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Appointment Process To The Bench Is Not Sacrosanct, Susan Rutberg
Appointment Process To The Bench Is Not Sacrosanct, Susan Rutberg
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The Jesse Carter Collection, Janet Fischer
The Jesse Carter Collection, Janet Fischer
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This is Appendix 2 in The Great Dissents of the "Lone Dissenter," Justice Jesse W. Carter's Twenty tumultuous Years on the California Supreme Court (Carolina Academic Press, 2010). The appendix describes the Jesse Carter holdings at Golden Gate University School of Law Library.
The Supreme Court And Gender-Neutral Language: Setting The Standard Or Lagging Behind?, Leslie M. Rose
The Supreme Court And Gender-Neutral Language: Setting The Standard Or Lagging Behind?, Leslie M. Rose
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Most modern legal writing texts and style manuals recommend that writers use gender-neutral language. Gender-neutral language is achieved by avoiding the use of “gendered generics” (male or female nouns and pronouns used to refer to both men and women). For example, gender neutrality could be achieved by referring to “Members of Congress,” rather than “Congressmen,” and by changing a few words in the previous quotation from Melendez-Diaz: “The defendant always has [the] burden of raising a Confrontation Clause objection; statutes simply govern the time within which the [defendant] must do so.” As this article demonstrates, most members of the United …