| Author | Title | Citation | Document Type | Case Status | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| Robert Westley |
Many Billions Gone: Is it Time to Reconsider the Case for Black Reparations? |
19 Boston College Third World Law Journal 429 (Fall, 1998) |
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For each beloved hour, sharp pittances of years. Bitter contested farthings and coffers heaped with tears. Affirmative action for Black Americans as a form of remediation for perpetuation of past injustice is almost dead. Due to a string of Supreme Court decisions beginning with Bakke and leading up to Adarand, the future possibility of using... |
1998 |
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| Eric K. Yamamoto |
Racial Reparations: Japanese American Redress and African American Claims |
40 Boston College Law Review 477 (December, 1998) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In 1991 the United States Office of Redress Administration presented the first $20,000 reparations check to the oldest Hawaii survivor of the Japanese American internment camps. I attended the stately ceremony. The mood, while serious, was decidedly upbeat. Tears of relief mixed with sighs of joy. Freed at last. Amidst the celebration I reflected... |
1998 |
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| Eric K. Yamamoto |
Racial Reparations: Japanese American Redress and African American Claims |
19 Boston College Third World Law Journal 477 (Fall, 1998) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In 1991 the United States Office of Redress Administration presented the first $20,000 reparations check to the oldest Hawaii survivor of the Japanese American internment camps. I attended the stately ceremony. The mood, while serious, was decidedly upbeat. Tears of relief mixed with sighs of joy. Freed at last. Amidst the celebration I reflected... |
1998 |
Most Relevant |
| Chris K. Iijima |
Reparations and the "Model Minority" Idealogy of Acquiescence: the Necessity to Refuse the Return to Original Humiliation |
40 Boston College Law Review 385 (December, 1998) |
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Any attempt to soften the power of the oppressor in deference to the weakness of the oppressed almost always manifests itself in the form of false generosity; indeed, the attempt never goes beyond this. In order to have the continued opportunity to express their generosity, the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. An unjust social... |
1998 |
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| Chris K. Iijima |
Reparations and the "Model Minority" Idealogy of Acquiescence: the Necessity to Refuse the Return to Original Humiliation |
19 Boston College Third World Law Journal 385 (Fall, 1998) |
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Any attempt to soften the power of the oppressor in deference to the weakness of the oppressed almost always manifests itself in the form of false generosity; indeed, the attempt never goes beyond this. In order to have the continued opportunity to express their generosity, the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. An unjust social... |
1998 |
Most Relevant |
| Irma Jacqueline Ozer |
Reparations for African Americans |
41 Howard Law Journal 479 (Spring, 1998) |
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The analysis presented in this paper is based primarily upon law review articles and books written during the last three decades. Also presented in this paper are new theories of tort and criminal defense which attempt to illustrate the profound psychological effects of past and ongoing wrongs perpetrated upon African Americans in the United... |
1998 |
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Arizona Bars Advertising of "Slavery Reparations' |
1997-NOV National Association of Attorneys General: Consumer Protection Report 22 (October/November, 1997) |
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Attorney General Grant Woods has entered into an Assurance of Discontinuance with Orves Morrison, doing business as Commercial Accounting & Tax Service. Morrison allegedly was representing to African-American consumers that they were eligible for reparations owed to the descendants of former slaves by the IRS. He allegedly claimed that the U.S.... |
1997 |
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Black African Reparations: Making a Claim for Enslavement and Systematic De Jure Segregation and Racial Discrimination under American and International Law |
25 Southern University Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall, 1997) |
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I. Introduction. 2 II. A Historical Overview of the Struggle for African Reparations. 6 A. Reparations: From Pre-Reconstruction to thePresent. 6 III. Can a Valid Claim for Black Reparations be Made Under American Law?. 14 A. American Courts in the Late Nineteenth Century. 14 B. American Courts in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century. 16 IV. The... |
1997 |
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Reparation Tax Claims Still Being Denied |
FS- 96-8 (7/1/1996) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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1996 |
Most Relevant |
| Tong Yu |
Reparations for Former Comfort Women of World War Ii |
36 Harvard International Law Journal 528 (Spring, 1995) |
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To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the Japanese government, in 1994, announced several programs aimed at finally redressing atrocities committed against other. Asian countries during the war. One of the issues that the Japanese government is currently addressing is the wrongs committed against former comfort women.... |
