| Author | Title | Citation | Document Type | Case Status | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| House, Rep. Carol Ammons-La Shawn K. Ford-Marcus C. Evans, Jr.-Rita Mayfield-Maurice A. West, II, Mary Beth Canty, Will Guzzardi, Edgar Gonzalez, Jr., Nabeela Syed, Laura Faver Dias, Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Mary E. Flowers, Barbara Hernandez, Dagmara Av |
2023 IL H.R. 292 (NS) |
2023 Illinois House Resolution No. 292, Illinois One Hundred Third General Assembly - First Regular Session (5/24/2023) |
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SUMMARY: Declares the State of Illinois should take the lead on issues of Pan-Africanism, citizenship in Africa, and reparatory justice, and the State should champion the Eighth Pan-African Congress Part 1 (8PAC1) and its agenda to develop a continental-wide diaspora citizenship plan, establish the African Diaspora as the 6th Region of the African Union (AU), and determine a permanent headquarters for the 6th Region. Calls upon the State to immediately, through its African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC), provide matrilineal and patrilineal DNA testing through African ancestry... |
2023 |
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| Sen. Liz Miranda |
2023 MA S.B. 1050 (NS) |
2023 Massachusetts Senate Bill No. 1050, The 193rd General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1/20/2023) |
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SUMMARY: An Act creating reparations for the descendants of American slavery and piloting universal basic income Section 1. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts acknowledges and apologizes for its willful participation in the institution of slavery. Slavery was an official policy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the United States Government from 1619 through 1865 that constituted an immoral and inhumane deprivation of life, liberty, cultural heritage, and the fruits of their labor for nearly 4,000,000 Africans and tens of thousands of Indigenous people with on-going effects for their... |
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| ...ways to educate the Massachusetts public of the commission's findings. (3) Recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the commission's findings on the matters described in this section. SECTION 1. (a) There is hereby established a commission to |
2023 MA S.B. 1053 (NS) |
2023 Massachusetts Senate Bill No. 1053, The 193rd General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1/20/2023) |
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SUMMARY: An Act establishing a commission to study reparations in Massachusetts DEFINITIONS (1) Whereas, Reparations are a form of transitional justice and reparatory justice |
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2023 NY A.B. 7828 (NS) |
2023 New York Assembly Bill No. 7828, New York Two Hundred Forty-Sixth Legislative Session (6/23/2023) |
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SUMMARY: LUCAS Enacts the New York State American Freedmen Equity Task Force on Reparations Remedies Act"; acknowledges New York state's role in the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of the institution of slavery; establishes the New York State American Freedmen Equity Task Force on Reparations Remedies; examines all aspects of slavery |
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2023 NY A.B. 7828 (NS) |
2023 New York Assembly Bill No. 7828, New York Two Hundred Forty-Sixth Legislative Session (9/6/2023) |
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SUMMARY: LUCAS Enacts the New York State American Freedmen Equity Task Force on Reparations Remedies Act"; acknowledges New York state's role in the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of the institution of slavery; establishes the New York State American Freedmen Equity Task Force on Reparations Remedies; examines all aspects of slavery |
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2023 NY A.B. 7828 (NS) |
2023 New York Assembly Bill No. 7828, New York Two Hundred Forty-Sixth Legislative Session (9/11/2023) |
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SUMMARY: LUCAS Enacts the New York State American Freedmen Equity Task Force on Reparations Remedies Act"; acknowledges New York state's role in the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of the institution of slavery; establishes the New York State American Freedmen Equity Task Force on Reparations Remedies; examines all aspects of slavery |
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§ 13A:35.50. Return Preparers-Frivolous Position |
CASEY § 13A:35.50 |
