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State Highlights |
43No.16 Workers' Compensation Law Bulletin NL 6 (8/25/2020) |
The California Labor Commissioners Office has filed suit against Mobile Wash Inc. (MW) of Bellflower, California for allegedly misclassifying 100 or more workers as independent contractors. This is the first lawsuit the office has filed to enforce Assembly Bill 5, enacted in 2019 and requiring the ABC Test to be applied to evaluate whether a... |
2020 |
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| Spencer Overton |
State Power to Regulate Social Media Companies to Prevent Voter Suppression |
53 U.C. Davis Law Review 1793 (April, 2020) |
Fake social media accounts and ads did not merely polarize the American electorate in 2016--these tactics also targeted and suppressed Black votes. While African Americans made up just 12.7% of the United States population, Black audiences accounted for over 38% of U.S.-focused ads purchased by the Russian Internet Research Agency and almost half... |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
State Street Seeks Diversity Strategies, Data of Companies it Invests in |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (9/2/2020) |
A manager of more than $3.1 trillion in invested assets is warning U.S. companies that a lack of transparency or failure to engage on racial and ethnic diversity issue could lead the firm to oppose corporate leaders at shareholder meetings. |
2020 |
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| Lisa Madigan, Cara Hendrickson, Karyn L. Bass Ehler |
Stepping into the Shoes of the Department of Justice: the Unusual, Necessary, and Hopeful Path the Illinois Attorney General Took to Require Police Reform in Chicago |
15 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 121 (Winter, 2020) |
We can't continue to let this go on. Someone has to have the will, someone has to have the serious will, to want to have this change ..--Testimony of Karl Brinson, President of Chicago West Side Branch of NAACP, during the fairness hearing. The decree takes an important step forward in the City of Chicago's ongoing efforts to repair the... |
2020 |
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| Anthony C. Thompson |
Stepping up to the Challenge of Leadership on Race |
48 Hofstra Law Review 735 (Spring, 2020) |
First and foremost, I want to thank you for inviting me to deliver this keynote address. I applaud your choice to participate in a conference on difference and leadership because these are critical issues that deserve our best thinking and our collective attention. I have watched with great interest as organizations from global businesses, to law... |
2020 |
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| Rebecca Klar |
Steyer Endorses Reparations Bill, Commits to Working with Jackson Lee |
The Hill (7/27/2020) |
Former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer on Monday endorsed legislation sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) that would fund a committee to explore whether Black Americans should receive reparations for slavery. |
2020 |
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| Brian McNeil |
Stop-and-frisk in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago: Slowly Approaching an Uneasy Synthesis or Running out of Time to Justify its Freight? |
29 Widener Commonwealth Law Review 69 (2020) |
Most people know what stops and frisks are, and what standards apply to them. But while these standards provide the framework for adjudging the propriety of stops and frisks on an individual basis, different considerations come into play where the relative benefits and drawbacks of widespread stop-and-frisk practices as a policy are addressed. This... |
2020 |
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| Devon W. Carbado |
Stop-and-strip Violence: the Doctrinal Migrations of Reasonable Suspicion |
55 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 467 (Summer, 2020) |
In 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Terry v. Ohio. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that police officers may stop-and-frisk people whom they have reasonable suspicion to believe are armed and dangerous. The reasonable suspicion standard was an exception to the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement, one that the... |
2020 |
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| Ellen L. Weintraub , Carlos A. Valdivia |
Strike and Share: Combatting Foreign Influence Campaigns on Social Media |
16 Ohio State Technology Law Journal 701 (Spring, 2020) |
C1-3Contents I. FOREIGN INFLUENCE CAMPAIGNS ARE TARGETING U.S. ELECTIONS. 702 II. THE LAW AGAINST CONTRIBUTIONS FROM FOREIGN NATIONALS. 706 III. WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?. 711 IV. CONCLUSION. 720 |
2020 |
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| J. Edward Moreno |
Surgeon General: 'The Virus Doesn't Care about Your Politics' Whether at Trump Rally or Protest |
The Hill (9/23/2020) |
Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Wednesday said that the coronavirus doesnt care about your politics, emphasizing that anyone attending in-person gatherings of any kind should follow public health measures. |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Sustainability Investors Want Esg to Be Presidential Priority |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Securities Enforcement & Litigation (11/4/2020) |
