| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| Scott Wong |
Gop Struggles to Confront Racial Issues |
The Hill (6/14/2020) |
Less than five months before the election, congressional Republicans are struggling to confront a host of thorny racial issues that have been unexpectedly thrust into the 2020 campaign spotlight. |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Grand Jury Charges No Officers in Breonna Taylor Death |
The Hill (9/23/2020) |
A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday did not bring any charges against police officers in the killing of Breonna Taylor, and instead announced three lesser counts of wanton endangerment against Louisville police officer Brett Hankison. |
2020 |
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| Caitlyn Grey Fiebrich |
Guns, Gundy, Gorsuch: Could a New Nondelegation Doctrine Change the Course of the Aumf? |
58 Houston Law Review 453 (Fall, 2020) |
One congressional grant of authority, aimed explicitly at the forces involved in the September 11 attacks, has become the legal basis for effectively all military operations in the Middle East and Northern Africa to date. The Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 (AUMF) was passed hastily during a time of national crisis, yet it remains... |
2020 |
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| Andrea Giampetro-Meyer , Nancy Kubasek |
Harvey: Environmental Justice and Law |
31 Fordham Environmental Law Review 37 (Winter, 2020) |
Disasters provide moments in which fractures and inequalities in society are exposed for all to see. The true injustice of Harvey is that many of the people who have lost their homes and lives to Harvey are the same people who have had to live with the environmental degradation, polluted water and toxic air from the oil and gas refineries along... |
2020 |
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| John Bowden |
Hawley Calls for Civil Rights Probe of Prosecutor Investigating Gun-wielding St. Louis Couple |
The Hill (7/16/2020) |
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called on the Justice Department to launch a civil rights investigation into St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner and her office after Gardner herself announced an investigation into a white couple who were seen on video threatening Black Lives Matter protesters at gunpoint. |
2020 |
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| GabBirenbaum |
Hawley Fires Back at Espn, Nba over China |
The Hill (7/13/2020) |
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in an interview on Monday called ESPNs suspension of reporter Adrian Wojnarowski a distraction from the NBA's relationship with China and said he would support a Senate subpoena of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. |
2020 |
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Headlines on School Law |
47No.14 School Law Bulletin NL 1 (7/25/2020) |
In 2015-2016 federal data indicates that while black children constitute 15% of K-12 U.S. students, they make up 31% of those arrested at school or referred to law enforcement. Many believe this kind of data forms the underpinning of what is commonly referred to as the school-to-prison pipeline, a pattern of discrimination sending young people of... |
2020 |
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| George J. Annas |
Health and Human Rights |
45 Human Rights Rts. 1 (2020) |
The American health care industry is killing us, and the casualties are mounting daily. Instead of saving lives, it is more often taking them, and not only by failing to seriously confront the coronavirus pandemic and racism in the industry, but also by the way health care is financed. We have the most expensive health care system in the world, and... |
2020 |
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Hernández V. Mesa and Police Liability for Youth Homicides Before and after the Death of Michael Brown |
56 Criminal Law Bulletin ART 3 (2020) |
Delores Jones-Brown: Dr. Jones-Brown earned a J.D. and a Ph.D. in criminal justice from Rutgers University. She is retired from the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY). She was the founding director of the John Jay College Center on Race,... |
2020 |
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Highlights |
45No.1 Federal Rules of Evidence Newsletter NL 1 (1/1/2020) |
The January 2020 issue of Federal Rules of Evidence News discusses several recent federal court decisions involving the Federal Rules of Evidence, including: RULES CONSTRUED IN THIS ISSUE: 201, 401, 402, 403, 404, 414, 701, 702, 1006 |
2020 |
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| Mike Lillis and Cristina Marcos |
House Panel Advances Police Reform Bill |
The Hill (6/17/2020) |
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced historic legislation to reform police practices in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an African American man who died while in police custody last month.The partisan 24-14 vote after a marathon 11-hour markup sends the package to the full House for consideration next week and... |
2020 |
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| Jonathan Easley |
How Trump Cleared the Park Around the White House |
The Hill (6/1/2020) |
Tensions between President Trump, law enforcement and protesters demanding justice for George Floyd reached ominous new heights Monday night when military personnel fired tear gas into a crowd of demonstrators just outside White House grounds. |
2020 |
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| Aziz Rana |
How We Study the Constitution: Rethinking the Insular Cases and Modern American Empire |
130 Yale Law Journal Forum 312 (11/2/2020) |
abstract. Few American law classes actually teach the Insular Cases. This Essay argues that this is due to a profound lacuna in mainstream constitutional study--the failure to adequately confront the extent to which the United States from its founding has been a project of empire. In part, for this reason, the field tends to have little to say... |
2020 |
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Ideas and Trends Issue No. 837 |
HR HR Compl. Compliance 7124720 (2020) |
STATE LAW ROUNDUP PART 1The impact of COVID-19 on this year's state legislative activity cannot be overstated EMPLOYEE LEAVEEmployees gained greater leave protections in 2020 ACCOMMODATIONSMaryland, Tennessee, and Virginia said employers cannot force pregnant employees to take leave EMPLOYEE PRIVACYLawmakers said no to device implantation,... |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Illinois Lawmaker Says Trump Wants to Instigate a Race War |
The Hill (7/22/2020) |
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Wednesday lashed out at President Trump for his support of federal officers deployed to Portland in recent weeks, saying that the president's game plan" is to stoke racial tension among the country." |
2020 |
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| T. Andrew Brown |
Imagining a Bright Future Where Everyone Is Treated Equally |
92-AUG New York State Bar Journal B.J. 8 (August, 2020) |
