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Adding Insult To Injury: The Lack Of Medically-Appropriate Housing For The Homeless Hiv-Iii, Patti E. Phillips Jan 1991

Adding Insult To Injury: The Lack Of Medically-Appropriate Housing For The Homeless Hiv-Iii, Patti E. Phillips

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Beyond Homelessness: An Entitlement To Housing, Curtis Berger Jan 1991

Beyond Homelessness: An Entitlement To Housing, Curtis Berger

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Authoritarianism And The Rule Of Law, Lynne Henderson Jan 1991

Authoritarianism And The Rule Of Law, Lynne Henderson

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Expression And Choice Of Language, Leslie Green Jan 1991

Freedom Of Expression And Choice Of Language, Leslie Green

Articles & Book Chapters

This paper argues that sound principles of freedom of expression protect an individual's choice of which language to speak. They do so, not to guarantee against mistranslation, but rather to ensure that speakers are able to reach their intended audiences and, more importantly, to allow for the expressive value of speaking a particular language as a symbol of ethnic or political identification. The example of Quebec's Charter of the French Language and the resulting litigation is considered in some detail.


The Ideal Of Liberty: A Comment On Michael H. V. Gerald D., Robin West Jan 1991

The Ideal Of Liberty: A Comment On Michael H. V. Gerald D., Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

What is the meaning and content of the "liberty" protected by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment? In Michael H. v. Gerald D. Justices Brennan and Scalia spelled out what at first blush appear to be sharply contrasting understandings of the meaning of liberty and of the substantive limits liberty imposes on state action. Justice Scalia argued that the "liberty" protected by a substantive interpretation of due process is only the liberty to engage in activities historically protected against state intervention by firmly entrenched societal traditions. I will sometimes call this the "traditionalist" interpretation of liberty. Justice Brennan, …


Workplace Discrimination: Truthfulness And The Moral Imagination, Emily Calhoun Jan 1991

Workplace Discrimination: Truthfulness And The Moral Imagination, Emily Calhoun

Publications

No abstract provided.


Attorney Fees: Compensating The Attorney Pro Se Litigant In Civil Rights Cases, Peter Bagley Jan 1991

Attorney Fees: Compensating The Attorney Pro Se Litigant In Civil Rights Cases, Peter Bagley

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.


Retreat From The Melting Pot: Cultural Pluralism And Public Policy, Douglas O. Linder Jan 1991

Retreat From The Melting Pot: Cultural Pluralism And Public Policy, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Review Of Affirmative Action After Metro Broadcasting V. Fcc: The Solution Almost Nobody Wanted, Douglas O. Linder Jan 1991

Review Of Affirmative Action After Metro Broadcasting V. Fcc: The Solution Almost Nobody Wanted, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Indian Reservations And The Preservation Of Tribal Culture: Beyond Wardship To Stewardship, John W. Ragsdale Jr Jan 1991

Indian Reservations And The Preservation Of Tribal Culture: Beyond Wardship To Stewardship, John W. Ragsdale Jr

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Equal Protection Minus Strict Scrutiny Plus Benign Classifications Equals? Equality Of Opportunity, Johnny Parker Jan 1991

Equal Protection Minus Strict Scrutiny Plus Benign Classifications Equals? Equality Of Opportunity, Johnny Parker

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


From Class Actions To Miss Saigon: The Concept Of Representation In The Law, Martha L. Minow Jan 1991

From Class Actions To Miss Saigon: The Concept Of Representation In The Law, Martha L. Minow

Cleveland State Law Review

The representation debates over casting "Miss Saigon" and law school faculties reflect the prevalence of contemporary assumptions about group differences. They reflect arguments made on behalf of historically excluded groups that group membership serves as a proxy for shared experiences and especially common experiences as victims of societal prejudice. Opponents, styled as defenders of neutrality, resist such arguments because they undermine the commitment to treating individuals as individuals. Maybe we can understand the debates better by seeing connections to deeper confusions about the concept of representation throughout our society, made especially vivid in legal and political contexts. If treated as …


Section 1983 And The Parratt Doctrine After Zinermon V. Burch: Ensuring Due Process Rights Or Turning The Fourteenth Amendment Into A Font Of Tort Law, Paul F. Wingenfeld Jan 1991

Section 1983 And The Parratt Doctrine After Zinermon V. Burch: Ensuring Due Process Rights Or Turning The Fourteenth Amendment Into A Font Of Tort Law, Paul F. Wingenfeld

Cleveland State Law Review

Over the last thirty years, the Court has decided a number of cases which illustrate an on-going struggle to find the proper place for section 1983 in the federal court system and, consequently, what ultimately qualifies as adequate procedural due process within the context of the statute. This note will examine the history of Court decisions involving section 1983 in order to provide the proper background for examining the Court's most recent decision in Zinermon v. Burch, a case which itself has added to an already confusing field of legal study. Within this historical background, however, the Court has actually …


Racial Insults And Free Speech Within The University, J. Peter Byrne Jan 1991

Racial Insults And Free Speech Within The University, J. Peter Byrne

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article examines the constitutionality of university prohibitions of public expression that insults members of the academic community by directing hatred or contempt toward them on account of their race. Several thoughtful scholars have examined generally whether the government can penalize citizens for racist slurs under the first amendment, but to the limited extent that they have discussed university disciplinary codes they have assumed that the state university is merely a government instrumentality subject to the same constitutional limitations as, for example, the legislature or the police. In contrast, I argue that the university has a fundamentally different relationship to …


Toward An Abolitionist Interpretation Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Robin West Jan 1991

Toward An Abolitionist Interpretation Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

