| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| James McComas , Cynthia Strout |
Combatting Racial Violence: a Legislative Proposal |
23-AUG Champion 22 (August, 1999) |
An unarmed 18-year-old white youth shoves a 16-year-old black youth during a confrontation in the high school parking lot following a vocational construction class. In response, the black teen strikes the white teen in the head with a large claw hammer. The result is a depressed skull fracture and neurological damage. The African-American youth is; Search Snippet: ...33597778 CHAMPION Champion August, 1999 Feature COMBATING THE EFFECTS OF RACIAL STEREOTYPING IN CRIMINAL CASES James McComas [FNa1] Cynthia Strout [FNa2... |
1999 |
| Andrew E. Taslitz |
Conflict and Congruence in One-person, One-vote and Racial Vote Dilution Litigation: Issues Resolved and Unresolved by Board of Estimate V. Morris |
40 Boston College Law Review 739 (May, 1999) |
Hate crimes legislation enhances the punishment for an ordinary crime, or creates a new substantive crime, if the offender is motivated by certain prejudices, such as racism or anti-Semitism. For example, the maximum sentence imposed on an assailant motivated by hatred for African Americans would be greater than one motivated by a nasty temper; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Boston College Law Review May, 1999 CONDEMNING THE RACIST PERSONALITY: WHY THE CRITICS OF HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION ARE WRONG... |
1999 |
| Tracey McCants Lewis |
Constitutional Law-Racial Classifications in Municipal Affirmative Action Program Violate Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause - City of Richmond V. J.a. Croson Co., 109 S. Ct. 706 (1989) |
37 Duquesne Law Review 407 (Winter, 1999) |
On January 11, 1992, after an evening out with friends, Susan Campbell accepted a ride home from Dr. James Sharp. Unbeknownst to either of them, Terry Campbell, Susan's estranged husband, had followed them. As James Sharp sat in his van, Terry Campbell shot him through the window. James Sharp later died as a result of his injuries. Terry Campbell; Search Snippet: ...RAISE EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE PROCESS CLAIMS BASED UPON THE RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY EXCLUSION OF NON-CAUCASIANS FROM SERVING AS HIS OR... |
1999 |
| Kathryn F. Voyer |
Contracting Free from Racial Animus: Comcast Corporation V. National Association of African American-owned Media and Entertainment Studios |
7 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 943 (April, 1999) |
Racially and sexually discriminatory private trusts are presumed to be valid under traditional common law governing dispositions of property. Most courts have held that if the state plays a passive role, only private actors are involved and the Fourteenth Amendment is not implicated. The United States Supreme Court, however, has declared in one; Search Snippet: ...1999 Note CONTINUING THE TREND TOWARD EQUALITY: THE ERADICATION OF RACIALLY AND SEXUALLY DISCRIMINATORY PROVISIONS IN PRIVATE TRUSTS Kathryn F. Voyer... |
1999 |
| Greta Mcmorris |
Critiquing Neutrality: Critical Perspectives on Schools, the First Amendment, and Affirmative Action in a "Post-Racial" World |
67 UMKC Law Review 695 (Summer, 1999) |
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. Shirley Chisholm [R]ace is our American obsession. With a history steeped in racist attitudes and laws, issues of race are inescapable and have divided America since its creation. The legal and political systems of this country; Search Snippet: ...THE SOCIAL MEANING OF RACE: WHY INDIVIDUALISM WILL NOT SOLVE RACISM Greta Mcmorris [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1999 Curators of the University... |
1999 |
| Larry Cata Backer |
Culture as a Resource: Critically Compassionate Intellectualism and its Struggle Against Racism, Fascism, and Intellectual Apartheid in Arizona |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 845 (Summer, 1999) |
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is engaged in a great mission. In the form of the Altheimer Symposium on Racial Equity in the Twenty-first Century, this mission has brought us all together, each of us dedicated to the concept that we can and should be actively seeking new ideas in our quest for racial justice. We each come, bringing with... |
1999 |
| George P. Fletcher |
