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| Beth A. Colgan |
Beyond Graduation: Economic Sanctions and Structural Reform |
69 Duke Law Journal 1529 (April, 2020) |
In recent years, increased attention is being paid to the dangers of imposing economic sanctions in felony, misdemeanor, juvenile, municipal, and traffic courts because the imposition of unmanageable fines, fees, surcharges, restitution, and forfeitures can be financially devastating for people and their families. One reform that has gained... |
2020 |
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| Brett Samuels and Reid Wilson |
Biden Appointments Give Newsom Chance to Reshape California Politics |
The Hill (12/12/2020) |
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped several California officials for key roles in his administration, handing Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) the opportunity to reshape the states political hierarchy with his choices for their replacements. |
2020 |
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| Brooke Seipel |
Bill and Hillary Clinton on John Lewis Death: 'We Have Lost a Giant' |
The Hill (7/18/2020) |
Former President Bill Clinton and former secretary of State Hillary Clinton marked the passing of Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Friday, calling him a giant" and praising his lifelong fight for justice and equality." |
2020 |
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| Black Women Scholars, The Research Working Group of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance |
Black Maternal Health Research Re-envisioned: Best Practices for the Conduct of Research With, For, and by Black Mamas |
14 Harvard Law & Policy Review 393 (Summer, 2020) |
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of a forthcoming report entitled Black Maternal Health Research Re-Envisioned: Recommendations for Improving Research on Maternity Care for Black Mamas which provides principles that should underpin the ethical design of clinical, epidemiological, health services, and public health research,... |
2020 |
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| Jennifer M. Kinsley |
Black Speech Matters |
2020 (University of Louisville Law Review Rev. 1 |
On Memorial Day 2020, Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man suspected of paying for groceries with a counterfeit $20 bill. Two officers held Floyd face down on the ground, while another officer pinned Floyd's head against the ground by forcefully placing a knee onto his neck for nearly ten minutes. Several months... |
2020 |
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| WK Editorial Staff |
Blog Tracker-noteworthy Posts and Other Commentary |
Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily (8/6/2020) |
The week's most insightful, intriguing, or entertaining blog posts from the labor and employment law community. News & Knowledge, Court Rules with New York: DOL Jumped the Rail in Restricting Pandemic Paid Leave, by Jack L. Cohen, Christopher P. Maugans, Caroline J. Berdzik, Peter J. Woo, and Kristin Klein Wheaton (Goldberg Segalla) Labor and... |
2020 |
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| Abbye Atkinson |
Borrowing Equality |
120 Columbia Law Review 1403 (October, 2020) |
For the last fifty years, Congress has valorized the act of borrowing money as a catalyst for equality, embracing the proposition that equality can be bought with a loan. In a series of bedrock statutes aimed at democratizing access to loans and purchase money for marginalized groups, Congress has evinced a borrowing-as-equality policy that has... |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Breonna Taylor Findings Being Presented to Grand Jury |
The Hill (9/9/2020) |
The findings in the case of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed in her home by Louisville, Ky., police in March, are being presented to a grand jury by Kentucky Attorney General David Cameron (R), according to multiple reports. |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Breonna Taylor's Ex-boyfriend Was Offered a Deal to Say She Was Involved in Organized Crime |
The Hill (9/1/2020) |
The lead attorney representing Breonna Taylor's family says Louisville prosecutors offered Jamarcus Glover her ex-boyfriend who is facing multiple drug-related charges a plea deal that listed Taylor, who was shot and killed by police in her own home in March, as a co-defendant in the case. |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Breonna Taylor's Family Attorney Crump to Ag Cameron: 'Release the Transcripts' |
The Hill (9/25/2020) |
Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump had a simple message for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) on Friday: Release the transcript of the grand jury proceedings in the case of Breonna Taylor. |
2020 |
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| Stewart Chang |
Bridging Divides in Divisive Times: Revisiting the Massie-fortescue Affair |
42 University of Hawaii Law Review Rev. 4 (Spring, 2020) |
