| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
| Tal Axelrod |
GOP senator says he may have felt unsafe if BLM, antifa had stormed Capitol |
The Hill (3/13/2021) |
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said in an interview this week that he did not feel unsafe during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot but might have if Black Lives Matter protesters or far-left antifa activists had demonstrated there, setting off a new wave of criticism. |
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| Nicolás Quaid Galván , Editor-in-Chief, Volume 11 |
GROWTH IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES |
11 Colum. J. Race & L. 421 [Columbia Journal of Race and Law] (July, 2021) |
Our Journal has published in unprecedented times. This year, we have gone to the streets to declare what should be a universal truth: Black Lives Matter. We have chanted the names of unarmed Black persons who have been killed by the state. This time, our demands for justice were not lost. In fact, a form of justice was delivered by a jury in... |
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Habeas Corpus Reform and Black Lives Matter: A Historical Perspective |
57 NO 5 CRIMLAWBULL ART 3 [Criminal Law Bulletin] (2021) |
J.D., Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, 2021. Thank you to Professor Valena Beety for her guidance and encouragement in creating this Article. Thank you also to the editors of the Criminal Law Bulletin for their careful editing and thoughtful suggestions. |
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| Travis D. Jones |
HUMANS LONG IGNORED: REVISITING NEPA'S DEFINITION OF "HUMAN ENVIRONMENT" IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER |
32 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 1 [Villanova Environmental Law Journal] (2021) |
In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement brought state-sanctioned violence against African Americans to the forefront of public discourse. In the wake of the horrific killing of George Floyd, highly charged protests exploded around the country, from Washington D.C. to Dallas to Portland. Across the internet, social media timelines and profile... |
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| Travis D. Jones |
HUMANS LONG IGNORED: REVISITING NEPA'S DEFINITION OF "HUMAN ENVIRONMENT" IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER |
32 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 1 [Villanova Environmental Law Journal] (2021) |
In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement brought state-sanctioned violence against African Americans to the forefront of public discourse. In the wake of the horrific killing of George Floyd, highly charged protests exploded around the country, from Washington D.C. to Dallas to Portland. Across the internet, social media timelines and profile... |
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| Monica C. Bell , Katherine Beckett , Forrest Stuart |
INVESTING IN ALTERNATIVES: THREE LOGICS OF CRIMINAL SYSTEM REPLACEMENT |
11 UC Irvine L. Rev. 1291 [UC Irvine Law Review] (August, 2021) |
What logics underlie the call to defund the police, and how do those logics matter in policy debate? In the wake of widespread protests after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other victims of police violence during the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement's call to defund the police captured the national imagination.... |
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Investment Adviser Asks for SEC Disclosure Rulemaking on Financial Support for BLM |
WGL-ACCTALERT VOL 15 NO 115 [Vol. 15, No. 115] (6/17/2021) |
William Michael Cunningham, founder of Creative Investment Research, petitioned the SEC to start rulemaking to develop a framework requiring public companies that have promised financial support for Black Lives Matter to disclose all activity related to that pledge in a timely manner. His petition comes amid nationwide effort to address... |
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| By Sarah Wynn, CQ Roll Call |
Lawmakers call for follow-through on racial equity vows by companies, banks |
[CQ Roll Call Washington Securities Enforcement & Litigation Briefing] (6/30/2021) |
Financial services companies and banks need to honor commitments to close the racial wealth gap they made following the murder of George Floyd last year and the Black Lives Matter nationwide protests, lawmakers said at a hearing. |
2021 |
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| Kevin E. Davis |
LEGAL RESPONSES TO BLACK SUBORDINATION, GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES |
134 Harv. L. Rev. F. 359 [Harvard Law Review Forum] (6/1/2021) |