Racial injustice has seemingly become everyone's problem, increasing the interest in and likelihood of finding solutions. Finally. Conversation around racial injustice in America has reached new heights. It's no longer a conversation driven solely by people of color, for people of color. Black Lives Matter (BLM) has become a movement embraced by... |
2020 |
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| Charles R. Lawrence III |
Implicit Bias in the Age of Trump: Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do. By Jennifer L. Eberhardt. New York, N.y.: Viking. 2019. Pp. 340. $28.00 |
133 Harvard Law Review 2304 (May, 2020) |
We inhabit a nomos--a normative universe. We constantly create and maintain a world of right and wrong, of lawful and unlawful, of valid and void. No set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning. --Robert Cover I am watching a video of Donald Trump, the forty-fifth President of the... |
2020 |
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In the News |
16No.7 Education Employment Law Bulletin NL 5 (7/1/2020) |
According to the May employment report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in private education rose over the course of the month while public employment declined. As a direct result of school closures due to the Coronavirus, there were major declines in local government education employment. These declines accounted for... |
2020 |
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| Nizan Geslevich Packin |
In Too-big-to-fail We Trust: Ethics and Banking in the Era of Covid-19 |
2020 Wisconsin Law Review 1043 (2020) |
The COVID-19 economic crisis has brought to light something very broken in the American banking system--that banks prioritize their own profits over the interests of those they serve and over the interests of social justice. And they are permitted to do so because they do not owe a fiduciary duty to their customers and are not social welfare... |
2020 |
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| Sayer Rippey |
Incarcerated Parents and Child Welfare in Washington |
95 Washington Law Review 531 (March, 2020) |
Abstract: From 2006 to 2016, 32,000 incarcerated parents in the United States permanently lost their parental rights without ever being accused of child abuse. Of these, approximately 5,000 lost their parental rights solely because of their incarceration. This family separation crisis followed on the heels of the Adoption and Safe Families Act... |
2020 |
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| Martin A. Schwartz |
Index |
SNETLFE INDEX (2020) |
All references are to sections. ACCUSED, CHARACTER OF, 2.08[A] Fed. R. Evid. 404(a), 2.08[B] Fed. R. Evid. 412, 2.08[C] ACQUITTALS, 1.04[C][8], 3.05[D] ACTS OF MORAL TURPITUDE, 9.09[A] bad acts impeachment under Federal Rules of Evidence, 9.09[B] arrests, 9.09[B][1] relationship between impeachment by conviction and, 9.09[B][1] civil rights... |
2020 |
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| Grace Greene |
Instagram Lookalikes and Celebrity Influencers: Rethinking the Right to Publicity in the Social Media Age |
168 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 153 (2020) |
Don't scoff at influencers. They're taking over the world. --Kevin Roose Introduction. 154 I. The Power and Appeal of Social Media Influencers. 157 A. Defining Influencer. 158 B. The Power of Influencers. 165 C. The New Celebrity. 168 II. The Right of Publicity. 170 A. Modern Scope. 171 1. Commercial Use. 172 2. Name or Likeness. 173 B. The First... |
2020 |
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| Gillian Dutton |
International Experiences: a Path to Critical Legal Skills, Values, and Innovation for American Law Students |
27 Clinical Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall, 2020) |
American law schools have long wished to expand opportunities to gain exposure to international legal practice. These experiences help students gain knowledge of law and practice in a different legal system and increase their cross-cultural humility; students also make valuable connections for future employment and improve language proficiency.... |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Investor Group Urges Regulators to Require Specifics in Workforce Reporting |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (9/2/2020) |
A coalition of investors managing $5.9 trillion in assets asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to be more specific about what information public companies need to share about their workforces. |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Investor Groups Push Back Against Sec Shareholder Proposal Rule Changes |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (7/31/2020) |
Investor coalitions are gearing up for a potential legal challenge over a proposed rule they say would hinder shareholder proposals, armed with studies to back their claim. |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Investors Escalate Campaigns for Racial Justice Action at Companies |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (12/9/2020) |
Investors' pledges to take action on racial justice after incidents of police brutality against minorities set off nationwide protests over the summer are giving rise to campaigns for change in corporate America. |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Investors Escalate Racial Justice Campaigns at Companies |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Securities Enforcement & Litigation (12/9/2020) |
Investors' pledges to take action on racial justice after incidents of police brutality against minorities set off nationwide protests over the summer are giving rise to campaigns for change in corporate America. |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Investors Join Calls for Change amid Protests over George Floyd Death |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (6/3/2020) |
Organizations that work with corporate shareholders are calling on investors focused on sustainability issues to work toward racial justice after the killing of a black man in police custody in Minnesota last week. |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Investors Urge Amazon to Permanently Ban Id Tech Sales to Police |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (6/17/2020) |
Shareholders are joining with civil rights groups to urge Amazon.com Inc. and other suppliers to make permanent a suspension of sales of facial recognition software to law enforcement following Black Lives Matter protests over recent killings by police. |
2020 |
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| Caitlin Reilly, CQ Roll Call |
Investors Want Details on Bonds That Pay for Police Misconduct |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Securities Enforcement & Litigation (7/6/2020) |
As Black Lives Matter protests march on around the U.S., some investment advisers and asset managers are pushing for more disclosure on so-called judgment allocation bonds issued by cities and states to fund payouts for settlements of lawsuits against police. |
2020 |
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