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An End To The Violence: Justifying Gender As A "Particular Social Group", Suzanne Sidun

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Families Of Color In Crisis: Bearing The Weight Of The Financial Market Meltdown, André Douglas Pond Cummings

Law Faculty Scholarship

The financial market crisis of 2008 landed heaviest and hardest upon communities of color. In the minority communities that continue to bear the crushing weight of this crisis—which continues unrequited—women of color, and by extension, their families, are by far the group most devastated by the global market meltdown. In an ultimate irony, most economists, scholars, and commentators now agree that the collapse, which continues to ravage Main Street, was caused primarily by a select group of privileged white men–i.e., Wall Street executives, bankers, and the politicians purchased by Wall Street largess. The impact of Wall Street’s fascination with securitizing …

Masthead

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

No abstract provided.

Brief Of Amici Curiae The Defender Initiative And Aclu Of South Carolina, The Defender Initiative, Aclu Of South Carolina, Robert C. Boruchowitz

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

Brief of Amici Curiae The Defender Initiative and ACLU of South Carolina

Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari. Lawson V. Fmr Llc, 134 S. Ct. 1158 (2014) (No. 12-3), 2012 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs Lexis 2827, Eric Schnapper, Indira Talwani, Kevin G. Powers

Court Briefs

QUESTION PRESENTED Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1514A, forbids a publicly traded company, a mutual fund, or “any ... contractor [or] subcontractor ... of such company [to] ... discriminate against an employee in the terms and conditions of employment because of” certain protected activity. (Emphasis added). The First Circuit held that under section 1514A such contractors and subcontractors, if privately-held, may retaliate against their own employees, and are prohibited only from retaliating against employees of the public companies with which they work. The question presented is: Is an employee of a privately-held contractor or subcontractor of …

Racial Disparities In Sentencing In The U.S. And Georgia, Kamal Rattray, Nicole Lee

Georgia Journal of Public Policy

Incarceration represents the ultimate use of coercive power, and in the state of Georgia, that power is being disproportionately levied upon people of color, particularly African Americans.1 According to 2011 statistics from the Georgia Department of Corrections, the total prison population statewide was approximately 53,341 inmates. The majority of that number were Blacks (33,069 inmates), followed by Whites (17,752 inmates), Hispanics (2,306 inmates) and other ethnic groups.

Plaintiff-Appellant's Replacement Reply Brief, Anjana Malhotra, Robert Chang, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

Hoisington v. Williams

Not Losing Sight Of The Forest: The Fourth Circuit's Stand For Reasonableness, Rachel E. Clark

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Continued Reign Of Title Vii: Racial Discrimination Trumps Patients' Preferences, Samuel L. Moore

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Gender And Pregnancy Bias In The Workplace, Jaehee Jang

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Equal Opportunity To Harass, Unequal Burdens Of Proof: Affirming The Equal Opportunity Defense, Todd J. Clark

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Murky Misinterpretation Of The Voting Rights Act: Divining Section Two Claims After Bartlett V. Strickland And The 2010 Census, Lindsey R. Watson

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Religion, Race, & The Fourth Estate: Xenophobia In The Media Ten Years After 9/11, Roslyn Satchel Augustine, Jonathan C. Augustine

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

September 11, 2011 marked the tenth anniversary of the most horrific attacks in the United States. In the decade after the September 11, 2001 attacks (9/11), matters of race and religion maintained an awkwardly prominent role in American culture, with the media arguably fueling perceptions. This interdisciplinary Article’s thesis is that media elites, most of which are large corporations, threaten American democracy with xenophobic influence in an age of unmediated communication. Thus, the frequent imagery of “us” versus “them” has exasperated religious tensions between Judeo-Christian faith groups and religious minorities.

In the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s decision …

Employment Discrimination, Peter Reed Corbin, John E. Duvall

Mercer Law Review

The United States Supreme Court was the center of the action in the area of employment discrimination during the 2011 survey period. The most talked about decision was the Court's opinion in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes. The much-anticipated decision in Dukes was the most significant opinion handed down by the Court in the area of employment discrimination class actions since its 1982 decision in General Telephone Co. v. Falcon, and perhaps ever. The Court also continued to broaden the scope of potential Title VII retaliation actions with its decision in Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP. …

Ricci V. Destefano: Diluting Disparate Impact And Redefining Disparate Treatment, Ann C. Mcginley

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Comments On Michel Rosenfeld's The Identity Of The Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, And Community, Deborah Hellman

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Goren V. Home Center (Do It Yourself) Ltd., Dorit Beinisch, Neal Hendel, Isaac Amit

Translated Opinions

[This abstract is not part of the Court's opinion and is provided for the reader's convenience. It has been translated from a Hebrew version prepared by Nevo Press Ltd. and is used with its kind permission.]

Can a showing of a wage gap between a female employee and a male employee for equal work or work of equal value at the same workplace can “automatically” substantiate a cause of action under the Equal Pay for Female and Male Employees Act 1996 (hereinafter: the Equal Pay Act) as well as under the Equal Opportunities in Employment Act 1988 (hereinafter: the Equal …

Tying The Knot: Determining The Legality Of Same-Sex Marriage And The Courts’ Responsibilities In Defining The Right, Eva Cerreta

Honors Scholar Theses

Ambiguous terms and phrases in the United States Bill of Rights have caused a great deal of controversy throughout United States history over what rights truly exist and which branch of government should be responsible for determining those rights. These questions are currently being debated in states throughout the country concerning the right to same-sex marriage. This thesis answers these questions of legality and responsibility concerning the right to same-sex marriage. The thesis uses case law of the doctrinal development of the Equal Protection Clause and the right to privacy to suggest that the Equal Protection Clause provides the soundest …

Plaintiff-Appellant's Opening Replacement Brief, Anjana Malhotra, Robert Chang, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

Hoisington v. Williams

Torch (May/June 2012), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.