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Pamela Wolf, J.D. LITIGATION NEWS, TRENDS-EMPLOYEE SUES EMPLOYER FOR FORCED RESIGNATION AFTER FLIP-OFF OF TRUMP WENT VIRAL 2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 1633368 (April 5, 2018) A former employee has filed a lawsuit asserting that her employer, Akima, LLC, forced her to resign after an image of the employee flipping off President Trump's motorcade went viral. Akima, a government contractor in Herndon, Virginia, purportedly did not want to be associated with opposition to the President. The plaintiff contends that her... 2018  
Katherine A. Macfarlane LOS ANGELES v. MENDEZ: PROXIMATE CAUSE PROMISE FOR POLICE SHOOTING VICTIMS 118 Columbia Law Review Online 48 (February 5, 2018) County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, the Supreme Court's recent decision rejecting shooting victims' excessive force claims, has been written off as yet another case in which police violence has no civil rights consequences. The Court found that the deputies who shot Jennifer Garcia and Angel Mendez fifteen times used reasonable force because Mendez... 2018  
Timothy Zick MANAGING DISSENT 95 Washington University Law Review 1423 (2018) In his insightful new book, Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment (2017), Professor Greg Magarian criticizes the Roberts Court for adopting a managed speech approach in its First Amendment cases. According to Professor Magarian, that approach gives too much power to private and governmental actors to manage public discourse,... 2018  
  Mandela's grandson: Trump tweet about South Africa shows 'total ignorance of reality' (August 24, 2018) Nelson Mandelas grandson slammed President Trump on Thursday for arrogant tweets about South Africas land reform program 2018  
Tracey Maclin , Maria Savarese MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND PRETEXT STOPS (AND ARRESTS): REFLECTIONS ON HOW FAR WE HAVE NOT COME FIFTY YEARS LATER 49 University of Memphis Law Review 43 (Fall, 2018) I. Introduction. 43 A. Pretext Stops in America. 45 B. Pretext Stops and the Fourth Amendment. 50 II. The Impact of Whren v. United States. 54 III. The Numbers Today--Driving While Black Remains a Reality. 65 A. Stanford Open Policing Project. 66 B. Department of Justice Special Reports. 68 C. Department of Justice Investigation of the Ferguson,... 2018  
Mark Conrad MATAL v. TAM--A VICTORY FOR THE SLANTS, A TOUCHDOWN FOR THE REDSKINS, BUT AN AMBIGUOUS JOURNEY FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND TRADEMARK LAW 36 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 83 (2018) Since 1946, Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, the law governing trademarks, prohibited the registration of trademarks deemed immoral, deceptive, or scandalous; or those which may disparage individuals. This provision was the subject of a challenge by an Asian-American dance-rock band named The Slants after the trademark examiner refused to... 2018  
John Charles Boger MCCLESKEY v. KEMP: FIELD NOTES FROM 1977-1991 112 Northwestern University Law Review 1637 (2018) Abstract--The litigation campaign that led to McCleskey v. Kemp did not begin as an anti-death-penalty effort. It grew in soil long washed in the blood of African-Americans, lynched or executed following rude semblances of trials and hasty appeals, which had prompted the NAACP from its very founding to demand simple justice in individual criminal... 2018  
Maria R. Volpe, Bradley L. Roth MEDIATION CAPACITY BUILDING WITH LIBERIAN DIASPORA COMMUNITIES: SOME OBSERVATIONS 19 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 709 (Spring, 2018) Mediation has been a method of conflict resolution for millenia, but since the 1970s, it has become progressively more widely recognized and established as an essential component of efforts to peaceably resolve conflicts in the U.S. and many other countries. Countless mediation scholars, practitioners, trainers, and program administrators have... 2018  
Cale Jaffe MELTING THE POLARIZATION AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE POLITICS 30 Georgetown Environmental Law Review 455 (Spring, 2018) Climate change has become one of the most highly polarized political problems, but it was not always this way. As recently as 2008, leading Republicans and Democrats agreed on the implications of global warming research. This Article charts how the United States moved from a bipartisan agreement on the need to address climate change to the current... 2018  
Mae C. Quinn MISSOURI *@!!?*@! - TOO SLOW 62 Saint Louis University Law Journal 847 (Summer, 2018) Hound dogs on my trail School children sitting in jail Black cat cross my path I think every day's gonna be my last Picket lines School boycotts They try to say it's a communist plot All I want is equality For my sister my brother my people and me I don't trust you any more [All] You keep on saying [is] Go slow! But that's just the trouble Do it... 2018  