This Article revisits the infamous Massie-Fortescue rape and murder cases that occurred in Hawai'i during the 1930s, in order to challenge the methods by which race scholars have previously analyzed the case by relying on gender hierarchies. Thalia Massie, a white woman, accused five Hawaiians of gang raping her, even though they were of various... |
2020 |
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| Joseph Landau |
Broken Records: Reconceptualizing Rational Basis Review to Address "Alternative Facts" in the Legislative Process |
73 Vanderbilt Law Review 425 (March, 2020) |
In 2016, North Carolina passed HB2, also known as the bathroom ban--a law prohibiting transgender individuals from accessing public restrooms corresponding to their gender identity--based on the unfounded fear that cisgender men posing as transgender women would assault women and girls in bathrooms. Around the same time, Alabama enacted a... |
2020 |
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| Justin Wise |
Bubba Wallace Responds to Trump: 'Even When It's Hate from the Potus.. Love Wins' |
The Hill (7/6/2020) |
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace on Monday called for Americans to meet hate with love after President Trump attacked the top racing league's only African American driver and falsely accused him of carrying out a hoax" involving a noose found in his garage stall." |
2020 |
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| Jedediah Britton-Purdy, David Singh Grewal, Amy Kapczynski, K. Sabeel Rahman |
Building a Law-and-political-economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-century Synthesis |
129 Yale Law Journal 1784 (April, 2020) |
We live in a time of interrelated crises. Economic inequality and precarity, and crises of democracy, climate change, and more raise significant challenges for legal scholarship and thought. Neoliberal premises undergird many fields of law and have helped authorize policies and practices that reaffirm the inequities of the current era. In... |
2020 |
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| Judith H. Owens, Ed.D |
Building an Antiracist Organization Is No Easy Task -- or Did Kindergarten Teach Us How? |
66No.6 Practical Lawyer 29 (12/1/2020) |
This is Part 1 of a two-part article about the urgent call for a systematically antiracist society, and how we can answer that call on the organizational level, within our legal offices, companies, and other institutions. Recent events have evoked the issue of racism and the unfair treatment of people of color not just on an interpersonal level,... |
2020 |
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| Amisha Gandhi |
California County Oversight of Use Policies for Surveillance Technology |
108 California Law Review 1011 (June, 2020) |
California Senate Bill 1186 (SB 1186), proposed in 2018, would have implemented surveillance transparency, accountability, and oversight measures over the California Highway Patrol, the California Department of Justice, and every California police department, sheriff's office, district attorney's office, and school district and state university... |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
California, New York Fund Managers Urge Workforce Diversity Disclosure |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (7/28/2020) |
Officers for some of the country's largest public pension funds are urging companies to disclose workforce diversity data by making EEO-1 report information public. |
2020 |
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| Christina Murray |
Cameras Down, Hands Up: How the Supreme Court Chilled the Development of the First Amendment Right to Record the Police |
71 Mercer Law Review 1125 (Summer, 2020) |
You may not realize this, but the Supreme Court of the United States has possibly jeopardized one of your First Amendment rights: the right to record the police. While this right may mean little to you now, it could serve as a means of protecting your other rights and in keeping law enforcement accountable. Because of the right to record the... |
2020 |
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| Emily Kopp and Mark Stricherz, CQ Roll Call |
Cannabis Companies May Gain as More States Vote on Legalizing Marijuana |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Capital Markets (10/22/2020) |
Cannabis companies including Curaleaf Holdings Inc., Green Thumb Industries, Cresco Labs Inc. and Canada's Acreage Holdings could get a boost from this year's legalization efforts in the U.S., analysts say. Voters will decide next month whether to legalize recreational marijuana in four states: Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota.... |
2020 |
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| John Fitzgerald |
Change.org Misled Donors Who Signed George Floyd Petition, Suit Says |
27No.06 Westlaw Journal Class Action 02 (2020) |
