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Apples-To-Fish: Public And Private Prison Cost Comparisons, Alex Friedmann Apr 2016

Apples-To-Fish: Public And Private Prison Cost Comparisons, Alex Friedmann

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Has All Heck Broken Loose? Examining Heck's Favorable-Termination Requirement In The Second Circuit After Poventud V. City Of New York, John P. Collins Apr 2016

Has All Heck Broken Loose? Examining Heck's Favorable-Termination Requirement In The Second Circuit After Poventud V. City Of New York, John P. Collins

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Putting Exclusionary Zoning In Its Place: Affordable Housing And Geographical Scale, Christopher Serkin, Leslie Wellington Mar 2016

Putting Exclusionary Zoning In Its Place: Affordable Housing And Geographical Scale, Christopher Serkin, Leslie Wellington

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


A Poor Idea: Statute Of Limitations Decisions Cement Second-Class Remedial Scheme For Low-Income Children With Disabilities In The Third Circuit, Jennifer Rosen Valverde Mar 2016

A Poor Idea: Statute Of Limitations Decisions Cement Second-Class Remedial Scheme For Low-Income Children With Disabilities In The Third Circuit, Jennifer Rosen Valverde

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Math & Science Are Core To Ideas: Breaking The Racial And Poverty Lines, Jeffrey C. Sun, Philip T.K. Daniel Mar 2016

Math & Science Are Core To Ideas: Breaking The Racial And Poverty Lines, Jeffrey C. Sun, Philip T.K. Daniel

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Reasonable Supervision In The City: Enhancing The Safety Of Students With Disabilities In Urban (And Other) Schools, Lynn M. Daggett Mar 2016

Reasonable Supervision In The City: Enhancing The Safety Of Students With Disabilities In Urban (And Other) Schools, Lynn M. Daggett

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


A Solution Hiding In Plain Sight: Special Education And Better Outcomes For Students With Social, Emotional, And Behavioral Challenges, Yael Cannon, Michael Gregory, Julie Waterstone Mar 2016

A Solution Hiding In Plain Sight: Special Education And Better Outcomes For Students With Social, Emotional, And Behavioral Challenges, Yael Cannon, Michael Gregory, Julie Waterstone

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


An Idea For Improving English Language Learners’ Access To Education, Erin Archerd Mar 2016

An Idea For Improving English Language Learners’ Access To Education, Erin Archerd

Fordham Urban Law Journal

English Language Learners (ELLs) and language-minority families have few promising options for receiving tailored educational services under federal law. Civil Rights era statutes like the Equal Education Opportunities Act (EEOA) designed to protect and promote ELLs’ right to an education have led to few actual changes in children’s education, and fewer still within reasonable time frames. For the subset of ELLs with disabilities, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) holds out the promise of more direct and immediate improvements in their education. Part I of this Article introduces the problem through a hypothetical student, Faith, and her family. Part …


Aggregation And Urban Misdemeanors, Alexandra Natapoff Mar 2016

Aggregation And Urban Misdemeanors, Alexandra Natapoff

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The urban misdemeanor process relies on a wide variety of informal groupings and aggregations. Order maintenance police arrest large numbers of people based on neighborhood, age, race, and other generalizations. Prosecutors and public defenders resolve entire classes of minor plea bargains based on standard local practices and pricing. Urban courts process hundreds of cases en masse. At each stage, the pressure to aggregate—to treat people and cases by group—weakens and sometimes eliminates individuated scrutiny of defendants and the evidence in their cases; people are largely evaluated, convicted, and punished by category and based on institutional habit. This wholesale process of …


Why Properly Policing A Movement Matters: A Response To Alafair Burke’S Policing, Protestors, And Discretion, Lenese Herbert Mar 2016

Why Properly Policing A Movement Matters: A Response To Alafair Burke’S Policing, Protestors, And Discretion, Lenese Herbert

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Crime, Surveillance, And Communities, Bennett Capers Mar 2016

Crime, Surveillance, And Communities, Bennett Capers

Fordham Urban Law Journal

We have become a surveillance state. Cameras—both those controlled by the state, and those installed by private entities—watch our every move, at least in public. For the most part, courts have deemed this public surveillance to be beyond the purview of the Fourth Amendment, meaning that it goes largely unregulated—a cause for alarm for many civil libertarians. This Article challenges these views and suggests that we must listen to communities in thinking about cameras and other surveillance technologies. For many communities, public surveillance not only has the benefit of deterring crime and aiding in the apprehension of criminals. It can …


Policing, Protestors, And Discretion, Alafair Burke Mar 2016

Policing, Protestors, And Discretion, Alafair Burke

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


"It Takes A Lot To Get Into Bellevue": A Pro-Rights Critique Of New York's Involuntary Commitment Law, Zachary Groendyk Mar 2016

"It Takes A Lot To Get Into Bellevue": A Pro-Rights Critique Of New York's Involuntary Commitment Law, Zachary Groendyk

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Lawyer's Obligation To Correct Social Injustice!, James F. Gill Feb 2016

The Lawyer's Obligation To Correct Social Injustice!, James F. Gill

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Concept Of The Speech Platform: Walker V. Texas Division, Abner S. Greene Jan 2016

The Concept Of The Speech Platform: Walker V. Texas Division, Abner S. Greene

Faculty Scholarship

In Walker, the Court deemed Texas’ specialty license plate program government speech, and thus applied no First Amendment review to the state’s refusal to allow a Confederate battle flag specialty plate, even though the reason for the refusal was that the plate was offensive. The dissent considered this unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in a limited public forum. This article argues that the Walker result was correct, but for the wrong reason. Government should have the power to forbid hateful or vulgar speech from limited public forums such as specialty or vanity license plates, transit ads, and after-school extracurricular activities, even though …