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Put Me In Coach!: Title Ix Has Taken Female Athletes Off Of The Sidelines And Into The Game, But How Can Current Progress Be Advanced In The Future?, Jennifer Passannante Jan 2006

Put Me In Coach!: Title Ix Has Taken Female Athletes Off Of The Sidelines And Into The Game, But How Can Current Progress Be Advanced In The Future?, Jennifer Passannante

Women’s Law Forum (2000-2006)

Title IX was originally promulgated to establish equal opportunity for both men and women in federally funded programs. Although it was originally enacted for much broader purposes, Title IX is still considered the single most important piece of legislation promoting equal opportunities for females in interscholastic and intercollegiate athletics. Unfortunately, despite Title IX, women still lag behind men in nearly "every measure of collegiate athletic equality." This article will focus specifically on Title IX's progress to date in creating athletic opportunities for women, its inadvertent consequences affecting male athletes, and means of achieving increased success in the future. Part II …

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Casenote: Turn To Face The Change: The Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Requires Michigan High School Athletic Association To Change Scheduling Practices Because Of Gender Discrimination In Communities For Equity V. Michigan High School Athletic Ass’N., Inc, Ryan Fandetti Jan 2006

Casenote: Turn To Face The Change: The Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Requires Michigan High School Athletic Association To Change Scheduling Practices Because Of Gender Discrimination In Communities For Equity V. Michigan High School Athletic Ass’N., Inc, Ryan Fandetti

Women’s Law Forum (2000-2006)

Recently, there has been an array of legal challenges to the scheduling of sports seasons by high school athletic associations. These challenges are based on the argument that traditional schedules discriminate based upon gender. One particular legal battle concerning athletic scheduling is currently being fought in Michigan in Equity v. Michigan High School Athletic Ass’n., Inc, 377 F.3d 504 (6th Cir., 2004). This note will track their legal battle over the sports seasons in Michigan, and critique the recent Sixth Circuit decision affirming a district court ruling for CFE. Part two of this note will focus on the facts of …

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Introduction, Elijah E. Cummings Jan 2006

Introduction, Elijah E. Cummings

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Human Experimentation In Developing Countries: Improving International Practices By Identifying Vulnerable Populations And Allocating Fair Benefits, Kristen Farrell Jan 2006

Human Experimentation In Developing Countries: Improving International Practices By Identifying Vulnerable Populations And Allocating Fair Benefits, Kristen Farrell

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Legislative Updates, Eriade Hunter Jan 2006

Legislative Updates, Eriade Hunter

The Modern American

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Conference Highlight-Rising Star Award: Commentary , Lydia Edwards Jan 2006

Conference Highlight-Rising Star Award: Commentary , Lydia Edwards

The Modern American

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The Suffocation Of Free Speech Due To The "Gravity Of Danger" Of Terrorism, Tim Davis Jan 2006

The Suffocation Of Free Speech Due To The "Gravity Of Danger" Of Terrorism, Tim Davis

The Modern American

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Reexamining The Gender Implications Of Campaign Finance Reform: How Higher Ceilings On Individual Donations Disproportionately Impact Female Candidates, Ashley Baker Jan 2006

Reexamining The Gender Implications Of Campaign Finance Reform: How Higher Ceilings On Individual Donations Disproportionately Impact Female Candidates, Ashley Baker

The Modern American

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Arab Stereotyping: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective, Rachel Saloom Jan 2006

Arab Stereotyping: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective, Rachel Saloom

The Modern American

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The Right To Say No To Discrimination: A Commentary On Rumsfeld V. Fair, Zachary Wolfe Jan 2006

The Right To Say No To Discrimination: A Commentary On Rumsfeld V. Fair, Zachary Wolfe

The Modern American

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Living By The Sword: The Free Exercise Of Religion And The Sikh Struggle For The Right To Carry A Kirpan, Rishi S. Bagga Jan 2006

Living By The Sword: The Free Exercise Of Religion And The Sikh Struggle For The Right To Carry A Kirpan, Rishi S. Bagga

The Modern American

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Greasers And Gringos: Latinos, Law, And The American Imagination By Steven W. Bender, Chelsy A. Castro Jan 2006

