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Apple Watch-Ing You: Why Wearable Technology Should Be Federally Regulated, Grant Arnow Oct 2016

Apple Watch-Ing You: Why Wearable Technology Should Be Federally Regulated, Grant Arnow

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


Bullying And The Individuals With Disabililities Education Act (Idea): A Framework For Provising Relief To Students With Disabilities, Sarah H. Ganley Oct 2016

Bullying And The Individuals With Disabililities Education Act (Idea): A Framework For Provising Relief To Students With Disabilities, Sarah H. Ganley

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Note: Anti-Discrimination Legislation In Housing Sep 2016

Note: Anti-Discrimination Legislation In Housing

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Brief Of Amicus Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality In Support Of Petitioners, Robert Chang, Jessica Levin, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Attorneys For Amicus Curiae Sep 2016

Brief Of Amicus Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality In Support Of Petitioners, Robert Chang, Jessica Levin, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Attorneys For Amicus Curiae

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

State v. Houston-Sconiers et al.


State & Federal Religious Accommodation Bills: Overview Of The 2015-2016 Legislative Session, Public Rights/Private Conscience Project Sep 2016

State & Federal Religious Accommodation Bills: Overview Of The 2015-2016 Legislative Session, Public Rights/Private Conscience Project

Center for Gender & Sexuality Law

Since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples were unconstitutional, opponents of marriage equality and LGBT rights have largely turned their attention to the enactment of religious exemption laws. These exemptions allow individuals and organizations to violate certain federal, state, and local laws and regulations that conflict with their religious faith. While some proposed bills are state-level variations on the extremely broad and general federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), passed in 1993, a new variety of legislation provides narrower accommodations specifically relating to religious views about sex, …


Racial Profiling In The Era Of Black De-Constitutionalism, Donald F. Tibbs Sep 2016

Racial Profiling In The Era Of Black De-Constitutionalism, Donald F. Tibbs

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Sep 2016

Table Of Contents

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


“Lord Forgive Me, But He Tried To Kill Me”*: Proposing Solutions To The United States’ Most Vexing Racial Challenges, André Douglas Pond Cummings Sep 2016

“Lord Forgive Me, But He Tried To Kill Me”*: Proposing Solutions To The United States’ Most Vexing Racial Challenges, André Douglas Pond Cummings

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Defense Support Of Civil Authorities: An Examination Of Trends Impacting Upon Police Militarization, Kevin H. Govern Sep 2016

Defense Support Of Civil Authorities: An Examination Of Trends Impacting Upon Police Militarization, Kevin H. Govern

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Tinker, Taylor, Schoolhouse, Speech: The Impact Of The Internet And Social Media On Public School Administrators’ Authority To Control Student Speech, Olivia Broderick Sep 2016

Tinker, Taylor, Schoolhouse, Speech: The Impact Of The Internet And Social Media On Public School Administrators’ Authority To Control Student Speech, Olivia Broderick

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


The No-Fly List: The New Redress Procedures, Criminal Treatment, And The Blanket Of “National Security”, Chelsea Creta Sep 2016

The No-Fly List: The New Redress Procedures, Criminal Treatment, And The Blanket Of “National Security”, Chelsea Creta

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Can You Hear Me Now? The Reasonableness Of Sending Notice Through Text Messages And Its Potential Impact On Impoverished Communities, Caley Degroote Sep 2016

Can You Hear Me Now? The Reasonableness Of Sending Notice Through Text Messages And Its Potential Impact On Impoverished Communities, Caley Degroote

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Section 5: Civil Rights And Liberties, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2016

Section 5: Civil Rights And Liberties, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

Supreme Court Preview

No abstract provided.