[I]n order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities. --Black Lives Matter Around the world, people of African descent (Afro-descendants)--to use one of the broadest possible definitions of Blackness--are overrepresented among the poor and... |
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| Dayton Campbell-Harris |
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF |
30 Wash. Int'l L.J. vi [Washington International Law Journal] (March, 2021) |
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them--Ida B. Wells The Washington International Law Journal is proud to present this special-edition issue: A Global Reckoning: Answering Calls for Change. Combating racism and majority-group supremacy in all its forms is always necessary. This was true before the Black Lives Matter... |
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| Sarah Schlossberg, Maya Williams |
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF EQUITY -- OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN: IDENTIFYING AND RECTIFYING MICROAGGRESSIONS |
67 No. 3 Prac. Law. 7 [Practical Lawyer] (6/1/2021) |
Amidst the backdrop of the Me Too and the revitalized Black Lives Matter movements, our society has become hyperaware of the impact that our language and actions have on others. While it may be difficult and, at times, even uncomfortable, now is the time to focus on eradicating bias and equalizing the playing field in the legal profession.... |
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| Sherri Lee Keene |
MAKING ROOM FOR IGNORED CITIZEN NARRATIVES OF POLICE ENCOUNTERS |
25 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 15 [Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute] (2021) |
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. I began to write this essay in August 2020 after returning home from Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. While there, I took in colorful images painted on boarded up windows of familiar buildings, photographs tacked on the high gate that has taken... |
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| Sherri Lee Keene |
MAKING ROOM FOR IGNORED CITIZEN NARRATIVES OF POLICE ENCOUNTERS |
25 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 15 [Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute] (2021) |
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. I began to write this essay in August 2020 after returning home from Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. While there, I took in colorful images painted on boarded up windows of familiar buildings, photographs tacked on the high gate that has taken... |
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MASSACHUSETTS: POWERHOUSE POINTS: MASSACHUSETTS LAWSUIT OVER BLACK LIVES MATTER MASKS SHOWS WHEN IT COMES TO EMPLOYEES' SELF- EXPRESSION, CONSISTENCY IS KEY |
Labor & Empl. L. 3670841 [Labor & Employment Law] (2021) |
Article by Jennifer M. Huelskamp of Freeborn & Peters LLP Powerhouse Points Consistently-applied employment policies are key for employers to avoid this type of litigation. A recent federal lawsuit in the District of Massachusetts examines the intersection of the Black Lives Matter movement and Title VII. The court's opinion, which dismissed... |
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| Jordain Carney |
Merkley says he won't support Rahm Emanuel's ambassador nomination |
The Hill (11/3/2021) |
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said Wednesday that he will oppose Rahm Emanuels nomination to be ambassador to Japan.Black Lives Matter. Here in the halls of Congress, it is important that we not just speak and believe these words, but put them into action in the decisions we make, Merkley said in a statement.I have carefully considered Mayor... |
2021 |
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| Jenice L. Malecki |
MINORITIES AND WOMEN IN THE SECURITIES INDUSTRY: THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT OF SECURITIES FRAUD EXPLOITATION |
28 No. 1 PIABA B.J. 79 [PIABA Bar Journal] (2021) |
People of color and women have been greatly impacted in the securities arena whether it is as victims of fraud or through their underrepresentation in the field as a career prospect. During an age of Black Lives Matter Protests and women speaking out against gender discrimination, the securities sector has a great task on its hands in creating... |
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| Jenice L. Malecki |
MINORITIES AND WOMEN IN THE SECURITIES INDUSTRY: THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT OF SECURITIES FRAUD EXPLOITATION |
28 No. 1 PIABA B.J. 79 [PIABA Bar Journal] (2021) |
People of color and women have been greatly impacted in the securities arena whether it is as victims of fraud or through their underrepresentation in the field as a career prospect. During an age of Black Lives Matter Protests and women speaking out against gender discrimination, the securities sector has a great task on its hands in creating... |
