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Expanding The Protectional Scope Of Title Vii “Because Of Sex” To Include Discrimination Based On Sexuality And Sexual Orientation, Colleen C. Keaney
Expanding The Protectional Scope Of Title Vii “Because Of Sex” To Include Discrimination Based On Sexuality And Sexual Orientation, Colleen C. Keaney
Saint Louis University Law Journal
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Striving For Equality, But Settling For The Status Quo: Is Title Vi More Illusory Than Real?, Ruqaiijah Yearby
Striving For Equality, But Settling For The Status Quo: Is Title Vi More Illusory Than Real?, Ruqaiijah Yearby
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A plethora of empirical studies, such as the Institute of Medicine’s Unequal Treatment report, have shown that racial inequities in health care continue at the same level as in the Jim Crow Era. Innumerable reasons have been offered to explain the continuation of these health inequities, including racial discrimination. Congress enacted Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to put an end to racial discrimination in health care, but it still persists. Given the regulation and enforcement mechanisms established under Title VI explicitly aimed at remedying racial discrimination such as that directed at elderly African-Americans it is unbelievable …