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Police Brutality As Torture, Nadia Banteka

Scholarly Publications

If racial justice is the most pressing issue in America today, police brutality is the flashpoint. Incident after incident of police brutality during searches and seizures, and within jails and prisons reinforces the conviction within many communities that police harm with impunity those whom they have a duty to protect. Existing criminal statutes are filled with discretionary standards that give deference to officers while civil remedies require victims to surmount the doctrine of qualified immunity. To increase accountability for police brutality, legislatures and courts have so far focused on reducing or eliminating these procedural hurdles. But their changes have not …

Voting Is Association, Daniel P. Tokaji

Florida State University Law Review

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The (Non-)Right To Sex, Mary Ziegler

Scholarly Publications

What is the relationship between the battle for marriage equality and the expansion of sexual liberty? Some see access to marriage as a quintessentially progressive project—the recognition of the equality and dignity of gay and lesbian couples. For others, promoting marriage or marital-like relationships reinforces bias against individuals making alternative intimate decisions. With powerful policy arguments on either side, there appears to be no clear way to advance the discussion.

By telling the lost story of efforts to expand sexual liberty in the 1960s and 1970s, this Article offers a new way into the debate. The marriage equality struggle figures …

Does The Public Care How The Supreme Court Reasons? Empirical Evidence From A National Experiment And Normative Concerns In The Case Of Same-Sex Marriage, Courtney Megan Cahill, Geoffrey Christopher Rapp

Scholarly Publications

Can the Supreme Court influence the public’s reception of decisions vindicating rights in high-salience contexts, like samesex marriage, by reasoning in one way over another? Will the people’s disagreement with those decisions—and, by extension, societal backlash against them—be dampened if the Court deploys universalizing liberty rationales rather than essentializing equality rationales? Finally, even if Supreme Court reasoning does resonate with the people as a descriptive matter, should the Court minimize anxiety-producing characteristics in decisions vindicating civil rights—such as homosexuality in the marriage-equality context—simply in order to assuage the people?

This Article combines constitutional theory and empirical legal analysis to ask …

Partitioning And Rights: The Supreme Court's Accidental Jurisprudence Of Democratic Process, James A. Gardner

Florida State University Law Review

In democracies that allocate to a court responsibility for interpreting and enforcing the constitutional ground rules of democratic politics, the sheer importance of the task would seem to oblige such courts to guide their rulings by developing an account of the nature and prominent features of the constitutional commitment to democracy. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, has from the beginning refused to develop a general account—a theory—of how the U.S. Constitution establishes and structures democratic politics. The Court’s diffidence left a vacuum at the heart of its constitutional jurisprudence of democratic process, and like most vacuums, this one was almost …

The New Racial Justice: Moving Beyond The Equal Protection Clause To Achieve Equal Protection, Emily Chiang

Florida State University Law Review

Since handing down Washington v. Davis and Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development, the United States Supreme Court has significantly curtailed the ability of plaintiffs to bring disparate impact claims under the Equal Protection Clause. Many academics continue to talk about the standards governing intent and disparate impact. Some recent scholarship recognizes that reformers on the ground have shifted away from equality-based claims altogether. This Article contends that civil rights advocates replaced the old equal protection framework some time ago and that they did so deliberately and with great success. It expands upon and refines the strategy shift some …

Abortion And The Constitutional Right (Not) To Procreate, Mary Ziegler

Scholarly Publications

With the growing use of assisted reproductive technology (“ART”), courts have to reconcile competing rights to seek and avoid procreation. Often, in imagining the boundaries of these rights, judges turn to abortion jurisprudence for guidance.

This move sparks controversy. On the one hand, abortion case law may provide the strongest constitutional foundation for scholars and advocates seeking rights to access ART or avoid un-wanted parenthood. On the other hand, abortion jurisprudence carries normative and political baggage: a privacy framework that disadvantages poor women and a history of intense polarization.

This article uses the legal history of struggle over spousal consent …

Roe's Race: The Supreme Court Decision, Legal History, And The Racial Politics Of Abortion, Mary Ziegler

Scholarly Publications

Questions of race and abortion have shaped current legal debates about defunding Planned Parenthood and banning race-selection abortion. In these discussions, abortion opponents draw a close connection between the eugenic or population-control movements of the twentieth century and the contemporary abortion-rights movement. In challenging legal restrictions on abortion, abortion-rights activists generally insist that their movement and its predecessors have primarily privileged reproductive choice.

