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Cruelty Was The Point: Theories Of Recovery For Family Separation Anddetention Abuses, Sarah Rogerson
Cruelty Was The Point: Theories Of Recovery For Family Separation Anddetention Abuses, Sarah Rogerson
Nevada Law Journal
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Giving Qualified Immunity Teeth: A Congressional Approach Tofixing Qualified Immunity, Tayler Bingham
Giving Qualified Immunity Teeth: A Congressional Approach Tofixing Qualified Immunity, Tayler Bingham
Nevada Law Journal
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Distributed Federalism: The Transformation Of Younger, Anne R. Traum
Distributed Federalism: The Transformation Of Younger, Anne R. Traum
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For decades federal courts have remained mostly off limits to civil rights cases challenging the constitutionality of state criminal proceedings. Younger abstention, which requires federal courts to abstain from suits challenging the constitutionality of pending state prosecutions, has blocked plaintiffs from bringing meritorious civil rights cases and insulated local officials and federal courts from having to defend against or decide them. Younger’s reach is broad. It has forced political protestors (from the Vietnam era to Black Lives Matter) to challenge the constitutionality of their arrests and prosecutions within their state criminal proceedings. The doctrine also has made it difficult to …