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Brief Of Amicus Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality In Support Of Appellant, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

State v. Gregory

Brief Of Amici Curiae Legal Voice And Korematsu Center, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Robert Chang

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

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The Colors Of Cannabis: Reflections On The Racial Justice Implications Of California's Proposition 64, Steven Bender

Faculty Articles

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Brief For The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality And The Phillips Black Project As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioner, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

Williams v. Steele

Brief For The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Hispanic National Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, National Bar Association, National Lgbt Bar Association, And National Native American Bar Association As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioner, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Counsel For Amici Curiae

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

Lee v. Tam

Cops On Trial: Did Fourth Amendment Case Law Help George Zimmerman’S Claim Of Self-Defense?, Josephine Ross

Seattle University Law Review

When police kill unarmed civilians, prosecutors and grand juries often decline to bring criminal charges. Even when police officers are indicted, they are seldom convicted at trial. There are many reasons why police are rarely convicted for violent acts. Commentators have criticized the inherent conflict of interest for prosecutors who decide whether to bring charges and the fact that police are investigating their own. However, this article considers another way that police may be treated differently than other people suspected of committing violent crimes. The Fourth Amendment, designed to protect civilians from overzealous officers, now helps insulate police suspected of …

A Brave New Borderless World: Standardization Would End Decades Of Inconsistency In Determining Proper Personal Jurisdiction In Cyberspace Cases, Jonathan Spencer Barnard

Seattle University Law Review

While various courts and numerous legal professionals have addressed the issue of inconsistent application of personal jurisdiction in cyberspace cases, the Supreme Court has yet to discuss the impact that technology might have on the analysis of personal jurisdiction; thus, many details remain unresolved. This Note examines the varying jurisdictional splits between the lower district courts, the courts of appeals, and the federal circuit court of appeals in determining the proper approach to take when dealing with Internet jurisdiction. After an examination of several key cases, this Note will explain why the Supreme Court, or the Legislature, should adopt an …

Progressive Alternatives To Imprisonment In An Increasingly Punitive (And Self-Defeating) Society, Sandeep Gopalan, Mirko Bagaric

Seattle University Law Review

Criminal sanctions are a necessary and appropriate response to crime. But extremism, especially when coupled with a slavish and unthinking adherence to traditional practices, nearly always produces unfortunate consequences. Such is the case with the rapid growth in prison numbers in the United States over the past two decades. The prime purpose of imprisonment is to punish serious offenders and to prevent them from reoffending during the period of detention. The overuse of imprisonment has resulted in the violation of the most cardinal moral prohibition associated with imprisonment: punishing the innocent. The runaway cost of the prison budget has resulted …

Privatization Of The Judiciary, Eldar Haber

Seattle University Law Review

The digital era invoked new challenges to judicial systems. The Internet enabled violation of privacy and intellectual property rights and enhanced the magnitude of criminal activity. Recognizing the inability of courts to handle a high magnitude of lawsuits, along with enforcement difficulties, policymakers worldwide chose to delegate quasi-judicial powers to online intermediaries that facilitate or enable such potential violations or infringements of rights. Search engines were first tasked to perform a quasi-judicial role under a notice-and-takedown regime to combat copyright infringement around the world. Recently, the European Union (EU) decided to delegate judicial authority to search engines by granting rights …

Realigning The Governmental/Proprietary Distinction In Municipal Law, Hugh D. Spitzer

Seattle University Law Review

Lawyers and judges who deal with municipal law are perpetually puzzled by the distinction between “governmental” and “proprietary” powers of local governments. The distinction is murky, inconsistent between jurisdictions, inconsistent within jurisdictions, and of limited use in predicting how courts will rule. Critics have launched convincing attacks on the division of municipal powers into these two categories. Most articles have focused on problems with the distinction in specific areas of municipal law. In contrast, this article provides a comprehensive analysis of the governmental/proprietary distinction in seven specific doctrinal areas: legislative grants of municipal authority, government contracts, torts, eminent domain, adverse …

Limited License Legal Technicians: Non-Lawyers Get Access To The Legal Profession, But Clients Won’T Get Access To Justice, Julian Aprile

Seattle University Law Review

Washington Limited License Legal Technicians (LLLTs) are non-lawyers who will supposedly help to close “the wide and ever-growing gap in necessary legal and law related services for low and moderate income persons.” However, LLLTs will not close the access to justice gap because “[t]here are no protections . . . to ensure that legal technicians will actually provide services to the poor, as opposed to selling their services to those who can most afford them,” and LLLTs are “not going to have the competency to actually do for the poor what needs to be done.”

Additionally, the modifications of the …

Recording A New Frontier In Evidence-Gathering: Police Body-Worn Cameras And Privacy Doctrines In Washington State, Katie Farden

Seattle University Law Review

This Note contributes to a growing body of work that weighs the gains that communities stand to make from police body-worn cameras against the tangle of concerns about how cameras may infringe on individual liberties and tread on existing privacy laws. While police departments have quickly implemented cameras over the past few years, laws governing the use of the footage body-worn cameras capture still trail behind. Notably, admissibility rules for footage from an officer’s camera, and evidence obtained with the help of that footage, remain on the horizon. This Note focuses exclusively on Washington State’s laws. It takes a clinical …

Brief For Amici Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Anti-Defamation League, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian American Bar Association Of New York, Asian American Legal Defense And Education Fund, Hispanic National Bar Association, Latinojustice Prldef Inc., Metropolitan Black Bar Association, Naacp Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, National Bar Association, National Native American Bar Association, Society Of American Law Teachers, Inc., South Asian Bar Association Of New York, South Asian Bar Association Of North America, And Law Professors In Support Of Defendant-Apellant, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Attorneys For Amicus Curiae

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

People v. Joseph Bridgeforth

Campus Racial Unrest And The Diversity Bargain, Steven W. Bender

Faculty Articles

Campus racial unrest challenging the status quo of unwelcoming environments for students of color drew recent national attention. While achieving some short-term victories, the current protests prompted backlash that exposes the sinister and sobering foundations of racism on college campuses that connect to the seeming permanence of racism embedded in U.S. institutions and law. In this article, I suggest that despite the window dressing of diversity mission statements and policies that claim to open the campus doors to racial minorities, society fears an educated and activist minority population that sets out to change the status quo of systemic racism. As …

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Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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"The Forgotten Victims" How Racialized Gender Stereotypes Lead To Police Violence Against Black Women And Girls: Incorporating An Analysis Of Police Violence Into Feminist Jurisprudence And Community Activism, Nnennaya Amuchie

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Suspension, Hu(Wo)Man Right And Torts; Discriminatory Religious Practices And Hu(Wo)Man Rights Suspension Tactics In Remedying Feminine Suffering Through Tort Law, Yifat Bitton

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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For The Bankrupt Elder, There Is No "Fresh Start": Resisting The Vulture Effect, Meelad Hanna

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Majority Rule: How The Ballot Initiative Process Hurts Minorities, Samir Junejo

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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The "Other" Side Of Human Trafficking: Effectively Advocating For Labor Trafficking Survivors Under The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Norma González

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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An Analysis Of The Economic Costs Of Seeking The Death Penalty In Washington State, Peter A. Collins, Robert C. Boruchowitz, Matthew J. Hickman, Mark A. Larrañaga

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Americans' Misuse Of "Internment", Yoshinori H.T. Himel

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Sniff And Search Border Militarization, Yessenia Renee Medrano-Vossler

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Brief Of Amicus Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality In Support Of Petitioners, Robert Chang, Jessica Levin, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Attorneys For Amicus Curiae

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

State v. Houston-Sconiers et al.