| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Robert J. Aalberts |
DRUG TESTING TENANTS: DOES IT VIOLATE RIGHTS OF PRIVACY? |
38 Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal 479 (Fall, 2003) |
Editors' Synopsis: Drug activity is a serious problem in many apartment complexes. Innocent tenants can be victimized by violent crime, robberies, and burglaries committed by drug dealers and users. In recent years, the popular press has reported stories concerning private sector landlords who are requiring prospective tenants, as well as tenants... |
2003 |
| Joseph E. Kennedy |
DRUG WARS IN BLACK AND WHITE |
66-SUM Law and Contemporary Problems 153 (Summer 2003) |
Over the past two decades, we have waged war on drugs. Yet it is not likely to be news to any reader of this Symposium on race and criminal justice that the primary casualties of that war have been African Americans and other individuals of color. The debate over the racial complexion of the war against drugs often devolves into a clash of... |
2003 |
| David E. Steinberg |
HIGH SCHOOL DRUG TESTING AND THE ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT |
30 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 263 (Spring 2003) |
I. Random Drug Tests and the Fourth Amendment. 265 A. The Road to Earls: Supreme Court Decisions on Random Drug Tests. 265 B. Random Drug Tests in High Schools. 267 1. Acton. 268 2. Earls. 269 3. Summary. 270 II. The Original Understanding of the Fourth Amendment. 270 A. The Controversies That Resulted in the Fourth Amendment. 271 1. The John... |
2003 |
| Judge William F. Chinnock |
NO SMOKING AROUND CHILDREN: THE FAMILY COURTS' MANDATORY DUTY TO RESTRAIN PARENTS AND OTHER PERSONS FROM SMOKING AROUND CHILDREN |
45 Arizona Law Review 801 (Fall 2003) |
A man's home is his castle, but no one is allowed to hurt little children-- even in his castle. A considered analysis of family law across the United States leads to this inescapable conclusion: a family court that does not issue court orders restraining persons from smoking in the presence of children under the court's care fails those children... |
2003 |
| David W. Rasmussen , Bruce L. Benson |
RATIONALIZING DRUG POLICY UNDER FEDERALISM |
30 Florida State University Law Review 679 (Summer, 2003) |
I. L2-4,T4Introduction 679 II. L2-4,T4The Intended Benefits of Criminalization and Enforcement: Are They Effectively Achieved? 684 A. L3-4,T4Reducing Drug Consumption 685 B. L3-4,T4The Elusive Benefit of Lowering Drug Use via Enforcement 687 III. L2-4,T4Enforcement Can Change Relative Prices and Consumption Patterns 692 A. L3-4,T4Persistence of... |
2003 |
| Kurt V. Laker |
SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE SELF-EXAMINATION OF CANADIAN MARIJUANA POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF DECRIMINALIZATION IN THE NETHERLANDS |
14 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 341 (2003) |
Drug policy reform is almost a non-issue in American government. The only politically viable stance is a hardline position against all illegal drugs with harsh penalties for offenders. Congress has attempted to stifle research into alternative drug policies by introducing House Bill 135. This only illuminates the boldness of the Canadian Senate,... |
2003 |
| Brian Narvaez |
TEXAS REACTS TO TULIA AND THE DRUG WAR'S PERSECUTION OF MINORITIES |
28 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 317 (Spring, 2003) |
I. L2-4,T4Introduction and Scope 318 II. L2-4,T4The War on Drugs and Its Effects 320 A. L3-4,T4An Overview of the War on Drugs 320. B. L3-4,T4Race and Justice 321. 1. Race and Crime. 322 2. Race and Prison. 322 3. Race and Sentencing. 324 C. L3-4,T4Racial Profiling 326. III. L2-4,T4Constitutional Analysis 329 A. L3-4,T4Introduction to Equal... |
2003 |
| Josephine Gittler |
THE AMERICAN DRUG WAR, MATERNAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND CHILD PROTECTION: A COMMENTARY |
7 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 237 (Spring 2003) |
Federal, state, and local governments have been fighting a protracted war on drugs, the most prominent component of which has been the enactment and enforcement of criminal anti-drug laws. A major criticism of this war is that it has been ineffective and costly because there continues to be a substantial supply of and demand for drugs despite the... |
2003 |
| Kathleen R. Sandy |
THE DISCRIMINATION INHERENT IN AMERICA'S DRUG WAR: HIDDEN RACISM REVEALED BY EXAMINING THE HYSTERIA OVER CRACK |
54 Alabama Law Review 665 (Winter 2003) |
