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Allen V. Totes/Isotoner Corporation: A Cautionary Tale For Breastfeeding Working Mothers, Erin Davenport

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

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Explaining The Progression Of The Rights Of Same-Sex Couples In South America, Daniel De La Cruz

San Diego International Law Journal

A trend of rights advocacy has recently developed in the international community. Organizations dedicated to the principle of advancing the rights of historically under-represented and oppressed social groups have proliferated around the globe. The growth of the gay rights movement in recent years has resulted in the expansion of civil liberties afforded to same-sex couples. The movement has gained significant success in symbolic expression. Even without much knowledge of the movement, one typically associates a rainbow flag, the Greek letter lambda, and the word “pride” with the effort. Unfortunately, the movement has not achieved comparable substantive success. Same-sex couples continue …

Out Of The District And Into The Towns: Local Efforts To Protect Lgbtq Rights, Jeff Graham, Beth Littrell, Anthony Kreis, Sonja R. West

Working in the Public Interest Conferences

Focuses on issues faced by the LGBTQ community, highlighting the importance of local laws and ordinances. With many levels of government involved in making critical decisions about legislation affecting the LGBTQ community, it can be easy to orget the very real effects of local laws.

Shades Of Gray: The Future Of Affirmative Action In Higher Education, Eric Segall, Sarah M. Shalf, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Andrea L. Dennis

Working in the Public Interest Conferences

Features prominent academics and experts on affirmative action discussing a variety of issues including the impact of Fisher v. University of Texas.

Is "Different But Equal" The New "Separate But Equal"? Nclb's Single-Sex Schooling Option Signals New Horizons For Some While Challenging Equal Education Convictions For Others , Elaine Ekpo

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Bamn! The Sixth Circuit Strikes Down Michigan's Proposal 2, J. Kevin Jenkins, Pamela Larde

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

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Let Me Count The Ways: The Unconstitutionality Of Same-Sex-Marriage Bans, Mark Strasser

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Torch (March 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

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“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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The Meaning And Good Of Equality: Toward Enhanced Constitutional Principles, Scott Fitzgibbon

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Perspectives On Fisher V. University Of Texas And The Strict Scrutiny Standard In The University Admissions Context, Michael Poreda

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

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Does Your Carer Take Sugar? Carers And Human Rights: The Parallel Struggles Of Disabled People And Carers For Equal Treatment, Luke Clements

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Editor's Note

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Lessons For Religious Liberty Litigation From Kentucky, Jennifer Anglim Kreder

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Dismantling The United Front In Child Abuse Cases: Reevaluating Delaware’S Serious Injury Statute After Fifteen Years Of Asfa, Eliza M. Hirst, Harper S. Seldin

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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What Happens Next? Will Protection Against Gender Identity And Sexual Orientation Workplace Discrimination Expand During President Obama’S Second Term?, Sarah M. Stephens

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Ordinances Targeting The Homeless: Constitutional Or Cost-Effective?, Ellen M. Marks

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Rif’D Off: The Denial Of Education Opportunities Through Seniority-Based Layoff Policies And The Judiciary’S Role In Reform, Amy Conant

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Special Immigrant Juvenile Status: A “Juvenile” Here Is Not A “Juvenile” There, Heryka Knoespel

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Nfib V. Sebelius: A Feather In The Cap Of Those Who Challenge Sorna?, Bethany Belisle

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Narrative Pluralism And Doctrinal Incoherence In Hosanna-Tabor, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Mercer Law Review

The federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination are among the most important statutes ever enacted. They constitute the most significant federal commitment to eradication of the unjustified discrimination in the economic sector that has persisted since Reconstruction. The laws nevertheless did not address one significant issue: whether and how anti-discrimination norms should apply to ministers and other religious leaders employed by churches and other religious congregations.

The laws are not wholly silent, to be sure. They allow religious groups to discriminate in favor of members of their own religion when they hire leaders, thus avoiding (what we might hope are) hypothetical …

Walking A Thin Blue Line: Balancing The Citizen's Right To Record Police Officers Against Officer Privacy, Rebecca G. Van Tassell

BYU Law Review

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Brown V. Board In The World: How The Global Turn Matters For School Reform, Human Rights, And Legal Knowledlge, Martha Minow

San Diego Law Review

Global perspectives can contribute to our understandings of any one nation’s laws and decisions. In this light, America’s educational landmark, Brown v. Board of Education, matters not just for the United States but around the world. Inside the United States, a cottage industry of academic scholars studies the influence of Brown where the decision’s impact reaches well beyond racial desegregation of schools. The litigation has by now a well-known and complicated relationship to actual racial integration within American schools, as the case perhaps exacerbated tensions and slowed otherwise gradual reform, and perhaps at the same time galvanized the social movement …

Brief Of Amici Curiae Professors Nan D. Hunter, Et Al., Addressing The Merits In Support Of Respondents, Nan D. Hunter, Suzanne B. Goldberg

U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

In this amicus brief filed in United States v. Windsor, pending before the Supreme Court, amici constitutional law professors argue that all classifications that carry the indicia of invidiousness should trigger a more searching inquiry than the traditional rational basis test under the Equal Protection Clause would suggest. Classifications that already receive heightened scrutiny, such as race or sex, fit easily into this approach. But the Court’s equal protection jurisprudence has become muddied in a series of cases in which it says rational basis review, but appears to do a more rigorous review. Sexual orientation classifications seemingly were analyzed …

Religions As Sovereigns: Why Religion Is "Special", Elizabeth Clark

Faculty Scholarship

Commentators increasingly challenge religion’s privileged legal status, arguing that it is not “special” or distinct from other associations or philosophical or conscientious claims. I propose that religion is “special” because it functions metaphorically as a legal sovereign, asserting supreme authority over a realm of human life. Under a religion-as-sovereign theory, religious freedom can be understood as at least partial deference to a religious sovereign in a system of shared or overlapping sovereignty. This Article suggests that federalism, which also involves shared sovereignty, can provide a useful heuristic device for examining religious freedom. Specifically, the Article examines a range of federalism …

Richard Ortega, Plaintiff-Appellant, V. United States Immigration And Customs Enforcement, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants: Brief Of Appellant, Patricia E. Roberts, Tillman J. Breckenridge, Alison R.W. Toepp

Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic

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Shearson V. United States Department Of Homeland Security: The Sixth Circuit Exempts National Security From The Privacy Act, Douglas A. Behrens

Legislation and Policy Brief

“ARMED AND DANGEROUS.” Imagine those words flashing on a Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) agent’s computer screen as you attempt to reenter your country of birth from a relaxing vacation. Reacting to the computerized warning, the CBP agents detain and question you for several hours before you are released from custody—without an explanation—and allowed to continue on your trip home as if nothing had happened.

This hypothetical scenario became very real for Julia Shearson and her four-year old daughter in January 2006, and marked the beginning of her quest for answers. Why was she flagged as “ARMED AND DANGEROUS?” What …