Disentangling Disparity: Exploring Racially Disparate Effect and Treatment in Capital Charging |
46 UCLA Law Review 1895 (August, 1999) |
The practice of disenfranchising felons, though decreasing, is still widespread. In this Article, Professor George Fletcher reflects on the use of disenfranchisement as punishment, the lack of a convincing theoretical justification for it, and its disproportionate impact on the African-American community. Fletcher presents a number of powerful... |
1999 |
| Vednita Carter and Evelina Giobbe |
E Pluribus Unum in a Multi-Racial, Multi-cultural State |
10 Hastings Women's Law Journal 37 (Winter 1999) |
and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid so it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive Audre Lorde, Litany for Survival We come to this piece from two very different backgrounds. One of us is a Black woman, the other a first-generation; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Hastings Women's Law Journal Winter 1999 Article DUET: PROSTITUTION, RACISM AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE Vednita Carter and Evelina Giobbe [FNa1] Copyright... |
1999 |
| AndrÉ G. Travieso |
Employer Liability for Racist Hate Speech by Third-parties: Comparison of Approaches in Great Britain and the United States. |
51 Rutgers Law Review 1377 (Summer, 1999) |
Debates have long raged on the extent to which state governments as employers are entitled to limit the constitutional rights to the freedom of speech and expression of their public employees. Although the issue had been considered by the courts, it was not the subject of much debate until a recent incident in New York City involving a police; Search Snippet: ...SPEECH RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE: BALANCING THE FIRST AMENDMENT AGAINST RACIST SPEECH BY POLICE OFFICERS AndrÉ G. Travieso [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
1999 |
| Lisa A. Crooms |
Everywhere There's War: a Racial Realist's Reconsideration of Hate Crime Statutes |
1999 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 41 (Summer, 1999) |
We declare our right, on this earth . to be . human being[s], to be respected as . human being[s], to be given the rights of . human being [s], in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence, by any means necessary. It was a most memorable year. The darkness that bridges late night and early morning shrouded... |
1999 |
| Lionel M. Schooler |
Fifty Years since Passage of the Fair Housing Act: Rent-to-income Ratios in the Persistence of Residential Racial Segregation in Chicago |
36-FEB Houston Lawyer 42 (January-February, 1999) |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently confronted an issue of first impression in Fadeyi vs. Planned Parenthood Association of Lubbock, Inc.: Whether a Texas employment-at-will relationship is a contract for the purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1981. Finding that such a relationship is such a contract, the Court reversed a... |
1999 |
| Wendy Webster Williams |
Getting Around the Voting Rights Act: the Supreme Court Sets the Limits of Racial Discrimination in the South |
1 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 181 (Fall, 1999) |
I've been thinking about the title of this Symposium, Hostile Hallways--the hallways of schools and workplaces and courts and legislatures and apartment buildings and homes--all the places where a person should be able to feel that she belongs, all the places where, when the world is right, she feels safe, competent, whole, fully human, and part of; Search Snippet: ...the needs and interests of individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds, classes, and sexual orientations. . Professor Williams graduated in... |
1999 |
| David Hall |
Glass Ceiling Employment and Racial Discrimination in Hiring for Head Coaching Positions in the National Football League |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 927 (Summer, 1999) |
There comes a time in most of our lives when we wonder if the patterns of injustices that we witness and study will ever really change. This doubt and pessimism are often fueled by the contradictory signals we observe in society. Issues that we thought were resolved in one generation or decade appear to reemerge in subsequent periods. Brilliant... |
1999 |
| Richard Delgado ; & Jean Stefancic |