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| B.S. Chimni, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India |
MODERNIZING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM. BY BERTRAND G. RAMCHARAN. LEIDEN: BRILL NIJHOFF, 2019. PP. XVI, 241. INDEX |
115 Am. J. Int'l L. 171 [American Journal of International Law] (January, 2021) |
The matter of human rights has today assumed a new salience. The COVID-19 pandemic has sharply brought out the social and economic divides in societies; it has disproportionately impacted poor and marginalized groups. Social movements like the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States have highlighted in particular the class and race... |
2021 |
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| By WK Editorial Staff |
NLRB NEWS-HOME DEPOT ALLEGEDLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST EMPLOYEE WHO RAISED RACIAL HARASSMENT ISSUES, WORE BLM SLOGAN |
[Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily] (8/16/2021) |
Purportedly, a Minneapolis store unlawfully enforced its otherwise lawful dress code and apron policies, and threatened employees not to engage in activity about racial harassment. On August 12, the NLRB's Region 18Minneapolis office issued a complaint against Home Depot USA, Inc., alleging that the national home improvement chain discriminated... |
2021 |
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| Amanda Alexander, JD/PhD |
NURTURING FREEDOM DREAMS: AN APPROACH TO MOVEMENT LAWYERING IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER ERA |
5 How. Hum. & C.R. L. Rev. 101 [Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review] (Spring, 2021) |
Introduction. 102 I. Law and Power: Lessons from Detroit. 108 II. Building Power: Organizing, Visionary Organizing, and Freedom Dreams. 116 A. A Movement Lawyering Theory of Change. 121 III. The Detroit Justice Center's Approach: Defense, Offense, and Dreaming. 123 A. Our Values. 126 B. Our Approach in Practice. 130 1. Fighting Back Against the New... |
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| Etienne C. Toussaint |
OF AMERICAN FRAGILITY: PUBLIC RITUALS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE END OF INVISIBLE MAN |
52 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 826 [Columbia Human Rights Law Review] (Winter, 2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of American democracy in at least two important ways. First, the coronavirus has ravaged Black communities across the United States, unmasking decades of inequitable laws and public policies that have rendered Black lives socially and economically isolated from adequate health care services,... |
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| Juliegrace Brufke |
Plaskett slams GOP rep for saying Black Lives Matter 'doesn't like the old-fashioned family' |
The Hill (3/10/2021) |
Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) on Wednesday blasted Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) for saying on the House floor that Black Lives Matter doesn't like the old-fashioned family and called for his remarks to be stricken from the record. |
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| Jelani Jefferson Exum |
PRESUMED PUNISHABLE: SENTENCING ON THE STREETS AND THE NEED TO PROTECT BLACK LIVES THROUGH A REINVIGORATION OF THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE |
64 How. L.J. 301 [Howard Law Journal] (Winter, 2021) |
Introduction. 302 L1-2 I. Presumed Punishable A. The Development of Race-Based Policing and the Presumption of the Need to Control Black People Through Force. 305 B. The Current Consequences of Being Presumed Punishable. 309 C. Police as the Tool of the Presumption. 311 D. The Trauma of Being Presumed Punishable. 315 II. The Presumption of... |
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| Michael P. Goodyear |
PRIAM'S FOLLY: UNITED STATES v. ALVAREZ AND THE FAKE NEWS TROJAN HORSE |
73 Stan. L. Rev. Online 194 [Stanford Law Review Online] (September, 2021) |
2020 was a year of strain and reckoning in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic, the continued growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the 2020 presidential election made for a tumultuous and uncertain year. An overarching similarity that impacted all three of these historical events was the continued proliferation of fake news. Yet... |
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| Alex Gangitano |
Putin compares BLM to opposition groups, foreign entities in Russia |
The Hill (6/16/2021) |
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday compared the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the U.S. to pro-democracy protests in Russia led by opposition leader Alexei Navalny. |
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| Marty Johnson |
