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“[T]Here Appears To Be Intentional Discrimination In The Panel”: The Case For Abolishing Peremptory Challenges In Georgia, Ariane Williams
“[T]Here Appears To Be Intentional Discrimination In The Panel”: The Case For Abolishing Peremptory Challenges In Georgia, Ariane Williams
Georgia Criminal Law Review
In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the Supreme Court attempted to prevent peremptory strikes motivated by race. However, evidence and jurisprudence since Batson have indicated that the Court did not succeed. Furthermore, peremptory strikes perpetuate racial imbalance in juries and erode public faith in an unbiased legal system, as seen in reactions to the recent McMichael-Bryant trial in Georgia, in which only one black juror was seated. Given the longstanding and intractable issues with peremptory challenges, the Arizona Supreme Court decided to eliminate them entirely in 2021. This Article argues that Georgia should follow suit and abolish …
The Color Of Pain: Racial Bias In Pain And Suffering Damages, Maytal Gilboa
The Color Of Pain: Racial Bias In Pain And Suffering Damages, Maytal Gilboa
Georgia Law Review
For more than half a century, our legal system has formally eschewed race-based discrimination, and nearly every field of law has evolved to increase protections for minority groups historically burdened by racial prejudice. Yet, even today, juries in tort actions routinely consider a plaintiff’s race when calculating compensatory tort damages, and they do so in a manner that systematically results in lower awards to Black plaintiffs than to White. This Article examines this problem, zeroing in on the specific issue of racial bias in calculations of tort damages for pain and suffering.
The severity of a plaintiff’s injury is commonly …
Discrimination, Trump V. Hawaii, And Masterpiece Cakeshop, Christopher C. Lund
Discrimination, Trump V. Hawaii, And Masterpiece Cakeshop, Christopher C. Lund
Georgia Law Review
This short symposium piece is a comment on two of the Supreme Court’s recent religion cases. The first is Trump v. Hawaii, the travel ban case, where the Court rejected the claim of unconstitutional religious discrimination against Muslims.1 The second is Masterpiece Cakeshop, the case about the baker who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding, where the Court accepted the claim of unconstitutional religious discrimination against a conservative Christian.2 One case finds discrimination, while the other rejects it. Yet more fundamentally, the pairing suggests differences in how we perceive or react to evidence of discrimination. Both on …
Discriminatory Dualism, Sarah L. Swan
Discriminatory Dualism, Sarah L. Swan
Georgia Law Review
This Article identifies and theorizes a significant but
previously overlooked feature of structural
discrimination: it frequently develops into two seemingly
opposing, yet in fact mutually supportive practices. This
“discriminatory dualism” occurs in multiple contexts,
including policing, housing, and employment. In
policing, communities of color experience overpolicing
(i.e., the aggressive overenforcement of petty crime) at the
same time as they experience underpolicing (i.e., the
persistent failure to address violent crime). In housing,
redlining (i.e., the denial of credit to aspiring
homeowners based on race) combines with reverse
redlining (i.e., the over-offering of credit on exploitative
terms) to suppress minority homeownership. And …
Age, Time, And Discrimination, Alexander A. Boni-Saenz
Age, Time, And Discrimination, Alexander A. Boni-Saenz
Georgia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Charting The Middle Course: An Argument For Robust But Well-Tailored Health Care Discrimination Protection For The Transgender Community, John E. Farmer
Charting The Middle Course: An Argument For Robust But Well-Tailored Health Care Discrimination Protection For The Transgender Community, John E. Farmer
Georgia Law Review
Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act offers sweeping discriminationprotections for
patients, applicable to both health insurers and health
care providers who receive federal funding or are
subject to federal administration. Placing itself in the
canon of federal antidiscriminationlaws, Section 1557
incorporates Title IX of the Education Amendments of
1972 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex.
Just how sweeping this aspect of Section 1557s
prohibitions is has been the subject of controversy
exemplified in litigation in the federal courts, as well as
in the starkly contrasting views of two presidential
administrations. The Department of Health …
And Stay Out! The Dangers Of Using Anti-Immigrant Sentiment As A Basis For Social Policy: America Should Take Heed Of Disturbing Lessons From Great Britain's Past, Kevin C. Wilson
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
The Naalc And Mexico's Ley Federal Para Prevenir Y Eliminar La Discriminacion: Further Failure Under A Flawed Treaty Or The Beginning Of Meaningful Protection From Employment Discrimination Throughout North America?, Philip Dehart
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
A Comparative Analysis Of Unconscious And Institutional Discrimination In The United States And Britain, Leland Ware
A Comparative Analysis Of Unconscious And Institutional Discrimination In The United States And Britain, Leland Ware
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
The Role Of The Judiciary In The European Union's (De)Segregation Of Roma Students, Lindsey M. Green
The Role Of The Judiciary In The European Union's (De)Segregation Of Roma Students, Lindsey M. Green
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Discrimination Under A Description, Patrick S. Shin
Discrimination Under A Description, Patrick S. Shin
Georgia Law Review
Discrimination Under a Description .......................... Patrick S. Shin 1
In debates about the permissibility of certain kinds of
differential treatment, our judgments often seem to depend
on how to conduct in question is described. For example,
legal prohibitions on same-sex marriage seem clearly
impermissible insofar as they can be described as a form of
sex discrimination, less clearly so, at least under federal
law, if described simply as sexual-orientation
discrimination, and arguably not discriminatory at all
insofar as they constitute a universally imposed disability
on marryingwithin one's own sex. It seems, in other words,
that the prohibitionof same-sex marriage constitutes …
Noah's Curse: How Religion Often Conflates Status, Belief, And Conduct To Resist Antidiscrimination Norms, William N. Eskridge Jr.
Noah's Curse: How Religion Often Conflates Status, Belief, And Conduct To Resist Antidiscrimination Norms, William N. Eskridge Jr.
Georgia Law Review
Today, many devout Christian fundamentalists support
some state discrimination against gay people, on the
ground that full equality for gays would mean fewer
liberties for themselves. In its recent controversy with a
public law school, the Christian Legal Society argued that
it was entitled to state subsidies even though it violated
the school's antidiscrimination policy. The Society said it
excluded only "unrepentant homosexuals"-those gay
persons whose "immoral" conduct and degraded status
were directly linked to what the Society considered an
anti-Christian message.
Professor Eskridge demonstrates that the same clash
between equality for minorities and liberty for Christian
fundamentalists played out …