Hope after Hope Vi? Reaffirming Racial Integration as a Primary Goal in Housing Policy Prescriptions |
70 University of Colorado Law Review 703 (Summer 1999) |
Introduction. 704 I. Race Conscious Programs in Higher Education. 710 II. Colorado History: The Early Period. 715 III. The Klan Period. 722 The Klan and Denver's Black Minority. 732 IV. The Denver Commission: Documenting--and Entrenching--Racism During the Postwar Years. 737 A. Social Workers and Unity Councils: Elites and Well-Wishers Enter the; Search Snippet: ...University of Colorado Law Review Summer 1999 Articles HOME-GROWN RACISM: COLORADO'S HISTORIC EMBRACE--AND DENIAL--OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN HIGHER... |
1999 |
| Robert E. Wone |
How Government Housing Perpetuates Racial Segregation: Lessons from Post-katrina New Orleans |
2 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 179 (Spring 1999) |
Freda and Sonia, both African-Americans, are waitresses at a local hotel. A local civic group has booked the ballroom and invited a noted comedian as the entertainment for the evening. The group has informed the hotel management that the comedian will be performing. The hotel manager is aware, from personal experience at another banquet, that the; Search Snippet: ...HOW FREE IS HARASSMENT FREE? EMPLOYER LIABILITY FOR THIRD-PARTY RACIAL HARASSMENT Robert E. Wone [FNd1] Copyright (c) 1999 University of... |
1999 |
| Kendall L. Miller |
Human Rights Law and Racial Hate Speech Regulation in Australia: Reform and Replace? |
3 Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law 367 (Winter 1999) |
In response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, and because of the ineffectiveness of other government set-aside programs, namely the Small Business Administration's 8(a) Business Development Program, the U.S. Congress created the HUBZone Contracting Program. The HUBZone Contracting Program provides valuable; Search Snippet: ...Law Winter 1999 DECEMBER, 1999 Comment HUBZONES: MOVING FROM THE RACIAL BATTLEGROUND TO THE ECONOMIC COMMON GROUND Kendall L. Miller [FNa1... |
1999 |
| Darren Lenard Hutchinson |
Ignoring the Sexualization of Race: Heteronormativity, Critical Race Theory and Anti-Racist Politics |
47 Buffalo Law Review Rev. 1 (Winter 1999) |
A fiery dissent rages within the body of identity politics and civil rights theory. The participants in this discourse have lodged fundamental (as well as controversial) charges. Most frequently, these critics argue that the enormous cadre of political activists, progressive lawyers and legal theorists engaged in the particulars of challenging; Search Snippet: ...THE SEXUALIZATION OF RACE: HETERONORMATIVITY, CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND ANTI- RACIST POLITICS Darren Lenard Hutchinson [FNd1] Copyright (c) 1999 Buffalo Law... |
1999 |
| Darren Lenard Hutchinson |
Ii. The Limits of Racial Equality: the Fourteenth Amendment and the Criminal Justice System |
47 Buffalo Law Review Rev. 1 (Winter, 1999) |
A fiery dissent rages within the body of identity politics and civil rights theory. The participants in this discourse have lodged fundamental (as well as controversial) charges. Most frequently, these critics argue that the enormous cadre of political activists, progressive lawyers and legal theorists engaged in the particulars of challenging; Search Snippet: ...THE SEXUALIZATION OF RACE: HETERONORMATIVITY, CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND ANTI- RACIST POLITICS Darren Lenard Hutchinson [FNd1] Copyright (c) 1999 by the... |
1999 |
| Lisa Gelhaus |
Judges, Racism, and the Problem of Actual Innocence |
35-MAR Trial 98 (March, 1999) |
Pizza Hut of America, Inc., settled a lawsuit after a federal judge found that restaurant employees' discourteous service to an African American family was racially motivated and that the company was liable under the Illinois Hate Crimes Act of 1995. The late December settlement comes several months after U.S. District Judge William Hart denied; Search Snippet: ...News & Trends JUDGE SAYS PIZZA HUT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EMPLOYEES' RACIAL HARASSMENT Lisa Gelhaus Copyright (c) 1999 by the Association of... |
1999 |
| Peter Wallenstein |
Law and the Production of Ethiopian Jews as "Other": Locating Alternative Discourses of Judaism in Israel's Racial-ethnic Hierarchy |
32 Akron Law Review 557 (1999) |
