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Civil Rights and Discrimination
University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
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- #MeToo Movement; Title VII workplace discrimination claims; McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting analysis; analysis; mixed-motive cases; workplace harassment; Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins; Desert Palace (1)
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents; creation and expansion of Bivens suits; restriction of Bivens suits post-1980; definition of Bivens suits; Carlson v. Green; Bush v. Lucas (1)
- Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett; Americans with Disabilities Act; state employees and ex parte Young; Title I of the ADA and local governments; Consonance based congruence and proportionality; disability discrimination made illegitimate for equal protection purposes by the ADA as Commerce Clause legislation (1)
- Criminal justice debt; Arkansas traffic violations result in jail time; minor offenses generating crippling debt or resulting in jail time; problem of fines and fees for relatively minor infractions that lead to incarceration for those who cannot afford to pay; scholarship about debtors’ prisons and fines-related litigation in Arkansas; legal framework in Arkansas for imposing and enforcing fines and fees; potential solutions to prevent the poor from suffering life-altering negative consequences for minor infractions (1)
- Inc. v. Costa; disproportionately ruling by courts against Title VII plaintiffs at summary judgment stage; (1)
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- Presence of police in schools (1)
- Race and incarceration in Arkansas; sentencing disparities in Arkansas; science of racial bias and the criminal justice system; AMI Crim. 2d 101; efficacy of jury instructions concerning racial bias; juror bias during deliberations; Peña-Rodriguez decision (1)
- School-to-prison pipeline; school-to prison pipeline focus on exclusionary discipline (1)
- Schweiker v. Chilicky (1)
- Texas school-to-prison pipeline; links between segregation and school-to-prison pipeline; civil rights crisis in education; problems associated with challenging school segregation in the courts; addressing the issue through civil rights law related to housing and neighborhood segregation (1)
- Transgender students and fraternal organizations; Title IX and transgender students; ambiguity of term "sex"; "all-comers" policies; Title IX and the legislative history’s impact on the exception for single-sex organizations; (1)
- Use of intrusive surveillance and monitoring systems; broader factors that contribute to educational inequities; Arkansas IDRA EAC-South operated by the Intercultural Development Research Association (1)
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New Contexts And Special Factors: The Court’S New Bivens Framework, Alexander J. Lindvall
New Contexts And Special Factors: The Court’S New Bivens Framework, Alexander J. Lindvall
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Moving The Needle: Two Promising Tools To Attack Arkansas’S Racial Disparity In Criminal Sentencing, Anastasia M. Boles
Moving The Needle: Two Promising Tools To Attack Arkansas’S Racial Disparity In Criminal Sentencing, Anastasia M. Boles
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Civil Rights Law—Questioning Mcdonnell Douglas? #Metoo.: Resolving The Mcdonnell Douglas Mixed-Motive Question By Adopting The Sixth Circuit’S Preference For Hearing Victims, Laura O’Hara
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Eradicating The School-To-Prison Pipeline Through A Comprehensive Approach To School Equity, Morgan Craven, Paula Johnson, Terrence Wilson
Eradicating The School-To-Prison Pipeline Through A Comprehensive Approach To School Equity, Morgan Craven, Paula Johnson, Terrence Wilson
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
When examining the school-to-prison pipeline, most focus on issues of exclusionary discipline, the presence of police in schools, or the use of intrusive surveillance and monitoring systems. To close the pipeline, agencies, educators, and advocates must also examine other, broader factors that contribute to educational inequities. We argue in this article that eradicating the school-to-prison pipeline involves tackling the legal structures, policies, practices, and beliefs that create harmful discipline systems and other linked inequitable systems. With Arkansas schools as our illustration, we explain how inequities in discipline, funding, and school accountability create a situation primed to send students into the …
Making The Case For School-And-Neighborhood Desegregation Approach To Deconstructing The School-To-Prison Pipeline, Deborah Fowler, Madison Sloan, Ellen Stone
Making The Case For School-And-Neighborhood Desegregation Approach To Deconstructing The School-To-Prison Pipeline, Deborah Fowler, Madison Sloan, Ellen Stone
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Ticket To Jail: Do Minor Traffic Violations Result In Jail Time For Poor Arkansans?, Jessie Wallace Burchfield
A Ticket To Jail: Do Minor Traffic Violations Result In Jail Time For Poor Arkansans?, Jessie Wallace Burchfield
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Four Pathways Of Undermining Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Alabama V. Garrett, Derek Warden
Four Pathways Of Undermining Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Alabama V. Garrett, Derek Warden
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
In Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett, the Supreme Court held that Title I of the ADA did not validly abrogate state sovereign immunity; and as such, a plaintiff could not obtain damages against the states or sue the states directly for injunctive relief. Many courts and scholars have read Garrett as sounding the death knell for ADA Title I government employee plaintiffs. This article shows that such fears are misplaced. Indeed, this article offers four pathways around Garrett that show Title I and its requirements are very much alive and well. First, the article shows …
Civil Rights—Answering The “Million Dollar” Question: The Meaning Of “Sex” For The Purposes Of Title Ix, Title Vii, And The Equal Protection Clause, And Its Impact On Transgender Students’ Membership In Fraternal Organizations, Jacob Wickliffe
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.