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It’S A Blowhorn, Not A Dog-Whistle: How President Trump’S Travel Ban Orders, Not His Statements, Are Enough To Establish A Violation Under The Religion Clauses, Charles Adside Iii

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

Most bigots speak softly. They use dog-whistles, code words employed to prime bigoted sentiments within the listener. Not President Donald J. Trump; his voice on Islam is like a blow horn. His orders imposing travel bans on seven Muslimmajority countries were just as loud. Although the Trump v. Hawaii Court claimed that the executive order it reviewed was religiously neutral, adherence to precedent reveals that all three executive orders violated the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment. There is much discussion, however, regarding the President’s remarks about Islam. Many jurists conclude that they should be used for interpretative purposes in …

Electrical Engineering Baccalaureate Degree Annual Program Outcomes Assessments, 2019-20, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

Annual Program Outcomes Assessments - All

This report reviews Wright State University's Electrical Engineering Baccalaureate Degree program for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Annual Reports For The Town And School Of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire As Compiled By The Town Officers For The Year Ending December 31, 2019, As Compiled By The School Officers For The Year Ending June 30, 2020., Hampton Falls Town Representatives

Hampton Falls, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Increased Motor Vehicle Fatalities Tuesday Through Thursday During The Us Thanksgiving Holiday (1980-2018), Kendra Ratnapradipa, Motao Zhu

Journal Articles: Epidemiology

Traffic crashes remain a leading cause of death in the United States; holidays are known to have increased travel and traffic fatalities. Our purpose was to determine which days during Thanksgiving had the highest crash fatality risk compared to non-holiday periods. Using time series and binomial approximations, we analyzed Fatality Analysis Reporting System data (1980-2018) with a Monday-Sunday holiday and matching comparisons the weeks before and after. Fatalities included 31,263 during the holiday, 30,361 the previous week, and 29,399 the following week. Deadliest days during the holiday were Saturday (16.7% of fatalities) and Wednesday (16.0%), but odds of a traffic …

Tell Me How It Ends: The Path To Nationalizing The U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry, Fran Quigley

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The U.S. medicines system is broken. Millions of Americans suffer and some even die because they cannot afford medicines discovered by government-funded research. At the same time, corporations holding monopoly patent rights to those medicines collect some of the largest profits in modern capitalist history.

It does not have to be this way. The global legacy of treating essential medicines as a public good and the robust U.S. history of government seizure of private property for the public interest reveals a better path: the United States should nationalize its pharmaceutical industry.

U.S. statutory law already provides broad powers for the …

2020 Swosu Foundation 990 Form, Garrett King

Foundation 990 Forms

This is the 2020 SWOSU Foundation 990 Form.

Forum Delegation: The Birth And Transposition Of A New Approach To Public Forum Doctrine, Brett Johnson, Shane C. Epping

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

This paper introduces and explores the concept of forum delegation: the power of government officials to suggest which forums to allow speakers to use. The concept is born out of a recent legal battle between the University of Minnesota and conservative speaker Ben Shapiro, in which the UMN required Shapiro to speak in a venue away from the heart of campus due to concerns over the school’s ability to provide adequate security for the event. The paper first analyzes the UMN case to assess the constitutionality of forum delegation in the context of regulating speech and public universities. Next, it …

Active Shooter In The Classroom: A Case Study Of Past Events And Future Mitigative Strategies, Joseph St. John

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This project is an overview of the emergency management discipline in protecting American schools through describing classroom active shooters, determining shared characteristics and indicators, and previous suggestions to improve the safety of the learning environment. Several sources were used to determine the best methods to mitigate this threat, including official after-action reports from past occurrences, psychological examinations of perpetrating individuals, and numerous federal agencies, such as the Department of Justice and the U.S. Secret Service. The methodology to reach suggestions for mitigation entailed qualitative analysis of numerous after-action reports to highlight mitigative efforts of threat assessment before the event and …

