David B. Owens

Surfer Attorney at Law. Civil Rights lawyer @loevyandloevy, Assistant Professor @UWSchoolofLaw, and freedom fighter with @exonerationproj.

[Angela Onwuachi-Will @aonwuachi]

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to offer my insights on the Harvard-UNC affirmative action cases. Thank you to @HarvLRev for the opportunity to share them! @BU_Law https://t.co/urilujToF1

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@KorematsuCtr I guess it’s time for me to get to work!

[John Rappaport @JohnMRappaport]

🚨New working paper!🚨
We document a striking -- and important! -- feature of modern U.S. policing that deserves a place in conversations alongside QI, unions, training, etc.: the stasis of police labor forces. A 🧵 https://t.co/8klJ4DyubF
w/ @AurelieOuss & @jonathanmasur

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@GGKrishnamoomoo @lxeagle17 Doesn’t the 17th amendment require an election? @zclopton @steveneart ?

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@JPYGold @GGKrishnamoomoo @SocialChangeNYU I’m excited to read your papers! As @GGKrishnamoomoo knows, my take in the Essay is that the SFFA majority almost explicitly lays out that remediating one’s own prior bad acts are a permissible basis for considering race. The question is whether there is will to do so.

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

Excited my essay about affirmative action, the fourth amendment, how race-conscious admissions might continue if fancy schools admit & quantify their own prior acts of racial exclusion, etc. is forthcoming @SocialChangeNYU.

Please send comments! https://t.co/uJGZwvO9fn

[Robert Chang @KorematsuCtr]

Congratulations to the team @InnocenceNW in securing the exoneration and the dismissal of the charges.

"Convicted at 16, exonerated at 42: Yakima murder conviction dismissed" https://t.co/7qkELPjT54 via @seattletimes

[Nayna Gupta @nayna_gupta]

🚨 🚨 Huge NPR piece on the horrors of immigration detention & the govt’s own findings on barbaric conditions. Time for @POTUS to follow through on campaign promises and END use of private prisons for immigration detention (as a start…)
https://t.co/uwK5O8OZmQ

[Exoneration Project @ExonerationProj]

Yesterday, our client Louis Robinson saw freedom for the first time in 27 years after the Court vacated his homicide conviction. He was framed for a 1996 murder and lost almost three decades of his life.

[Joshua Tepfer @JTepfer]

I’ve litigated wrongful conviction cases for 15 years and read everything under the sun on the topic. This is the best piece I’ve ever read. Remarkable @amandaknox

https://t.co/u7UOiNOufE

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@WilliamBaude @TFrampton you called it!

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

Surprise: I don’t think the solution to police violence is more police.

Great reporting @gracesdeng for @WAStateStandard

Less than 1/3 of WA police certified in deescalation & mental health training https://t.co/eMgCAlqe3D via @WAStateStandard

@UWSchoolofLaw @LoevyAndLoevy

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@djsziff I use this phrase. I agree it’s weird. For me, it’s about not being/presuming awards, not being entitled, and understanding the greatness of others. But, I guess it’s a weird way to say that.

[JP Collins @prof_jpc]

From me in @BLaw https://t.co/bADxsbMOye

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@wuc3 @KYLawJournal @JoshuaADouglas @GaughanAnthonyJ @Nedfoley Look forward to diving in!

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

Now on SSRN: further thoughts on how race equality claims in the aff action cases ring hollow when 4th Amend law lets police use race to determine who to seize. It's a shell game, folks.
Thanks @rcalo, @tamaraflawson , @dorfonlaw , @GGKrishnamoomoo
https://t.co/uJGZwvNBpP

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@ElliotSlosar Hahah!

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

Some thoughts on the affirmative action decision, mostly not about AA, but about the 4th Amend, biased policing, how the decision is narrow, and the “color of your skin.” Thanks @dorfonlaw for the spot! An honor. https://t.co/NOm5XrbWcr

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@OrinKerr If you expand the scope, the Supreme Court has actually said a lot about the 4th amendment, particularly in the two cases denied cert on Friday. That Nick Lombardo and Ryan Stokes are dead, with no remedy, says a lot. What value is the so-called right w/no remedy?

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@OrinKerr (3) the opinion itself supplies a way forward, if the schools will focus on remedying their own acts of discrimination, and (4) the phrase “color of your skin” is… problematic.

[David B. Owens @dowens2000]

@OrinKerr here is an alternative sort of response, which I saw you were looking for.