Ron Johnson: 'No racism involved' in comments about Capitol riot |
The Hill (3/15/2021) |
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Monday responded to bipartisan criticism over comments he made last week regarding Black Lives Matter protesters, arguing there was no racism" in his previous remarks." |
2021 |
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| Chelsea Hanlock |
SETTLING FOR SILENCE: HOW POLICE EXPLOIT PROTECTIVE ORDERS |
109 Calif. L. Rev. 1507 [California Law Review] (August, 2021) |
The national outcry and months of Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality that followed the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are a resounding demonstration of the public's interest in combatting police violence, particularly excess force used on Black Americans. While media attention on police killings increased after... |
2021 |
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| Celia Goble |
SOCIAL WORKERS TO THE RESCUE?: AN URGENT CALL FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE REFORM |
48 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1021 [Fordham Urban Law Journal] (April, 2021) |
Introduction. 1022 I. Protests, Vigilantes, and Charity: Policing and Social Work Reform and the Quest for Professionalization. 1027 A. Black Lives Matter. 1027 B. The Police in the United States. 1029 C. Social Workers in the United States. 1032 D. 911: The Current Emergency Response System. 1035 II. Social Workers Recognize the Issues in Police... |
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| Emily A. Kline |
TEACHING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE LEGAL WRITING CLASSROOM THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVE |
25 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 29 [Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute] (2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have inspired a renewed national conversation about social justice and racial equality. The disparate impacts of the pandemic on communities of color and the failure to address systemic racial inequities in our policing and criminal justice system have converged to create a defining... |
2021 |
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| Emily A. Kline |
TEACHING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE LEGAL WRITING CLASSROOM THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVE |
25 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 29 [Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute] (2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have inspired a renewed national conversation about social justice and racial equality. The disparate impacts of the pandemic on communities of color and the failure to address systemic racial inequities in our policing and criminal justice system have converged to create a defining... |
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THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION DECLARES TAKOMNI HASAPA WICONI HECHA (BLACK LIVES MATTER) |
24-JAN NBA Nat'l B. Ass'n Mag. 14 [NBA National Bar Association Magazine] (January, 2021) |
Indian Country - June 15, 2020. Mitakuyapi (Relatives). It is with a heavy heart that we make this statement. As native people, we understand our world through kinship. We are heartbroken and offer our deepest condolences to those that mourn George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Renee Davis (Muckleshoot), Cecil Lacy, Jr. (Tulalip), John T.... |
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| Rachel D. Godsil, Sarah E. Waldeck |
THE NEW TIPPING POINT: DISRUPTIVE POLITICS AND HABITUATING EQUALITY |
70 Emory L.J. 1507 [Emory Law Journal] (2021) |
This Essay argues that the events of 2020 opened a window of political opportunity to implement policies aimed at dismantling structural injustice and systemic racism. Building on the work of philosopher Charles Mills and political scientist Clarissa Rile Hayward, we argue that the Black Lives Matter Movement constituted the disruptive politics... |
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| Rachel D. Godsil, Sarah E. Waldeck |
THE NEW TIPPING POINT: DISRUPTIVE POLITICS AND HABITUATING EQUALITY |
70 Emory L.J. 1507 [Emory Law Journal] (2021) |
This Essay argues that the events of 2020 opened a window of political opportunity to implement policies aimed at dismantling structural injustice and systemic racism. Building on the work of philosopher Charles Mills and political scientist Clarissa Rile Hayward, we argue that the Black Lives Matter Movement constituted the disruptive politics... |
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| Consuela A. Pinto, FortneyScott |
THE NEXT FRONTIER IN DE&I: CORPORATE BOARD DIVERSITY |
18 No. 5 Fed. Emp. L. Insider 4 [Federal Employment Law Insider] (1/1/2021) |
