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Full-Text Articles in Law
State Government State Government: Provide For Neutrality Of State Law With Respect To Freedom Of Decision To Provide Or Not Provide Certain Benefits To Unmarried Persons; Provide That State And Local Government Entities Shall Comply With Such Policy Of Neutrality, Melissa A. Segel
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act prohibits state and local governments or municipalities from imposing a penalty on organizations or persons who choose to withhold benefits, rights, and privileges from unmarried persons.
Jaycees Reconsidered: Judge Richard S. Arnold And The Freedom Of Association, Richard W. Garnett
Jaycees Reconsidered: Judge Richard S. Arnold And The Freedom Of Association, Richard W. Garnett
Journal Articles
In Roberts v. United States Jaycees, the Supreme Court reversed Judge Richard S. Arnold's decision for the Court of Appeals and held - without dissent - that the First Amendment did not shield the Jaycees' men-only membership policy from the non-discrimination requirements of the Minnesota Human Rights Act. The claim in this essay is that Judge Arnold's position and decision in the Jaycees case deserved, and still deserve, more thoughtful and sympathetic treatment. Even some of Judge Arnold's many friends and fans tend to treat as something of an embarrassing lapse or anomalous error his conclusion in that case that, …
Critical Race Realism: Re-Claiming The Antidiscrimination Principle Through The Doctrine Of Good Faith In Contract Law, Emily Houh
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
This Article employs what it calls "critical race realism" to theorize and propose a common law antidiscrimination claim that incorporates contemporary re-conceptualizations of antidiscrimination jurisprudence and grounds itself doctrinally not in civil rights law but in the contractually implied obligation of good faith. "Critical race realism" refers in part to this Article's explicit goal, in proposing the common law claim, to re-conceive explicitly the private law doctrine of good faith as one that might assist in effecting a public law norm of equality. By employing critical race realism, this Article hopes to help revive the controversy over what constitutes the …