When More Is Less—Swat And Procedural Justice, Timothy C. Macdonnell Sep 2016

When More Is Less—Swat And Procedural Justice, Timothy C. Macdonnell

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Since the “war on drugs” began in the early 1970s the use of Special Weapons and Tactics units has increased exponentially. These units, originally designed to address unique policing situations like riots or a barricaded gun man, are now deploying approximately 60,000 times a year. Over half of those deployments are for search warrants. Because SWAT units deploy assuming that they are going to a situation with a high likelihood of violence, their tactics reflect that assumption. SWAT means and methods emphasize the decisive use of force to resolve conflicts. These means and methods do not encourage communication between police …


From Integrationism To Equal Protection: Tenbroek And The Next 25 Years Of Disability Rights, Samuel R. Bagenstos Sep 2016

From Integrationism To Equal Protection: Tenbroek And The Next 25 Years Of Disability Rights, Samuel R. Bagenstos

Articles

If there is one person who we can say is most responsible for the legal theory of the disability rights movement, that person is Jacobus tenBroek. Professor tenBroek was an influential scholar of disability law, whose writings in the 1960s laid the groundwork for the disability rights laws we have today. He was also an influential disability rights activist. He was one of the founders and the president for more than two decades of the National Federation of the Blind, one of the first-and for many years undisputedly the most effective-of the organizations made up of people with disabilities that …


Brief Of Amicus Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality In Support Of S.K-P., Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality Aug 2016

Brief Of Amicus Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality In Support Of S.K-P., Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

In re Dependency of S.K-P.


Peter Approved My Visa, But Paul Denied It, Emily Callan, Johnpaul Callan Aug 2016

Peter Approved My Visa, But Paul Denied It, Emily Callan, Johnpaul Callan

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Prison Bars On Classroom Doors, Cornelius Lee Aug 2016

Prison Bars On Classroom Doors, Cornelius Lee

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


How And Why A Code Of Silence Between State's Attorneys And Police Officers Resulted In Unprosecuted Torture, Elliott Riebman Aug 2016

How And Why A Code Of Silence Between State's Attorneys And Police Officers Resulted In Unprosecuted Torture, Elliott Riebman

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


What (And Whom) State Marijuana Reformers Forgot: Crimmigration Law And Noncitizens, Carrie Rosenbaum Aug 2016

What (And Whom) State Marijuana Reformers Forgot: Crimmigration Law And Noncitizens, Carrie Rosenbaum

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Aug 2016

Table Of Contents

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


"On This, We Shall Build": The Struggle For Civil Rights In Portland, Oregon 1945-1953, Justin Legrand Vipperman Aug 2016

"On This, We Shall Build": The Struggle For Civil Rights In Portland, Oregon 1945-1953, Justin Legrand Vipperman

Dissertations and Theses

Generally, Oregon historians begin Portland Civil Rights history with the development of Vanport and move quickly through the passage of the state's public accommodations law before addressing the 1960s and 70s. Although these eras are ripe with sources and contentious experiences, 1945 to 1953 provide a complex struggle for civil rights in Portland, Oregon. This time period demonstrates the rise of local leaders, wartime racial tensions, and organizational efforts used to combat inequality. 1945 marked a watershed moment in Portland Civil Rights history exhibiting intergroup collaboration and interracial cooperation converging to eventually provide needed legislation. Although discrimination continued after 1953, …


Jurisdiction And Resentencing: How Prosecutorial Waiver Can Offer Remedies Congress Has Denied, Leah Litman, Luke C. Beasley Aug 2016

Jurisdiction And Resentencing: How Prosecutorial Waiver Can Offer Remedies Congress Has Denied, Leah Litman, Luke C. Beasley

Articles

This Essay is about what prosecutors can do to ensure that prisoners with meritorious legal claims have a remedy. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) imposes draconian conditions on when prisoners may file successive petitions for post-conviction review (that is, more than one petition for post-conviction review). AEDPA’s restrictions on post-conviction review are so severe that they routinely prevent prisoners with meritorious claims from vindicating those claims.