Greasers And Gringos: Latinos, Law, And The American Imagination By Steven W. Bender, Chelsy A. Castro

The Modern American

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Dan The Xenophobe Rides The A-Train, Or The Modern, Unconscious Racist In "Enlightened America", Richard Salgado Jan 2006

Dan The Xenophobe Rides The A-Train, Or The Modern, Unconscious Racist In "Enlightened America", Richard Salgado

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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The History Of Slave Marriage In The United States, 39 J. Marshall L. Rev. 299 (2006), Darlene C. Goring Jan 2006

The History Of Slave Marriage In The United States, 39 J. Marshall L. Rev. 299 (2006), Darlene C. Goring

UIC Law Review

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Hurricane Katrina And The Toxic Torts Implications Of Environmental Injustice In New Orleans, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2006), L. Darnell Weeden Jan 2006

Hurricane Katrina And The Toxic Torts Implications Of Environmental Injustice In New Orleans, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2006), L. Darnell Weeden

UIC Law Review

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The French "Headscarves Ban": Intolerance Or Necessity?, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 235 (2006), Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler Jan 2006

The French "Headscarves Ban": Intolerance Or Necessity?, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 235 (2006), Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler

UIC Law Review

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Reconceptualizing Domestic Violence In India: Economic Abuse And The Need For Broad Statutory Interpretation To Promote Women's Fundamental Rights, Pami Vyas Jan 2006

Reconceptualizing Domestic Violence In India: Economic Abuse And The Need For Broad Statutory Interpretation To Promote Women's Fundamental Rights, Pami Vyas

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This Article explores the reconceptualization of domestic violence in India through an analysis of the economic abuse provision of the recently passed Domestic Violence Act. The author argues that although India has taken a significant step towards advancing women's rights by characterizing economic abuse as a form of domestic violence, effective implementation of the law requires a broad interpretation of the economic abuse provision. To be consistent with the purpose of the statute and India's constitutional and international human rights obligations, "economic abuse" must be interpreted broadly to include the deprivation of a woman's control over her economic resources. Economic …

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From Legally Blonde To Miss Congeniality: The Femininity Conundrum, Anna M. Archer Jan 2006

From Legally Blonde To Miss Congeniality: The Femininity Conundrum, Anna M. Archer

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article argues that popular movies like Legally Blonde and Miss Congeniality perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes by depicting women as needing to conform to traditional notions of femininity or masculinity to succeed in male-dominated professions. These portrayals contradict the protections provided by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on sex. The article contends that such films send the wrong message by suggesting women must change themselves to fit societal expectations rather than challenging those expectations.

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The Cost Of Good Intentions: Why The Supreme Court's Decision Upholding Affirmative Action Admission Programs Is Detrimental To The Cause, Leslie Yalof Garfield Jan 2006

The Cost Of Good Intentions: Why The Supreme Court's Decision Upholding Affirmative Action Admission Programs Is Detrimental To The Cause, Leslie Yalof Garfield

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article provides an overview of the Federal Courts’ interpretation of equal protection challenges to affirmative action admission policies beginning with University of California v. Bakke through the recent Supreme Court decisions of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. The article then identifies and outlines the appropriate elements of a constitutionally sound affirmative action admission policy. Finally, the article concludes that the permissible policy is almost unattainable for schools other than small institutions.

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Parity/Disparity: Electoral Gender Inequality On The Tightrope Of Liberal Constitutional Traditions, Darren Rosenblum Jan 2006

Parity/Disparity: Electoral Gender Inequality On The Tightrope Of Liberal Constitutional Traditions, Darren Rosenblum

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Part I of this article examines Parity's strangeness to United States observers. United States sex discrimination law ignores political representation issues. United States voting rights law contains no provisions for gender inequality. Most importantly, leading United States thinkers of all stripes roundly reject quotas. Part II details the Parity debate and its relationship to French democracy. The democracies of the United States and of France share Eighteenth Century Enlightenment origins. They also share some form of universalism (labeled “neutrality” in the United States by Cass Sunstein) establishing the equality of all citizens before the law. Parity serves as a good …

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Enhancing Access To Health Care And Eliminating Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Status: A Compelling Case For Health Professions Schools To Implement Race-Conscious Admissions Policies, Thomas E. Perez Jan 2006