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has inspired individuals, corporations, and governments to think more broadly and critically about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives. Employers and their leadership teams are thinking beyond recruiting practices and developmental programs in an effort to spur meaningful and lasting change.... |
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| Aníbal Rosario Lebrón |
THE OUROBOROS OF IDENTITY POLITICS |
30 Tul. J. L. & Sexuality 131 [Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality] (2021) |
The major events of 2020, from the significant support of Black Lives Matter (BLM), the never-ending controversies over the use of Latinx, the elections, the decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, seem to be inextricably linked to identity politics. Throughout the year, we have been constantly immersed in... |
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| Aníbal Rosario Lebrón |
THE OUROBOROS OF IDENTITY POLITICS |
30 Tul. J. L. & Sexuality 131 [Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality] (2021) |
The major events of 2020, from the significant support of Black Lives Matter (BLM), the never-ending controversies over the use of Latinx, the elections, the decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, seem to be inextricably linked to identity politics. Throughout the year, we have been constantly immersed in... |
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| David G. Maxted |
THE QUALIFIED IMMUNITY LITIGATION MACHINE: EVISCERATING THE ANTI-RACIST HEART OF § 1983, WEAPONIZING INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL, AND THE ROUTINE OF POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK LIVES |
98 Denv. L. Rev. 629 [Denver Law Review] (Spring, 2021) |
This Article makes the case that twin plagues endemic to American law--the routine of police violence and its unequal impact on Black lives and other people of color--are rooted in the invention and application of qualified immunity by the courts and the legal profession. For the past four decades, the Supreme Court has eroded civil rights... |
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| George Parampathu |
THE TRUE GENIUS OF AMERICA |
31 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 49 [Berkeley La Raza Law Journal] (2021) |
Outraged by the murder of George Floyd under the knee of officer Derek Chauvin on May 25th, people from all walks of life and across the 50 states have been protesting, united by a simple, powerful mantra--Black Lives Matter. The widespread protests with their calls for justice and the public discourse that followed are reminiscent of the Civil... |
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| George Parampathu |
THE TRUE GENIUS OF AMERICA |
31 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 49 [Berkeley La Raza Law Journal] (2021) |
Outraged by the murder of George Floyd under the knee of officer Derek Chauvin on May 25th, people from all walks of life and across the 50 states have been protesting, united by a simple, powerful mantra--Black Lives Matter. The widespread protests with their calls for justice and the public discourse that followed are reminiscent of the Civil... |
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| Donald D.A. Schaefer |
THE USE OF REGULAR MILITARIES FOR NATURAL DISASTERS AFTER A MAJOR EVENT WHERE THE MILITARY WAS SEEN AS A FAILURE--THE SOMALIA EFFECT IN THE AGE OF BLACK LIVES MATTERS AND COVID-19 |
32 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 285 [Fordham Environmental Law Review] (Winter, 2021) |
This is written as a continuation of Dr. Schaefer's recent article entitled, The Use of the Regular Militaries for Natural Disaster Assistance: Climate Change and the Increasing Need for Changes to the Laws in the United States, China, Japan, the Philippines, and Other Countries. Perhaps few other areas have affected so many people than the... |
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| Kathleen Kapusta, J.D. |
TOP STORY-7TH CIR.: WINERY VIOLATED NLRA BY BANNING EMPLOYEE'S 'CELLAR LIVES MATTER' VEST |
[Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily] (3/30/2021) |
According to the employee, he devised the slogan because he thought it was both true and catchydrawing upon the well-recognized Black Lives Matter movement. A winery employer failed to show special circumstances justified directing a cellar employee to stop wearing his vest, on which he had written Cellar Lives Matter on the back to express... |
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| Ronald Miller, J.D. |
TOP STORY-W.D. PA.: EMPLOYER BAN ON EMPLOYEES WEARING 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' FACEMASKS ENJOINED |
[Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily] (1/21/2021) |
