| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| Jason Rogovich |
Nyc Mayor Lifts Curfew Before Legal Challenges |
2020 CityLand CityLand 1 (6/11/2020) |
Curfew lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, but not necessary in New York City. On June 1, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio collectively instituted a citywide curfew following four evenings of protests, which although mostly peaceful, included some instances of chaotic behavior which resulted in vandalism and property damage.... |
2020 |
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| Morgan Gstalter |
Obama Remembers John Lewis: 'I Stood on His Shoulders' |
The Hill (7/18/2020) |
Former President Obama on Saturday morning mourned the death of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), saying he stood on his shoulders about the civil rights icon and longstanding member of Congress. |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Ocasio-cortez Demands Accountability over Viral Video of Unmarked Nypd 'Snatching' Protester |
The Hill (7/29/2020) |
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) lambasted the New York Police Department (NYPD) early on Wednesday after the NYPD late on Tuesday confirmed that it had conducted an arrest of a protester in an unmarked van. |
2020 |
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Ocasio-cortez: Trump Tweet on 75-year-old Protester a 'Reprehensible Act' |
(6/10/2020) |
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday denounced President Trump's sharing of an unfounded conspiracy theory that the elderly protester shoved to the ground by police in Buffalo, N.Y., may have been an ANTIFA provocateur |
2020 |
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| Jennifer Ferentz |
Officer Use of Force and the Failure of Oversight of New York City Jails |
47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1393 (October, 2020) |
Introduction. 1394 I. Excessive Use of Force as an Intractable Problem. 1397 A. Jails and a History of Violence. 1397 B. Judicial Intervention and Federal Monitorship. 1402 C. Nunez v. City of New York and the Nunez Federal Monitorship. 1405 II. Mapping the New York City Jail System. 1407 A. The Department of Correction. 1408 B. New York City... |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Officers in George Floyd's Death Appear in Court, Motion for Separate Trials |
The Hill (9/11/2020) |
The four former Minneapolis police officers who were involved in the killing of George Floyd at the end of May appeared in the Hennepin County courthouse on Friday for a pretrial hearing, with attorneys on both sides of the case representing multiple motions. |
2020 |
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| Kaelan Deese |
Omar Declares Hypocrisy over Reaction to Far-right Protester Calling for 'Assassinating Democrats' |
The Hill (9/8/2020) |
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) accused the media of hypocrisy after a video showed a right-wing counterprotester in Oregon who called for assassinating Democrats."" |
2020 |
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| Leah M. Litman, Deeva Shah |
On Sexual Harassment in the Judiciary |
115 Northwestern University Law Review 599 (2020) |
Abstract--This Essay examines the legal profession's role in sexual harassment, particularly in the federal courts. It argues that individuals in the profession have both an individual and collective responsibility for the professional norms that have allowed harassment to happen with little recourse for the people subject to the harassment. It... |
2020 |
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| Christina Bohannan |
On the 50th Anniversary of Tinker V. Des Moines: Toward a Positive View of Free Speech on College Campuses |
105 Iowa Law Review 2233 (July, 2020) |
ABSTRACT: Fifty years ago, the Tinker case confirmed the free speech rights of students and identified the classroom as peculiarly the marketplace of ideas. Upholding the students' right to protest the Vietnam War, Tinker was one of many Supreme Court decisions to establish the First Amendment as an ally in movements for freedom, justice, and... |
2020 |
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On the Beat |
28No.12 Police Department Disciplinary Bulletin NL 3 (12/1/2020) |
The New York Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Aid Society filed a lawsuit in late October against the New York City Police Department, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police commissioner Dermont Shea for violating the civil rights of protestors in their response to racial injustice demonstrations this summer in the wake of the death of George Floyd. A... |
2020 |
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| Kathleen Balthrop Havener |
One Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage: Mission Accomplished? |
37No.4 GPSolo GPSolo 9 (July/August, 2020) |
I long to hear that you have declared [independence]--and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants... |
2020 |
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| Erin Chlopak |
