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Fulfilling The Promise Of The Housing Choice Voucher Program: Blind Review As An Enforcement Method For Source-Of-Income Antidiscrimination Laws, Zachary Wakefield
Fulfilling The Promise Of The Housing Choice Voucher Program: Blind Review As An Enforcement Method For Source-Of-Income Antidiscrimination Laws, Zachary Wakefield
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
The housing choice voucher program (HCV) is one that provides subsidies to very low-income individuals. These subsidies allow recipients of the vouchers to pay thirty percent of their income out of pocket towards their rent, with the difference being paid by the subsidy from the government directly to a landlord. Although the program itself is federal, it is administered by the states at the local level. As with most housing in the United States, the Fair Housing Act protects HCV recipients from discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin,” regardless of the state where the …
The Procedural Justice Industrial Complex, Shawn E. Fields
The Procedural Justice Industrial Complex, Shawn E. Fields
Indiana Law Journal
The singular focus on procedural justice police reform is dangerous. Procedurally just law enforcement encounters provide an empirically proven subjective sense of fairness and legitimacy, while obscuring substantively unjust outcomes emanating from a fundamentally unjust system. The deceptive simplicity of procedural justice – that a polite cop is a lawful cop – promotes a false consciousness among would-be reformers that progress has been made, evokes a false sense of legitimacy divorced from objective indicia of lawfulness or morality, and claims the mantle of “reform” in the process. It is not just that procedural justice is a suboptimal type of reform; …
Defining Disparate Treatment: A Research Agenda For Our Times, Deborah Hellman
Defining Disparate Treatment: A Research Agenda For Our Times, Deborah Hellman
Indiana Law Journal
Both statutory and constitutional laws prohibiting discrimination forbid actions taken on the basis of certain traits. But rarely are those traits specifically defined. As a result, courts fill in these definitions and do so with consequential results. The boundaries they draw often determine whether or not a law, policy, or action constitutes disparate treatment on the basis of a legally protected trait. As disparate treatment calls for a significantly heavier burden of justification than does disparate impact, the key move putting laws, policies, and the acts of individuals into one category or the other happens in this definitional step.
Defining …
Title Vii And The Unenvisaged Case: Is Anti-Lgbtq Discrimination Unlawful Sex Discrimination, Ronald Turner
Title Vii And The Unenvisaged Case: Is Anti-Lgbtq Discrimination Unlawful Sex Discrimination, Ronald Turner
Indiana Law Journal
As discussed herein, courts and individual judges recognizing or not finding actionable Title VII anti-LGBTQ14 claims have offered different rationales in support of their conflicting positions, including three justifications discussed in this project: (1) the meaning of Title VII’s “because of sex” prohibition, (2) the Supreme Court’s and circuit courts’ construction of the “because of sex” provision in the context of sex stereotyping and gender nonconformity discrimination as applied to the anti- LGBTQ question, and (3) associational discrimination theory. Claim-recognizing jurists have looked to Title VII’s text, Supreme Court and circuit court precedent, and the views of the Equal Employment …
Gender Disparities In Plea Bargaining, Carlos Berdejo
Gender Disparities In Plea Bargaining, Carlos Berdejo
Indiana Law Journal
Across wide-ranging contexts, academic literature and the popular press have identified pervasive gender disparities favoring men over women in society. One area in which gender disparities have conversely favored women is the criminal justice system. Most of the empirical research examining gender disparities in criminal case outcomes has focused on judges’ sentencing decisions. Few studies have assessed disparities in the steps leading up to a defendant’s conviction, where various actors make choices that constrain judges’ ultimate sentencing discretion. This Article addresses this gap by examining gender disparities in the plea-bargaining process. The results presented in this Article reveal significant gender …
Discrimination In Baby Making: The Unconstitutional Treatment Of Prospective Parents Through Surrogacy, Andrea B. Carroll
Discrimination In Baby Making: The Unconstitutional Treatment Of Prospective Parents Through Surrogacy, Andrea B. Carroll
Indiana Law Journal
Roundtable on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology 2012
How Parents Are Made: A Response To Discrimination In Baby Making: The Unconstitutional Treatment Of Prospective Parents Through Surrogacy, Kimberly M. Mutcherson
How Parents Are Made: A Response To Discrimination In Baby Making: The Unconstitutional Treatment Of Prospective Parents Through Surrogacy, Kimberly M. Mutcherson
Indiana Law Journal
Roundtable on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology 2012
Hierarchies Of Discrimination In Baby Making: A Response To Professor Carroll, Radhika Rao
Hierarchies Of Discrimination In Baby Making: A Response To Professor Carroll, Radhika Rao
Indiana Law Journal
Roundtable on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology 2012
Identification Problems And Voting Obstacles For Transgender Americans, James A. Haynes
Identification Problems And Voting Obstacles For Transgender Americans, James A. Haynes
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
No abstract provided.
An Unreasonable Application Of A Reasonable Standard: Title Vii And Sexual Orientation Retaliation, Jorden Colalella
An Unreasonable Application Of A Reasonable Standard: Title Vii And Sexual Orientation Retaliation, Jorden Colalella
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
No abstract provided.
When Diversity For Diversity's Sake Is Not Enough: Should Black Immigrants Receive The Benefit Of Affirmative Action At The Detriment Of Native Blacks?, Cedric Gordon
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
No abstract provided.
Is The Antidiscrimination Project Being Ended?, Michael J. Zimmer
Is The Antidiscrimination Project Being Ended?, Michael J. Zimmer
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
No abstract provided.
Discrimination As Accident, Amy L. Wax
Response To Professor Wax: Discrimination As Accident: Old Whine, New Bottle, Michael Selmi
Response To Professor Wax: Discrimination As Accident: Old Whine, New Bottle, Michael Selmi
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Thou Shalt Not Sue The Church: Denying Court Access To Ministerial Employees, Shawna Meyer Eikenberry
Thou Shalt Not Sue The Church: Denying Court Access To Ministerial Employees, Shawna Meyer Eikenberry
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
On The Use Of Statistics In Employment Discrimination Cases, Richard M. Cohn
On The Use Of Statistics In Employment Discrimination Cases, Richard M. Cohn
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
In Defense Of Disparate Impact Analysis Under Title Vii: A Reply To Dr. Cohn, Elaine W. Shoben
In Defense Of Disparate Impact Analysis Under Title Vii: A Reply To Dr. Cohn, Elaine W. Shoben
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Title Vii And Postjudgment Class Actions, John F. Crawford
Title Vii And Postjudgment Class Actions, John F. Crawford
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Equal Rights For Women: The Need For A National Policy, Julia C. Lamber
Equal Rights For Women: The Need For A National Policy, Julia C. Lamber
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Discrimination Against Minorities In The Federal Housing Programs
Discrimination Against Minorities In The Federal Housing Programs
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Peremptory Challenging Of Negro Veniremen As Discrimination Against Negro Criminal Defendant
Peremptory Challenging Of Negro Veniremen As Discrimination Against Negro Criminal Defendant
Indiana Law Journal
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