Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
John C. Walden, Ph.D. |
Court Takes Cases out of the Office |
30 West's Education Law Reporter 639 (1986) |
In United States v. State of Alabama, a federal district court determined that in certain respects the state of Alabama still operates a racially dual system of higher education, and has ordered the defendants to submit to the court a plan to eradicate all vestiges of a dual system. The defendants include Governor George C. Wallace, State; Search Snippet: ...Reporter 1986 Commentary COURT ORDERS ALABAMA TO ELIMINATE VESTIGES OF RACIALLY DUAL SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION [FNa] John C. Walden , Ph.D... |
1986 |
Callie Williams |
Jury Pool Had Permission to Lie, Committee Charges |
12 Southern University Law Review 189 (Spring, 1986) |
The peremptory challenge is the second and much more frequently used technique, in influencing who will sit on a jury. Based on hunch, insight, whim, prejudice, or pseudo-science, a lawyer may peremptorally exclude a juror without giving any reason. While peremptory challenges are commonly used in this country both by the prosecution and by the... |
1986 |
Fredric J. Bendremer, Gale Bramnick, Joseph C. Jones III, Steven N. Lippman |
Mccleskey's Omission: the Racial Geography of Retribution |
41 University of Miami Law Review 295 (December, 1986) |
I. L2-5,T2INTRODUCTION. .295 II. L2-5,T2THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT. .298 A. L3-5,T3Background: Cruel and Unusual Punishment. .299 B. L3-5,T3The Eleventh Circuit's Intent Requirement. .305 III. L2-5,T2THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. .309 A. L3-5,T3Introduction. .309 B. L3-5,T3Equal Protection. .310 1. L4-5,T4STANDING. .310 2. L4-5,T4THE EQUAL PROTECTION; Search Snippet: ...Review December, 1986 Comment MCCLESKEY v. KEMP : CONSTITUTIONAL TOLERANCE FOR RACIALLY DISPARATE CAPITAL SENTENCING Fredric J. Bendremer Gale Bramnick Joseph C... |
1986 |
Robert Alan Culp |
The Impact of Employment Discrimination Litigation on Racial Disparity in Earnings: Evidence and Unresolved Issues |
86 Columbia Law Review 800 (May, 1986) |
Does the Constitution permit the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to question suspected undocumented aliens when officers are motivated in whole or in part by racial appearance? Two fundamental and competing assertions characterize the debate. The INS claims that, at least with respect to Hispanics in certain parts of the United States,; Search Snippet: ...Review May, 1986 Note THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE AND RACIALLY MOTIVATED QUESTIONING: DOES EQUAL PROTECTION PICK UP WHERE THE FOURTH... |
1986 |
Rodney A. Smolla |
In Pursuit of the "Least-Racist" Juror |
58 Southern California Law Review 947 (May, 1985) |
In a clever bit of fantasy published in the Yale Law Journal in 1962, Boris Bittker created a mythical town, New Harmony, Illinois, with a mythical law, the checker-board ordinance, enacted as an experiment in race relations. Bittker's New Harmony was incorporated in the early 1960's by a group of public-spirited persons, both black and white,; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Southern California Law Review May, 1985 IN PURSUIT OF RACIAL UTOPIAS: FAIR HOUSING, QUOTAS, AND GOALS IN THE 1980'S Rodney... |
1985 |
Robert E. Shumaker |
Racial State |
1985 Wisconsin Law Review 1481 (1985) |
In State v. Shillcutt, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that a juror's affidavit and testimony that another juror made racial slurs about a criminal defendant during jury deliberations were incompetent evidence and, thus, not grounds for a new trial. This Note argues that Shillcutt represents a retreat from, and overrules portions of, an earlier; Search Snippet: ...WL 107265 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW Wisconsin Law Review 1985 Note RACIAL SLURS BY JURORS AS GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHING A JURY'S VERDICT... |
1985 |
John W. Perloff |
State V. Robinson and the Racial Justice Act: Statistical Evidence of Racial Discrimination in Capital Proceedings |
39 University of Miami Law Review 777 (July, 1985) |
A. The Swain v. Alabama Resolution B. The Wheeler-Soares Alternative C. The People v. Thompson Innovations D. The Supreme Court's Position A. The Basis of an Appeal B. The Proper Balance A. A Comparative Commentary on Wheeler, Soares and Neil B. A Forecast of Practical Workability C. A Proposed Rule Change An all-white jury convicted Jack Neil, a; Search Snippet: ...v. NEIL: APPROACHING THE DESIRED BALANCE BETWEEN PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES AND RACIAL EQUALITY IN JURY SELECTION John W. Perloff Copyright (c) 1985... |