It is by now an open secret that current interpretations of the meaning of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and of its relevance and mandate for contemporary problems of racial, gender, and economic justice, are deeply and, in a sense, hopelessly conflicted. The conflict, simply stated, is this: to the current Supreme Court, and to a sizeable and influential number of constitutional theorists, the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed by the Constitution is essentially a guarantee that the categories delineated by legal rules will be "rational" and will be rationally related to legitimate state ends. To …


Genetic Discrimination: The Use Of Genetically Based Diagnostic And Prognostic Tests By Employers And Insurers, Lawrence O. Gostin Jan 1991

Genetic Discrimination: The Use Of Genetically Based Diagnostic And Prognostic Tests By Employers And Insurers, Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper analyzes the law, ethics and public policy concerning "genetic discrimination," defined as the denial of rights, privileges or opportunities on the basis of information obtained from genetically based diagnostic and prognostic tests. The Human Genome Initiative will enhance the ability to gather and organize information that may predict a person's future potential and disabilities. Enormous human benefits may ensue from understanding the etiology and pathophysiology of genetic disorders, including disease prevention through genetic counseling, and treatment of the disorders through genetic manipulation. This information will help clinicians understand and eventually treat many of the more than 4,000 diseases …


The First Amendment, Burt Neuborne Jan 1991

The First Amendment, Burt Neuborne

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Affirmative Action, Douglas Scherer, John Dunne Jan 1991

Affirmative Action, Douglas Scherer, John Dunne

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equal Protection Jan 1991

Equal Protection

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Of A Mentally Ill Individual's Right To Refuse Medication Under The United States And The New York State Constitutions, William M. Brooks Jan 1991

A Comparison Of A Mentally Ill Individual's Right To Refuse Medication Under The United States And The New York State Constitutions, William M. Brooks

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equal Protection And Affirmative Action In Broadcast Licensing, Michael Bressman Jan 1991

Equal Protection And Affirmative Action In Broadcast Licensing, Michael Bressman

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

As the Supreme Court's 1989 Term reached its conclusion, observers expected the Court to follow "City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co." and invalidate two Federal Communications Commission (FCC) minority preference policies aimed at promoting broadcast diversity. Instead, in one of the major surprises of the Term, the Court upheld both FCC racial preference programs in Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission. Finding no equal protection violation, the Court ruled that "benign" race-conscious programs designed by Congress to "serve important governmental objectives" are constitutional if they are "substantially related to [the] achievement of those objectives."


Quantum Leap: A Black Woman Uses Legal Education To Obtain Her Honorary White Pass, Beverly I. Moran Jan 1991

Quantum Leap: A Black Woman Uses Legal Education To Obtain Her Honorary White Pass, Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The nature of privilege is that it is hidden from those who possess it even more than it is hidden from those who lack privilege. Privilege's invisibility to its owner makes privilege difficult to both identify and fight.


The Limits Of "Liberal Republicanism": Why Group-Based Remedies And Republican Citizenship Don't Mix, Cynthia V. Ward Jan 1991

The Limits Of "Liberal Republicanism": Why Group-Based Remedies And Republican Citizenship Don't Mix, Cynthia V. Ward

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Limiting Disclosure Of Rape Victims' Identities, Paul Marcus, Tara L. Mcmahon Jan 1991

Limiting Disclosure Of Rape Victims' Identities, Paul Marcus, Tara L. Mcmahon

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Affirmative Action In The Marketplace Of Ideas, Rodney A. Smolla Jan 1991

Affirmative Action In The Marketplace Of Ideas, Rodney A. Smolla

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Rhetoric Of Equality, Neal Devins Jan 1991

The Rhetoric Of Equality, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Jim Crow, Indian Style: The Disenfranchisement Of Native Americans, Jeanette Wolfley Jan 1991

Jim Crow, Indian Style: The Disenfranchisement Of Native Americans, Jeanette Wolfley

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.


To Stimulate, Provoke, Or Incite? Hate Speech And The First Amendment, Kenneth Lasson Jan 1991

To Stimulate, Provoke, Or Incite? Hate Speech And The First Amendment, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

If protecting freedom of speech is one of mankind's noblest pursuits, then restricting it is the most difficult. Yet limit we must: even the purest civil libertarian will concede that false shouts of fire cannot be countenanced nor broadcasts of wartime troop movements; even those who object to obscenity laws recognize the need for enabling redress of libel; and even those who would protect the right to be insulting do not defend inflammatory words spit out nose-to-nose. Now a spate of "speech codes" on college campuses has once again brought the first amendment to the fore, part of a simmering …


Rule 11 Recalibrated In Civil Rights Cases, Carl W. Tobias Jan 1991

Rule 11 Recalibrated In Civil Rights Cases, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

The United States Supreme Court promulgated the 1983 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure out of growing concern about abuse of the civil litigation process. The most controversial aspect of the implementation of these revisions has been judicial enforcement of amended Rule 11 (the Rule) in ways that disadvantage or "chill" civil rights plaintiffs and attorneys. As the federal judiciary enters its eighth year of implementing the Rule, courts apparently have improved their application of it by becoming more solicitous of the needs of civil rights plaintiffs and their counsel, in recognition of the important social function that …


Gender Stereotypes And Discriminatory Behaviors Toward Female Attorneys: The North Carolina Case, Michael L. Vasu, Ellen Storey Vasu Jan 1991

Gender Stereotypes And Discriminatory Behaviors Toward Female Attorneys: The North Carolina Case, Michael L. Vasu, Ellen Storey Vasu

Campbell Law Review

This article presents the results generated from the North Carolina Survey of Attorneys. The focus of this article is on attorneys' perceptions of professional activity levels, career choices, and gender stereotypes, as well as observations of discriminatory behavior toward female attorneys in court or chambers as perceived and reported by the lawyers in our sample.