Sustainability investors managing $3 trillion in assets are urging the next U.S. president, whoever that may be, to help speed a shift from shareholder-focused corporations to a broader emphasis on stakeholder accountability. |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Sustainability Investors Want Esg to Be Priority for Trump or Biden |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (11/6/2020) |
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2020 |
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Symposium Discussion: Schor |
68 Drake Law Review 371 (2020) |
Jack Balkin: What is the prescriptive thesis? And is this prescriptive thesis an alteration of the rules of free expression? Miguel Schor: No, I didn't make that argument. The point is that the problem is not political. It is deeply societal, and it's the very process of engagement with that amendment that can enable that kind of discussion.... |
2020 |
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| Jennifer W. Reynolds |
Talking about Abortion (Listening Optional) |
8 Texas A&M Law Review 141 (Fall, 2020) |
Whether we can expect others to listen--and whether we choose to listen to others--have become central challenges in handling conflicts around polarized and high-profile political matters. For those who study alternative dispute resolution (ADR), these concerns about listening hit especially close to the bone because they implicate some of the... |
2020 |
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| Matthew D. Reade |
Talking about Affirmative Action |
10/30/2020 University of Chicago Law Review Online 1 (10/30/2020) |
On October 27, 1996, as the cameras rolled, San Francisco Mayor and former California State Assembly Speaker Willie L. Brown, Jr. took the stage in a drab auditorium on the campus of San Francisco State University. Joining him on stage, behind a mustard-colored dais, was California Assemblyman Bernie Richter. The men convened that evening to... |
2020 |
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| AbHarrington |
Tanks and Rubber Bullets Vs. Pussy Hats and High-fives: a Comparative Look at the 2014 Ferguson Uprising and the 2017 Women's March on Washington |
31 Hastings Women's Law Journal 101 (Winter, 2020) |
A picture is worth a thousand words. Throughout the beginning of the twenty-first century, the prevalence of cell phones has increased the ability of many to snap a picture. These images are then distributed through social media platforms and shared across cities, states, and beyond. After the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, images from... |
2020 |
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| Joseph A. Tomain |
Teaching Information Privacy Law |
59 Washburn Law Journal 445 (Summer, 2020) |
Teaching information privacy law is exciting and challenging because of the fast pace of technological and legal development and because information privacy law sprawls across a vast array of disparate areas of substantive law that do not automatically connect. This Essay provides one approach to teaching this fascinating, doctrinally diverse,... |
2020 |
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| Karen J. Pita Loor |
Tear Gas + Water Hoses + Dispersal Orders: the Fourth Amendment Endorses Brutality in Protest Policing |
100 Boston University Law Review 817 (May, 2020) |
Thirty years ago, in Graham v. Connor, the Supreme Court determined that excessive-force claims against police should proceed via the Fourth Amendment, which theoretically protects an individual against unreasonable siezures. However, the Court showed extreme deference to law enforcement's use of force by using a permissive reasonableness analysis... |
2020 |
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Termination |
Labor Arbitration Awards 3570533 (2020) |
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2020 |
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| Kyndal Currie |
That Was Then, this Is Now: the Revival of the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment and the Co-optation of the #Metoo Movement |
50 Golden Gate University Law Review 169 (August, 2020) |
Introduction. 170 I. An Overview of the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment and Modern Social Campaigns. 174 A. The Rise, Fall, and Revival of the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment. 174 B. Co-Optation Both Within and Without the #MeToo Movement. 177 II. Black, Female Stereotypes and Black Women's Experiences of Sexual Violence. 180 A. The Image of the... |
2020 |
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| Deionna Ferguson |
That's the One!: an Analysis of Eyewitness Identifications in Missouri and Their Impact on Cross-racial Identification |
63 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 357 (2020) |
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, Jr., an African American man, was shot by Darren Wilson, a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson is located within St. Louis County. A grand jury was called to determine if Officer Wilson should be indicted. Robert McCulloch, then the St. Louis County Prosecutor, provided the grand jury with evidence that... |