The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr. MLK50 SYMPOSIUM: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? KEYNOTE ADDRESS 49 University of Memphis Law Review 33 (Fall, 2018) Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. I want to thank President Rudd, Dean Letsou, and President Freeman for inviting me here today. Louise, it's always good to see you--and you bring Doug with you, of course. Thank you, Senator Doug Jones, for your kind words and warm welcome but also for your service to our country. Now as a person who has worked... 2018  
Sarah Brown , Natasha Brison MORE THAN AN ATHLETE: CONSTITUTIONAL AND CONTRACTUAL ANALYSIS OF ACTIVISM IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS 7 Arizona State Sports & Entertainment Law Journal 249 (Spring, 2018) Athlete activism is not a new issue. Rather, athletes at all levels and sports have used their platforms to protest long before Colin Kaepernick took a knee. During the 1960s and 1970s, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, athletes including Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, and Arthur Ashe advocated for civil rights. As the fight for... 2018  
Purvi Shah , Center for Constitutional Rights , Ellen Yaroshefsky , Published in April 2013 Bertha Social Justice Institute MOVEMENT LAWYERING READING GUIDE 47 Hofstra Law Review 99 (Fall, 2018) Angela Harris, Margaretta Lin & Jeff Selbin, From The Art of War to Being Peace: Mindfulness and Community Lawyering in a Neoliberal Age, 95 Calif. L. Rev. 2073 (2007). Assesses the value of mindfulness in legal practice. Mindfulness sets aside typical adversarial and zero-sum approaches and opens up new relationship-based possibilities in... 2018  
Bruce Zagaris and Zarine Kharazian MUELLER INDICTS 13 RUSSIAN NATIONALS WITH CRIMES RELATED TO 2016 ELECTION-MEDDLING 34 International Enforcement Law Reporter 75 (February 1 - February 28, 2018) On Friday, February 16, 2018, The DOJ Special Counsel's Office released a 37-page indictment charging the Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization, as well as thirteen Russian nationals who carried out the organization's mission in the U.S, with crimes related to meddling in the U.S. political system, including in the 2016 presidential... 2018  
Diana R. Donahoe NOT-SO-GREAT EXPECTATIONS: IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS IN THE SUPREME COURT'S CONSENT TO SEARCH DOCTRINE 55 American Criminal Law Review 619 (Summer, 2018) The Supreme Court's creation of the social expectation doctrine in third-party consent to search cases, where it equated a police officer demanding entrance to a suspect's home with a house call from a social visitor, is emblematic of the implicit bias that pervades the United States criminal justice system. This perception of friendly officers... 2018  
Kathryn V. Ramsey ONE-STRIKE 2.0: HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE DISTORTING A FLAWED FEDERAL EVICTION LAW 65 UCLA Law Review 1146 (June, 2018) In recent years, local governments across the country have passed crime-free housing ordinances (CHOs) for private-market rental properties. These ordinances increase the risk of eviction for many tenants by requiring or encouraging private-market landlords to evict tenants for low-level criminal activity, sometimes even a single arrest. CHOs are... 2018  
Elise C. Boddie ORDINARINESS AS EQUALITY 93 Indiana Law Journal 57 (Winter, 2018) This Essay argues for an equality norm of racial ordinariness. Ordinariness here refers to the state of being treated as a full, complex person and a rightful recipient of human concern. As a norm, its purpose is to focus constitutional attention on common, everyday interactions as sources of racial indignity. It also seeks to sensitize courts and... 2018  
Mitchell N. Berman OUR PRINCIPLED CONSTITUTION 166 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1325 (May, 2018) Suppose that we disagree about a matter of constitutional law. Say that one of us contends, and the other denies, that transgender persons have constitutional rights to be treated in accord with their gender identity. It appears that we disagree about what the law is. And, most probably, we disagree about what the law is on this matter because we... 2018  
John “Longjones” Abdallah Wambere OUT, PROUD, AND AFRICAN: ONE MAN'S JOURNEY AS A GAY UGANDAN ACTIVIST 40 Western New England Law Review 495 (2018) It was an afternoon; I stood by the sink at my work place in Nairobi, Kenya, and looked in the mirror. I washed my hands, slowly rubbing in between my fingers, just as Pontius Pilate did before he handed Jesus Christ over to be crucified. With much relief, I whispered slowly to myself, John, you are gay. I took a deep breath and wiped my hands... 2018  
Philip N. Meyer PAINT A PICTURE 104-FEB ABA Journal 22 (February, 2018) In January 2017, before President Donald Trump's inauguration, I attended the annual Association of American Law Schools conference in San Francisco. I stayed at the Mark Hopkins Hotel high up on Nob Hill--a walk away from the conference site at the Hilton in the business district near Union Square. My well-appointed vintage-style room was on an... 2018  
