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Class Of 2026 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Class Of 2025 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Respecting The Identity And Dignity Of All Indigenous Americans, Bill Piatt

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The United States government attempted to eliminate Native Americans through outright physical extermination and later by the eradication of Indian identity through a boarding school system and other "paper genocide" mechanisms. One of those mechanisms is the recognition of some Natives but not the majority, including those who ancestors were enslaved. The assistance provided to recognized tribes by the government is inadequate to compensate for the historical and continuing suffering these people endure. And yet the problem is compounded for those unrecognized Natives whose ancestors were enslaved and whose tribal identity was erased. They are subjected to a double-barreled discrimination. …

Class Of 2024 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Class Of 2023 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Class Of 2022 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Law Schools Harm Genizaros And Other Indigenous People By Misunderstanding Aba Policy, Bill Piatt, Moises Gonzales, Katja Wolf

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Law schools justifiably seek to enroll a diverse student body in order to enrich the academic experience and environment, and to provide attorneys who will serve all segments of our society. American law schools enjoy the constitutional right to maintain such diversity. Indeed, accreditation standards promulgated by the American Bar Association ("ABA") require it. The Association of American Law Schools carries a similar mandate.

In seeking to create a diverse student body, law schools offer applicants the opportunity to identify their backgrounds. There generally is no "diversity police" checking on the accuracy of the self-identification as a member of a …

Class Of 2021 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Entrada: Slavery, Religion And Reconciliation, Bill Piatt

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Each year, Santa Fe, NM celebrates a Fiesta. One component, the Entrada, celebrate the "peaceful" re-conquest of the Indigenous people by the Spanish colonizers. Controversy has arisen in recent years as activists challenge the memorialization of a tradition that they feel represents slavery and brutality. Linking their struggle to recent efforts to remove memorials to the Confederacy, they have sought to physically block the re-enactment, leading to arrests, collateral conflict, and the threat of future violence. How do we move forward as a society with the legacy of slavery that built this region and country: This article examines the historical, …

Class Of 2020 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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State Bar Efforts To Deny Accreditation To Faith-Based Cle Ethics Programs Sponsored By Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, Bill Piatt

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Religiously affiliated law schools focus on the integration of faith in the formation of future attorneys and leaders. Yet our students are only our students for three years. We can extend our influence and continue to provide a faith-based perspective to them and to other attorneys during the thirty, forty, or more years of their careers by offering continuing legal education (CLE) courses, which bring attorneys and judges together to provide a model for incorporating faith and morality into our professional roles. However, CLE programs must receive accreditation by state authorities if participants are to receive credit for them. Recently, …

¡Que Viva The Scholar!, Bill Piatt

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This piece congratulates The Scholar on their 20th anniversary and explains some of the impetus involved with the journal's beginnings.

¡Que Viva The Scholar!, Bill Piatt

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

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Class Of 2019 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Opting Out In The Name Of God: Will Lawyers Be Compelled To Handle Same-Sex Divorces?, Bill Piatt

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In June of 2015, the United States Supreme Court determined by a 5–4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples have a constitutionally guaranteed right to marry. While this represents a momentous victory for homosexuals, many people are still vehemently opposed to the idea. Homosexuality is especially frowned upon in certain religions, including some sects of Christianity. Is it possible that attorneys who decline on religious grounds to provide legal services to same-sex individuals seeking divorces will be ordered to provide that representation? Might those attorneys be sanctioned if they fail to do so? These are both novel and …

Class Of 2018 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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If The Pope Is Infallible, Why Does He Need Lawyers?, Bill Piatt

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One of the most widely misunderstood teachings of the Catholic Church involves the doctrine of papal infallibility. As a theological matter, papal infallibility is quite narrow. However, the widespread misconception that all Catholics must believe their Pope cannot make mistakes helped create resentment against Catholics for centuries, which has taken the form of physical attacks, political exclusion, and virulent anti-Catholic propaganda.

While the Catholic Church is no longer under direct physical attack, contemporaneous efforts seek to hold the Pope and the Church civilly and criminally liable in various contexts. In some instances, the Pope, acting as the head of the …

Class Of 2017 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Class Of 2016 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Border Wars & The New Texas Navy: International Treaties, Waterways, And State Sovereignty After Arizona V. United States, Bill Piatt, Rachel Ambler

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The Texas Department of Public Safety Tactical Marine Unit’s law enforcement authority does not extend to stopping people crossing the border. Whether the Tactical Marine Unit, colloquially known as the New Texas Navy, possesses sufficient legal authority to enforce federal law is questionable. Arizona v. United States affirmed the principles of federalism and the preemption doctrine. However, the Court suggested that State officers were legally permitted to “cooperate” with the U.S. Attorney General in the identification, apprehension, and detention of illegal aliens. But, this does not allow a State to unilaterally choose to enforce federal law, which the New Texas …

Class Of 2015 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Reinventing The Wheel: Constructing Ethical Approaches To State Indigent Legal Defense Systems., Bill Piatt

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

Indigent defense remains in a state of crisis. Almost fifty years after the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, lack of funding, favoritism, inefficiency, and poorly-designed indigent[1]defense plans plague the system, which can best be characterized as being in a state of disrepair. As a result, accused indigent individuals, a vulnerable population, suffer from a lack of adequate representation. This Article reviews the history and implementation of various indigent-defense systems and examines the ethical issues arising from their operation. It offers a guide to reconstructing a model system, including the suggestion that attorneys first recommit the profession to …

Reinventing The Wheel: Constructing Ethical Approaches To State Indigent Legal Defense Systems, Bill Piatt

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Indigent defense remains in a state of crisis. Almost fifty years after the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, lack of funding, favoritism, inefficiency, and poorly-designed indigent-defense plans plague the system, which can best be characterized as being in a state of disrepair. As a result, accused indigent individuals, a vulnerable population, suffer from a lack of adequate representation. This Article reviews the history and implementation of various indigent-defense systems and examines the ethical issues arising from their operation. It offers a guide to reconstructing a model system, including the suggestion that attorneys first recommit the profession to …

Class Of 2014 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Class Of 2013 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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Catholicism And Constitutional Law: More Than Privacy In The Penumbras, Bill Piatt

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Class Of 2012 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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New Legal Rights In The Legal System Of The United States Of America, Roberto Rosas, Bill Piatt

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What new rights does the American legal system offer at the start of the 21st century? This article takes a snapshot of some of the most controversial topics in American society today and the juridical response to these topics by individual states, the United States Congress, and the United States Supreme Court. Although there are numerous legal topics that deserve mention and analysis, this article is limited to the discussion of 7 new rights created by state and federal laws. The new legal rights in the United States legal system discussed in this article include the following: 1) The right …

Gender Segregation In The Public Schools; Opportunity, Inequality, Or Both?, Bill Piatt

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Should the public schools be allowed to segregate girls from boys in the classroom? There is a history of single-sex education in this country, but there are concerns about single gender classrooms. In recent decades, researchers have begun to assert that requiring boys and girls to be taught together has a negative impact on the educational progress because of inherent differences in boy/girl learning behavior, or even in the development of their brains. Proponents of gender exclusive classrooms point out the voluntary nature of the programs, and the explicit findings of the Department of Education justifying such programs. Opponents argue …

Class Of 2011 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

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