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Inside The Civil Rights Ring: Statutory Jabs And Constitutional Haymakers, Aaron J. Shuler Dec 2011

Inside The Civil Rights Ring: Statutory Jabs And Constitutional Haymakers, Aaron J. Shuler

Aaron J Shuler

Civil rights litigators use statutory and constitutional attacks to combat inequality. Each approach has its advantages and drawbacks developed through interpretation by U.S. courts. The first major decision that shaped modern civil rights was the Civil Rights Cases that dodged a constitutional attack to withdraw most private acts of discrimination out of reach until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed and validated in Heart of Atlanta v. U.S. In addition to the coupling of statutory attacks with private discrimination and constitutional challenges to state biases, statutory attacks have proven to be more adept at addressing disparate impacts as …


Warren Limmer, The Black Knight Of Minnesota's Marriage Equality Debate, Aaron J. Shuler May 2011

Warren Limmer, The Black Knight Of Minnesota's Marriage Equality Debate, Aaron J. Shuler

Aaron J Shuler

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Torture's Future, Aaron J. Shuler Dec 2007

Torture's Future, Aaron J. Shuler

Aaron J Shuler

No abstract provided.