A significant, but decreasing, percentage of Americans believe the War on Drugs is justified, believing that the benefits outweigh the costs. If you are one of these people, consider the following: The United States spends approximately $1 billion a year to drug test approximately twenty million workers. Companies are finding out that fatigue and... |
2003 |
| Matthew L.M. Fletcher |
THE DRUG WAR ON TRIBAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: ADOPTING THE WAYS OF THE CONQUEROR |
35 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 1 (Fall 2003) |
For three months Gus and the Indian female counselor met weekly. They would smudge before each session with sweet grass. Gus would explore his reality while carrying a stone in his hand. We were learning, listening and talking, speaking freely, not judged. It was the nonjudgmental approach that attracted him --there is a stigma on a non-Indian... |
2003 |
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THE FORDHAM LAW DRUG POLICY REFORM PROJECT AMERICA'S OLDEST WAR: THE EFFICACY OF UNITED STATES DRUG POLICY--A DEBATE BETWEEN GRAHAM BOYD, ACLU AND ASA HUTCHINSON, DEA |
30 Fordham Urban Law Journal 401 (January, 2003) |
MS. KAY: Hi. Thank you all for coming and welcome. My name is Amanda Kay and I am the Executive Director of the Fordham Law Drug Policy Reform Project. When four of us started this group in September, we had a lot of ideas, but never really guessed that we would be able to bring such esteemed speakers here and attract law students from beyond... |
2003 |
| Ronald Timothy Fletcher |
THE MEDICAL NECESSITY DEFENSE AND DE MINIMIS PROTECTION FOR PATIENTS WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM USING MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES: A PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH COMPREHENSIVE PROTECTION UNDER FEDERAL DRUG LAWS |
37 Valparaiso University Law Review 983 (Summer, 2003) |
[M]arijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man .. One must reasonably conclude that there is accepted safety for use of marijuana under medical supervision. To conclude otherwise, on the record, would be unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious. The marijuana plant has been known to exist for... |
2003 |
| Steven S. Martin, James A. Inciardi, Daniel J. O'Connell, Senior Scientist, Professor and Director, Research Associate Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies |
TREATMENT RESEARCH IN OZ-IS RANDOMIZATION THE IDEAL OR JUST SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW? |
67-SEP Federal Probation 53 (September, 2003) |
MEETING THE TREATMENT needs of offenders within the correctional system promises an important societal investment in reducing the number of incarcerated drug-involved offenders and the concomitant burgeoning costs of incarceration and health care. Researchers have documented the high costs of drug-abusing offenders whose criminal activity, criminal... |
2003 |
| Regina Austin |
"STEP ON A CRACK, BREAK YOUR MOTHER'S BACK": POOR MOMS, MYTHS OF AUTHORITY, AND DRUG-RELATED EVICTIONS FROM PUBLIC HOUSING |
14 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 273 (2002) |
Once upon a time, the old superstition Step on a crack, break your mother's back turned many of my walks down city streets into a game. What else could cracks have referred to but the lines and crevices in the pavement? Of course, it did not much matter, since little depended on it. I knew that my mama's well-being did not rise or fall with my... |
2002 |
| Tal Klement, Elizabeth Siggins |
A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY: ADDRESSING THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DRUG ENFORCEMENT AND RACIAL DISPARITY IN SEATTLE |
1 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 165 (Spring/Summer, 2002) |
L1-2Table of Contents: Executive Summary. 168 Section I. Introduction. 171 Central Question of this Report:. 171 Background: The Minority & Justice Commission Report. 172 The Harm of Racial Disparity. 173 Methodology. 174 Structure of Report. 175 Section II. Defining Disparity. 175 Racial Demographics for the City, County, and State. 176 Disparity:... |
2002 |
| Keith Donoghue |
CASUALTIES OF WAR: CRIMINAL DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ITS SPECIAL COSTS FOR THE POOR |
77 New York University Law Review 1776 (December, 2002) |
Over the last three decades, different criticisms have emerged in response to the war on drugs. One strain of argument relies on a pragmatic analysis of the costs and benefits to society as a whole of using criminal sanctions. Although the costs associated with drug-related harms and drug enforcement disproportionately burden poor communities,... |
2002 |
| Graham Boyd |
COLLATERAL DAMAGE IN THE WAR ON DRUGS |
47 Villanova Law Review 839 (2002) |
