Podcast appearances and mentions of leah watson

LeRoy Pernell, et al. v. Brian Lamb, et al. (consolidated with Adriana Novoa, et al. v. Commissioner of the Florida State Board of Education, et al.), argued before Judges Charles R. Wilson, Britt C. Grant, and Barbara Lagoa in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 14, 2024. Argued by Charles Cooper (on behalf of Brian Lamb, et al.) and Leah Watson (on behalf of Appellees LeRoy Pernell, et al.) and Greg Greubel (on behalf of Appellees Adriana Novoa, et al.). Issues Presented, from the Brief of Defendants-Appellants: (1) Whether Plaintiffs have Article III standing to bring a pre-enforcement challenge to each provision of Florida's Individual Freedom Act that regulates public universities; (2) Whether the Act's regulation of in-class instruction by public employees triggers First Amendment scrutiny; (3) Whether the Act is sufficiently tailored to advance the State's compelling interest in preventing invidious discrimination by public employees at public universities; (4) Whether the challenged provisions of the Act are unconstitutionally vague; (5) Whether any unconstitutional provisions are severable from the remainder of the Act; and (6) Whether equitable factors favor reversal of the district court's preliminary injunction. Resources: CourtListener case docket for LeRoy Pernell v. Commissioner of the FL State Board of Education (pre-consolidation name of one of the constituent cases) The Institute for Free Speech promotes and defends the political speech rights to freely speak, assemble, publish, and petition the government guaranteed by the First Amendment. If you're enjoying the Free Speech Arguments podcast, please subscribe and leave a review on your preferred podcast platform. To support the Institute's mission or inquire about legal assistance, please visit our website: www.ifs.org

PHPod sits down with Leah Watson, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Racial Justice Program, to discuss book bans happening across the country and censorship in the classroom. Watson is a former high school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, and her current focus with the ACLU is on classroom censorship efforts, otherwise known as educational gag orders.

Free speech on campus, book bans, education gag orders, the overturn of affirmative action, the resignation of former Harvard president Claudine Gay. All of these issues center on one hot-button topic: DEI. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has become a staple in national vocabulary after the so-called “racial reckoning” of 2020 brought demands for racial justice to the top of institutional priorities. From schools to Fortune 500 companies to the film industry, DEI efforts had a steady surge…until they didn't. The burgeoning anti-DEI movement, also coined the “war on woke,” has gone from a once-fringe conservative crusade to a political machine. Already this year, about three dozen bills restricting DEI efforts, like critical race theory, have been proposed in states across the country, with more likely to emerge. Need we again mention the overturn of affirmative action? But how did we go from a public seemingly-committed to DEI to one that denounces it in the span of just a few years? Joining us to help answer this question are Alvin B. Tillery, professor of political science at Northwestern University and director of the university's Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy, and Leah Watson, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Racial Justice Program. Together, we'll trace the rise of the anti-DEI machine and its political ramifications for the year to come. For more context on the ACLU's litigation efforts against education gag orders, check out Leah's law review article: https://journals.law.harvard.edu/crcl/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2023/09/HLC208_Watson.pdf

Our Friday “Producer's Picks” segment this week brings you highlights of recent conversations with historian and former Buffalo School Board President Barbara Seals-Nevergold, the ACLU's Leah Watson, and takes you along again for Jay Moran's visit to St. Luke's Mission of Mercy.

On this episode, I am joined by Leah Watson and Erika Sisneros Kelley of the ACLU to discuss a new Florida law (the Stop WOKE Act), which expands the definition of discrimination to include the teaching of concepts dealing with racism, sexism, diversity, equality, and inclusion.The complaint alleges violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. In a case challenging nearly identical language, a federal district judge recently concluded that the law unconstitutionally restricts speech based on viewpoint. Leah Watson is a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, where she leads investigations and litigation to challenge classroom censorship efforts (education gag orders), bias in policing, the criminalization of poverty, and racial disparities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Leah earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A., magna cum laude, in Communication Studies and Sociology from Vanderbilt University.Erika Sisneros Kelley is the 2021 Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow with the ACLU's Racial Justice Program. She focuses on issues related to economic justice, algorithmic bias, and inclusive education. Erika graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2014 with a B.A. in Integrative Physiology. She earned her master's in Public Health in 2016 from Claremont Graduate University and completed her J.D. at University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2021. Listen. Enjoy. Subscribe. Share.