Abbey Stemler PLATFORM ADVOCACY AND THE THREAT TO DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY 78 Maryland Law Review 105 (2018) Businesses have long tried to influence political outcomes, but today, there is a new and potent form of corporate political power--Platform Advocacy. Internet-based platforms, such as Facebook, Google, and Uber, mobilize their user bases through direct solicitation of support and the more troubling exploitation of irrational behavior. Platform... 2018  
Howard M. Wasserman POLICE MISCONDUCT, VIDEO RECORDING, AND PROCEDURAL BARRIERS TO RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT 96 North Carolina Law Review 1313 (June, 2018) The story of police reform has become the story of video and video evidence, and record everything to know the truth has become the singular mantra. Video, both police-created and citizen-created, has become the singular tool for ensuring police accountability, reforming law enforcement, and enforcing the rights of victims of police misconduct.... 2018  
Michael C. McKeown POLICE MISCONDUCT: INEFFECTIVE POLICE DEPARTMENT COMPLAINT-REVIEW PROCEDURES AND THE PROPOSITION OF CORRECTIVE FEDERAL OVERSIGHT 51 Suffolk University Law Review 309 (2018) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Over the past two centuries, the United States government has developed tools to accurately track annual tax revenues, but still has yet to implement effective means to report the exact number of lives... 2018  
Jonathan Masur , Richard H. McAdams POLICE VIOLENCE IN THE WIRE 2018 University of Chicago Legal Forum 139 (2018) Police brutality--the unsanctioned, unlawful use of force by police against unarmed (and often defenseless) civilians--is one of the recurring motifs of The Wire. The violence occurs in a variety of settings: occasionally the victim of the police brutality has done something to precipitate it (though the brutality is never justified), but more... 2018  
Savannah Walker POLICING HATE: THE PROBLEMATIC EXPANSION OF LOUISIANA'S HATE CRIME STATUTE TO INCLUDE POLICE OFFICERS 78 Louisiana Law Review 1413 (Spring, 2018) C1-3Table of Contents Introduction. 1413 I. Hate Crime Laws: A Broad Overview. 1417 A. Defining Hate Crime. 1417 B. Why We Legislate Hate. 1418 C. Structure of State Hate Crime Statutes. 1419 II. Dissecting the Flaws of the Blue Lives Matter Law. 1421 A. The Unnecessary Expressive Purpose. 1422 B. The Practical Shortcomings. 1424 1. Police... 2018  
Tal Kastner POLICING NARRATIVE 71 SMU Law Review 1117 (Fall, 2018) Counter narrative, a story that calls attention to and rebuts the presumptions of a dominant narrative framework, functions as an essential tool to reshape the bounds of the law. It has the potential to shape the collective notion of what constitutes legal authority. Black Lives Matter offers a counter narrative that challenges the characterization... 2018  
Renée McDonald Hutchins POLICING THE PROSECUTOR 33-FALL Criminal Justice 14 (Fall, 2018) two events have collided to give prosecutors enormous power. The first is an inveterate retreat from robust enforcement of police conduct under the Fourth Amendment. The second is a now-dominant use of negotiated pleas to resolve criminal cases. The combination has meant a significant increase in the already substantial power of prosecutors--power... 2018  
K. Sabeel Rahman POLICYMAKING AS POWER-BUILDING 27 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 315 (Winter, 2018) The problem of balancing power through institutional design--always a central concern of constitutional theory--has taken on even greater salience in current scholarship in light of contemporary concerns over economic inequality and failures of American democracy today. This paper extends these concerns into the realm of administrative law and the... 2018  
Alexi Nunn Freeman, Lindsey Webb POSITIVE DISRUPTION: ADDRESSING RACE IN A TIME OF SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH A TEAM-TAUGHT, REFLECTION-BASED, OUTWARD-LOOKING LAW SCHOOL SEMINAR 21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 121 (2018) Addressing race in the legal classroom has long been a potentially disruptive, even professionally hazardous, act. Despite multiple innovations in the legal curriculum, the decades-long discussion regarding racial inclusion in law schools has led us to the same, largely race-avoidant, place. Now, as we navigate a tumultuous period in which issues... 2018  
Chris DiNardo PREGNANCY IN CONFINEMENT, ANTI-SHACKLING LAWS AND THE "EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES" LOOPHOLE 25 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 271 (Spring, 2018) One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that they would themselves spontaneously rise up and strike off the manacles. But, no, they appear to glory in their chains; now, more than ever, they... 2018  