2019-2020 Student Engagement Assessment Model, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Assessment Center Reports

Student Engagement Assessment Model produced by the SWOSU Assessment Center

Core Criminal Procedure, Steven Arrigg Koh

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Behind The Binary Bars: A Critique Of Prison Placement Policies For Transgender, Non-Binary, And Gender Non-Conforming Prisoners Note, Jessica Szuminski

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Mass Incarceration As A Chronic Condition: Diagnosis, Prognosis, And Treatment The 2019 Minnesota Law Review Symposium - Mass Incarceration: Foreword, Sarah Trautman

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

'Wreaking Extraordinary Destruction': Defendant's Irreplaceability As Presumptively Reasonable Grounds For Downward Departure In Sentencing Note, Jackie Fielding

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Why The Policy Failures Of Mass Incarceration Are Really Political Failures The 2019 Minnesota Law Review Symposium - Mass Incarceration, John F. Pfaff

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Prisoners Of Politics: Breaking The Cycle Of Mass Incarceration The 2019 Minnesota Law Review Symposium - Mass Incarceration: Transcript: Minnesota Law Review Symposium Keynote November 18, 2019, Rachel E. Barkow

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Zimring On Mass Incarceration: Empirical Pessimism And Cautious Reformist Optimism The 2019 Minnesota Law Review Symposium - Mass Incarceration, Robert Weisberg

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

The Categorical Imperative As A Decarceral Agenda The 2019 Minnesota Law Review Symposium - Mass Incarceration: Essay, Jessica M. Eaglin

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Dealing With Mass Incarceration The 2019 Minnesota Law Review Symposium - Mass Incarceration, Alfred Blumstein

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Crimes By Children In Conflict With The Law – Heinousness, Acceptability, And Age Of Adulthood: A Comprehensive Critique Of The Present Juvenile Justice System, Aanchal Kabra, Pratyay Panigrahi

National Law School of India Review

The underlying nature of the Juvenile Justice system has undergone a substantial change with the adoption of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. The new Act has widespread implications on the manner in which children in conflict with the law are understood and treated before the law. Apart from theoretical shifts, provisions to try certain children in conflict with the law as adults have been adopted. Moreover, the Act is in conflict with India’s international obligations, and several implementation-related issues still persist. In light of this, we propose several changes, both at the theoretical and the …

Police Funding, Stephen Rushin, Roger Michalski

Faculty Articles

A number of civil rights activists have called for the defunding or abolition of American police departments. These activists claim that the United States overinvests in police, leaving fewer scarce resources to support other government services. Activists also claim that overinvestment in policing contributes to higher rates of police misconduct and unnecessary criminalization, particularly in communities of color. This Article considers these calls for the defunding of police. It ultimately cautions against widespread defunding of police and offers an alternative proposal. Part I brings together multiple national databases on local government expenditures to evaluate empirically how states and municipalities fund …

A Factor Analytic Examination Of The Underlying Mechanisms Of Delay Discounting, Sarah Levy

Psychology Department Dissertations

People tend to prefer smaller-but-sooner over later-but-larger rewards, indicating the subjective value of a reward is discounted as a function of time. This phenomenon is referred to as delay discounting and represents a facet of impulsivity that is associated with reward processing. Despite the empirical literature surrounding delay discounting, the underlying mechanisms are not yet well established. The current study investigated whether delay discounting belongs more to one grouping – personality traits or cognitive functioning – than the other. Additionally, neuroimaging metrics (i.e., cortical thickness) was also examined, as it has the potential to mediate these pathways to delay discounting. …

The "Threat" Of Marriage Fraud: A Story Of Precarity, Exclusion, And Belonging, Sarah Pringle

Canadian Journal of Family Law

Migrants can obtain permanent residency in Canada under the family-reunification category set out in s. 12(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). Canadian citizens or permanent residents may apply to sponsor their non-citizen spouse, common law or conjugal partner, or other relatives to move to Canada pursuant to s. 117(1)(a) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR). The bad-faith clause under s. 4(1) of the IRPR requires spousal-sponsorship applicants to prove to visa officers that, on a balance of probabilities, their relationship is “genuine” and not “entered into primarily for the purpose of …