One of These Things Is Not like the Other: Naacp V. Alabama Is Not a Manual for Powerful, Wealthy Spenders to Pour Unlimited Secret Money into Our Political Process |
69 American University Law Review 1395 (May, 2020) |
In Citizens United, eight of the Supreme Court's nine Justices reaffirmed the Court's earlier decisions holding that election-related transparency laws are constitutional. Those eight Justices agreed that voters have a right to know who is paying for pre-election ads that mention candidates--[e]ven if the ads only pertain to a commercial... |
2020 |
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| Tamar Megiddo |
Online Activism, Digital Domination, and the Rule of Trolls: Mapping and Theorizing Technological Oppression by Governments |
58 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 394 (2020) |
The internet and social media have revolutionized activism. However, governments seeking to curb opposition have recently learned to target the very same technologies that empowered activists in the first place. This article challenges the accepted framework for discussing such efforts by governments, centered on surveillance and privacy. It... |
2020 |
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| Beau Steenken |
Outlaws, Pirates, Judges: Judicial Activisim as an Expression of Antiauthoritarianism in Anglo-american Culture |
38 Quinnipiac Law Review 259 (2020) |
I. Introduction. 260 II. On Judicial Activism. 268 A. Ever-present Activism. 270 B. Judging the Judges: Normative Treatment of Judicial Activism. 274 1. Negative Views of Judicial Activism. 274 2. Activism Apologists. 276 3. The Middle Ground: Mixed Bags and Bedrudging Realists. 279 C. Converging on Consensus: Defining Judicial Activism. 281 III.... |
2020 |
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| Delaney E. Anderson |
Overbey V. Mayor of Baltimore: the Cost of Silence and the Impact of Restricting Speech in Police Brutality Settlements |
79 Maryland Law Review 1122 (2020) |
Can the government purchase silence from a someone who its agents beat, shocked with a stun gun, and ridiculed? According to Supreme Court precedent and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, no. In Overbey v. Mayor of Baltimore, the Fourth Circuit answered the important question of whether the government may impose... |
2020 |
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| Dean DeChiaro, CQ Roll Call |
Oversight Committee Asks Ring to Abide by Amazon's Facial Recognition Ban |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Data Privacy (7/9/2020) |
A top Democrat on the House Oversight and Reform Committee wants Ring, the high-tech doorbell company, to abide by the facial recognition technology moratorium announced last month by its parent company, Amazon, in the wake of nationwide protests against police brutality. |
2020 |
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| T. Andrew Brown |
Peaceful Protests--not Riots--bring about Meaningful Change |
92-AUG New York State Bar Journal 18 (August, 2020) |
Shortly after the coronavirus struck, we all thought this was going to be the year of the virus. And so far it has. But the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 has made it equally the year of the protest. Ever since that day, protests have been taking place around the country on a daily basis. Cities big and small have had their protests.... |
2020 |
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| Brooke Seipel |
Pelosi Remembers John Lewis as 'A Titan' Whose 'Bravery Transformed Our Nation' |
The Hill (7/18/2020) |
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) remembered the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Friday as a titan" whose work in the Civil Rights movement changed the nation." |
2020 |
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| Daniel Rice |
Pinterest Board, Execs Permit Discriminatory Work Culture, Suit Says |
36No.13 Westlaw Journal Corporate Officers & Directors Liability 06 (2020) |
Executives and directors at photo-sharing platform Pinterest Inc. have breached their fiduciary duties by allowing a culture of racial and gender discrimination that contrasts with the company's carefully crafted image, a shareholder alleges in a San Francisco federal court lawsuit. The Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island says in a... |
2020 |
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| Aaron Kupchik , F. Chris Curran , Benjamin W. Fisher , Samantha L. Viano |
Police Ambassadors: Student-police Interactions in School and Legal Socialization |
54 Law and Society Review 391 (June, 2020) |
The recent influx of police officers into US public schools has reshaped the context and frequency of children's interactions with police. Yet we know little about how the presence of these officers in schools impacts the legal socialization of students, and whether youth of color might be affected or socialized in different ways than white youth.... |
2020 |
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| Ronald J. Coleman |
Police Body Cameras: Go Big or Go Home? |
68 Buffalo Law Review 1353 (December, 2020) |
