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Line Warming: Improperly Influencing Voters Or Mitigating The Effects Of Voter Suppression?, Elizabeth Ellen Gordon Jun 2026

Line Warming: Improperly Influencing Voters Or Mitigating The Effects Of Voter Suppression?, Elizabeth Ellen Gordon

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Exception To Abolition: Reforming Prison Labor Through Constitutional And State-Level Change, Caren Abourjeily Mar 2026

Exception To Abolition: Reforming Prison Labor Through Constitutional And State-Level Change, Caren Abourjeily

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Civil Rights Microviolations, Michael Kagan, Alissa Cooley Yonesawa Jan 2026

Civil Rights Microviolations, Michael Kagan, Alissa Cooley Yonesawa

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


In The Matter Of H.B., Iii, 141 Nev. Adv. Op. 15 (Apr. 3, 2025), Racaiim Mckain Jul 2025

In The Matter Of H.B., Iii, 141 Nev. Adv. Op. 15 (Apr. 3, 2025), Racaiim Mckain

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

In a decisive decision, the Nevada Supreme Court held that convicted felons are not automatically disqualified from acting as a legal guardian.


Justice Kavanaugh’S Tee: What Is The Court Brewing?, Elijah J. Miller Mar 2025

Justice Kavanaugh’S Tee: What Is The Court Brewing?, Elijah J. Miller

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Participatory Defense And Three Pillars Of Criminal Injustice, Isis Misdary Mar 2025

Participatory Defense And Three Pillars Of Criminal Injustice, Isis Misdary

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Ecarrots: Prison Control And Profits From Correctional Tablets, Justin Iverson Jan 2025

Ecarrots: Prison Control And Profits From Correctional Tablets, Justin Iverson

Scholarly Works

In recent years, tablets have gained tremendous popularity behind bars for their ability to expand access to educational and rehabilitative services for people in prison. However, there are downsides to tablet implementation, including high costs at the expense of a captive population and shifting power dynamics resulting in possible volatility. This Article examines the use of correctional tablets in jails and prisons as mechanisms for administrative control and profit-making in an era of beleaguered correctional budgets. It also considers legal and policy implications related to the disproportionately negative impact of the introduction of tablets on people in poverty, increased dependency …


Who Bears The Burden When Prison Guards Rape?, Meredith B. Esser Jan 2024

Who Bears The Burden When Prison Guards Rape?, Meredith B. Esser

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Several recent scandals have highlighted the continued problem of institutional sexual abuse within the federal Bureau of Prisons ("BOP"). Most notoriously, the rampant sexual abuse of women incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution ("FCI") Dublin, also known as the "rape club," resulted in the prosecution and conviction of several high-ranking officials within FCI Dublin, including both the former Warden and former Chaplain who worked there for several years. In response to these patterns of misconduct, the Federal Sentencing Commission's new guidelines, which went into effect on November 1, 2023, now allow for victims of custodial sexual assault to apply for early …


Never Equals: Slavery, White Masculinities, And The Legacy Of Law In Today’S Workplace, Ann C. Mcginley Jan 2023

Never Equals: Slavery, White Masculinities, And The Legacy Of Law In Today’S Workplace, Ann C. Mcginley

Scholarly Works

This essay discusses two themes of Race Unequals: (1) the role of law in creating and reinforcing gendered, classed, and raced identities on plantations in the Antebellum South; and (2) the existence of slavery's legacy today in workplaces and the law's frequent failure to remedy its damaging tentacles. Part II describes masculinities studies from the social sciences and Multidimensional Masculinities Theory in law and applies the theory to analyze the first theme. Part III considers slavery's legacy in today's workplaces and analyzes employment discrimination law's shortcomings in eliminating racism in workplaces. The essay concludes that White masculinities, established in the …


Harris V. State, 138 Nev. Adv. Op. 40 (June 2, 2022), Candace Mays Jul 2022

Harris V. State, 138 Nev. Adv. Op. 40 (June 2, 2022), Candace Mays

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Nevada Supreme Court considered whether the district court erroneously dismissed the rights deprivation claims of the appellant, an incarcerated individual, on procedural grounds. The Court held that the lower court erred in dismissing the appellant’s claims with prejudice under NRCP 12(b)(5) when he had pleaded facts sufficient to place the respondents on notice of the nature of the claim and relief sought, in accordance with Nevada’s notice-pleading standard. The Court also held that the lower court erred in dismissing the appellant’s complaint with prejudice, without granting leave to amend to resolve the deficiencies in service, and without an explanation …


Pregnant Workers Fairness Acts: Advancing A Progressive Policy In Both Red And Blue America, Deborah A. Widiss Jun 2022

Pregnant Workers Fairness Acts: Advancing A Progressive Policy In Both Red And Blue America, Deborah A. Widiss

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Nevada As An Example: State Immigration Reform In A Swing State, Michael Kagan, Selena Torres, Jorge "Coco" Padilla Jun 2022

Nevada As An Example: State Immigration Reform In A Swing State, Michael Kagan, Selena Torres, Jorge "Coco" Padilla

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Stopping Anti-Asian Hate: Local Solutions To A National Problem, Stewart Chang Jun 2022

Stopping Anti-Asian Hate: Local Solutions To A National Problem, Stewart Chang

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


#Freethehair: How Black Hair Is Transforming State And Local Civil Rights Legislation, D. Wendy Greene Jun 2022

#Freethehair: How Black Hair Is Transforming State And Local Civil Rights Legislation, D. Wendy Greene

