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Civil Rights and Discrimination

University of Richmond

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Students' Rights And How They Are Wronged, Nadine Strossen Jan 1998

Students' Rights And How They Are Wronged, Nadine Strossen

University of Richmond Law Review

Defending and enhancing the rights of students and young people has always been a major priority for the American Civil Liberties Union. One reason is that the rights of our nation's youth are always especially embattled - not surprisingly, since they are not yet eligible to vote and, therefore, lack political power.


Freeman V. Pitts: A Rethinking Of Public School Desegregation, Frank H. Stubbs Iii Jan 1993

Freeman V. Pitts: A Rethinking Of Public School Desegregation, Frank H. Stubbs Iii

University of Richmond Law Review

On March 31, 1992, the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared that federal district courts have the authority to relinquish supervision and control of a public school desegregation plan in incremental stages, before full compliance has been achieved in every area of school operations. The Court also held that public school districts have no duty to remedy racial imbalance caused by demographic shifts once the vestiges of de jure segregation have been eliminated. Reversing a lower court's ruling, Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority, stated that the decision was consistent with the Court's duties to both remedy constitutional violations and …


Some Post-Bakke-And-Weber Reflections On "Reverse Discrimination", Henry J. Abraham Jan 1980

Some Post-Bakke-And-Weber Reflections On "Reverse Discrimination", Henry J. Abraham

University of Richmond Law Review

So much has been said, written, and emoted concerning the subject of "reverse discrimination" that it represents a veritably frustrating experience to endeavor to come to grips with it in a nonredundant, non-banal, non-breast-beating manner. The difficulty is compounded by the all-too pervasive substitution of passion for reason on the wrenching issue-one that, admittedly, invites passion. Indeed, passion informed not an insignificant number of the record filings of the 120 briefs amicii curiae in the first central "reverse discrimination" case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, in which oral argument was presented to the Supreme Court of …