Enhancing Access To Health Care And Eliminating Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Status: A Compelling Case For Health Professions Schools To Implement Race-Conscious Admissions Policies, Thomas E. Perez

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Separate And Unequal Care In New York City, Neil S. Calman, Maxine Golub, Charmaine Ruddock, Lan Le Jan 2006

Separate And Unequal Care In New York City, Neil S. Calman, Maxine Golub, Charmaine Ruddock, Lan Le

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Common Ground: Exploring Policy Approaches To Addressing Racial Disparities From The Left And The Right, M. C. Gibbons Jan 2006

Common Ground: Exploring Policy Approaches To Addressing Racial Disparities From The Left And The Right, M. C. Gibbons

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Closing The Health Care Disparities Gap: Turning Evidence Into Action, Carolyn M. Clancy Jan 2006

Closing The Health Care Disparities Gap: Turning Evidence Into Action, Carolyn M. Clancy

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Medicaid At Forty: Revisiting Structure And Meaning In A Post-Deficit Reduction Act Era, Sara Rosenbaum Jan 2006

Medicaid At Forty: Revisiting Structure And Meaning In A Post-Deficit Reduction Act Era, Sara Rosenbaum

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Against The Tide - Katrina Exposes Racial Divide, Stephen Wermiel Jan 2006

Against The Tide - Katrina Exposes Racial Divide, Stephen Wermiel

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Fielding A Team For The Fans: The Societal Consequences And Title Vii Implications Of Race-Considered Roster Construction In Professional Sport, N. Jeremi Duru Jan 2006

Fielding A Team For The Fans: The Societal Consequences And Title Vii Implications Of Race-Considered Roster Construction In Professional Sport, N. Jeremi Duru

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Professional sports organizations' relationships with their players are, like other employer-employee relationships, subject to scrutiny under the antidiscrimination mandates embedded in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Professional sports organizations are, however, unique among employers in many respects. Most notably, unlike other employers, professional sports organizations attract avid supporters who identify deeply with the teams and their players. To the extent an organization racially discriminates, therefore, such discrimination creates the risk that fans will identify with the homogenous or racially disproportionate roster that results. The consequences of such race-based team identification are wide-reaching and potentially tragic. Through …

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Multicultural Feminism: Assessing Systemic Fault In A Provocative Context, Camille Nelson Jan 2006

Multicultural Feminism: Assessing Systemic Fault In A Provocative Context, Camille Nelson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

INTRODUCTION Strictly speaking, the cultural defense is really no defense at all. Instead, it is the moniker attached by defense attorneys to their advocacy which seeks to personalize the accused in one of two ways: First by injecting a reasonable doubt into the mens rea intent requirement - this would result in acquittal, or second, by contextualizing an affirmative defense, like provocation, by the provision of cultural information about the accused - this would result in mitigated sentencing. Central to defense attorneys' uses of the cultural defense is the criminal defendant's perceived "foreignness." This much has been recognized by scholars …

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Democracy's Handmaid, Robert L. Tsai Jan 2006

Democracy's Handmaid, Robert L. Tsai

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Democratic theory presupposes open channels of dialogue, but focuses almost exclusively on matters of institutional design writ large. The philosophy of language explicates linguistic infrastructure, but often avoids exploring the political significance of its findings. In this Article, Tsai draws from the two disciplines to reach new insights about the democracy enhancing qualities of popular constitutional language. Employing examples from the founding era, the struggle for black civil rights, the religious awakening of the last two decades, and the search for gay equality, he presents a model of constitutional dialogue that emphasizes common modalities and mobilized vernacular. According to this …

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Overruling The Jury: Duncan V. Gmc And Appellate Treatment Of Hostile Work Environment Judgments, Dara Purvis Jan 2006

Overruling The Jury: Duncan V. Gmc And Appellate Treatment Of Hostile Work Environment Judgments, Dara Purvis

Faculty Scholarship

In 2002, the Eighth Circuit reversed a one million dollar jury award to the plaintiff in a sexual harassment suit against General Motors Corporation. This reversal demonstrates the danger of appellate review of such verdicts, limiting sexual harassment verdicts to the lowest common denominator in that circuit.

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