In North Carolina in 1869, Wesley Hairston, a black man, and Puss Williams, a white woman, went on trial in Forsythe County for fornication and adultery. They claimed they were married, but the judge instructed the jury that no such marriage could be valid in North Carolina. When the jury convicted both defendants, they appealed the judge's; Search Snippet: ...BOUNDARIES OF PLACE AND RACE IN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE: INTERSTATE COMITY, RACIAL IDENTITY, AND MISCEGENATION LAWS IN NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND... |
1999 |
| Preston Green, J.D., Ed.D. |
Mccleskey V. Kemp: Constitutional Tolerance for Racially Disparate Capital Sentencing |
135 West's Education Law Reporter 873 (September, 1999) |
Voters, commentators, and politicians have attacked the use of racial preferences in admissions decisions related to elite educational institutions. Conservative organizations have also mounted a legal attack against affirmative action. Supporters of affirmative action have responded by defending the policy through academic studies and in court.... |
1999 |
| Robert Ricigliano, Theodore Johnson, and Andrea Chasen |
Procecutorial Discretion and Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing: Some Views of Former U.s. Attorneys |
4 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 83 (Spring 1999) |
For all the innovations that have been made in the practice of collaborative problem solving, there are still many problems that by their nature, have no ready process for redress. Problems like racial tensions in communities across America become intractable, in part, because they leave those concerned with no way to grapple with the problem in; Search Snippet: ...PROBLEMS WITHOUT A PROCESS: USING AN ACTION DIALOGUE TO MANAGE RACIAL TENSIONS Robert Ricigliano Theodore Johnson , and Andrea Chasen [FNd1] Copyright... |
1999 |
| Lino A. Graglia |
Prohibiting Racial Profiling: the Aclu's Orchestration of the Missouri Legislation |
77 North Carolina Law Review 1505 (April, 1999) |
The test of lawyerly skill is the overcoming of inconvenient facts, proving, for example, that black is white or white is black, as one's interest requires. This skill, amazing to the layman, actually requires no more than the redefinition of words. The inherent defect of the rule of law, indeed, is that it depends on the meaning of words, but... |
1999 |
| Deborah Escobedo |
Prostitution: Where Racism & Sexism Intersect |
26-SUM Human Rights 13 (Summer, 1999) |
It is hard to believe that the United States, a country that once welcomed immigrants with open arms, could conceivably be attempting to infringe the basic human rights of many of the immigrants who now call our country home. But that is exactly what is happening in several states that have enacted or are in the process of enacting legislation that; Search Snippet: ...will soon be published by the Applied Research Center's End Racism and Advance School Equity (ERASE) project Deborah Escobedo is... |
1999 |
| Pace Jefferson Mcconkie |
Race and Proportionality since Mccleskey V. Kemp (1987): Different Actors with Mixed Strategies of Denial and Avoidance |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 979 (Summer, 1999) |
In 1984, I came to this University's law school as a student desiring to obtain a legal education that would serve as a foundation for a career in civil rights advocacy, particularly in the realms of public education. It was my intent that this legal education would naturally be heaped upon the groundwork that had already been cultivated by my; Search Snippet: ...Higher Education RACE AND HIGHER EDUCATION: A RALLYING-CRY FOR RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY Pace Jefferson Mcconkie [FNa1] Copyright... |
1999 |
| Chris K. Iijima |
Race Consciousness: the Thematic Content of Racial Distinctiveness in Critical Race Scholarship |
15 Touro Law Review 497 (Winter, 1999) |
There are many kinds of conversations conversations among family and friends, intimate ones, public ones. Moreover, the nuances of dialogue are inevitably influenced by who is speaking to whom about what. There are Socratic dialogues in which one is led through the process of recognizing one's own ignorance to reach a higher truth. There are... |
1999 |
| Ronald J. Tabak |
Racial Discrimination in Issuance of Concealed-carry Permits |
26-SUM Human Rights Rts. 5 (Summer, 1999) |