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The Service may seek injunctions against preparers who are advocating frivolous positions. For example, it has obtained injunctions against preparing returns claiming a credit or refund as reparations for slavery. The 2006 Tax Relief and Health Care Act increased the penalty for submitting a frivolous return position from $500 to $5,000. Also,... |
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| Kerri M. Gefeke |
AMERICA TO ME--A PUBLIC NUISANCE REPARATIONS FRAMEWORK THROUGH THE LENS OF THE TULSA MASSACRE |
55 UIC Law Review 681 (Winter 2022) |
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I. Introduction. 682 II. Background. 686 A. What are Reparations?. 686 B. Types of Reparations Provided by the United States in the Past. 687 1. The Rhetoric of Race and Understanding United States History. 687 2. Reparations to the Sioux Nation. 688 3. Reparations to Japanese-Americans Internment Survivors. 689 4. Reparations for the Tuskegee... |
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| Amber Baylor |
CRIMINALIZED STUDENTS, REPARATIONS, AND THE LIMITS OF PROSPECTIVE REFORM |
99 Washington University Law Review 1229 (2022) |
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Introduction. 1230 I. A Reparations Framework: Outlining Injury To Criminalized Students. 1234 A. The History and Harm of Criminalizing Students. 1238 B. Law Enforcement in Schools. 1242 C. School Order Misdemeanors. 1246 D. Students in Criminal Courts. 1249 E. Reforms Reducing the Criminalization of Students. 1254 1. School Discipline Reform. 1255... |
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| Mickaela J. Fouad |
DOWN AND DIRTY: REMEDIES AND REPARATIONS FOR INTERSECTED ENVIRONMENTAL AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE |
87 Brooklyn Law Review 1423 (Summer, 2022) |
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In 2016, Flint, Michigan's water crisis captured the nation's attention and prompted widespread conversations concerning environmental racism. In the fall of 2021, claims, including a class action suit, brought by city residents culminated in a historic $626 million award. But today, even after this settlement, many Flint residents still mistrust... |
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| Charisa Smith |
FROM EMPATHY GAP TO REPARATIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF CAREGIVING, CRIMINALIZATION, AND FAMILY EMPOWERMENT |
90 Fordham Law Review 2621 (May, 2022) |
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America's legacy of violent settler colonialism and racial capitalism reveals a misunderstood and neglected civil rights concern: the forced separation of families of color and unwarranted state intrusion upon caregiving through criminalization and surveillance. The War on Drugs, the Opioid Crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic are a few examples... |
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| Nina Oishi |
LOVE, MEMORY, AND REPARATIONS: LOOKING TO THE BOTTOM TO UNDERSTAND HAWAI'I'S MAUNA KEA MOVEMENT |
29 Asian American Law Journal 126 (2022) |
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The activism on Mauna Kea opposing the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope has become a flashpoint in local media and a watershed moment for Hawaiian movements. In this Note, I apply the critical legal theory concept of looking to the bottom to understand the Mauna Kea movement as part of a broader theory of reparations for Native... |
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| Theodoros Papazekos |
POWER PLAY GOAL: ANALYZING ZONING LAW AND REPARATIONS AS REMEDIES TO HISTORIC DISPLACEMENT IN PITTSBURGH'S HILL DISTRICT |
29 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 407 (Spring, 2022) |
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Pittsburgh's Hill District ranked among the most important historically Black neighborhoods in America until the heart of the neighborhood was razed in 1956. When urban renewal hit Pittsburgh, 1,500 families were displaced from the Lower Hill District, replaced by what would become a hockey arena. The displacement had catastrophic results for the... |
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| Aris Folley |
Racial justice groups press Biden to form reparations commission |
2022 The Hill 1436822 (5/6/2022) |
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Racial justice groups and other organizations are pressing President Biden to use his executive authority to form a federal commission to study and develop reparations proposals for African Americans, as legislation calling for similar action has stalled in Congress for more than a year. |
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| Vanessa Zboreak |
REGULATORY REPARATIONS |
14 Elon Law Review 215 (2022) |
