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  Minimum Lot Size Zoning Restrictions in Fact Dictate Much of the Affordable Housing Debate. 2020-8 Construction Briefings NL 1 (8/1/2020) As the novel coronavirus continues its march across the country, and as the nation continues to confront the issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement, both have brought to the fore concerns that have remained smoldering for a long time. One of those is the matter of affordable housing. In our preceding Briefings, we briefly looked at... 2020  
Chan Tov McNamarah Misgendering as Misconduct 68 UCLA Law Review Discourse 40 (2020) As litigation regarding the civil rights of transgender persons blossoms, a curious trend has emerged: In briefs, pleadings, and motions advocating antitrans positions, attorneys have addressed trans parties with language at odds with their gender. Through a close review of the language in briefs for three recent Supreme Court cases, this Article... 2020  
Blair Chavis, Kevin Davis, Liane Jackson Moment -Or- Movement? 106-NOV ABA Journal 34 (October/November, 2020) Lawyers have a long tradition of supporting efforts to bring racial and social justice to this country. They've argued important civil rights cases, demanded police accountability and advocated for public policies to address systemic and institutional racism. Recent killings of unarmed Black people by police have sparked a new wave of protests and... 2020  
Celine Castronuovo More than 1,000 Black Women Urge Biden to Appoint More Black Female Cabinet Members The Hill (12/8/2020) A group of more than 1,000 Black women leaders from across the country on Monday penned an open letter to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris urging them to consider nominating more Black women for top Cabinet posts. 2020  
  More than 130 Federal Agents Will Stay Behind in Portland as 'Quick Reaction Force' :Report (7/31/2020) As some federal forces withdraw from Portland, more than 130 other federal officers will stay behind near the federal courthouse there to act as a quick reaction force, The Washington Post reported Friday 2020  
Katharine Silbaugh More than the Vote: 16-year-old Voting and the Risks of Legal Adulthood 100 Boston University Law Review 1689 (October, 2020) Advocates of 16-year-old voting have not grappled with two significant risks to adolescents of their agenda. First, a right to vote entails a corresponding accessibility to campaigns. Campaign speech is highly protected, and 16-year-old voting invites more unfettered access to minors by commercial, government, and political interests than current... 2020  
John Kruzel More than Two Dozen Dc Bar Members Urge Disciplinary Probe of Ag Barr The Hill (7/22/2020) More than two dozen members of the D.C. Bar Association, including four of its former presidents, urged the groups disciplinary board on Wednesday to investigate Attorney General William Barr for committing serious ethical deviations as head of the Justice Department under President Trump. 2020  
Scott L. Cummings Movement Lawyering 27 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 87 (Winter, 2020) Over the past decade, scholars and practitioners in the United States, and around the world, have turned greater attention to the role of lawyers in social movements. This new focus has come at a time when fundamental questions ask what it means to achieve access to justice against the backdrop of extreme inequality and right wing populism across... 2020  
Anastasia M. Boles Moving the Needle: Two Promising Tools to Attack Arkansas's Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing 43 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall, 2020) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1 II. Race and Incarceration in Arkansas. 6 A. Sentencing Disparities in Arkansas. 9 B. The Science of Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System. 12 III. Racism, the Constitution, and the Jury Process. 15 IV. Before The Verdict: Arkansas's New Jury Instruction. 17 A. AMI Crim. 2d 101. 18 B. Other... 2020  
Shiu-Ming Cheer Moving Toward Transformation: Abolitionist Reforms and the Immigrants' Rights Movement 68 UCLA Law Review Discourse 68 (2020) This Article discusses the criteria for abolitionist reforms and assesses whether current immigrants' rights demands move us towards a more transformative agenda, one that questions the legitimacy of the state. The Article argues that calls to invest in immigrant communities and to release immigrants from detention can be radical reforms that move... 2020  
Caitlin Reilly, CQ Roll Call Muni Investors, Advisers Seek Transparency on Police Misconduct Payouts CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (7/6/2020) As Black Lives Matter protests march on around the U.S., some investment advisers and asset managers are pushing for more disclosure on so-called judgment allocation bonds issued by cities and governments to fund payouts for settlements of lawsuits against police. 2020  
Marty Johnson Nba Flexes Muscle amid Partisan Attacks The Hill (8/28/2020) When the Milwaukee Bucks refused to play their playoff game against the Orlando Magic in outrage over the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Wednesday, the NBA already maligned by some as being too political took a giant step to the forefront on one of Americas most pressing social issues. 2020  
  Ncua's Harper Calls for Greater Agency, Industry Focus on Racial Justice (6/19/2020) National Credit Union Administration Board Member Todd M. Harper challenged the industry and his agency to do more to promote economic equality and racial justice amid the aftermath of the death of George Floyd and the protests by the Black Lives Matter movement that followed. 2020  
Marty Johnson New Aclu Report Finds That Police Shootings Have Not Decreased Despite Pandemic The Hill (8/19/2020) A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reveals that even though Americans have spent most of 2020 inside their homes social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic, fatal police shootings haven't stopped or slowed down. 2020  
Dylan Phillips New Technological Trends Are Changing the Legal, Ethical, and Public Policy Implications of Sting Operations 26 Richmond Journal of Law and Technology Tech. 4 (Summer, 2020) It has long been held that a lawyer may not act deceitfully when working on a case by making false statements to the opposing party, especially to a person who has already retained counsel and the lawyer has already made statements directly to the opposing party. However, like all other legal doctrines, there are exceptions to the requirement that... 2020  