There is a long history of racial discrimination in the use of the death penalty in this country. Indeed, racial discrimination based on both the race of the defendant and the race of the victim was a principal reason why Justice Thurgood Marshall joined the Supreme Court majority that held in 1972 that the death penalty was unconstitutional.... |
1999 |
| Dorothy A. Brown |
Racial Equality over Hate Speech |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 759 (Summer, 1999) |
[T]ax . . . statutes . . . may be more burdensome to the poor and to the average black than to the more affluent white. In 1976, Supreme Court Justice Byron White recognized that tax statutes may have a disparate impact based upon race. Yet, it has taken the legal academy until the 1990's to begin to address those issues, and given the recent; Search Snippet: ...Century February 26-27, 1999 Essay Race and Tax & Business RACIAL EQUALITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: WHAT'S TAX POLICY GOT... |
1999 |
| Chester Hartman |
Racial Equity: It's Time to Step up |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 809 (Summer, 1999) |
Housing is an extraordinarily pervasive issue with respect to racial patterns and racism. America's neighborhoods are still enormously segregated by race, and there are few stable integrated areas. Such patterns of segregation-which at the extreme have been characterized by sociologists Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton as hypersegregation, using a; Search Snippet: ...Century February 26-27, 1999 Essay Race and Environment & Property RACIAL EQUITY IN HOUSING Chester Hartman [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1999 Board... |
1999 |
| Walter M. Hudson |
Racial Fairness - Why Shouldn't it Apply to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act? |
159 Military Law Review Rev. 1 (March 1, 1999) |
In the early morning hours of 7 December 1995, Michael James and Jackie Burden walked down Hall Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a neighborhood they knew well. Two men approached them, one of whom had a gun. He pointed the gun close to their heads and fired at least five times. By the following afternoon, Fayetteville police arrested two 82d; Search Snippet: ...234569 MILITARY LAW REVIEW Military Law Review March 1999 Article RACIAL EXTREMISM IN THE ARMY Major Walter M. Hudson [FN1] Opinions... |
1999 |
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Racial Profiling under Attack |
5 CITYLAW 138 (November/December, 1999) |
One of the principal missions of the NYPD Street Crimes Unit is to rid high crime neighborhoods of illegal weapons. Six Black and Latino men, aged 23 to 31, charged that this squad habitually stopped and frisked individuals for guns without a reasonable suspicion that the persons had committed a crime, and that the individuals subjected to a; Search Snippet: ...1999 Current Development: Institutional Reform Litigation Law Enforcement RACIAL PROFILING SUIT PROCEEDS Copyright (c) 1999 by the Center for... |
1999 |
| Timothy Davis |
Racism in Great Britain: Drawing the Line on Free Speech |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 881 (Summer, 1999) |
In 1995, I published an article entitled The Myth of the Superspade: The Persistence of Racism in College Athletics. The article maintained that racism has been an enduring and central feature of intercollegiate athletics. It proposed that during the early years of college sports, racism manifested in overtly discriminatory conduct such as the; Search Snippet: ...First Century February 26-27, 1999 Essay Race and Culture RACISM IN ATHLETICS: SUBTLE YET PERSISTENT Timothy Davis [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
1999 |
| Judith Reed |
Reno |
1999-00 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 43 (September 13, 1999) |
In a case that mixes race and politics, the Supreme Court will decide whether a redistricting plan that intentionally saps minority voting strength should be denied preclearance under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The Clinton administration and a local NAACP chapter say yes; a Louisiana school board says no. Much of the litigation under the; Search Snippet: ...Must the Attorney General Preclear Voting Changes Enacted With a Racially Discriminatory but Not Retrogressive' Purpose? By Judith Reed a Copyright 1999... |
1999 |
| Steve Lash |