Our week of education topics continues with Dr. Catherine Fisher Collins, the WNY representative on the NYS Board of Regents with Dave Debo to talk about race, curriculum and related matters. And then he speaks with Leah Watson of the ACLU on education and censorship of what teachers are allowed to teach.

"Play Ball" host Ian Lapson sits down with SWN's Leah Watson to discuss his podcast and his sports career. Listen to "Play Ball" here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sports-weekly-newsroom/message

This week we chat with the intriguing Leah Watson a.k.a. Grace Skinner. Leah is a Denver film actor, but Greyce is well know in the pole and aerial worlds. We discuss her creative passion with pole and trapeze, the importance body positivity and having personal boundries, and our love of crock pot cooking! Shoutouts & Promotions 1. Leah's instagram 2. Greyce's website 3. Steph's favorite winter crockpot recipe from The Pretty Bee

In this week’s episode, we amplify the voice of Leah Watson. Leah is a Staff Attorney with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, where she focuses on the criminalization of poverty. Previously, she was Senior Counsel in the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where she led litigation challenging debtors’ prisons and excessive fines and fees practices in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Leah co-authored reports, delivered community trainings and developed policy recommendations for fines and fees reform at the state and local levels. She launched P.R.O.T.E.C.T.: A Guide for Law Enforcement Engagement with Students of Color. Prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Leah was a Senior Associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and an Associate at Baker Hostetler LLP. She led cross-border investigations in one of the top ten largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act settlements. She was a member of the trial team that secured a victory in the largest residential mortgage backed securities trial in history.  Leah obtained Special Immigrant Juvenile status and custody orders for pro bono clients and successfully challenged a pro bono client’s criminal conviction. During a six-month externship at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, she represented clients in disability rights, police misconduct, fair housing, and wage theft cases. Leah earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2011. Prior to law school, she taught high school in Atlanta, Georgia through Teach for America. Leah earned her B.A. magna cum laude in Communication Studies and Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 2006. In this episode, Leah gets very candid as she sheds light on the vital work that she doing as she is pursuing the charge to help achieve racial justice and she also breaks down pertinent information for us (the average American citizen) to understand how we can stand in the gap and help join the fight for a better country and society. Turn up you the volume, this is a conversation you don't wanna miss!

Join us on Women Lead Radio as John Burroughs & Rebecca Ross, your hosts of Your Financial Fitness, have compelling and candid talk with Leah Watson, Founder of GRACE, Girls Rising Above Child Exploitation. Today we tackle this challening topic and learn how to help where it is desperately needed. Interested in Learning More About Connected Women of Influence? Click Here to Be Invited as Our Special VIP & Guest to a Future Event! Interested in Becoming a Member of Our Professional Community!? Click Here to Apply for Membership!

For OHP's Sweet Sixteen(th), Kelsey and Tyler are joined by fabled Tolkein ghostwriter Leah Watson to breakdown the Harlequin novel, Educating Gina. Gina is a hot twenty-something who has watched Sex and the City and is ready to get down to business in the Biggest of Apples. That is if she can figure out what a blow job is before Mike Mason's libido diminishes. Also friends of the pod, Owen Wilson and Ray Romano stop by to give their two cents. Next Week's Book: Kiss of Surrender by Sandra Hill

What a way to start a season! This one got a little emotional as Leah talks about how she took the pain of losing her parents and turned it into BEAUTY. She also shares her struggles and how she has been able to have longevity in her career for over 30+ years. As the show is wrapping our Founder, L. Moniece, shares a surprise story with Leah about how she is connected to her own story and helped save her career. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode of IRAC features Derek Bisig discussing his Law Review article "'All I Want to Say is That They Don't Really Care about Us': Reducing Police Misconduct via Social Control Theory" and Leah Watson informing us what Law Students Anonymous is and has to offer our students. Both interviews were conducted by one of our executive producers, Jessica Hawkins. You can read Derek's article here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2908161

Leah Watson talks shop about her short screenplay, 'Skinner'. - Logline: "A gentle young man struggles to survive in the ranks of a brutal post-apocalyptic gang, but when the gang diverts from an evening of ghost stories to prey upon a lone young woman, he discovers that real monsters are found in the most unexpected places and unspeakable horrors may hold the key to his redemption."