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Endangered Claims: How The U.S. Civil Procedure System Mimics The Wild, Suzette M. Malveaux
Endangered Claims: How The U.S. Civil Procedure System Mimics The Wild, Suzette M. Malveaux
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Is It Time For A New Civil Rights Act? Pursuing Procedural Justice In The Federal Civil Court System, Suzette M. Malveaux
Is It Time For A New Civil Rights Act? Pursuing Procedural Justice In The Federal Civil Court System, Suzette M. Malveaux
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The United States has recently been engaged in some of the largest civil rights movements since the 1960s—from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo—and calls for justice for marginalized communities are stronger than ever. Many decry the longstanding violence and systemic discrimination such communities experience, and advocate for stronger substantive civil rights. What has received less attention, however, is the violence done to those rights by the U.S. Supreme Court's obstructionist civil procedural jurisprudence. Over the last half century, the Court has systemically eroded Americans' capacity to enforce such substantive rights in the civil court system. This erosion arcs away from …