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Vaidehi Mehta is a lawyer and writer for FindLaw.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, Vaidehi got her legal education at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was on the editorial board of the gender and law journal and a Dean's Scholar. Vaidehi has been an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Washington and a judicial clerk at the Oregon Court of Appeals. She has also volunteered at the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project.
Most of all, Vaidehi likes to write about the law. She’s found her happy place writing content for FindLaw's Constitution pages, legal news blogs, and resource articles. Nerd for the law that she is, Vaidehi likes to focus on complicated cases with deep legal questions, issues of first impression, questions before the U.S. Supreme Court, and constitutional conundrums.
When she’s not writing about the law, Vaidehi likes to pretend to work on her adapted screenplay. But more often, she travels, sings (badly), paints, exercises (with varying degrees of success), and reads.
When you see a car straddling two spots, it could be a sign that the driver is just bad at parking. But have you ever seen someone take up three spots? That, folks, is a good sign the driver is entitled. In Idaho, a federal appellate judge who lost…
Alabama says nitrogen hypoxia is the new humane way to kill someone on death row. But federal courts recently took a closer look at what that actually means for the person strapped to the gurney. Evidence suggests it may look a lot more like torture than mercy, which…
When you were little, you might have terrorized your friends (or been terrorized by your friends) pretending that your spaghetti noodles were worms. But what if that actually happened? According to a new federal lawsuit, a mom and her young child say their canned pasta dinner came with a side…
Alabama has repeatedly defended congressional maps that lower courts have held dilute the power of Black voters, prompting a Supreme Court test of how much protection Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act still offers today. Here’s what you need to know. A Long Fight Over One Seat…
If you’ve been following President Donald Trump’s efforts to push transgender people out of the military, you know federal courts across the country have been busy. This week added a new wrinkle: in a case called Talbott v. United States, the D.C. Circuit agreed that…
When federal prisoners ask courts to revisit old convictions, the first question is not just who is right, but which statute they are allowed to use. A recent Supreme Court ruling draws a sharper line between habeas and compassionate release, especially as expanded by the First Step Act.
A growing number of law firms are moving past off-the-shelf AI tools and into something closer to ownership: proprietary systems trained on their own lawyers. By collaborating with tech companies and forging academic partnerships, they’re starting to deploy technology that would have seemed implausible just a few years…
For the first time in recent memory, U.S. law firms are bringing in more attorneys with prior practice experience than graduates straight from law school. What’s more, recent hiring data points to a deliberate restructuring of associate pipelines, rather than a temporary correction like those seen during the…
“This call may be monitored for quality and security purposes.” It’s a pretty commonplace line for companies to use, but behind that canned line lies a complex legal question: when a company analyzes your voice to verify your identity, has it crossed a line under privacy law? A…
The Constitution forbids executing people with intellectual disability — but what happens when a defendant’s IQ scores land exactly on the borderline? That question has driven years of litigation in Alabama, in a case that has recently divided the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Brutal Crime, Fragile Defendant…