Opinion

If you had been cheering after Virginia ratified the Equal Rights Amendment last week, forget it!

Virginia was the last state needed to reach the magic number required (3/4 of them) to enact an amendment to the Constitution. But when the ERA was sent to the states in 1972, Congress gave them 10 years to ratify (they didn’t quite make it), and then another three (still no luck).

There’s a glimmer of hope for law grads with huge student debt seeking relief from bankruptcy courts.

While the test for when that rare species of relief for student loans may be discharged (the Eighth Circuit uses a “totality of circumstances” measure), a new decision from the chief judge of Manhattan’s bankruptcy court took one heckuva load from the shoulders of a non-practicing man.

Many cities – such as Denver – want the Supreme Court to act quickly to put a damper on urban camping.

Just a week ago, a Colorado state court nixed Denver’s outlawing of people camping in public. The court joined a number of tribunals in holding that people couldn’t be prohibited from camping in public when there was no reasonable alternative.