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A Penny For Your Thoughts: Free Speech And Paying Fines With Coins, Peter C. Alexander
A Penny For Your Thoughts: Free Speech And Paying Fines With Coins, Peter C. Alexander
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
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Private Prisons And The New Marketplace For Crime, André Douglas Pond Cummings, Adam Lamparello
Private Prisons And The New Marketplace For Crime, André Douglas Pond Cummings, Adam Lamparello
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A saner and safer prison policy in the United States begins by ending the scourge of the private prison corporation and returning crime and punishment to public function. We continue by radically reimagining our sentencing policies and reducing them significantly for non-violent crimes. We end the War on Drugs, once and for all, and completely reconfigure our drug and prison policy by legalizing and regulating marijuana use and providing health services to addicts of harder drugs and using prison for only violent drug kingpins and cartel bosses. We stop the current criminalization of immigration in its tracks and block the …
Constitutional Law—Fourth Amendment And Seizures— Accidental Seizures By Deadly Force: Who Is Seized During A Police Shootout? Plumhoff V. Rickard, 134 S. Ct. 2012 (2014)., Adam D. Franks
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
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Historic And Modern Social Movements For Reparations: The National Coalition Of Blacks For Reparations In America (N'Cobra) And Its Antecedents, Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, Adrienne D. Davis
Historic And Modern Social Movements For Reparations: The National Coalition Of Blacks For Reparations In America (N'Cobra) And Its Antecedents, Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, Adrienne D. Davis
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Most of the legal scholarship on reparations for Blacks in America focuses on its legal or political viability. This literature has considered both procedural obstacles, such as statutes of limitations and sovereign immunity, as well as the substantive conception of a defensible cause of action. Indeed, Congressman John Conyers introduced H.R. 40, a bill to study reparations, in 1989 and every Congressional session since, and there have been three law suits that have received national attention. This Essay takes a different approach, considering reparations as a social movement with a rich and under-explored history. As Robin Kelley explains, such an …
Exclusionary Land Use Controls And The Takings Issue, Robert R. Wright
Exclusionary Land Use Controls And The Takings Issue, Robert R. Wright
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