Lies, Damn Lies, And Batson Challenges: The Right To Use Statistical Evidence To Prove Racial Bias, Graham R. Cronogue Aug 2016

Lies, Damn Lies, And Batson Challenges: The Right To Use Statistical Evidence To Prove Racial Bias, Graham R. Cronogue

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

This Article provides two principal contributions to the study of wrongful convictions. First, it fills a gap in the literature by clarifying the scope of a capital defendant’s constitutional right to use statistics when attacking a wrongful conviction caused by racial bias in jury selection. In doing so, the Article not only examines the content of the Court’s jurisprudence but it also explores the historical “arc” toward greater evidentiary protections. This arc has been guided primarily by the realization that prior narrower solutions have been ineffective at combating racially-motivated peremptory strikes. The Article will also place modern statistical evidence in …


Ending The Internal Affairs Farce, Rachel Moran Aug 2016

Ending The Internal Affairs Farce, Rachel Moran

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Conscience Protection And Discrimination In The Republican Party Platform And Mississippi's H.B. 1523, Religious Freedom Institute, Linda C. Mcclain Jul 2016

Conscience Protection And Discrimination In The Republican Party Platform And Mississippi's H.B. 1523, Religious Freedom Institute, Linda C. Mcclain

Faculty Scholarship

Last May, before the Supreme Court issued its landmark opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, Cornerstone sponsored a symposium on “Responding to Indiana RFRA and Beyond,” which focused on Governor Mike Pence’s swift “fix” of Indiana’s RFRA, after protests and threats of boycotts, to clarify that it would “not create a license to discriminate.” Particularly controversial were provisions protecting the conscience of persons operating for-profit businesses. In that symposium, I observed that public discourse frequently referred back to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, because “many people relate the current battle over protecting conscience in the context of public accommodations …


Keynote Remarks: Academic Activism And Freedom Of Speech, Gene Nichol Jul 2016

Keynote Remarks: Academic Activism And Freedom Of Speech, Gene Nichol

Seattle University Law Review

I am much honored to be here, in such remarkable company. By my lights, the folks in this room represent the best of the legal academy; those who think, stunningly, that the real world, outside campus walls, actually matters; those who, every day, live out Václav Havel’s definition of hope. Havel thought of hope not as a prediction of success or a description of the world around us but as a conscious choice to live in the belief that we can make a difference in the quality of our shared, and sometimes threatened, lives. When you think about it, the …


Confronting Race And Collateral Consequences In Public Housing, Ann Cammett Jul 2016

Confronting Race And Collateral Consequences In Public Housing, Ann Cammett

Seattle University Law Review

Access to affordable housing is one of the most critical issues currently facing low-income families. In many urban areas, rising costs, dwindling economic opportunity, and gentrification have foreclosed access to previously available rental stock and contributed to a crisis in housing. For African Americans lingering economic disparities arising from generations of forced racial segregation and the disproportional impact of mass incarceration have magnified these problems. In this Article I explore legal barriers to publicly subsidized housing, a “collateral consequence” of criminal convictions that increasingly serves as a powerful form of housing discrimination. Evictions, denial of admission, and permanent exclusion of …


Begging For Due Process: Defending The Rights Of Urban Outcasts In An Italian Town, Giacomo Pailli, Alessandro Simoni Jul 2016

Begging For Due Process: Defending The Rights Of Urban Outcasts In An Italian Town, Giacomo Pailli, Alessandro Simoni

Seattle University Law Review

Adult begging in Italy has been decriminalized since a Constitutional Court decision in 1995 and an ensuing law, no. 205, in 1999. Nonetheless, beggars, particularly Roma ones, are still perceived by the public as a nuisance, like an issue that should be dealt with. Sensible to the pressure of its constituency, even Florence—a city with a tradition of openness and inclusion—has taken measures against begging and other similar street-level economic activities. Between 2007 and 2008, the first wave of city action in Florence was directed at windshield cleaners at traffic lights. Even though the policy was challenged, it produced the …


The Incongruous Intersection Of The Black Panther Party And The Ku Klux Klan, Angela A. Allen-Bell Jul 2016

The Incongruous Intersection Of The Black Panther Party And The Ku Klux Klan, Angela A. Allen-Bell

Seattle University Law Review

When, in 2015, a Louisiana prison warden publically likened the Black Panther Party to the Ku Klux Klan, I was stunned. The differences between the two groups seemed so extreme and so obvious I could not imagine ineptness of this magnitude. Not long after this, a Georgia legislator unashamedly express that the Ku Klux Klan was not a racist, terrorist group, but merely a vigilante group trying to keep law and order. After initial dismay, each of these instances evoked thoughts of the far-reaching implications of officials making operational and policy decisions around such a flawed appreciation of history. These …