1995 |
Most Relevant |
| Calvin J. Allen, Esq. |
The Continuing Quest of African Americans to Obtain Reparation for Slavery |
9-JUN NBA National Bar Association Magazine 33 (May/June, 1995) |
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Blacks Law Dictionary defines reparation as payment for an injury; redress for a wrong done. There is precedent, national and international, to justify reparation. Congress passed legislation that authorized payment to 60,000 Japanese-Americans of $20,000.00 each who were evacuated and/or interned during World War II. Restitution has been made... |
1995 |
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Reparation Tax Claims Denied |
FS- 94-6 (10/1/1994) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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1994 |
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Revocation of Nyrl 863718; Classification of Drink Premix in 1702, Htsus as Other Sugars, Sugar Syrups Not Containing Added Flavoring or Coloring Matter; Not 2106 Food Preparation |
HQ 955641 (3/8/1994) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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1994 |
Most Relevant |
| Yvonne Park Hsu |
Comfort Women from Korea: Japan's World War Ii Sex Slaves and the Legitimacy of Their Claims for Reparations |
2 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 97 (Winter, 1993) |
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Abstract: During World War II, Japan forced 100,000 to 200,000 women from all over Asia into prostitution to satisfy the sexual cravings of Japanese soldiers. These women thus forced into prostitution were euphemistically called comfort women. In December 1991, three former Korean comfort women filed suit in the Tokyo District Court, seeking... |
1993 |
Most Relevant |
| Vincene Verdun |
If the Shoe Fits, Wear It: an Analysis of Reparations to African Americans |
67 Tulane Law Review 597 (February, 1993) |
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I. Introduction. 598 II. Analysis of Reparations from the Dominant Perspective and the African-American Consciousness. 612 A. The Dominant Perspective. 619 B. The African-American Consciousness. 625 C. Comparative Analysis of Reparations from the Dominant Perspective and the African-American Consciousness. 628 1. The Reparationists' Claim for... |
1993 |
Most Relevant |
| Malissia Lennox |
Refugees, Racism, and Reparations: a Critique of the United States' Haitian Immigration Policy |
45 Stanford Law Review 687 (February, 1993) |
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We are asking why you treat us this way. Is it because we are Negroes? Why are you letting us suffer this way, America? Don't you have a father's heart? Haven't you thought we were humans, that we had a heart to suffer with and a soul that could be wounded? Give us back our freedom. Why among all the nations that emigrate to the United States have... |
1993 |
Most Relevant |
| Rhonda V. Magee |
The Master's Tools, from the Bottom Up: Responses to African-american Reparations Theory in Mainstream and Outsider Remedies Discourse |
79 Virginia Law Review 863 (May, 1993) |
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Prologue. 864 I. Introduction. 864 II. Racial Remedies Theory. 868 A. The Traditional Debate: Nationalism Versus Integrationism. 868 B. A New Perspective: Cultural Equity Theory. 871 C. Reparations, Separation, and Integration as Cultural Equity Methods. 875 III. The Reparations Tradition Within Racial Remedies Discourse. 876 A. A Modern... |
1993 |
Most Relevant |
| Mari J. Matsuda |
Looking to the Bottom: Critical Legal Studies and Reparations |
22 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 323 (Spring, 1987) |
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When you are on trial for conspiracy to overthrow the government for teaching the deconstruction of law, your lawyer will want black people on your jury. Why? Because black jurors are more likely to understand what your lawyer will argue: that people in power sometimes abuse law to achieve their own ends, and that the prosecution's claim to neutral... |
1987 |
Most Relevant |
| Ewart Guinier |
The Case for Black Reparations. By Boris I. Bittker. New York: Random House, 1973. Pp. 191 (Including Two Appendices). $7.95 (Cloth-bound), $1.95 (Paperback) |
82 Yale Law Journal 1719 (July, 1973) |
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James Forman burst into the Riverside Church in New York City in 1969 and demanded that white churches, Jewish synagogues, and all other racist institutions pay reparations to blacks for the wrongs done by America to slaves and the children of slaves. Boris Bittker heard and listened, and was moved to write this book. The com pleat lawyer, he... |
1973 |
Most Relevant |
| Barbara J. Van Arsdale, J.D., Francis M. Dougherty, J.D., Edward K. Esping, J.D., Tracy Bateman Farrell, J.D., Jill Gustafson, J.D., Rachel M. Kane, M.A., J.D., John Kimpflen, J.D., Anne E. Melley, J.D., LL.M., of the staff of the National Legal Research |
§ 1:26.particular Applications of Principle |
FEDPROC Federal Procedure, Lawyers Edition 1:26 (NO Date) |
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Applying the criteria governing judicial deference in cases presenting political questions, federal courts have declined to hear cases questioning political gerrymandering in a congressional redistricting. alleging that the United States and a former Secretary of State were liable, under the Alien Tort Statute, to victims and survivors of victims... |
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| Edward F. Koren; Updated by Philip R. Feist, By:, Edward F. Koren, Updated by Philip Feist |