2020 |
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| Patrick A. Talley, Jr. , Kim M. Boyle |
The "Farewell" Interview: on the Retirement of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson |
68 Louisiana Bar Journal 242 (December, 2020/January, 2021) |
Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson is the Louisiana Supreme Court's 25th Chief Justice, its second female Chief Justice and its first African-American Chief Justice. Her professional career has included a series of firsts. She was one of the first African-American women to attend and earn a JD degree in 1969 from Louisiana State University... |
2020 |
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| Neriah Yue |
The "Weaponization" of Facebook in Myanmar: a Case for Corporate Criminal Liability |
71 Hastings Law Journal 813 (April, 2020) |
The advent of social media platforms in the mid-2000s increased global communication and encouraged innovative activism by ushering new, effective ways to organize and protest. News agencies have recently reported the misuse of these platforms by individual actors and authoritarian regimes. Autocrats, in particular, twist social media platforms... |
2020 |
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| Collin Poirot |
The Anatomy of a Federal Terrorism Prosecution: a Blueprint for Repression and Entrapment |
5 Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online 60 (12/8/2020) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Federal Anti-Terrorism Operations in the Wake of September 11, 2001. 61 II. Counter-Terrorism Surveillance and the Information-Sharing Environment. 63 A. Surveillance Without a Factual Predicate. 65 B. Suspicious Activity Reporting. 67 C. The Information-Sharing Environment and Fusion Centers. 69 III. Weaving the Web of... |
2020 |
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| Kristi W. Arth |
The Art of the Matter: a Linguistic Analysis of Public Art Policy in Confederate Monument Removal Case Law |
56 Gonzaga Law Review Rev. 1 (2020/2021) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 3 I. Research Methodology. 9 II. An Overview of Confederate Monument Removal Case Law. 12 A. The Typical Monuments. 13 B. The Typical Parties. 14 C. The Typical Claims. 15 D. State Statue Statutes. 15 E. The Injunctive Relief Posture. 16 III. Frameworks of Public Art Policy. 18 A. Public Art in the United States.... |
2020 |
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| Christine Kumar |
The Automated Tipster: How Implicit Bias Turns Suspicion Algorithms into Bbq Beckys |
72 Federal Communications Law Journal 97 (May, 2020) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 98 II. The Wrongful Mobilization of the Police: How Implicit Bias in Humans and Technologies can Influence Policing. 101 A. Implicit Bias in Human and Police Interactions. 102 B. Big Data, Machine Learning and the Police. 104 III. Legal Mechanisms that can Protect Against Implicit Bias in Police-Used Machine... |
2020 |
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The Battle to Protect Those Fleeing Persecution and Torture Intensifies under the Trump Administration |
97No.35 Interpreter Releases Art. 1 (9/14/2020) |
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... |
2020 |
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| Susan R. Jones |
The Case for Leadership Coaching in Law Schools: a New Way to Support Professional Identity Formation |
48 Hofstra Law Review 659 (Spring, 2020) |
Leadership coaching, a personalized and confidential form of professional and personal development, is a creative partnership between a coach and a client designed to empower the client toward greater self-reflection, clarity of purpose, meaningful change, accountability, and effective engagement in the world. At its core, leadership is about... |
2020 |
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| Katelyn P. Dembowski |
The Case for Socioeconomic Affirmative Action: a Jurisprudential Examination at the Disparity Between Privilege and Poverty in Higher Education Admissions |
31 Hastings Women's Law Journal 129 (Winter, 2020) |
It is hard for us Westerners, not that the freedom that men seek differs according to their social or economic status, but that the majority who possess it have gained it by exploiting, or, at least, averting their gaze from, the vast majority who do not. - Isaiah Berlin Racial minorities in America have faced unequal representation and... |
2020 |
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| Jeffrey Bellin |
The Changing Role of the American Prosecutor |
18 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 329 (Fall, 2020) |
The following is a November 2019 presentation to the Louisiana District Attorneys Association, Fall Meeting of Elected District Attorneys (DA). The invited presentation was part of an agenda that included remarks from the Governor of Louisiana and the Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. The opinions expressed are solely those of the... |
2020 |
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