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Gang Loitering And Race, Lawrence Rosenthal Dec 1999

Gang Loitering And Race, Lawrence Rosenthal

Lawrence Rosenthal

The decision of the United States Supreme Court in City of Chicago v. Morales, which invalidating Chicago's gang-loitering ordinance, provides a road map for future public order laws that can address inner-city crime. This article makes the argument for public order laws as an anti-gang initiative that stops short of an approach dependent on massive incarceration, and defends such laws against an attack on grounds of racial fairness. Relying on the work of leading urban sociologists, the article argues that gang crime powerfully attracts inner city (and disproportionately minority) youth, and that any strategy for crime reduction in the inner …


Romer V. Evans As The Transformation Of Local Government Law, Lawrence Rosenthal Dec 1998

Romer V. Evans As The Transformation Of Local Government Law, Lawrence Rosenthal

Lawrence Rosenthal

Colorado's Amendment 2 prohibited the state and local governments in Colorado from enforcing "any statute, regulation, ordinance or policy whereby homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or relationships shall constitute or otherwise be the basis of or entitle any person or class of persons to have or claim any minority status, quota preferences, protected status or claim of rimi"2 Three Colorado municipalities that had enacted ordinances protecting gays and lesbians, and individuals who had lost the protections offered by those ordinances, brought suit in state court seeking to invalidate the amendment.


Permissible Content Discrimination Under The First Amendment: The Strange Case Of The Public Employee, Lawrence Rosenthal Dec 1997

Permissible Content Discrimination Under The First Amendment: The Strange Case Of The Public Employee, Lawrence Rosenthal

Lawrence Rosenthal

The speech of public employees poses special problems under the First Amendment. As Justice O'Connor once explained, a rule that forbids employees who deal with the public from being rude to customers should be permissible in the public sector, even though a statute containing the very same prohibition would be considered impermissibly vague when applied to private-sector employees. Recognizing that a special rule for public employees is necessary, the Supreme Court has held that only when public employees speak on a matter of public concern does their speech qualify for constitutional protection, and even then, the employee's interest must be …