A declaration of war, now as at other moments in our national history, invites us to disregard the normal rules of conduct under the imperative of a higher goal assumed to trump all other considerations. For example, Abraham Lincoln suspended the fundamental right to the Writ of Habeas Corpus, citing the exigencies of the Civil War as a rationale... |
2002 |
| Phyllis Goldfarb |
COUNTING THE DRUG WAR'S FEMALE CASUALTIES |
6 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 277 (Fall 2002) |
This article explores the impact of the drug war on women's lives. In Part I, I examine the usage of the word war and its connotations. In Part II, I illustrate the impact of the drug war on women's lives by detailing a dozen federal cases in which women have served--or, in several instances continue to serve--long mandatory sentences for drug... |
2002 |
| Michael A. Simons |
DEPARTING WAYS: UNIFORMITY, DISPARITY AND COOPERATION IN FEDERAL DRUG SENTENCES |
47 Villanova Law Review 921 (2002) |
I. Introduction. 921 II. The Sentencing Guidelines, Mandatory Minimums and the War on Drugs. 925 A. The Demise of Rehabilitation and the Birth of the War on Drugs. 925 B. The Sentencing Guidelines and Departures: An Overview. 931 C. Departures in Drug Cases. 938 D. Cooperation Departures and Disparity. 944 III. In Defense of Cooperation (and... |
2002 |
| Sandra, Guerra, Thompson, Associate Dean for, Academic Affairs and, Professor of Law,, University of Houston, Law Center |
DID THE WAR ON DRUGS DIE WITH THE BIRTH OF THE WAR ON TERRORISM?: A CLOSER LOOK AT CIVIL FORFEITURE AND RACIAL PROFILING AFTER 9/11 |
Federal Sentencing Reporter (January 1, 2002) |
We stand at the threshold of a new era in law enforcementor do we? The tragic events of September 11th make the task of considering the role of law enforcement in fighting the war on drugs much more complex. Indeed, judging from media accounts since 9/11, there is virtually no war on drugs left to discuss. That is to say, with reporting... |
2002 |
| Paula Kautt, Paula Kautt is a, Program Analyst at, the federal Drug, Enforcement, Administration. She, earned a doctorate in, Criminal Justice from, the University of, Nebraska Omaha in, 2000. The views, expressed in this, essay are solely those, of the a |
DIFFERENTIAL USAGE OF GUIDELINE STANDARDS BY DEFENDANT RACE AND GENDER IN FEDERAL DRUG SENTENCES: FACT OR FICTION? |
Federal Sentencing Reporter (January 1, 2002) |
A number of recent statistical studies from social science suggest that sentencing outcomes for federal drug offenses vary significantly by defendant race, gender, and ethnicity. The primary explanation offered for these apparent disparities is that defendant race, gender, and ethnicity interact with the legally relevant guideline factors (such as... |
2002 |
| Erik Luna |
DRUG EXCEPTIONALISM |
47 Villanova Law Review 753 (2002) |
NO one doubts that America is an exceptional society, both for better and for worse. It is the longest running democracy, the world's undisputed economic leader and the only remaining superpower in the new millennium. But the United States is also remarkable for its socio-economic inequality, commitment to litigation and adversarial relationships,... |
2002 |
| John Barry |
FROM DRUG WAR TO DIRTY WAR: PLAN COLOMBIA AND THE U.S. ROLE IN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN COLOMBIA |
12 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 161 (Spring, 2002) |
L1-4,T4Forward 162 I. L2-4,T4Introduction 163 II. L2-4,T4Background on Colombia and the Drug War 164 A. L3-4,T4Geography 165 B. L3-4,T4People 166 C. L3-4,T4Economy 167 D. L3-4,T4History, Politics, and Society 168 E. L3-4,T4Origins and Evolution of the Drug Trade 171 F. L3-4,T4The U.S. Drug War 172 III. L2-4,T4The War on Drugs and Human Rights 173... |
2002 |
| Nancy S. Marder |
JURIES, DRUG LAWS & SENTENCING |
6 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 337 (Fall 2002) |
The institution of the jury continues to be under attack. In the wake of criminal trials, such as O.J. Simpson, in which the jury was portrayed as biased or incompetent, and civil trials, such as the McDonald's coffee cup case, in which the jury was portrayed as vindictive and the award as outrageous, the other branches of government have tried to... |
2002 |
| Debora Halbert |
MORALIZED DISCOURSES: SOUTH AFRICA'S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FIGHT FOR ACCESS TO AIDS DRUGS |
1 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 257 (Fall/Winter, 2002) |
In 1997, the South African government passed the South African Medicines and Related Substances Control Act Amendments in order to address the problems associated with delivering AIDS medication to the millions of South Africans with HIV/AIDS. The scope of the act was modest, allowing the Minister of Health to make affordable medication available... |