Ira S. Rubinstein PRIVACY LOCALISM 93 Washington Law Review 1961 (December, 2018) Abstract: Privacy law scholarship often focuses on domain-specific federal privacy laws and state efforts to broaden them. This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of privacy regulation at the local level (which it dubs privacy localism), using recently enacted privacy laws in Seattle and New York City as principal examples.... 2018  
Scott Skinner-Thompson PRIVACY'S DOUBLE STANDARDS 93 Washington Law Review 2051 (December, 2018) Abstract: Where the right to privacy exists, it should be available to all people. If not universally available, then privacy rights should be particularly accessible to marginalized individuals who are subject to greater surveillance and are less able to absorb the social costs of privacy violations. But in practice, there is evidence that people... 2018  
  PROTESTOR LOSES FALSE ARREST CLAIM 24 CITYLAW 81 (July/August, 2018) Demonstrator claims she was falsely arrested by a police officer at Black Lives Matter protest. On April 29, 2015, Carlene Pinto marched with 200 to 500 demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter rally that began in Union Square. Officers with loudspeakers continually instructed protestors to stay on the sidewalks. Officer Joseph Diaz, one of the NYPD... 2018  
Carolyn A. Dubay PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE COURTS IN THE INTERNET AGE: THE ETHICAL LANDSCAPE FOR JUDGES IN THE POST-WATERGATE ERA 40 Campbell Law Review 531 (Spring, 2018) Promoting and protecting public confidence in government institutions is central to continued faith in the rule of law. As a result, when personal scandals or internal failures threaten public trust in government institutions, policy makers have been quick to respond with new measures to increase accountability for misconduct. In the twentieth... 2018  
James M. LoPiano PUBLIC FORA PURPOSE: ANALYZING VIEWPOINT DISCRIMINATION ON THE PRESIDENT'S TWITTER ACCOUNT 28 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal 511 (Spring, 2018) Today, protectable speech takes many forms in many spaces. This Note is about the spaces. This Note discusses whether President Donald J. Trump's personal Twitter account functions as a public forum, and if so, whether blocking constituents from said account amounts to viewpoint discrimination--a First Amendment freedom of speech violation. Part I... 2018  
Amber Lara QUEER WOMYN OF COLOR AND EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW IN WISCONSIN-- DOES WISCONSIN LAW DO ENOUGH TO LIFT ANXIETY? 19 Marquette Benefits & Social Welfare Law Review 265 (Spring, 2018) America's current leadership appears to actively seek out ways to isolate and oppress those who do not identify as cis-gender white heterosexual males. The purpose of this comment is to help readers understand the issues queer womyn of color face interacting with society on a daily basis. This comment will outline the harmful expectations of... 2018  
Zachary A. Kaplan R2D2 OR IROBOT: CAN ARMED ROBOTS BE A FRIEND TO POLICE WITHOUT BEING A FOE TO THE PUBLIC? 32 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 603 (2018) At a time when dissention over law enforcement related killings was reaching a breaking point, Dallas police officers took another controversial step by deploying a bomb-wielding robot to kill an active shooter during a Black Lives Matter protest. The assailant was taking cover, out of the reach of officers, in a community college parking garage... 2018  
Matthew J. Parlow RACE, SPEECH, AND SPORTS 52 University of Richmond Law Review 923 (May, 2018) Race, sports, and free speech rights intersected in a very controversial and public way during the 2016 and 2017 National Football League (NFL) seasons. On August 26, 2016, Colin Kaepernick spurred a national debate when he refused to stand during the playing of the national anthem before the NFL preseason game between the Green Bay Packers and... 2018  
LeRoy Pernell RACIAL JUSTICE AND FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS AS POSTCONVICTION RELIEF FROM STATE CONVICTIONS 69 Mercer Law Review 453 (Winter, 2018) It is the purpose of this Article not to simply document the influence of race on our criminal system and its role in the current racial crisis of overrepresentation of minorities in our prisons, but rather to focus on the future and importance of a key tool in the struggle for racial equity--federal habeas corpus as a postconviction remedy. By... 2018  
Michael A. Lawrence RACIAL JUSTICE DEMANDS TRUTH & RECONCILIATION 80 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 69 (Fall, 2018) The Negro race in America, stolen, ravished and degraded, struggling up through difficulties and oppression, needs sympathy and receives criticism; needs help and is given hindrance, needs protection and is given mob-violence, needs justice and is given charity, needs leadership and is given cowardice and apology, needs bread and is given a stone.... 2018  