1985 |
Theodor Meron |
The Meaning of "Equal": Evolution of Racial Equality in the United States |
79 American Journal of International Law 283 (April, 1985) |
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (the Convention) is the most important of the general instruments (as distinguished from specialized instruments such as those pertaining to labor or education) that develop the fundamental norm of the United Nations Charterby now accepted into the corpus of... |
1985 |
Walter A. McFarlane |
Between Complicity and Contempt: Racial Presumptions of the American Legal Process |
19 University of Richmond Law Review 29 (Fall, 1984) |
Just prior to its adjournment in 1982, and subsequent to hotly contested debates, the 97th Congress enacted the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (STAA). The Act contained a number of controversial provisions, not the least of which was one requiring that not less than 10 per centum of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by the; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW University of Richmond Law Review Fall, 1984 BENIGN RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS: A GUIDE FOR TRANSPORTATION ATTORNEYS Walter A. McFarlane [Fna... |
1984 |
Kathryn R. Renahan |
Body Cameras, Police Violence, and Racial Credibility |
11 Journal of College and University Law 69 (Summer, 1984) |
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1984 |
Sheri Lynn Johnson |
Cross-Racial Identification of Defendants in Criminal Cases |
69 Cornell Law Review 934 (June, 1984) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction 935 I. The Reliability of Cross-Racial Identification. 937 A. The Own-Race Phenomenon. 938 1. Laboratory Findings. 938 a. White Subjects. 938 b. Black Subjects. 940 c. Asian American Subjects. 940 2. External Validity. 941 B. Correlates and Explanations of the Own-Race Effect. 943 C. Laymen's Beliefs About; Search Snippet: ...251687 CORNELL LAW REVIEW Cornell Law Review June, 1984 CROSS- RACIAL IDENTIFICATION ERRORS IN CRIMINAL CASES Sheri Lynn Johnson [FNd1] Copyright... |
1984 |
Sonya Sledge Chandler |
Feeding the Racial Disparity in Disease: How Federal Agricultural Subsidies Contribute to a Racial Disparity in the Prevalence of Diet Related Illness |
9 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 166 (Fall, 1983/Spring 1984) |
Although racial discrimination still exists in some privately held religious and educational institutions, the government through its Internal Revenue Service division no longer condones such acts by allowing tax-free exemptions or charitable deductions ordinarily allowed under the Internal Revenue Code (the Code). Congress has taken on the task of; Search Snippet: ...FEDERAL TAXATIONCHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS AND TAX-EXEMPTIONSEDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WHICH RACIALLY DISCRIMINATE SHALL NOT BE AFFORDED CHARITABLE DEDUCTIONS OR TAX-EXEMPT... |
1984 |
Howard M. Shapiro |
George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, et Al. |
94 Yale Law Journal 189 (November, 1984) |
While in form this is merely an act redefining metes and bounds . the inescapable human effect of this essay in geometry and geography is to despoil colored citizens, and only colored citizens, of their theretofore enjoyed voting rights. Justice Felix Frankfurter The Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982, in particular the amendments to section 2 of... |
1984 |
William H. Chamblee |
Internalized Oppression: the Impact of Gender and Racial Bias in Employment on the Health Status of Women of Color |
15 Saint Mary's Law Journal 461 (1984) |
Bob Jones University, a non-profit private school, denied blacks admission based upon a sincerely held religious belief. On November 30, 1970, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) notified the University of its revised policy on tax-exemption and announced its decision to challenge the tax-exempt status of racially discriminatory private schools. In; Search Snippet: ...TAX EXEMPTIONS--IRS ACTED WITHIN ITS AUTHORITY IN DETERMINING THAT RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY NON-PROFIT PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE NOT CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS ENTITLED... |
1984 |
Samuel R. Gross , Robert Mauro |
Patterson V. Mclean Credit Union, 109 S. Ct. 2363 (1989): Have Victims of Racial Harassment Been Taken to the Bank? |
37 Stanford Law Review 27 (November, 1984) |