Deschooling Deficit Perspectives: An Exploration Of Culture And Place For Educators, Madison Dorschutz

West Chester University Master’s Theses

The purpose of this critical action research is to increase awareness of deficit perspectives that damages the academic outcomes of diverse students while offering approaches to address them. Theories of decolonialism, culturally responsive pedagogy, and place-based education will be discussed as they are able to pull back the raciallyinformed curtain of bias development. These theories come together in a 4-day series of workshops that seeks to inform educators of their damaging thinking in an effort to negate it before they enter their classrooms. Through reflection, cultural-perspective taking, and relationship building, educators can gain skills to acknowledge systems of oppression that …

Exploring The Responsibilities Of Student Affairs Educators To Student Activists, Catia Rembert

West Chester University Master’s Theses

This thesis addresses the need for student affairs professionals to effectively support student activists. More specifically, entry and mid-level professionals need to develop and cultivate skills that will allow sustainable and meaningful support for student activists of color. Using a critical action research framework I analyzed the ways in which hierarchy affects the ability of student affairs professionals to provide effective advocacy and support. I propose a student led summer professional development series that shifts power dynamics from the student affairs professional to the student activist. An effective leader of this intervention would be someone who is immersed in activism …

How Much Is Too Much? A Test To Protect Against Excessive Fines, Daniel S. Harawa

Faculty Articles

Fines are the most common form of punishment in the United States, and are disparately imposed against poor people of color. The stories of fines ruining lives abound. Yet until last year, in most state courts, it was not clear whether a person could challenge financial punishment imposed against them as unconstitutional. That changed when the Supreme Court held in Timbs v. Indiana that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause applies to the states. Despite the fact that all state and federal courts must now be equipped to decide whether financial punishment violates the Eighth Amendment, the Supreme Court has …

Manning V. Caldwell: A Harbinger?, Daniel S. Harawa

Faculty Articles

Last term, the Fourth Circuit heard three cases en banc. One case, Manning v. Caldwell, involved a challenge to Virginia's habitual drunkard statute. In Manning, the Fourth Circuit split 8-7. The majority opinion, written jointly by Judges Motz and Keenan, garnered eight votes. The principal dissent, authored by Judge Wilkinson, was joined by five judges. Judge Diaz wrote a separate dissent. While the various opinions in Manning are interesting, this Article is not about their reasoning. It is about the conflict they revealed. Judge Keenan wrote a separate concurrence lamenting the tone of the principal dissent, and Judge Wilkinson wrote …

Expanding Patient Access To Breast Cancer Genetic Testing Through Incentive Regimes, Megan K. Hart

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

It is estimated that 268,600 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019 alone, and as many as 26,860 of these women could have developed breast cancer due to a genetic disposition.[1] While over one million women have undergone genetic testing to identify variations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, the test results are often ambiguous due to identified variations for which the breast cancer development risk is unknown.[2] A new technology known as CRISPR has the potential to change this state of uncertainty due to its capability to identify thousands of BRCA1 and 2 gene variations and …

Constituents For Thoughtful Governance V. Twitter, Cailfornia Superior Court

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

U.S. V. Levandowski, Northern District Of California

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

Sentencing memorandum

Methods And Severity: The Two Tracks Of Section 12, Lisa Kerr, Benjamin L. Berger

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

The story of section 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects against cruel and unusual treatment or punishment, is overwhelmingly told — by judges and scholars alike — as a tale about proportionality. This is an artefact of the prominence of one problem that Canadian courts have famously employed a muscular approach to section 12 to address: the problem of mandatory minimum sentences. Since Nur, the analytical path for evaluating the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences has been firmly and clearly set. In Lloyd, the Court summarized the jurisprudence: “The question, put simply, is this: In view …