| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| 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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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. |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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,... |
2021 |
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| Thomas A. Kochan |
WORKER VOICE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: PUTTING WORDS INTO ACTIONS |
74 Vand. L. Rev. 1625 [Vanderbilt Law Review] (November, 2021) |
Introduction. 1625 I. What Do Workers Want?. 1628 II. What About Unions?. 1629 III. Emerging Forms of Worker Voice and Advocacy. 1631 IV. Labor Union Innovations. 1635 V. Learning from COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. 1636 VI. Building Worker Voice into Corporate Governance. 1639 VII. Implications for Labor Policies. 1640 VIII. A Pathway to a New... |
2021 |
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| Scott Wong |
'You're a joke': Greene clashes with Cheney, Raskin on House floor |
The Hill (10/21/2021) |
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), tangled with two members of the Jan. 6 committee on the House floor Thursday, getting into an impromptu shouting match over Black Lives Matter and a wild conspiracy theory about Jewish space lasers starting California wildfires. |
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| Aris Folley |
75-year-old Man Shoved by Buffalo Police Responds to Trump Tweet: 'Black Lives Matter' |
The Hill (6/9/2020) |
Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old man police shoved to the ground during a recent protest in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday said Black Lives Matter when pressed for comment after President Trump promoted a baseless conspiracy theory about him on Twitter. |
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| Henry Kenyon, CQ Roll Call |
Aclu Seeks Data on Aerial Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Data Privacy (8/13/2020) |
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out how law enforcement used manned and unmanned aircraft to monitor Black Lives Matter protests around the country. |
2020 |
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| Zahra N. Mian |
Black Identity Extremist or Black Dissident?: How United States V. Daniels Illustrates Fbi Criminalization of Black Dissent of Law Enforcement, from Cointelpro to Black Lives Matter |
21 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 53 (2020) |
In August 2017, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) released an intelligence assessment asserting the resurgence of a domestic terror threat to law enforcement: Black Identity Extremist (BIE) ideology. According to the assessment, BIE is rooted in perceptions of alleged police brutality amongst the African American community. The FBI... |
2020 |
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| Eric S. Roth, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A. |
Black Lives Matter Apparel at Work Evokes Legal, Business, Social Concerns |
1No.10 Southeast Employment Law Letter 1 (10/1/2020) |
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has sparked significant emotion in the past few months. Ever since the NBA season restarted, TV viewers are seeing the phrase emblazoned on the courts and on some players' jerseys. What you won't see on TV are the large employers that have faced significant backlash for attempting to prohibit employees from... |
2020 |
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| Nwando Anwah |
Black Lives Matter on Juries Too |
44 Journal of the Legal Profession 293 (Spring, 2020) |
In 1996, Curtis Giovanni Flowers was accused of murdering four people at a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi. Since then, he has been tried an astonishing six times for the same alleged crimes--all of which have ended in mistrial or convictions that were reversed on appeal. He was first convicted in 1997, and in five out of the six trials, the... |
2020 |
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| Christopher E. Smith |
Blue Lives Matter Versus Black Lives Matter: Beneficial Social Policies as the Path Away from Punitive Rhetoric and Harm |
44 Vermont Law Review 463 (Spring, 2020) |
Introduction. 463 I. Counterreaction: Origins and Outcomes. 464 A. The Origins of Two Organizations. 464 B. The Policy Response: Punitive Laws. 467 II. Beneficial Policies: Getting Serious About Protecting and Supporting Police Officers. 470 A. Resources. 471 B. Public Policy. 474 C. Respecting Black Lives Matter. 480 Conclusion. 489 |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Bowser Addresses Record Crowd at Black Lives Matter Plaza |
The Hill (6/6/2020) |
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) joined tens of thousands of protesters downtown Saturday as people around the country came out en masse to protest the police killing of George Floyd and demand systemic change. |
2020 |
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| Alex Zhang |
Damnatio Memoriae and Black Lives Matter |
73 Stanford Law Review Online 77 (September, 2020) |
Police brutality and killings of Black Americans have recently sparked nationwide protests. Among the many expressions of anger and indignation, one stands out as a unique feature of this wave of the social movement: public scrutiny of civic symbols. Protestors have defaced, torn down, and called for the removal of monuments that represent our... |
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Fair Housing Justice Center Issues Statement of Support and a Call to Action-Black Lives Matter |
48No.CD-13 HDR Current Developments NL 1 (6/29/2020) |
The Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC) condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Jamar Clark, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice and many others who have lost their lives through police violence. We stand in solidarity with all those around the world who protest for racial justice. We unequivocally believe that BLACK... |
2020 |
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| Morgan Gstalter |
Fauci, Black Lives Matter Founders Included on Time's 100 Most Influential People List |
The Hill (9/23/2020) |
Anthony Fauci, the nations top infectious disease expert, and the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement were included in Time magazines list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020 released Wednesday. |
2020 |
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| Tasnim Motala |
Foreseeable Violence & Black Lives Matter: How Mckesson Can Stifle a Movement |
73 Stanford Law Review Online 61 (September, 2020) |
Catalyzed by the death of George Floyd, protests against police brutality and systemic racism have spread across the United States and the world in 2020. Throughout the country, law enforcement has responded to these protests with the same type of brute force that protesters are challenging--excessive, violent, and militarized. Many have... |
2020 |
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| Justin Wise |
John Lewis Procession Stops at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Dc |
The Hill (7/27/2020) |
The motorcade carrying the body of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) stopped at the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., on Monday as it made its way to Capitol Hill, where the civil rights champion will lie in state. |
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