I. L2-4,T2INTRODUCTION: ARBITRARINESS AND DISCRIMINATION. .28 II. L2-4,T2PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON RACE AND CAPITAL SENTENCING. .38 A. L3-4,T3The Pre-Furman Era. .38 B. L3-4,T3Post-Furman Studies. .42 C. L3-4,T3Summary and Criticism. .45 III. L2-4,T2DATA AND METHODS. .49 IV. L2-4,T2RACIAL PATTERNS IN CAPITAL SENTENCING: GEORGIA, FLORIDA, AND ILLINOIS; Search Snippet: ...Law Review November, 1984 PATTERNS OF DEATH: AN ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DISPARITIES IN CAPITAL SENTENCING AND HOMICIDE VICTIMIZATION [FNa] Samuel R... |
1984 |
Martha McCarthy, Ph.D. |
Racial Realism |
20 West's Education Law Reporter 1063 (1984) |
In June 1984 the Supreme Court delivered a significant and controversial decision in Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 v. Stotts, placing restrictions on the authority of federal courts to impose raceconscious employment remedies for class members who are not proven victims of discrimination. This article provides an analysis of the Stotts case as; Search Snippet: ...WEST7DS EDUCATION LAW REPORTER West's Education Law Reporter 1984 Commentary RACIAL QUOTAS VERSUS SENIORITY RIGHTS [FNa] Martha McCarthy , Ph.D. [FNaa] Copyright... |
1984 |
R. Tyrone Kee |
The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism |
10 Southern University Law Review 291 (Spring, 1984) |
Bob Jones University is a nonprofit corporation located in Greenville, South Carolina. The stated purpose is to conduct an institution of learning with special emphasis on the Christian Religion and the Holy Scriptures. There are approximately 5,000 students enrolled at the school, ranging from kindergarten through graduate school. The University; Search Snippet: ...Southern University Law Review Spring, 1984 Note THE I.R.S. FIGHTS RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION: NO TAX EXEMPTION FOR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS... |
1984 |
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12 Racist Men: Post-verdict Evidence of Juror Bias |
97 Harvard Law Review Association 244 (November, 1983) |
During the past decade, the Supreme Court has repeatedly sought to define the scope of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids discrimination on the basis of race or national origin in programs receiving federal financial assistance. Although the Court originally held that title VI bars practices that unintentionally disadvantage; Search Snippet: ...Term III. Federal Statutes and Regulations C. Civil Rights 1. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAMS Copyright 1983 by the Harvard... |
1983 |
Derrick A. Bell, Jr. |
A Shadow of Ohio's Racist Past? Or a Lingering, Tangible Impact? An Examination of Unenforceable Restrictive Covenants |
62 Texas Law Review 175 (August, 1983) |
During the last phases of a fatal illness, it is customary not to add to the distress of an unhappy situation by undue emphasis on the inevitable. Avoiding discussion of what everyone knows is, evidently, also deemed appropriate upon the likely demise of a major social movement. This practice may explain the search for a cure orientation of so; Search Snippet: ...A SCHOOL DESEGREGATION POST-MORTEM Just Schools: The Idea Of Racial Equality In American Education. By David L. Kirp. [FNp] Berkeley... |
1983 |
Damon J. Keith |
And the Oscar Goes to . . . Well, it Can't Be You, Can It?: a Look at Race-based Casting and How it Legalizes Racism, Despite Title Vii Laws |
81 Michigan Law Review 1040 (March, 1983) |
The liberal, southern white, analyzing the causes and effects of racism, offers a perspective on events and attitudes quite different from that normally expressed in scholarly treatises. Noted journalist Harry Ashmore lends credence to this assertion by structuring the history of racism as a personal narrative. In the first fifth of his book,... |
1983 |
Steven L. Lapidus |
Eradicating Racial Stereotyping from Terry Stops: the Case for an Equal Protection Exclusionary Rule |
52 Fordham Law Review 93 (October, 1983) |
The right to vote is fundamental in American society because it preserves all other rights. Since passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA or Act) in 1965, the most obvious impediments to voter registration, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, have been abolished. More recently, national attention has shifted to other methods of impairing exercise... |
1983 |
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Justice Alito and the Issue of Racial Discrimination: from Racial Segregation to Racial Diversity |
81 Michigan Law Review 1099 (March, 1983) |