  News and Notes 10/2020 The Florida Bar News 22 (10/1/2020) Roy L. Weinfeld presented, The End of Florida Moratoriums and Impact of Evictions, Foreclosures and Enforceable Writs, via Zoom webinar. Nicola Larmond-Harvey of Saunders & Walker in Pinellas Park has been appointed by the U.S. Southern District Court to the plaintiffs leadership team in the Zantac Multidistrict Litigation. 2020  
Tal Axelrod Number of Americans Who Disapprove of Trump's Race Relations Rises since February The Hill (10/3/2020) The number of Americans who disapprove of President Trumps handling of race relations ticked up since February, according to a new survey from the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Project that was published by USA Today. 2020  
Jason Rogovich Nyc Mayor Lifts Curfew Before Legal Challenges 2020 CityLand CityLand 1 (6/11/2020) Curfew lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, but not necessary in New York City. On June 1, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio collectively instituted a citywide curfew following four evenings of protests, which although mostly peaceful, included some instances of chaotic behavior which resulted in vandalism and property damage.... 2020  
Morgan Gstalter Obama Remembers John Lewis: 'I Stood on His Shoulders' The Hill (7/18/2020) Former President Obama on Saturday morning mourned the death of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), saying he stood on his shoulders about the civil rights icon and longstanding member of Congress. 2020  
Marty Johnson Ocasio-cortez Demands Accountability over Viral Video of Unmarked Nypd 'Snatching' Protester The Hill (7/29/2020) Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) lambasted the New York Police Department (NYPD) early on Wednesday after the NYPD late on Tuesday confirmed that it had conducted an arrest of a protester in an unmarked van. 2020  
  Ocasio-cortez: Trump Tweet on 75-year-old Protester a 'Reprehensible Act' (6/10/2020) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday denounced President Trump's sharing of an unfounded conspiracy theory that the elderly protester shoved to the ground by police in Buffalo, N.Y., may have been an ANTIFA provocateur 2020  
Jennifer Ferentz Officer Use of Force and the Failure of Oversight of New York City Jails 47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1393 (October, 2020) Introduction. 1394 I. Excessive Use of Force as an Intractable Problem. 1397 A. Jails and a History of Violence. 1397 B. Judicial Intervention and Federal Monitorship. 1402 C. Nunez v. City of New York and the Nunez Federal Monitorship. 1405 II. Mapping the New York City Jail System. 1407 A. The Department of Correction. 1408 B. New York City... 2020  
Marty Johnson Officers in George Floyd's Death Appear in Court, Motion for Separate Trials The Hill (9/11/2020) The four former Minneapolis police officers who were involved in the killing of George Floyd at the end of May appeared in the Hennepin County courthouse on Friday for a pretrial hearing, with attorneys on both sides of the case representing multiple motions. 2020  
Kaelan Deese Omar Declares Hypocrisy over Reaction to Far-right Protester Calling for 'Assassinating Democrats' The Hill (9/8/2020) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) accused the media of hypocrisy after a video showed a right-wing counterprotester in Oregon who called for assassinating Democrats."" 2020  
Leah M. Litman, Deeva Shah On Sexual Harassment in the Judiciary 115 Northwestern University Law Review 599 (2020) Abstract--This Essay examines the legal profession's role in sexual harassment, particularly in the federal courts. It argues that individuals in the profession have both an individual and collective responsibility for the professional norms that have allowed harassment to happen with little recourse for the people subject to the harassment. It... 2020  
Christina Bohannan On the 50th Anniversary of Tinker V. Des Moines: Toward a Positive View of Free Speech on College Campuses 105 Iowa Law Review 2233 (July, 2020) ABSTRACT: Fifty years ago, the Tinker case confirmed the free speech rights of students and identified the classroom as peculiarly the marketplace of ideas. Upholding the students' right to protest the Vietnam War, Tinker was one of many Supreme Court decisions to establish the First Amendment as an ally in movements for freedom, justice, and... 2020  
  On the Beat 28No.12 Police Department Disciplinary Bulletin NL 3 (12/1/2020) The New York Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Aid Society filed a lawsuit in late October against the New York City Police Department, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police commissioner Dermont Shea for violating the civil rights of protestors in their response to racial injustice demonstrations this summer in the wake of the death of George Floyd. A... 2020  
Kathleen Balthrop Havener One Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage: Mission Accomplished? 37No.4 GPSolo GPSolo 9 (July/August, 2020) I long to hear that you have declared [independence]--and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants... 2020  
Erin Chlopak One of These Things Is Not like the Other: Naacp V. Alabama Is Not a Manual for Powerful, Wealthy Spenders to Pour Unlimited Secret Money into Our Political Process 69 American University Law Review 1395 (May, 2020) In Citizens United, eight of the Supreme Court's nine Justices reaffirmed the Court's earlier decisions holding that election-related transparency laws are constitutional. Those eight Justices agreed that voters have a right to know who is paying for pre-election ads that mention candidates--[e]ven if the ads only pertain to a commercial... 2020  
Tamar Megiddo Online Activism, Digital Domination, and the Rule of Trolls: Mapping and Theorizing Technological Oppression by Governments 58 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 394 (2020) The internet and social media have revolutionized activism. However, governments seeking to curb opposition have recently learned to target the very same technologies that empowered activists in the first place. This article challenges the accepted framework for discussing such efforts by governments, centered on surveillance and privacy. It... 2020  
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