Police body-worn cameras have proliferated since the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and the recent George Floyd-related protests seem set to continue or even accelerate that trend. Indeed, in her recent Nieves v. Bartlett dissent, Justice Sotomayor took time to note that many departments equip their police officers with body cameras. Body... |
2020 |
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| Stephen Rushin, Roger Michalski |
Police Funding |
72 Florida Law Review 277 (March, 2020) |
A number of civil rights activists have called for the defunding or abolition of American police departments. These activists claim that the United States overinvests in police, leaving fewer scarce resources to support other government services. Activists also claim that overinvestment in policing contributes to higher rates of police misconduct... |
2020 |
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| Ann Fagan Ginger, Louis H. Bell |
Police Misconduct Litigation-plaintiff's Remedies |
15 American Jurisprudence Trials 555 (2020) |
This article takes up the remedies that are available to recover damages or obtain other relief on behalf of a person who has been subjected to mistreatment or deprived of his civil rights by a policeman, sheriff, or other peace officer. Emphasis is given to the relief that can be obtained under the Civil Rights Act (42 USC ยง 1983 and related... |
2020 |
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| Trevor George Gardner |
Police Violence and the African American Procedural Habitus |
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How should an African American respond to a race-based police stop? What approach, disposition, or tactic will minimize his risk within the context of the police stop of being subject to police violence? This Essay advances a conversation among criminal procedural theorists about citizen agency within the field of police-administered criminal... |
2020 |
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| Nandini Kavuri, Esq., Cozen O'Connor |
Politics in the Workplace: More than Just a Headache for Employers |
16No.18 Westlaw Journal Bankruptcy 02 (2020) |
Cozen O'Connor attorney Nandini Kavuri discusses ways that employers can defuse heated political discussions in the workplace without improperly restricting the ability of employees to express themselves. Political discussions in the workplace have become increasingly common. What was once considered a taboo watercooler topic has become one of the... |
2020 |
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| Henry Kenyon, CQ Roll Call |
Portland, Center of Protests, Bans Use of Facial Recognition Tech by Police |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Data Privacy (9/10/2020) |
The Portland City Council passed ordinances banning police and government agencies in the Oregon city, which has been at the center of continual protests over police brutality since the May killing of George Floyd, from using facial recognition technology and barring private companies from implementing it in public spaces. |
2020 |
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| Bernadette Atuahene |
Predatory Cities |
108 California Law Review 107 (February, 2020) |
Between 2011 and 2015, the Wayne County Treasurer completed the property tax foreclosure process for one in four properties in Detroit, Michigan. No other American city has experienced this elevated rate of property tax foreclosures since the Great Depression. Studies reveal that the City of Detroit systematically and illegally inflated the... |
2020 |
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Preliminary Materials |
ASYLUMCLS PREMAT (2020) |
Forty years ago, Congress codified asylum law with the enactment of the Refugee Act of 1980. The interpretation of the definition of a refugee and who qualifies for protection from persecution and torture has evolved ever since. Instead of a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Refugee Act in 2020, however, the focus has been on attempts to... |
2020 |
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| Lillian K. Glenister |
Preserving Maunakea under International Law: a Draft Petition to the Inter-american Commission on Human Rights on Behalf of Kealoha Pisciotta and Hawai'i's Knaka Maoli Community |
56 California Western Law Review 399 (Spring, 2020) |
C1-2Table of Contents Summary of Petition. 400 Draft Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Behalf of Kealoha Pisciotta and Hawai'i's Knaka Maoli Community. 403 Introduction. 403 I. The Petitioners. 406 II. Factual and Procedural Background. 407 A. Significance of Maunakea to Knaka Maoli. 407 B. The TMT Project. 409 C.... |
2020 |
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| Rebecca Klar |
President's Supporters, Opponents Paint Dueling Portraits of 'Donald Trump's America' |
The Hill (8/30/2020) |
Democrats accused President Trump on Sunday of trying to incite violence to benefit his reelection campaign while one of Trumps aides insisted America is a largely peaceful place under his control dismissing the violence as an issue in cities controlled by Democrats. |
2020 |
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