Notwithstanding the centrality of race to abortion politics, there has been no meaningful history of the racial politics of abortion that produced or followed Roe v. Wade. This Article bridges this gap in the abortion discussion by …

Sexing Harris: The Law And Politics Of Defunding Planned Parenthood, Mary Ziegler

Scholarly Publications

The movement to defund Planned Parenthood has opened a new front in the abortion wars. At the state and national level, anti-abortion organizations have campaigned successfully for new legal limitations on Medicaid or Title X reimbursement for Planned Parenthood. Significantly, legal restrictions reach not only abortion but also other services like contraception and cancer screenings. North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Indiana are among the states to have introduced such bans, and the U.S. House of Representatives approved one before the proposal died in the Senate in April 2011.

At first, the novelty of the movement seems to lie in its open …

Mcdonald's Other Right, Samuel L. Wiseman

Scholarly Publications

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Are State-Supported Historically Black Colleges And Universities Justifiable After Fordice?—A Higher Education Dilemma, John A. Moore

Florida State University Law Review

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Rosa Parks: Foremother & Heroine Teaching Civility & Offering A Vision For A Better Tomorrow, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

Florida State University Law Review

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Go Home Stranger: An Analysis Of Unequal Workers' Compensation Death Benefits To Nonresident Alien Beneficiaries, Adam S. Hersh

Florida State University Law Review

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The Court Confronts The Gerrymander, Josseph C. Coates, Iii

Florida State University Law Review

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Death At Any Cost: A Critique Of The Supreme Court's Recent Retreat From Its Death Penalty Standards, William S. Geimer

Florida State University Law Review

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The State Action Doctrine In State And Federal Courts, Hala Ayoub

Florida State University Law Review

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Back To The Laboratory With Peremptory Challenges: A Florida Response, James R. Jorgenson

Florida State University Law Review

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Desegregating The University Of Florida Law School: Virgil Hawkins V. The Florida Board Of Control, Darryl Paulson, Paul Hawkes

Florida State University Law Review

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Mandatory Retirement And The Constitution: Challenging The Factual Basis Underlying Legislative Classifications, Vernon Townes Grizzard

Florida State University Law Review

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Alimony For Men -- The Changing Law, Pamela Joy Smith

Florida State University Law Review

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Mccall V. State, 354 So. 2d 869 (Fla. 1978), Arthur C. Beal, Jr.

Florida State University Law Review

Constitutional Law-THE FINE LINE BETWEEN PROTECTED AND NON-PROTECTED SPEECH

State V. West, No. 53, 123, 23 Fla. L. W. 265 (Sup. Ct. June 7, 1979), Marjorie E. Smith

Florida State University Law Review

Constitutional Law-EQUAL PROTECTION-STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR PATERNITY SUITS DOES NOT DENY ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS

The Unwed Father: Conflict Of Rights In Adoption Proceedings, Winston R. Davis

Florida State University Law Review

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In Re Estate Of Reed, 354 So. 2d 864 (Fla. 1978), L. D. Landry

Florida State University Law Review

Constitutional Law- EQUAL PROTECTION-A FLORIDA STANDARD OF EQUAL PROTECTION

Rollins V. State, 354 So. 2d 61 (Fla. 1978), William Tarr

Florida State University Law Review

Constitutional Law-EQUAL PROTECTION-STATUTE DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN TYPES OF ESTABLISHMENTS IN WHICH BILLIARD TABLES ARE LOCATED HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Child Support: The Double Standard, Karen Colby Weiner

Florida State University Law Review

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Spooner V. Askew, 345 So. 2d 1055 (Fla. 1976), Charles A. Johnson

Florida State University Law Review

Ad Valorem Taxation- RATIFICATION OF FLORIDA'S AD VALOREM TAX STRUCTURE: REJECTION OF AN EQUAL PROTECTION CHALLENGE.

Village Of Arlington Heights V. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., 97 S. Ct. 555 (1977), Karen K. Kinkennon

Florida State University Law Review

Zoning- DISCRIMINATORY INTENT MUST BE PROVED BEFORE COURTS MAY REACH FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION ISSUES.

Gerstein V. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103 (1975); In Re Florida Rules Of Criminal Procedure, 309 So. 2d 544 (Fla. 1975), R. Wayne Miller

Florida State University Law Review

Criminal Procedure- PRELIMINARY HEARINGS- NONADVERSARY JUDICIAL DETERMINATION OF PROBABLE CAUSE TO DETAIN IS PREREQUISITE TO EXTENDED RESTRAINT OF LIBERTY FOLLOWING ARREST.

Weinberger V. Wiesenfeld, 95 S. Ct. 1225 (1975), Barbara Cozad Biddle

Florida State University Law Review

Constitutional Law- EQUAL PROTECTION- DENYING SOCIAL SECURITY "MOTHER'S INSURANCE BENEFITS" TO FATHERS VIOLATES EQUAL PROTECTION COMPONENT OF FIFTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS CLAUSE.