The decision of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education recalls to many commentators a moment when morality and constitutional principle coalesced in a ringing pronouncement that seemed to promise the transformation of American society. Nearly three decades later, the elusiveness of the vision of racial equality mandated by the Court; Search Snippet: ...VIII. Law, Government, and Society JUST SCHOOLS: THE IDEA OF RACIAL EQUALITY IN AMERICAN EDUCATION. BY DAVID L. KIRP. BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY... |
1983 |
Charles R. Lawrence III |
Justice or "Just Us": Racism and the Role of Ideology |
35 Stanford Law Review 831 (April, 1983) |
An anecdote, related only half in jest on a black ghetto street corner, tells of a local philosopher who journeyed to the courthouse and jail in search of justice and, sure enough, found just us. The raconteur's commentary on the criminal justice system's disproportionate victimization of his black brothers and sisters is easily transposed to a; Search Snippet: ...Law Review April, 1983 Book Review JUSTICE OR JUST US: RACISM AND THE ROLE OF IDEOLOGY Just Schools: The Idea of Racial Equality In American Education. By David L. Kirp. Berkeley: University... |
1983 |
Daniel O. Bernstine |
Hello, Officer--a Proposal: Using Technology to Combat Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops |
1982 Wisconsin Law Review 1157 (1982) |
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. It has been over a quarter of a century since Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote; Search Snippet: ...Review 1982 Book Review HEARTS AND MINDS: THE ANATOMY OF RACISM FROM ROOSEVELT TO REAGAN. BY HARRY S. ASHMORE. NEW YORK... |
1982 |
Nancy Lewis Alvarez |
Racial Bias in American Foster Care: the National Debate |
33 Hastings Law Journal 959 (March, 1982) |
The goal of juror impartiality embraced by the sixth amendment is not easily defined or achieved because most individuals hold prejudices that obstruct their ability to render a fair and impartial judgment. These prejudices may be characterized as either actual bias, based on a reaction to a specific circumstance, or bias implied by law, arising... |
1982 |
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Racial Discrimination in Health Care in the United States as a Violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
96 Harvard Law Review 278 (November, 1982) |
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Section 703(h) of the Civil Rights Act, however, allows an employer to provide different compensation or other privileges to employees pursuant to a bona fide seniority system and to... |
1982 |
Joan F. Hartman |
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the U.s. Federal Courts |
50 George Washington Law Review 689 (August, 1982) |
A troubling and significant confrontation impends between Congress and the Supreme Court over the prerequisites to a finding of racial vote dilution. The controversy centers on whether proof of an official intent to discriminate in the erection or maintenance of electoral structures that diminish minority voting strength is necessary to sustain a; Search Snippet: ...GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW George Washington Law Review August, 1982 RACIAL VOTE DILUTION AND SEPARATION OF POWERS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE... |
1982 |
Carol A. O'Toole |
Racially Gerrymandering the Content of Police Test to Satisfy the U.s. Justice Department: a Case Study |
5 West's Education Law Reporter 1085 (1982) |
On April 5, 1982, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion in American Tobacco Company, et al. v. John Patterson, et al., which applied the exception provision of the Civil Rights Act (hereinafter Act) allowing bona fide status to seniority systems established after the Act. Section 703(h) of the Act provides that an employer can apply; Search Snippet: ...WEST7DS EDUCATION LAW REPORTER West's Education Law Reporter 1982 Commentary RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY SENIORITY SYSTEMS UPHELD [FNa] Carol A. O'Toole [FNaa] Copyright... |
1982 |
Douglas Laycock |
Tbb-turkish Union in Berlin/brandenburg V. Germany. Communication No. 48/2010. At Http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/jurisprudence.htm. United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, February 26, 2013 |
60 Texas Law Review 259 (February, 1982) |
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code exempts charitable, educational, and religious organizations from tax on their income. Charitable contributions to organizations exempt under section 501(c)(3) generally may be deducted from the donor's taxable income. Other sections exempt these organizations from unemployment taxes and some social; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Texas Law Review February, 1982 Observation TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS Douglas Laycock [FNa] Copyright 1982 by the... |
