Due Process

MSLF’s Solenex Victory Featured in Behind the Black

Mountain States Legal Foundation was recently featured in Behind the Black by Robert Zimmerman. His article featured MSLF’s recent victory in the Solenex case on behalf of Sydney Longwell (1939-2020)…

Archer Case Earns More Media Coverage

Colorado educator and MSLF Client Celeste Archer in this piece explains to Denver’s CBS News affiliate why she’s suing her employer, the University of Colorado-Denver, for barring her from campus without first investigating whether there was any truth to an anonymous allegation that she had Covid-19. That allegation was false. But the school’s reflexive rush to judgment — something that’s become alarmingly commonplace as a result of the witch-hunting atmosphere produced by the panic — denied Archer her due process rights, according to the lawsuit.

Celeste T. Archer v. John Kroll, et al

When Campus COVID Enforcers Go Too Far

Denver educator Celeste Archer is a luminary in the Colorado education community. She is the Executive Director of the University of Colorado Denver’s National History Day in Colorado program. But in a Kafkaesque turn of events, school officials summarily barred Archer from campus based on an anonymous allegation that she had tested positive for COVID-19, had COVID-19 symptoms, or had been exposed to them. The exclusion order was issued without advance notice, without an investigation, without a hearing, and without Archer having an opportunity to rebut the claim.

A Sobering Moment for the Second Amendment

Second Amendment supporters were shocked this month when the Supreme Court dismissed all 10 gunowners’ rights cases that were pending, thereby denying all 10 cases a hearing. Earlier this year,…