When Sean Randall signed a Change.org petition calling for justice after the death of George Floyd, he was asked to chip in $3" to help the petitioner's agenda. Now Randall is questioning how those donations are being spent. He and other donors were misled into believing that their contributions would be used to promote the "Justice for George..." |
2020 |
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| Nancy E. Dowd |
Children's Equality Rights: Every Child's Right to Develop to Their Full Capacity |
41 Cardozo Law Review 1367 (April, 2020) |
Children are born equal. Yet as early as eighteen months, hierarchies emerge among children. These hierarchies are not random but fall into patterns by race, gender, and class. They are not caused nor voluntarily chosen by children or their parents. The hierarchies grow, persist, and are made worse by systems and policies created by the state,... |
2020 |
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| Nancy E. Dowd |
Children's Equality: the Centrality of Race, Gender, and Class |
47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 231 (February, 2020) |
Hierarchies among children dramatically impact their development. Beginning before birth, and continuing during their progression to adulthood from birth to age 18, structural and cultural barriers separate and subordinate some children, while they privilege others. The hierarchies replicate patterns of inequality along familiar lines, particularly... |
2020 |
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| Zack Budryk |
Civil Rights Icon Rev. James Lawson: 'We Need the Constitution to Come Alive' to Honor Lewis |
The Hill (7/30/2020) |
The Rev. James Lawson, a major leader and tactician in the civil rights movement, spoke at Rep. John Lewiss (D-Ga.) funeral Thursday, saying Lewis practiced politics the nation need[s] more desperately than ever before. |
2020 |
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| Katrina M. Wyman |
Commodity & Propriety in Contemporary New York City |
29 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 735 (Spring, 2020) |
Introduction. 735 I. Contemporary Urban Centralism. 742 II. Contemporary Urban Localism. 748 Conclusion. 756 |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Companies Actively Seeking Black Board Members amid Social Pressure |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (8/5/2020) |
Companies are actively searching for Black board members after years of diversity efforts that focused on adding representation of women and people of color more generally, according to search firms. |
2020 |
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Companies Including Jpmorgan Pledge to Use More Inclusive Language - Implications for Compliance |
30No.03 04 (2020) |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is eliminating terms like blacklist (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) |
2020 |
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| Abigail Greene |
Compliance Issues: the Supreme Court's Confusing Messages to Municipalities |
85 Missouri Law Review 547 (Spring, 2020) |
Local municipalities are vested with the power to enact zoning ordinances that prohibit signs and flags in residential areas for aesthetic purposes. This power directly competes with an individual's constitutional right to use private property to express their views. The United States Supreme Court recently struck a balance for this conflict in... |
2020 |
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Constitutional Remedies--bivens Actions-- Search and Seizure-- Hernández V. Mesa |
134 Harvard Law Review 550 (November, 2020) |
In its landmark decision in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the Supreme Court held that a federal agent's violation of the Fourth Amendment gives rise to a cause of action for damages. In two subsequent cases, the Court extended this reasoning to violations of the equal protection component of the Fifth... |
2020 |
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| David Ireland, Richard Jochelson |
Continuing the Conversation: Exploring Current Themes in Criminal Justice and the Law |
43 Manitoba Law Journal L.J. I (2020) |
It is our great pleasure to bring you the latest volumes of the Criminal Law Special Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal. Academics, students, and the practicing bench and bar continue to access this publication and contribute to it their knowledge and experience in the criminal law. Publishing a triple volume is a testament to the quality of... |
2020 |
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| Camille Gear Rich |
Contracting Our Way to Inequality: Race, Reproductive Freedom, and the Quest for the Perfect Child |
104 Minnesota Law Review 2375 (May, 2020) |
Introduction. 2377 I. Packaging Race in the ART Market. 2391 A. Packaging Gametes. 2392 B. Packaging Race. 2397 C. Packaging and Its Effect on Consumer Perceptions. 2405 1. The Re-Biologization of Race. 2406 2. Re-Instantiating Racial Categories. 2407 3. Racial Purity Rules. 2409 4. The Toxic Search for Whiteness. 2410 5. Anti-Miscegenation Ethos.... |
2020 |
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