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I. Introduction. 215 II. Reparations frameworks. 219 A. Theories of Reparations Compensation. 219 B. Tort Theory & Limits of Reparations Litigation. 223 C. Reparations as Legislative Repair. 228 III. Regulatory Reparations Groundwork. 235 A. Reparative Regulatory Review. 236 B. Citizen Petitions for Reparations Review. 242 C. Complementarity with... |
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| Kendall Lawrenz |
REMEDYING THE HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL RACISM THROUGH REPARATIONS |
90 George Washington Law Review 1018 (August, 2022) |
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From the early introduction of slavery to the United States, not only did the economic prosperity of slavery depend on extracting reproductive labor from Black birthing people, but so did the field of medicine. Enslaved Black people were experimented on and forced to undergo inhumane procedures in the name of science, yet as the medical profession... |
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| Adam Coretz |
REPARATIONS FOR A PUBLIC NUISANCE? THE EFFORT TO COMPENSATE SURVIVORS, VICTIMS, AND DESCENDANTS OF THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER |
43 Cardozo Law Review 1641 (April, 2022) |
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C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1642 I. Background. 1645 A. History of the Greenwood District and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. 1645 B. History and Evolution of Public Nuisance as a Tort. 1649 C. Defining Public Nuisance at Common Law Today. 1651 D. Public Nuisance in Oklahoma. 1652 E. Tulsa Race Massacre Lawsuit. 1654 F. Race Reparations for... |
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| Martha M. Ertman |
REPARATIONS FOR RACIAL WEALTH DISPARITIES AS REMEDY FOR SOCIAL CONTRACT BREACH |
85 Law and Contemporary Problems 231 (2022) |
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Acute crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 financial meltdown exposed and exacerbated chronic racial wealth disparities. Those disparities accumulated over time as government and private actions--often involving contracts--systemically benefitted White Americans and institutions at the expense of African-Americans. This Article focuses... |
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| Joyce Hope Scott |
REPARATIONS, RESTITUTION, AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: AMERICAN CHATTEL SLAVERY & ITS AFTERMATH, A MORAL DEBATE WHOSE TIME HAS COME |
39 Wisconsin International Law Journal 269 (Spring, 2022) |
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The Atlantic trafficking and subsequent enslavement of captive African men, women, and children represents the greatest crime of all time, the theft of humanity and personhood which resulted in a permanent state of dispossession, exile, and homelessness. This tragedy, nevertheless, provided the engine that enabled the rise of the economic empire of... |
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| Gabriel J. Chin *, Anna Ratner ** |
THE END OF CALIFORNIA'S ANTI-ASIAN ALIEN LAND LAW: A CASE STUDY IN REPARATIONS AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE |
29 Asian American Law Journal 17 (2022) |
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For nearly a century, California law embodied a rabid anti-Asian policy, which included school segregation, discriminatory law enforcement, a prohibition on marriage with Whites, denial of voting rights, and imposition of many other hardships. The Alien Land Law was a California innovation, copied in over a dozen other states. The Alien Land Law,... |
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| Jones-Sawyer (A) |
2021 CA A.B. 2296 (NS) |
2021 California Assembly Bill No. 2296, California 2021-2022 Regular Session |
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An act to amend Section Sections 8301.1, 8301.2, and 8301.7 of the Government Code, relating to state government. AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 11, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE--2021-22 REGULAR SESSION ASSEMBLY BILL No. 2296 Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer February 16, 2022 An act to amend Section Sections 8301.1, 8301.2, and 8301.7 of the Government Code, relating to state government. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2296, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. Existing law establishes the Task Force to Study and... |
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| Solages, Michaelle C. |
2021 NY A.B. 9435 (NS) |
2021 New York Assembly Bill No. 9435, New York Two Hundred Forty-Fourth Legislative Session |
