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Civil Rights

2002

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From The Courtroom To The Street: Court Orders And Section 1983, Sheldon Nahmod Jan 2002

From The Courtroom To The Street: Court Orders And Section 1983, Sheldon Nahmod

Sheldon Nahmod

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Neutral Principles And The Resegregation Decisions, Robert L. Hayman Dec 2001

Neutral Principles And The Resegregation Decisions, Robert L. Hayman

Robert L. Hayman

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September 11 Attacks And Surviving Same-Sex Partners: Defining Family Through Tragedy, Nancy J. Knauer Dec 2001

September 11 Attacks And Surviving Same-Sex Partners: Defining Family Through Tragedy, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

The September 11 relief efforts present a unique prism through which to view the status of same-sex relationships and to consider which families count when the United States is supposedly at its most generous, most united, and most injured. On a basic human level, would the nation grieve for Peggy Neff, who lost her partner of 18 years when Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, as it had for the widow of a fire fighter? Would Neff be eligible to file a claim with the multi-billion dollar federal September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which Congress established to compensate victims and …

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Elite Privilege And Public Interest Lawyering [Comments], Susan D. Carle Dec 2001

Elite Privilege And Public Interest Lawyering [Comments], Susan D. Carle

Susan D. Carle

In 1916, Charles Anderson Boston, one of the members of the first national Legal Redress Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spoke at the organization's board of directors meeting to endorse the use of new litigation strategies in the fight against racial segregation. The “proper presentation of the legal fight against segregation,” Boston urged, should focus on gathering “facts, not law” to demonstrate to the courts the law's “actual operation.”; Boston's emphasis on using facts to demonstrate the law's operation accorded with the NAACP's litigation strategy, which relied not only on gathering and presenting such …

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