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Discrimination In Customer Segmentation Marketing Practices, Jude A. Thomas

Jude A Thomas

Customer segmentation is a powerful analytical marketing practice that is employed by a wide range of businesses to segregate customers with similar characteristics into subgroups in order to inform operational business processes. Such practices allow firms to better allocate their resources in order to form more profitable customer relationships, but they also have the capacity to lead to unfair discriminatory impact upon customer groups. Current legislation is largely unprotective of customers so positioned, but recent trends in the insurance and lending industries suggest that a broader application of anti-discrimination laws could foretell a future of greater restrictions on the implementation …

Policing Terrorists In The Community, Sahar F. Aziz

Sahar F. Aziz

Twelve years after the September 11th attacks, countering domestic terrorism remains a top priority for federal law enforcement agencies. Using a variety of reactive and preventive tactics, law enforcement seeks to prevent terrorism before it occurs. Towards that end, community policing developed in the 1990s to combat violent crime in inner city communities is being adopted in counterterrorism as a means of collaborating with Muslim communities and local police to combat “Islamist” homegrown terrorism. Developed in response to paramilitary policing models, community policing is built upon the notion that effective policing requires mutual trust and relationships among law enforcement and …

The Constitutionality Of Government Fees As Applied To The Poor, Henry Rose

Henry Rose

The Constitutionality of Government Fees as Applied to the Poor

Abstract

The United States Supreme Court has considered on many occasions the constitutionality of government fees that indigent persons were unable to pay. As a result of their inability to pay, these indigent persons were initially denied access to legal process, (in both the civil and criminal context), access to electoral processes and access to general government services. The most recent decision of the Supreme Court involving this issue, M.L.B. v. S.L.J., 519 U.S. 102 (1996), has resulted in a lack of clarity as to the constitutional principles that the …