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


No Path Forward: Nevada’S Death Penalty, Randolph M. Fiedler Jun 2022

No Path Forward: Nevada’S Death Penalty, Randolph M. Fiedler

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Introduction: A Symposium On Enhancing Civil And Constitutional Rights Through State And Local Action, Ann C. Mcginley Jun 2022

Introduction: A Symposium On Enhancing Civil And Constitutional Rights Through State And Local Action, Ann C. Mcginley

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Felony Disenfranchisement And Voting Rights Restoration In The States, Manoj Mate Jun 2022

Felony Disenfranchisement And Voting Rights Restoration In The States, Manoj Mate

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Health Plan Coverage For Gender-Affirming Care: Continued Shortcomings At The Federal Level And A Role For Progressive States, Richard Luedeman Jun 2022

Health Plan Coverage For Gender-Affirming Care: Continued Shortcomings At The Federal Level And A Role For Progressive States, Richard Luedeman

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Legislating A Pathway To Improved Outcomes For People Living With Hiv And Lgbtq+ Nevadans, Dallas Harris, André Wade Jun 2022

Legislating A Pathway To Improved Outcomes For People Living With Hiv And Lgbtq+ Nevadans, Dallas Harris, André Wade

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Tackling The Qualified Immunity Problem With State Law, Andréa Vieira, Addie C. Rolnick, Anona Su Jun 2022

Tackling The Qualified Immunity Problem With State Law, Andréa Vieira, Addie C. Rolnick, Anona Su

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


A "Historic Westside" Story: Las Vegas Black History, Gaming Policy Effects On Black Employment, And Gaming Companies Leaving Money On The Table, Sebastian O. Ross Mar 2022

A "Historic Westside" Story: Las Vegas Black History, Gaming Policy Effects On Black Employment, And Gaming Companies Leaving Money On The Table, Sebastian O. Ross

UNLV Gaming Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Redefining The Badges And Incidents Of Slavery, Nicholas Serafin Jan 2022

Redefining The Badges And Incidents Of Slavery, Nicholas Serafin

Badges & Incidents

No abstract provided.


Civil Rights Law Equity: An Introduction To A Theory Of What Civil Rights Has Become, John Valery White Jan 2022

Civil Rights Law Equity: An Introduction To A Theory Of What Civil Rights Has Become, John Valery White

Scholarly Works

This Article argues that civil rights law is better understood as civil rights equity. It contends that the four-decade-long project of restricting civil rights litigation has shaped civil rights jurisprudence into a contemporary version of traditional equity. For years commentators have noted the low success rates of civil rights suits and debated the propriety of increasingly restrictive procedural and substantive doctrines. Activists have lost faith in civil rights litigation as an effective tool for social change, instead seeking change in administrative forums, or by asserting political pressure through social media and activism to compel policy change. As for civil rights …


Indigenous Subjects, Addie C. Rolnick Jan 2022

Indigenous Subjects, Addie C. Rolnick

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


A Brown Buffalo's Observations On Color (Blindness), Legal History, And Racial Justice In The Rocky Mountain West, Tom I. Romero Ii Jan 2022

A Brown Buffalo's Observations On Color (Blindness), Legal History, And Racial Justice In The Rocky Mountain West, Tom I. Romero Ii

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Laboratories Of Democracy: State Law As A Partial Solution To Workplace Harassment, Ann C. Mcginley Jan 2022

Laboratories Of Democracy: State Law As A Partial Solution To Workplace Harassment, Ann C. Mcginley

Scholarly Works

This Article analyzes the substantive and procedural problems created by the federal judiciary in Title VII hostile work environment law that concurrently drains federal anti-harassment law of its meaning. The premise is that, at least for the near future, relying on federal courts and/or the U.S. Congress to protect employees' civil rights is likely fruitless. Instead, we should encourage state legislatures that seek to improve civil rights in employment in their own jurisdictions and state supreme courts to interpret their own state laws to recognize employees' civil rights to the fullest extent possible. Part II analyzes how federal courts decide …


Cruelty Was The Point: Theories Of Recovery For Family Separation Anddetention Abuses, Sarah Rogerson Mar 2021

Cruelty Was The Point: Theories Of Recovery For Family Separation Anddetention Abuses, Sarah Rogerson

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Giving Qualified Immunity Teeth: A Congressional Approach Tofixing Qualified Immunity, Tayler Bingham Mar 2021

Giving Qualified Immunity Teeth: A Congressional Approach Tofixing Qualified Immunity, Tayler Bingham

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Distributed Federalism: The Transformation Of Younger, Anne R. Traum Jan 2021

Distributed Federalism: The Transformation Of Younger, Anne R. Traum

Scholarly Works

For decades federal courts have remained mostly off limits to civil rights cases challenging the constitutionality of state criminal proceedings. Younger abstention, which requires federal courts to abstain from suits challenging the constitutionality of pending state prosecutions, has blocked plaintiffs from bringing meritorious civil rights cases and insulated local officials and federal courts from having to defend against or decide them. Younger’s reach is broad. It has forced political protestors (from the Vietnam era to Black Lives Matter) to challenge the constitutionality of their arrests and prosecutions within their state criminal proceedings. The doctrine also has made it difficult to …


Brief For New Ways Ministry Et Al. As Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiff, Koenke V. Saint Joseph University, Leslie C. Griffin Jan 2020

Brief For New Ways Ministry Et Al. As Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiff, Koenke V. Saint Joseph University, Leslie C. Griffin

Supreme Court Briefs

No abstract provided.