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The Costs Of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease And The Federal Benefits Dilemma, Sarah Mcdaniel
The Costs Of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease And The Federal Benefits Dilemma, Sarah Mcdaniel
West Virginia Law Review
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Discrimination Out Of Dismissiveness: The Example Of Infertility, David Orentlicher
Discrimination Out Of Dismissiveness: The Example Of Infertility, David Orentlicher
Indiana Law Journal
In recent years, antidiscrimination theory and doctrine have rested heavily on the "anticaste" principle first invoked in Strauder v. West Virginia According to this principle, equal protection law and antidiscrimination statutes should eradicate public-and private-policies that subject some persons to ongoing stigma and subordination and therefore to second-class status in society. This Article argues that while a focus on stigma and subordination is important, it misses a key source of discrimination-the discriminationt hat arises from dismissiveness. Antidiscrimination law has recognized the need to overcome the discrimination that results from invidious bias, unfair stereotyping, irrational fear accumulated myths, or simple neglect.A …