2002 |
| Dee Marlo E. Chico |
PHARMACOGENOMICS: A BRAVE NEW WORLD IN DESIGNER DRUGS |
5 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 111 (Fall 2002) |
I. Introduction. 112 A. Laying the Foundation. 113 1. The Scientific Background. 115 2. An Introduction to Pharmacogenomics. 116 II. Historical Perspective: An Introduction to Pharmacogenomics. 122 A. The Genome and Human History. 124 B. Genetic Determinism and Discrimination. 125 C. The Shadow of Eugenics. 126 D. The Nature of Pharmacogenomics.... |
2002 |
| Frank J. Chaloupka , Ellen J. Hahn , Sherry L. Emery |
POLICY LEVERS FOR THE CONTROL OF TOBACCO CONSUMPTION |
90 Kentucky Law Journal 1009 (2001-2002) |
Historically one of the oldest and most important crops in the United States, tobacco has become embroiled in the second half of the twentieth century in a struggle pitting American economic interests against public health. It is in the tobacco growing and manufacturing states that this conflict between lives and money is particularly prominent. In... |
2002 |
| Kenneth B. Nunn |
RACE, CRIME AND THE POOL OF SURPLUS CRIMINALITY: OR WHY THE 'WAR ON DRUGS' WAS A 'WAR ON BLACKS' |
6 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 381 (Fall 2002) |
The War on Drugs has had a devastating effect on African American communities nationwide. Throughout the drug war, African Americans have been disproportionately investigated, detained, searched, arrested and charged with the use, possession and sale of illegal drugs. Vast numbers of African Americans have been jailed and imprisoned pursuant to the... |
2002 |
| Gabriel J. Chin |
RACE, THE WAR ON DRUGS, AND THE COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF CRIMINAL CONVICTION |
6 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 253 (Fall 2002) |
One of the most important recent developments in the criminal justice system is the increasing imposition of sanctions for conviction off-budget, covertly. These sanctions, often called collateral consequences, are not imposed explicitly as part of the sentencing process, but by legislative creation of penalties applicable by operation of law... |
2002 |
| Samuel R. Gross , Katherine Y. Barnes |
ROAD WORK: RACIAL PROFILING AND DRUG INTERDICTION ON THE HIGHWAY |
101 Michigan Law Review 651 (December, 2002) |
I. Introduction. 653 II. Stops, Searches and Hits. 662 A. The Maryland State Police Data. 662 1. Searches and Stops. 662 2. Hits.. 667 B. The Process. 670 1. Pretext Stops and Operation Pipeline. 670 2. Consent and Probable Cause. 672 3. Intelligence. 677 C. Do the Data Describe Reality?. 678 1. Misreporting. 678 2. Preselecting. 682 D. Is This... |
2002 |
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STATEMENT OF DIANA E. MURPHY |
Federal Sentencing Reporter (January 1, 2002) |
Chairman Biden, members of the Subcommittee, I am Diana Murphy, Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission (the Commission) and a judge on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. I appreciate the opportunity to testify today about federal cocaine sentencing policy, and the Subcommittee should be commended for holding this important hearing.... |
2002 |
| Amanda Kay |
THE AGONY OF ECSTASY: RECONSIDERING THE PUNITIVE APPROACH TO UNITED STATES DRUG POLICY |
29 Fordham Urban Law Journal 2133 (June, 2002) |
People think they can stop the drug traffic by putting people in jail and by having terribly long sentences. But, of course, it doesn't do any good. -- Judge Whitman Knapp In the past few years, legislators and judges have become more vocal in their opposition to the war on drugs in the United States. However, challenging punitive drug laws is... |
2002 |
| Deanna Rae Reitman |
THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN, THE RIGHTS OF THE FETUS AND THE RIGHTS OF THE STATE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OF DRUG ADDICTED PREGNANT WOMEN |
16 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 267 (Winter 2002) |
An estimated 375,000 infants are born each year affected by maternal drug abuse during pregnancy, requiring up to $100,000 of intensive medical care per child. A $37.5 million price tag has compelled courts and legislatures to take action, many imposing criminal sanctions against pregnant drug users. The use of criminal sanctions to deal with... |
2002 |
| Lars Noah |
THE COMING PHARMACOGENOMICS REVOLUTION: TAILORING DRUGS TO FIT PATIENTS' GENETIC PROFILES |
43 Jurimetrics Journal 1 (Fall, 2002) |
