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Bostock v. Clayton County and What Title VII Now Protects at Work A Georgia child-welfare worker joined a gay softball league and lost his job. The 2020 ruling in his case reads the 1964 Civil Rights Act's ban on sex discrimination to cover gay and trans workers. Brown Was Decided in 1954, and Making It Real Took Much Longer Brown v. Board ended legal school segregation on paper in 1954. Turning the ruling into integrated classrooms took troops, new laws and decades of local fights. Bryan Stevenson and the Memorial to Lynching Victims in Montgomery How a death penalty lawyer in Alabama came to build a memorial to thousands of lynching victims, and why he insists the history of racial terror and today's prisons belong in one story. California's Duplex Law Promised Homes on Every Lot and Delivered Few SB 9 let California homeowners split lots and build duplexes almost anywhere. Few did. Here is why costs, local rules and financing blunted the law, and what California tried next. California's Proposition 50 and the Argument Over Fighting Fire With Fire Why California voters set aside their own independent map in 2025 to answer Texas, what Proposition 50 actually does, and the honest case for and against fighting a gerrymander with one. California's Reparations Task Force and the Report It Delivered in 2023 What California's first-in-the-nation reparations task force found, what it recommended in its 2023 final report, and why so little of it has become law. Carpenter v. United States and the Trail of Data Every Phone Leaves What the Supreme Court decided in 2018 about cell-site location records, what it deliberately left open, and how the ruling bears on geofences, data brokers and the rest of your digital trail. Carson v. Makin and Public Money for Religious Schools A Maine tuition program for towns without high schools became the case that requires states to fund religious schools when they fund private ones. Then came Oklahoma's charter test. Charter Schools Since Minnesota's 1991 Law: Results and Arguments Charter schools began as a teachers' union leader's idea and a Minnesota law in 1991. Three decades of research show big differences between kinds of charters, and the fight is about more than scores. Clair Patterson, the Geochemist Who Helped Get the Lead Out of Gasoline A scientist trying to measure the age of the Earth found lead contaminating everything, took on the industry that put it there, and helped drive the US phase-out of leaded gasoline completed in 1996. Clarence Earl Gideon's Pencil Petition and How a Case Reaches the Supreme Court Follow one handwritten petition from a Florida prison cell to a unanimous ruling, and learn how cert petitions, conferences, oral argument and opinion day really work. Clean Slate Laws Spread From Pennsylvania to Red and Blue States Pennsylvania made record sealing automatic in 2018, and states from Utah to New York followed. Here is the case for clean slate laws, the objections, and why the idea crosses party lines.