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Why Gays Should Not Serve In The United States Armed Forces: A Gay Liberationist Statement Of Principle, Shannon Gilreath 2011 William & Mary Law School

Why Gays Should Not Serve In The United States Armed Forces: A Gay Liberationist Statement Of Principle, Shannon Gilreath

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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"Better Dead Than Co-Ed"? Transgender Students At An All-Women's College, Laura MinSun Brymer 2011 William & Mary Law School

"Better Dead Than Co-Ed"? Transgender Students At An All-Women's College, Laura Minsun Brymer

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Introduction, Jayne W. Barnard 2011 William & Mary Law School

Introduction, Jayne W. Barnard

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari. Dellinger V. Science Applications International Corp. (No. 11-598), 2011 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs Lexis 2153, Eric Schnapper, Zachary A. Kitts, John J. Rigby 2011 University of Washington School of Law

Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari. Dellinger V. Science Applications International Corp. (No. 11-598), 2011 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs Lexis 2153, Eric Schnapper, Zachary A. Kitts, John J. Rigby

Court Briefs

QUESTIONS PRESENTED (1) Does the anti-retaliation provision in section 15(a)(3) of the Fair Labor Standards Act apply to retaliation by an employer against a job applicant? (2) Is the private cause action provided by section 16(b) of the FLSA available to a job applicant who is retaliated against by an employer?


Torch (November/December 2011), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project 2011 University of Southern Maine

Torch (November/December 2011), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

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Tragic Rights: The Rights Critique In The Age Of Obama, Robin L. West 2011 William & Mary Law School

Tragic Rights: The Rights Critique In The Age Of Obama, Robin L. West

William & Mary Law Review

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Ows, Discourse, And Narratives, Timothy Zick 2011 William & Mary Law School

Ows, Discourse, And Narratives, Timothy Zick

Popular Media

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Ows And The Constitution, Timothy Zick 2011 William & Mary Law School

Ows And The Constitution, Timothy Zick

Popular Media

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Defining Instrumentalities Of Deadly Force, Tim Longo 2011 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Defining Instrumentalities Of Deadly Force, Tim Longo

Touro Law Review

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Qualified Immunity: Further Developments In The Post-Pearson Era, Karen M. Blum 2011 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Qualified Immunity: Further Developments In The Post-Pearson Era, Karen M. Blum

Touro Law Review

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Twombly And Iqbal: The Introduction Of A Heightened Pleading Standard, Shira A. Sheindlin Honorable 2011 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Twombly And Iqbal: The Introduction Of A Heightened Pleading Standard, Shira A. Sheindlin Honorable

Touro Law Review

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Wrongful Conviction Claims Under Section 1983, Martin A. Schwartz, Robert W. Pratt Honorable 2011 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Wrongful Conviction Claims Under Section 1983, Martin A. Schwartz, Robert W. Pratt Honorable

Touro Law Review

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Trans-Border Exclusion And Execution, Timothy Zick 2011 William & Mary Law School

Trans-Border Exclusion And Execution, Timothy Zick

Popular Media

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Amici Curiae Brief On Behalf Of The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, The Asian Bar Association Of Washington, The Pacific Northwest District Of The Japanese American Citizens League, And The Vietnamese Bar Association Of Washington, In Support Of Petitioner, Lorraine K. Bannai, David A. Perez, Counsel for Amici Curiae 2011 Seattle University School of Law

Amici Curiae Brief On Behalf Of The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, The Asian Bar Association Of Washington, The Pacific Northwest District Of The Japanese American Citizens League, And The Vietnamese Bar Association Of Washington, In Support Of Petitioner, Lorraine K. Bannai, David A. Perez, Counsel For Amici Curiae

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

Civil Rights Amicus Brief Project


Sustaining A Movement, Timothy Zick 2011 William & Mary Law School

Sustaining A Movement, Timothy Zick

Popular Media

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Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari. Opp V. Office Of The State's Attorney Of Cook County, 565 U.S. 815 (2011) (No. 10-1163), 2011 U.S. Lexis 6893, Eric Schnapper, Brian R. Holman, Dennis H. Stefanowicz, Tara Beth Davis, Susan Bogart 2011 University of Washington School of Law

Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari. Opp V. Office Of The State's Attorney Of Cook County, 565 U.S. 815 (2011) (No. 10-1163), 2011 U.S. Lexis 6893, Eric Schnapper, Brian R. Holman, Dennis H. Stefanowicz, Tara Beth Davis, Susan Bogart

Court Briefs

QUESTION PRESENTED Five major federal employment statutes, including in this case the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, exclude certain government workers "at the policymaking level" from the definition of employees protected by those laws. The question presented is: who is a worker "on the policymaking level"?


Winning The Battle Or Losing The War: The Implications Of Boseman V. Jarrell On The Same-Sex Adoption Debate In North Carolina, Jacinta Jones 2011 North Carolina Central University School of Law

Winning The Battle Or Losing The War: The Implications Of Boseman V. Jarrell On The Same-Sex Adoption Debate In North Carolina, Jacinta Jones

North Carolina Central Law Review

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How To Sever The Legs Of An Octopus: Tunisia’S Ongoing Revolution, Matthew Hammel 2011 SIT Study Abroad

How To Sever The Legs Of An Octopus: Tunisia’S Ongoing Revolution, Matthew Hammel

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The Kasbah square is large and covered in barbwire. Military men stand on the inside of the fence cradling automatic rifles, joking, chatting, texting on their cell phones. Coming out from the bustle of the souks the square feels tranquil. It is September, seven months since the square became a temporary home to thousands of protestors who demanded the end of oppressive government in Tunisia. It was here that the Tunisian people solidified their revolution, refusing to be appeased by the flight of a figurehead while the tentacles of his regime remained.

Ben Ali ruled Tunisia for twenty-three years. During …


Educating Prosecutors And Supreme Court Justices About Brady V. Maryland, Bennett L. Gershman 2011 Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Educating Prosecutors And Supreme Court Justices About Brady V. Maryland, Bennett L. Gershman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The author reviews the Supreme Court decision in Connick v. Thompson and provides a course outline, including problems, for training prosecutors on their duty to disclose materially favorable evidence to the defendant under Brady v. Maryland.


Rethinking Discrimination Law, Sandra F. Sperino 2011 University of Cincinnati College of Law

Rethinking Discrimination Law, Sandra F. Sperino

Michigan Law Review

Modern employment discrimination law is defined by an increasingly complex set of frameworks. These frameworks structure the ways that courts, juries, and litigants think about discrimination. This Article challenges whether courts should use the frameworks to conceptualize discrimination. It argues that just as faulty sorting contributes to stereotyping and societal discrimination, courts are using faulty structures to substantively limit discrimination claims. This Article makes three central contributions. First, it demonstrates how discrimination analysis has been reduced to a rote sorting process. It recognizes and makes explicit courts' methodology so that the structure of discrimination analysis and its effects can be …


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