1982 |
Leah Farish |
The Interests and Rights of the InterRacial Family in a "MultiRacial" Racial Classification |
34 Baylor Law Review 309 (Spring, 1982) |
Section 1982 of 42 U.S.C. declares that [a]ll citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property. This clearly worded statute was enacted in an effort to ensure that minorities' interests in; Search Snippet: ...Review Spring, 1982 Note THE INTENT REQUIREMENT AT THE CROSSROADS: RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND CITY OF MEMPHIS v. GREENE Leah Farish Copyright... |
1982 |
Moses Moskowitz, Secretary-General, Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations |
The Un World Conference Against Racism: a Race-ethnic and Gender Perspective |
76 American Journal of International Law 703 (July, 1982) |
While it may be difficult to find a single phrase in which to convey the essence of Lerner's theme, the book is diligent in its scholarship and persuasive in its judgment. If it is not overly provocative of argument, it is because the time when it was originally written followed the election of John F. Kennedy to the presidency of the United States... |
1982 |
Richard Delgado |
Working to Wipe out Bias |
17 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 133 (Spring, 1982) |
Five years ago in Contreras v. Crown Zellerbach, Inc. the Washington Supreme Court held that a Mexican-American's allegations that fellow employees had subjected him to a campaign of racial abuse stated a claim against his employer for the tort of outrage. The plaintiff alleged that he had suffered humiliation and embarrassment by reason of racial; Search Snippet: ...Review Spring, 1982 WORDS THAT WOUND: A TORT ACTION FOR RACIAL INSULTS, EPITHETS, AND NAME-CALLING [FNa] Richard Delgado [FNaa] Copyright... |
1982 |
John E. Richards |
Equal Protection Challenges to the Use of Racial Classifications to Promote Integrated Public Elementary and Secondary Student Enrollments |
33 Baylor Law Review 601 (Summer, 1981) |
The affirmative use of racial quotas to confer benefits upon minority groups to help them overcome the effects of past discrimination continues to perplex the United States Supreme Court. In the case of Fullilove v. Klutznick, its third major decision on this issue in three years, the Court approved a provision in the Public Works Employment Act of; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Baylor Law Review Summer, 1981 EQUAL PROTECTION AND RACIAL QUOTAS: WHERE DOES FULLILOVE v. KLUTZNICK LEAVE US? John E... |
1981 |
Alan D. Freeman |
Race and Higher Education: a Rallying-cry for Racial Justice and Equal Educational Opportunity |
90 Yale Law Journal 1880 (July, 1981) |
All too often, one greets the newest edition of a law school text with something less than enthusiasm. Typically, the new edition is the old book, with a few new cases and articles and footnotes jammed into the old form, which maintains the structure, analytic framework, and perspective of the original edition. Derrick Bell could easily have; Search Snippet: ...1981 RACE AND CLASS: THE DILEMMA OF LIBERAL REFORM Race, Racism and American Law (Second Edition). By Derrick A. Bell, Jr... |
1981 |
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1. Maintaining Racial Segregation Through State Criminal Trespass Prosecutions |
93 Harvard Law Review 199 (November, 1979) |
Three years ago, in Stone v. Powell, the Supreme Court held that an opportunity for a full and fair state court hearing on a claim arising under the fourth amendment exclusionary rule precludes federal habeas corpus review. That decision led to speculation that defendants might also be denied full collateral review of other constitutional claims... |
1979 |
Colonel John S. McInerny |
Racial Discrimination and Private Education |
85 Military Law Review 147 (Summer, 1979) |
In reading the book, Racial Discrimination and Military Justice, the reader may well let its title and the opening few pages affect his eventual assessment of the book's merit. This would be a serious mistake, for the writer has provided a fascinating, albeit somewhat statistically overwhelming, overview of the manner in which the military; Search Snippet: ...Department of the Army Pamphlet 27-100-85 Book Review RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND MILITARY JUSTICE PERRY, RONALD W., RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND MILITARY JUSTICE. NEW YORK, N.Y.: PRAEGER PUBLISHERS, 1977... |
1979 |
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The Juridification of Social Demands and the Application of Statutes: an Analysis of the Legal Treatment of AntiRacism Social Demands in Brazil |
93 Harvard Law Review 378 (December, 1979) |