§ 1:31.malpractice Prevention |
KOREN-EPFP Estate, Tax and Personal Financial Planning 1:31 (NO Date) |
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The 80's and 90's have seen another phenomenon in the estate planning area: the increasing exposure of the estate planner to claims of professional malpractice. These are particularly troublesome because the liability can arise so long after the service was performed. For example, the Supreme Court of California, reversing a lower court decision,... |
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§ 1:35.a Philosophical and Policy Overview of Constitutional and Statutory Civil Rights Law Principles-examples of the Tension Between the Process and Outcome Theories-a Case Study in Process Versus Outcome Theory: the Metro Broadcasting Decision |
FCIVRTACTS § 1:35 (NO Date) |
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One recent Supreme Court decision, Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, crystallizes the entire debate between the process and outcome notions of equality. The Metro Broadcasting decision is worth holding up to close examination as a detailed case study |
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| Robert E. McKenzie |
§ 1:62.abusive Schemes and Promoter Investigations |
Representing the Audited Taxpayer Before the IRS § 1:62 (NO Date) |
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IRS efforts to combat abusive schemes and scams (including the Offshore Credit Card Project) significantly increased from Fiscal Year 2003 to Fiscal Year 2008. Schemes and scams on the rise include: schemes, reducing a person's tax liability by claiming inflated expenses, false deductions, unallowable credits or excessive exemptions; frivolous... |
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| Jacob A. Stein |
§ 10:28.the Concepts of Duty and Due Care |
Stein on Personal Injury Damages § 10:28 (NO Date) |
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As a general proposition, applicable in the ordinary negligence case, the rule of ordinary care prevails. For example, where the defendant has taken some affirmative action such as driving an automobile whenever he or she should reasonably foresee that such conduct will involve an unreasonable risk of harm to other drivers or to pedestrians, the... |
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§ 111international Law and Agreements as Law of the United States |
Restatement of the Law - The Foreign Relations Law of the United States § 111 (1987) (October 2019 Update) |
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(1) International law and international agreements of the United States are law of the United States and supreme over the law of the several States. (2) Cases arising under international law or international agreements of the United States are within the Judicial Power of the United States and, subject to Constitutional and statutory limitations... |
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| Hon. Thomas A. Dickerson, Rodney E. Gould and Mark Chalos |
§ 12:17.complaint for Torture and Other Human Rights Violations; Ntsebeza v. Citigroup, Inc |
INTORTUSCT Litigating International Torts in U.S. Courts 12:17 (NO Date) |
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the collaboration (with corporations) create(s) and promote(s) a context that leads to the systematic execution of gross human rights violations. It contributes to the emergence of an economic and political structure, a culture and a system that gives rise to and condones certain patterns of behavior. Our weapons, ammunition, uniforms, vehicles,... |
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§ 13:9.other Civil Rights Legislation |
GOVDISCRIM Government Discrimination: Equal Protection Law and Litigation 13:9 (NO Date) |
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Civil rights legislation, in addition to the laws summarized above, provides both criminal and civil causes of action where federal statutory and constitutional rights are abridged. It is also possible to sue federal officials directly under the Constitution. The most significant civil cause of action provision is § 1983. The provision, which... |
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§ 13a:35.50.return Preparers-frivolous Position |
CASEY § 13A:35.50 (NO Date) |
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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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| David F. Herr |
§ 1407.multidistrict Litigation |
MDLITMAN Multidistrict Litigation Manual II (NO Date) |
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House Report No. 1130, see 1968 U.S. Code Cong. and Adm. News, p. 1898. House Report Nos. 94-499, 94-1343, and 94-1373, see 1976 U.S. Code Cong. and Adm. News, p. 2572. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, referred to in subsec. (f), are set out in this title. Section 4C of the Clayton Act, referred to in subsec. (h), is section 4C of Act Oct. 15,... |
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| Jill Gustafson, J.D.; and Janice Holben, J.D. |
§ 147.implicit Waiver of Immunity under Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
AMJUR American Jurisprudence, Second Edition 147 (NO Date) |
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The focus of analysis in determining whether there has been an implicit waiver of immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) falls on the acts of the foreign sovereign, not on the acts of others. Thus, particular factual circumstances govern whether an implicit waiver will or will not be found. The implied waiver provision of the... |
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