Honorable Evelyn Z. Wilson RANDOM THOUGHTS 87-JUN Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 15 (June, 2018) This isn't the column that takes an in-depth, logical, and well-researched position on a thorny legal issue. No, this is the column by someone who is, or soon will be, a lame duck president who sees the hook coming from backstage. My time, my space, and your attention are limited. Here are just some things that I think need to be said: 1. Thank you... 2018  
Purvi Shah REBUILDING THE ETHICAL COMPASS OF LAW 47 Hofstra Law Review 11 (Fall, 2018) Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. - Frantz Fanon We are in an incredibly challenging moment in U.S. history. Emboldened by the Trump presidency, a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-poor movement is gaining momentum. And while oppression is certainly nothing new, the scale and severity of the... 2018  
Courtlyn G. Roser-Jones RECONCILING AGENCY FEE DOCTRINE, THE FIRST AMENDMENT, AND THE MODERN PUBLIC SECTOR UNION 112 Northwestern University Law Review 597 (2018) Abstract--Few institutions have done more to improve working conditions for the middle class than labor unions. Their efforts, of course, cost money. To fund union activities, thousands of collective bargaining agreements across the nation have long included provisions permitting employers to require employees to pay fair share or agency fees.... 2018  
André Douglas Pond Cummings REFORMING POLICING 10 Drexel Law Review 573 (2018) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 575 I. Historical Evolution of Policing in the United States. 578 II. Connecting History with Current Practices. 583 III. Nationwide Police Reform Efforts Finding Success. 591 A. Policing in a Multiracial Society Project. 591 B. The Use of Force Project. 595 C. Community Policing in Cincinnati. 597 D.... 2018  
Cynthia Lee REFORMING THE LAW ON POLICE USE OF DEADLY FORCE: DE-ESCALATION, PRESEIZURE CONDUCT, AND IMPERFECT SELF-DEFENSE 2018 University of Illinois Law Review 629 (2018) This Article seeks to contribute to the national conversation on reforming police practices by evaluating the current law on police use of deadly force, identifying problems with that law, and suggesting a modest change to that law in the form of model legislation governing police use of deadly force. Existing statutes on police use of deadly force... 2018  
Kyle Langvardt REGULATING ONLINE CONTENT MODERATION 106 Georgetown Law Journal 1353 (June, 2018) The Supreme Court held in 2017 that the vast democratic forums of the Internet in general, and social media in particular, are the most important places . for the exchange of views. Yet within these forums, speakers are subject to the closest and swiftest regime of censorship the world has ever known. This censorship comes not from the... 2018  
Rodney A. Smolla REGULATION OF POLITICAL APPAREL IN POLLING PLACES: WHY THE SUPREME COURT'S MANSKY OPINION DID NOT GO FAR ENOUGH 2018 Cato Supreme Court Review 225 (2017-2018) In Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, the Supreme Court struck down a Minnesota law prohibiting voters from wearing various political messages on buttons or clothing inside a polling place on Election Day. In an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court held that Minnesota's sweeping ban on political expression violated the First... 2018  
Leah Litman REMEDIAL CONVERGENCE AND COLLAPSE 106 California Law Review 1477 (October, 2018) This Article describes and interrogates a phenomenon of spillovers across remedies--how the legal standards governing the availability of remedies in cases regarding executive violations of individuals' constitutional rights, particularly in the area of policing, have converged around similar ideas that narrow the availability of several different... 2018  
Thomas Wanebo REMOTE KILLING AND THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: UPDATING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW TO ADDRESS EXPANDED POLICE LETHALITY IN THE ROBOTIC AGE 65 UCLA Law Review 976 (May, 2018) In the early morning hours of July 8, 2016, a loud boom echoed between the buildings in downtown Dallas, signaling both the end to a bloody massacre that took the lives of five Dallas-area police officers and the dawn of a new age in American law enforcement. Police officers had killed an armed suspect by affixing a bomb to a remotely controlled... 2018  
Richard Delgado , Jean Stefancic RETHEORIZING ACTIONS FOR TARGETED HATE SPEECH: A COMMENT ON PROFESSOR BROWN 9 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 169 (2018) I. Introduction: Alexander Brown's Retheorizing Actionable Injuries and the Value of Precision. 170 II. Hate Speech Law and Scholarship. 175 A. Tort Law and Scholarship About Hate Speech: A Brief History. 176 B. Campus Hate Speech Codes--Case Law and Legal Scholarship. 177 C. Campus Climate Activism. 178 D. Controlling Hate--Competing Positions and... 2018  
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