richard W. Garnett, who oversaw the filing of an amicus brief in support of Kennedy, said he hopes the justices clear up the current judicial confusion over what constitutes an "establishment" of religion in public schools.

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    Rick Garnett

    Richard Garnett

    Notre Dame Law School

  7. Supreme Court to hear case of praying coach who his lost job after kneeling on the field

    "This is not a case about reimposing prayer in public school classrooms," said Richard Garnett, director of the Program on Church, State & Society at Notre Dame Law School.

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    Rick Garnett

    Richard Garnett

    Notre Dame Law School

  8. Accountability for alleged war crimes in Ukraine likely a long way off

    Although inquiries are underway, Mary Ellen O’Connell, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, called for a negotiated end to the war — the sooner the better.

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    Mary Ellen O'Connell

    Notre Dame Law School

  9. Disney's Reputation Will 'Outlast' Political Goals of DeSantis, Republicans

    "I'm not worried for Disney," said James O'Rourke, a professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. "The Walt Disney Company will be around a lot longer than [Florida Governor] Ron DeSantis will."

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    James O’Rourke

    James O'Rourke

    Mendoza College of Business

  10. DeSantis Feud Not First Time Disney Employees Pushed Company to Back Them

    James O'Rourke, a professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, told Newsweek that the reason the pushback in the 1990s fell by the wayside was that then-Disney Chariman Michael Eisner had spoken out in support of his employees.

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    James O’Rourke

    James O'Rourke

    Mendoza College of Business

  11. Accountability for alleged war crimes in Ukraine likely a long way off

    "(Investigations) take a long time because the evidentiary and judicial requirements are very, very high and they are extremely complex cases," said Ernesto Verdeja, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide and associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Ernesto Verdeja

    Ernesto Verdeja

    Keough School of Global Affairs

  12. Deep in Colombia, Rebels and Soldiers Fight for the Same Prize: Drugs

    By the time Mr. Duque, who is restricted to a single term, took charge, 22 percent of the deal had already been fully carried out, according to the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

  13. Black, Asian law students call for professor to be suspended over racist remarks

    “It’s a bit scary thinking about the impact that she’s had teaching at Penn for so long,” Dillon Yang, president of the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and a second-year law student at Notre Dame University, told NBC Asian America.

  14. Will Elon Musk take over Twitter?

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    Guest: Tim Hubbard, Assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.

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    Timothy David Hubbard

    Timothy Hubbard

    Mendoza College of Business