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The Last Stand For Union Power, Laura Christensen Garcia, Danya Moodabagil

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An Examination Into The Physical And Sexual Abuse Of Children In Juvenile Detention Centers, Claudia Cornejo

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Chicago's War On Crime, Madison Flores

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About one in five U.S. adults say they or someone close to them has had a personal experience with gun violence.¹ Seventy-one percent of Americans also believe gun laws should be stricter.² Most people favor a federal law preventing people with mental illnesses from purchasing guns and a smaller percentage favor a nationwide ban on semi-automatic weapons.³ The debate is not so simply divided between those who want to ban all guns and those who want no restrictions on guns. Rather, many Americans value both preventing gun violence and protecting gun rights.⁴

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Sanctioned Abuse: Corporal Punishment, Restraint And Seclusion Of Children In Public Schools, Jasper Gingrich

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Affirmative Action In Jeopardy, Natalie Jakubowski

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Forty-five years ago, the United States Supreme Court decided the landmark case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke ("Bakke"), which confirmed the constitutionality of race as a factor for consideration in college admissions, otherwise known as affirmative action.¹ Since then, colleges have considered race as an additional "plus factor" in their admissions processes and have immensely increased the percentage of minority enrollment in colleges. However, the Supreme Court will hear two cases in 2023: Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. …

A Brief Introduction To The Legal Response To Childhood Fatalities And Injuries On Family Farms, Madeline Krolczyk

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Punishing Poverty: The Inequalities Of Cash Bail And The Move Towards Reform, Emily L. Salamone

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Felony Disenfranchisement: A Barrier To True Democracy, Anna Baish

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Beneath The Welfare Façade, Anna Bowser

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Name, Image, And Likeness In Ncaa College Athletics, Marlee Burridge

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Barricading The Ballot Box: How Legislative Changes To Ballot Referendums Threaten America's Tradition Of Direct Democracy, Tripp Frank

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Safeguarding Sanctuary: The Growing Pains Of A Sanctuary City, Iris Gomez

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Where The Fourth Amendment Fails: The Loophole Of No-Knock Warrants And The Devastating Community Safety Consquences, Grace Hague

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Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: Banning The Unhoused From Chicago's Public Spaces, Alex Kirchner

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Scotus On "Wotus", Will Matushek

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"If You Die, That's On You": The Persistence Of Inhumane Conditions At Cook County Jail, Leanna Nichols

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United States V. Rahimi: A Closer Look At The Implications For Domestic Abuse Victims, Dani Scudder

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Stop Cop City: The Expanding Reach Of The Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act's Threat To First Amendment Protected Activism, Elizabeth Stamper

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"No Evictions" Policies: Evaluating The Disparate Impact Of Auto-Rejection On Black Women, Mehreen Tariq

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Looking Inward: Building A Restorative Legal Aid Agency, Andy Froelich

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Introduction To Issue Two, Jack Hynes

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

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It Was Never About A Cake: Masterpiece Cakeshop And The Crusade To Weaponize Religious Freedom, Andrew L. Seidel

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

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Addressing The Inevitability Of Race In The Doj’S Enforcement Of The Pattern-Or-Practice Initiative, Joshua Chanin

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

Section 14141 of the 1994 Crime Act empowers the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and drive reform of local law enforcement agencies found to have engaged in a pattern or practice of misconduct. During the Trump administration, the DOJ willfully allowed its powers under this section to lie dormant, despite a number of high-profile incidents of police violence against Black Americans. Active enforcement of Section 14141 affords the federal executive branch significant opportunities to promote lawful policing. Using its pattern-or-practice authority, the DOJ has guided dozens of law enforcement agencies through a process designed to remedy systemic unlawful …

Free Appropriate Public Education: The Unfulfilled Promise Of The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, Madison Flores

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The Impact Of Abortion Bans On Low-Income Women, Jeni Siegel

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Applying Constitutional Due Process Rights In Immigration Detainment, Gabrielle Risolvato

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The Racist Roots Of The War On Drugs & The Myth Of Equal Protection For People Of Color, Steven A. Ramirez, Andre Douglas Pond Cummings

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By 2021, the costs and pain arising from the propagation of the American racial hierarchy reached such heights that calls for anti-racism and criminal justice reform dramatically expanded. The brutal murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police vividly proved that the social construction of race in America directly conflicted with supposed American values of equal protection under law and notions of basic justice. The racially-driven War on Drugs (WOD) fuels much of the dissonance between American legal mythology—such as the non-discrimination principle and the impartial administration of the rule of law—and the reality of race in the United States. …

Roadmap For Anti-Racism: First Unwind The War On Drugs Now, Steven A. Ramirez, Andre Douglas Pond Cummings

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The War on Drugs (WOD) transmogrified into a war on communities of color early in its history, and its impact has devastated communities of color first and foremost. People of color disproportionately suffer incarceration in the WOD even though people of color use illegal narcotics at substantially lower rates than white Americans. As a result, the WOD led to mass incarceration of people of color at many times the rate of white Americans. Indeed, as a stark illustration of the power of race in America, even after Illinois and Colorado legalized cannabis, over-policing in communities of color resulted in a …

The Demise Of The Bivens Remedy Is Rendering Enforcement Of Federal Constitutional Rights Inequitable But Congress Can Fix It, Henry Rose

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A federal statute, 42 U.S.C. 1983, allows a person whose federal constitutional rights are violated by state actors to sue them for damages to compensate for the harm caused by the constitutional violations. There is no analogous federal statute that allows a person whose federal constitutional rights have been violated by federal actors to sue them for damages to compensate for the harm caused by the constitutional violations. The United States Supreme Court allowed Webster Bivens, a man who sued federal law enforcement officials for falsely arresting and physically abusing him in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights, to sue …