The opportunity for increased precision in pharmaceutical therapy will represent one of the important legacies of the Human Genome Project. Medical researchers have long suspected that genetic differences account for some of the variability in patient response to drugs, but now they hope that the identification of single nucleotide... |
2002 |
| Stephen, Demuth, Assistant Professor of, Sociology, Bowling Green State, University |
THE EFFECT OF CITIZENSHIP STATUS ON SENTENCING OUTCOMES IN DRUG CASES |
Federal Sentencing Reporter (March 1, 2002) |
With the enactment of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Congress explicitly instructed the U.S. Sentencing Commission to draft sentencing guidelines entirely neutral as to race, sex, national origin, creed, and socioeconomic status of offenders. Efforts to evaluate the success of the federal guidelines in avoiding unwarranted sentencing... |
2002 |
| FRANK O. BOWMAN, III Associate Professor of Law Indiana University, School of Law—Indianapolis |
THE GEOLOGY OF DRUG POLICY IN 2002 |
Federal Sentencing Reporter (November 1, 2001 - January 1, 2002) |
My father taught geology at the college in the small southwest Colorado town where I grew up. So I have always looked at the apparently solid, enduring features of the Earth's surface with the knowledge that the seeming stasis is an illusion born of my inability to see changes going on beneath the surface, as well as the disproportion between the... |
2002 |
| Mark T. Baker |
THE HOLLOW PROMISE OF TRIBAL POWER TO CONTROL THE FLOW OF ALCOHOL INTO INDIAN COUNTRY |
88 Virginia Law Review 685 (May 1, 2002) |
L1-2Introduction 686. I. The Historical Development of Federal Indian Alcohol Policy. 688 A. The Colonial Era. 688 B. United States Policy Regarding the Introduction of Alcohol into Indian Country. 690 C. Federal Statutes Governing Alcohol in Indian Country Today. 693 D. Federal Policy Governing the Distribution of Land in Indian Country. 695 II.... |
2002 |
| John Scalia,, Jr., Mr. Scalia is the, statistician for the, Office of the Detention, Trustee, U.S., Department of Justice., Previously, he was a, statistician with the, Bureau of Justice, Statistics managing, the Federal Justice, Statistics Program, and a |
THE IMPACT OF CHANGES IN FEDERAL LAW AND POLICY ON THE SENTENCING OF, AND TIME SERVED IN PRISON BY, DRUG DEFENDANTS CONVICTED IN U.S. DISTRICT COURTS |
Federal Sentencing Reporter (January 1, 2002) |
In the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA), Congress sought to reduce or eliminate unwarranted disparities in sentences imposed within and across federal judicial districts. By reducing inter- and intra-district disparities, Congress sought to ensure that imposed sentences did not vary according to the defendant's race, gender, national origin,... |
2002 |
| Celesta A. Albonetti |
THE JOINT CONDITIONING EFFECT OF DEFENDANT'S GENDER AND ETHNICITY ON LENGTH OF IMPRISONMENT UNDER THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING/MANUFACTURING OFFENDERS |
6 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 39 (Spring/Summer 2002) |
During the last three decades, numerous studies have focused on the effects of extralegal defendant characteristics on sentence outcomes. Much of this research has examined the effect of the defendant's gender and/or the effect of the defendant's ethnicity on sentence severity. These studies have produced important findings establishing a... |
2002 |
| Frank Rudy Cooper |
THE UN-BALANCED FOURTH AMENDMENT: A CULTURAL STUDY OF THE DRUG WAR, RACIAL PROFILING AND ARVIZU |
47 Villanova Law Review 851 (2002) |
THE drug war is the United States' attempt to eradicate illegal drug use by means of investigation and punishment of drug users and drug suppliers. In its current form, the drug war emanates from then newly elected President Ronald Reagan's declaration of a war on drugs. This Article seeks to elucidate how law enforcement interests aimed... |
2002 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
U.S. BORDER ENFORCEMENT: DRUGS, MIGRANTS, AND THE RULE OF LAW |
47 Villanova Law Review 897 (2002) |
OVER the last few decades, law enforcement efforts to control the U.S. borders have focused on drugs and illegal immigrants. While the North American Free Trade Agreement encouraged the free flow of capital and goods across American borders, the United States almost simultaneously with the trade pact's approval took aggressive steps in the name of... |
2002 |
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U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION HEARING, 2/25/02: POWDER COCAINE, CRACK COCAINE, AND RACE |
Federal Sentencing Reporter (January 1, 2002) |