The government can restrict or punish workplace speech only if it is, in fact, likely to be disruptive of the workplace. Employees of the Allegheny County Port Authority were granted a preliminary injunction against the employer's ban on the wearing of facemasks with political messages, including support for the Black Lives Matter movement. The... |
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U.S. Supreme Court hands narrow win to Black Lives Matter activist over protest incident |
27 No. 07 Westlaw Journal Bank and Lender Liability 28 [Westlaw Journal Bank & Lender Liability] (2021) |
The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 2 sided with Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson in his ongoing effort to avoid a lawsuit filed by a police officer injured during a 2016 protest in Louisiana triggered by the police killing of a Black man. The justices threw out a lower court ruling that had allowed the lawsuit to proceed and said... |
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| April Knight |
UNDER ATTACK: HOW ENHANCED ANTI-PROTEST LAWS IMPEDE AND ENDANGER THE FREE PRESS |
58 Am. Crim. L. Rev. Online 84 [American Criminal Law Review Online] (Spring, 2021) |
In May 2020, police arrested Andrea Sahouri, a reporter from The Des Moines Register, while she was covering a Black Lives Matter demonstration. They pepper sprayed Sahouri and zip-tied her hands behind her back, even though she repeatedly identified herself as press to the officers. Des Moines police claimed that Sahouri was not wearing press... |
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| Kristine L. Bowman |
UNIVERSITIES' SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT |
99 Neb. L. Rev. 896 [Nebraska Law Review] (2021) |
Increasingly, scholars and students alike suggest that university leaders should engage in speech to oppose racism and other systemic discrimination. In May and June of 2020, countless university leaders across the country did exactly that, expressing solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. That speech also contained implied answers to two... |
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| Kristine L. Bowman |
UNIVERSITIES' SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT |
99 Neb. L. Rev. 896 [Nebraska Law Review] (2021) |
Increasingly, scholars and students alike suggest that university leaders should engage in speech to oppose racism and other systemic discrimination. In May and June of 2020, countless university leaders across the country did exactly that, expressing solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. That speech also contained implied answers to two... |
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| By Henry Kenyon, CQ Roll Call |
US Postal Service monitored Black Lives Matter, pandemic protests: lawsuits |
[CQ Roll Call Washington Data Privacy Briefing] (8/17/2021) |
Privacy groups sued the U.S. Postal Service over its use of facial recognition and social media monitoring tools to identify and report on Black Lives Matter and pandemic lockdown protesters. |
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| Danielle L. Macedo |
WHAT KIND OF JUSTICE IS THIS? OVERBROAD JUDICIAL DISCRETION AND IMPLICIT BIAS IN THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM |
24 J. Gender Race & Just. 43 [Journal of Gender, Race and Justice] (Spring, 2021) |
I.Introduction. 44 II.Black American History and the Criminal Justice System: Setting the Stage. 48 A. Before the Civil Rights Movement: Explicit Bias in America. 51 B. The Civil Rights Movement and Beyond: Implicit Bias in America. 55 C. Black Lives Matter. 59 D. The Fight for Racial Equality Continues. 63 III.Criminal Sentencing Procedure and... |
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| Kevin Drakulich , Kevin H. Wozniak , John Hagan , Devon Johnson |
WHOSE LIVES MATTERED? HOW WHITE AND BLACK AMERICANS FELT ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER IN 2016 |
55 Law & Soc'y Rev. 227 [Law and Society Review] (June, 2021) |
White Americans, on average, do not support Black Lives Matter, while Black Americans generally express strong support. The lack of support among white Americans is striking, and we argue that it matters why this racial gap exists. Using a nationally representative survey collected during the crest of the first wave of widespread attention to the... |
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| Meera E. Deo |
WHY BIPOC FAILS |
107 Va. L. Rev. Online 115 [Virginia Law Review Online] (June, 2021) |
Racial tensions have been endemic to the U.S. since its founding. In 2020, this racial conflict bubbled over into the streets as those supporting Black Lives Matter and opposing a long history of racist police violence congregated to demand justice. Last year and still now, the global pandemic has placed additional stress on communities of color,... |
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