Private segregation academies, created in response to the Supreme Court's Brown decision, continue to pose a serious threat to the integration of the nation's public schools. Beginning shortly after Brown, segregationists attempted to reduce the budgets of public schools while simultaneously developing programs of public tuition assistance and; Search Snippet: ...Law Review December, 1979 Note THE JUDICIAL ROLE IN ATTACKING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN TAX-EXEMPT PRIVATE SCHOOLS Copyright (c) 1979 by... |
1979 |
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Racial Exclusion in the Mirror of New Deal Responses to the Great Crash |
91 Harvard Law Review 879 (February, 1978) |
In Runyon v. McCrary, the Supreme Court ruled that a private school which refused to admit black students denied them the equal right to make and enforce contracts guaranteed by 42 U.S.C. § 1981. The Court explicitly declined to decide, however, whether section 1981 reached the practice of racial exclusion by private sectarian schools ... on; Search Snippet: ...HARVARD LAW REVIEW Harvard Law Review February, 1978 Case Comment RACIAL EXCLUSION BY RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS: BROWN V. DADE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, INC... |
1978 |
Daniel R. Mandelker |
Racial Discrimination and Judicial Integrity: a Reply to Professor Wechsler |
55 Texas Law Review 1217 (August, 1977) |
Whether the Constitution demands that racial segregation be eliminated in the nation's metropolitan areas is one of the most troublesome issues facing the federal judiciary. Nowhere is this problem presented with greater complexity than in cases concerning exclusionary zoning. Suburban municipalities, armed with the zoning power to shape the... |
1977 |
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Racial Discrimination by a Union Against Employees it Does Not Represent |
90 Harvard Law Review 616 (January, 1977) |
The operation of property tax assessments has recently come under increasing attack as inequitable and discriminatory. A major barrier to challenging such discrimination in federal court has been the Tax Injunction Act, which denies federal jurisdiction to enjoin state taxation when there is a plain, speedy and efficient remedy in state court.... |
1977 |
Andrea Bloom |
Racial Discrimination in Public Housing Site Selection |
48 University of Colorado Law Review 419 (Spring, 1977) |
Gradually, the Supreme Court has mandated the end of racial discrimination in the educational system of this country. At first, only public schools were affected by the Court's rulings, but most recently the Supreme Court in Runyon v. McCrary held that private secular schools could no longer exclude qualified children solely because of their race; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW University of Colorado Law Review Spring, 1977 Casenote RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS, SECTION 1981, AND THE FREE EXERCISE... |
1977 |
Michael J. Perry |
The Diverseness of Racism and the Uncertain Potential of Diversity |
125 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 540 (January, 1977) |
I. L2-4,T4Introduction 541 II. L2-4,T4Washington v. Davis 542 A. L3-4,T4The Decision 542. B. L3-4,T4The Pre-Washington Confusion 544. III. L2-4,T4The Motivational Modes of Racial Discrimination 548 A. L3-4,T4Rehearsing the Obvious: Race as a Criterion of Selection on the Face or in the Administration of a Law 550. B. L3-4,T4X as a Criterion of; Search Snippet: ...Law Review January, 1977 Article THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT THEORY OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Michael J. Perry [FNd1] Copyright (c) 1977 by University... |
1977 |
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1. Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction over Claims of Racial Discrimination in the Selection of State Grand Juries |
90 Harvard Law Review 114 (November, 1976) |
In Washington v. Davis, the Supreme Court held that official action that has a racially disproportionate impact is not a denial of equal protection unless discriminatorily motivated. It thereby drew a sharp contrast between the constitutional standard and that of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As interpreted in Griggs v. Duke Power Co.,; Search Snippet: ...I. Constitutional Law D. Equal Protection 1. CONSTITUTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF RACIALLY DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT Copyright (c) 1976 by the Harvard Law Review... |
1976 |
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Racial Stereotypes, Broadcast Corporations, and the Business Judgment Rule |