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BRISPORT SOLAGES, AUBRY, DICKENS, PRETLOW, WILLIAMS, WALKER, PEOPLES-STOKES, COOK, VANEL, HYNDMAN, CAHILL, JEAN-PIERRE, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, TAYLOR, DILAN, DARLING, JOYNER, BENEDETTO, EPSTEIN, FRONTUS, REYES, NOLAN, O'DONNELL, CRUZ, ZINERMAN, JACKSON, BURGOS, FORREST, ANDERSON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, J. RIVERA Relates to acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the city of New York and the state of New York; establishes the New York state community commission on reparations remedies to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and... |
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| Assemblymen Spearman |
2022 NJ A.B. 938 (NS) |
2022 New Jersey Assembly Bill No. 938, New Jersey Two Hundred Twentieth Legislature - First Annual Session |
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Establishes New Jersey Reparations Task Force." ASSEMBLY |
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| 2022 Primary Sponsor(s): Rice |
2022 NJ S.B. 386 (NS) |
2022 New Jersey Senate Bill No. 386, New Jersey Two Hundred Twentieth Legislature - First Annual Session |
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Establishes New Jersey Reparations Task Force." SENATE |
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Civil Action to Enforce Court-ordered Support Obligations Pursuant to the Social Security Act Sec. 460 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 660) Complaint for Declaratory Relief, Injunctive Relief and Damages Applied Severally and Jointly to Defendants Sued Individually Deman |
2022 WL 2757431 |
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I, Cheryl D. Uzamere, am the petitioner and the plaintiff in the above-entitled action. 2) The Kings County Family Court case for which I filed a petition for spousal support is Cheryl... |
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Jarvis v. United States |
154 Fed.Cl. 712, Docket Number: 21-1148C [United States Court of Federal Claims] (8/19/2021) |
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As of January 2, 2022, The case has been appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals or the U.S. Supreme Court (excluding appeals originating from agencies). |
NATIVE AMERICANS Jurisdiction. Court of Federal Claims lacked subject matter jurisdiction under Tucker Act to hear reparation claim based on historic treatment of Native Americans. |
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Lewis v. United States |
Slip Copy, Docket Number: 5:21-CV-156-TJC-PRL [United States District Court, M.D. Florida, Ocala Division] (4/13/2021) |
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Plaintiff, who is proceeding pro se, is suing the United States for failing to pay him reparations for the enslavement of his ancestors. Plaintiff requests injunctive relief and damages. Plaintiff has filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis. (Doc. 2). For the reasons discussed below, the motion is due to be denied and the complaint dismissed.... |
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| PENALTIES |
§ 13A:35.50. Return Preparers-Frivolous Position |
CASEY § 13A:35.50 (2021) |
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The Service may seek injunctions against preparers who are advocating frivolous positions. For example, it has obtained injunctions against preparing returns claiming a credit or refund as reparations for slavery. The 2006 Tax Relief and Health Care Act increased the penalty for submitting a frivolous return position from $500 to $5,000. Also,... |
2021 |
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| Arthur H. Boelter |
§ 4:125. Injunction against future preparer activities |
IRS-TXPINT § 4:125 (2021) [Tax Penalties and Interest] |
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The issuance of an injunction against future return preparation activities is within the discretion of the court. Even where a court finds that a preparer has continually or repeatedly disregarded rules and regulations related to the Code, a court may decline to issue a blanket injunction. A blanket injunction is warranted where the government can... |
2021 |
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| Christopher Burton |
3/5THS TO 1/10TH, HOW TO MAKE BLACK AMERICA WHOLE: EXPLORING CONGRESSIONAL ACT H.R.40--COMMISSION TO STUDY AND DEVELOP REPARATION PROPOSALS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS ACT |
54 UIC J. Marshall L. Rev. 530 (Summer, 2021) [UIC John Marshall Law Review] |
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I. Introduction. 530 II. Background. 535 A. What Is H.R. 40?. 535 B. Historic Economic Disparities Among Black and White Americans. 537 1. The New Deal and Jim Crow. 538 2. The Racist Execution of the G.I. Bill. 541 C. History of Past Proposed Reparation Acts in the United States.. 544 1. Reparations to Japanese Americans Interned During World War... |
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