Editor's Note: On February 25, 2002, the U.S. Sentencing Commission held a hearing on cocaine sentencing policy. The last two speakers, Wade Henderson of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Charles Kamasaki of the National Council of La Raza expressed their concern about the disproportionate impact of federal drug policy on members of... |
2002 |
| Petra Sami |
WATERED DOWN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: A HOSPITAL'S ROLE IN PROSECUTING PREGNANT WOMEN FOR DRUG USE IN FERGUSON V. CITY OF CHARLESTON |
16 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 767 (Fall 2002) |
In the wake of the dramatic rise in the use of illicit drugs in modern society, the resulting war on drugs, and more specifically, the prevalence of drug use among pregnant women and the media attention on the rise of crack use and poignant stories of crack babies, states began prosecuting drug-using pregnant mothers for such crimes as child... |
2002 |
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WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR DRUG COURTS? |
29 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1858 (June, 2002) |
Nahama Broner New York University School of Social Work Caroline S. Cooper Drug Court Clearinghouse, American University Michael Jacobson John Jay College of Criminal Justice Juanita Bing-Newton New York State Office of Court Administration Deborah P. Small The Lindesmith Center My talk today is going to focus on slightly different than I think the... |
2002 |
| David B. Ezra |
"GET YOUR ASHES OUT OF MY LIVING ROOM!": CONTROLLING TOBACCO SMOKE IN MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL HOUSING |
54 Rutgers Law Review 135 (Fall, 2001) |
In this Article, the Author addresses one of the newer fronts in the battle between smokers and nonsmokersthe home. The Article suggests that existing legal precedent allows property owners and managers to regulate or prohibit smoking in various residential settings. After presenting a short history of tobacco regulation, the Author discusses the... |
2001 |
| Leonard E. Birdsong |
DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION AND FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT: THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS CAUSES |
2 Barry Law Review 73 (Summer 2001) |
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave black men the right to vote five years after the Civil War ended. Black women won that right, along with other adult females, when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified fifty years later. However, having the right on paper and being able to exercise it were two different things for many... |
2001 |
| Eric E. Sterling |
DRUG LAWS AND THOUGHT CRIME |
10 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 327 (Spring 2001) |
Good morning everyone. I am curious--how many people in the audience are law students? Could you raise your hands? How many people in the audience are lawyers, members of the bar? Raise your hands please. How many people in the audience are not lawyers or law students? Good, there is quite a mix. I wanted to start first with the question of Jim... |
2001 |
| Diana R. Gordon |
DRUG POLICY AND THE DANGEROUS CLASSES: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW |
10 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 315 (Spring 2001) |
As this symposium convenes President Bill Clinton has on his desk, awaiting his signature, a bill that provides for harsh mandatory minimum sentences for possession and sale of methamphetamine but not for the closely related club drug Ecstasy. Speed tends to be a drug of choice for poor Hispanics while Ecstasy is used by middle-class whites,... |
2001 |
| Brigitte M. Nahas |
DRUG TESTS, ARRESTS & FETUSES: |
8 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 105 (2001) |
A COMMENT ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S NARROW OPINION IN FERGUSON v. CITY OF CHARLESTON The arrests resembled the conduct of a state in a totalitarian regime, with police apprehending some patients within days, or even hours, of giving birth, and hauling them to jail in handcuffs and leg shackles. Police attached handcuffs to three-inch wide leather... |
2001 |
| Paul Iannicelli |
DRUGS IN CINEMA: SEPARATING THE MYTHS FROM REALITY |
9 UCLA Entertainment Law Review 139 (Fall 2001) |
American society has always had a conflicted attitude towards mood-altering drugs, characterized by fear on the one hand and curiosity on the other. During different times, one attitude or the other - fear or curiosity - seems to predominate. Periods of tolerance and benign outlook are followed by periods of intolerance and determined efforts to... |
2001 |