85 Yale Law Journal 808 (May, 1976) |
Eight years ago, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders warned that America was rapidly moving toward two separate societies, one white and one black. Residential segregation, documented by the Commission, continues to be nearly universal. Segregated housing patterns cannot be entirely explained by the economic disparities between; Search Snippet: ...352383 YALE LAW JOURNAL Yale Law Journal May, 1976 Note RACIAL STEERING: THE REAL ESTATE BROKER AND TITLE VIII Copyright © 1976... |
1976 |
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1. Constitutional Significance of Racially Disproportionate Impact |
89 Harvard Law Review 211 (November, 1975) |
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits a city to which it applies from instituting any change in voting qualifications or practices unless the Attorney General assents or the city proves in federal court that the change does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color.... |
1975 |
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Civil Rights - Equal Protection of the Laws - State Officials Enjoined from Engaging Contractors Who Hire Exclusively Through Unions Practicing Racial Discrimination |
88 Harvard Law Review 1610 (May, 1975) |
Clark v. Universal Builders, Inc., 501 F.2d 324 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 95 S. Ct. 657 (1974). In Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., the Supreme Court held that 42 U.S.C. § 1982, a long-dormant section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, prohibits private discrimination based on race in the sale or rental of property. Relying on Jones, the United States; Search Snippet: ...BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS THAT RESULT FROM DUAL HOUSING MARKETS CAUSED BY RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Copyright (c) 1975 by the Harvard Law Review Association... |
1975 |
Kent Greenawalt |
Juries and Judges in the Public's Mind: Race, Ethnicity, and Jury Experience |
75 Columbia Law Review 559 (April, 1975) |
Racial preferences for blacks generate ambivalence in those who care about racial equality and also believe that individuals should be judged on their own merits. This ambivalence is reflected in divergent equal protection values, the value of eliminating barriers to equality imposed on minority groups and that of distributing the burdens and; Search Snippet: ...Law Review April, 1975 Defunis Symposium JUDICIAL SCRUTINY OF BENIGN RACIAL PREFERENCE IN LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS Kent Greenawalt [FNa1] Copyright © 1975... |
1975 |
Claude Treece |
Labor Law--protected Activity--concerted Activities to Achieve Racially Nondiscriminatory Employment Conditions Are Protected by the Nlra Even Though Unauthorized by the Union |
53 Texas Law Review 612 (March, 1975) |
The employees at Greyhound Bus Company's New Orleans terminal were grouped into two classes: Class A included employees whose jobs were primarily clerical in nature, and Class B consisted of unskilled workers who held less remunerative positions. Local 1174 represented Class A, while Local 275, a predominantly black union, represented Class B.... |
1975 |
Bruce L. Ackerman |
Intentional Racial Discrimination and Segregation by the Federal Government as a Principal Cause of Concentrated Poverty: a Response to Schill and Wachter |
26 Stanford Law Review 245 (January, 1974) |
Court decisions in recent years have directed the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and local housing authorities to select or approve a substantial number of housing project sites outside areas of racial minority concentration. In part these decisions share the theme that minority families eligible for federally subsidized housing; Search Snippet: ...and Comment INTEGRATION FOR SUBSIDIZED HOUSING AND THE QUESTION OF RACIAL OCCUPANCY CONTROLS [FNa1] Bruce L. Ackerman [FNd1] Copyright © 1973-1974... |
1974 |
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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors |
87 Harvard Law Review 656 (January, 1974) |
In April 1968, several black employees of the Emporium, a San Francisco department store, complained to their union representative that management was discriminating against racial minorities in its promotion policies. After discussions with the Emporium and an investigation of the charges, the union concluded that the store had been acting; Search Snippet: ...Recent Case LABOR LAW--PROTECTED ACTIVITY--CONCERTED ACTIVITIES TO ACHIEVE RACIALLY NONDISCRIMINATORY EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS ARE PROTECTED BY THE NLRA EVEN THOUGH... |
1974 |