Repairing Harm from Racial Injustice: an Analysis of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
1998-99 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 435 (April 12, 1999) |
In a case that mixes race and politics, the Supreme Court will decide whether a redistricting plan that saps minority voting strength provides sufficient evidence of intentional racial discrimination to constitute a violation of the Voting Rights Act by the plan's drafters. The Clinton administration and a local NAACP chapter say yes; a Louisiana; Search Snippet: ...Must the Attorney General Preclear Voting Changes Enacted With a Racially Discriminatory but Not Retrogressive Purpose? By Steve Lash a Copyright 1999... |
1999 |
| Robin H. Gise |
Rethinking Racial Divides: Asian Pacific Americans and the Law |
22 Fordham International Law Journal 2270 (June, 1999) |
Warren McClesky, an African-American man, was convicted of murdering a white police officer and sentenced to death in the Superior Court of Fulton County in Georgia in 1978. After making several appeals to the Supreme Court of Georgia, McClesky filed a writ of habeas corpus in federal district court in the Northern District of Georgia. His petition... |
1999 |
| C. Antoinette Clarke |
Say the Magic Words: Establishing a Historically Informed Standard to Prevent Partisanship from Shielding Racial Gerrymanders from Federal Judicial Review |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 813 (Summer, 1999) |
To put it in the simplest of terms, the criminal justice system treats ethnic and cultural minorities differently than it does whites. This disparate treatment is reflected in the end product of the system, that is, the fact that African Americans are vastly over-represented in prisons and jails relative to their numbers in the general population.... |
1999 |
| Melva L. Ware |
School Liability for Racially Hostile Environment Widened by Ninth Circuit |
18 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 465 (1999) |
The final school year of the Twentieth Century coincided with the decision in Capacchione v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. This cased moved the nation's 44,000,000 public elementary and secondary school children another step closer to the now inevitable probability of attending racially segregated schools. Capacchione is the final chapter in... |
1999 |
| Kelly McMurry |
School Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration: What Do These Terms Mean in a Post-parents Involved in Community Schools, Racially Transitioning Society? |
35-JAN Trial 94 (January, 1999) |
School officials who ignore students' complaints about racial slurs made by other students may now be held liable under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that a school may be liable for its failure to act if the need for intervention was so obvious, or if inaction was so likely to result in; Search Snippet: ...65384 TRIAL Trial January, 1999 News & Trends SCHOOL LIABILITY FOR RACIALLY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT WIDENED BY NINTH CIRCUIT Kelly McMurry Copyright ©... |
1999 |
| Judith Reed |
Sentencing and State-level Racial and Ethnic Contexts |
4 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 389 (Spring 1999) |
Congressional redistricting draws the lines within which battles for political power will be fought. It is no surprise, therefore, that the redistricting process has long been the subject of social debate and legal dispute. The Supreme Court has not been able to resolve this dispute, in part, because the Justices have conflicting interpretations of; Search Snippet: ...Law Spring 1999 Article SENSE AND NONSENSE: STANDING IN THE RACIAL DISTRICTING CASES AS A WINDOW ON THE SUPREME COURT'S VIEW... |
1999 |
| Sharon Elizabeth Rush |
Shaw V. Reno: a Mirage of Good Intentions with Devastating Racial Consequences |
32 Connecticut Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall, 1999) |
On your mark. Get Set. GO! yelled the coach, as he let go of the two young girls' shoulders, freeing them to run as fast as they could to the finish line. Tie, said the assistant coach as each girl slapped his outstretched hands. Mary and Annie (not their real names) smiled at each other, obviously pleased with their performances and their; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Connecticut Law Review Fall, 1999 SHARING SPACE: WHY RACIAL GOODWILL ISN'T ENOUGH Sharon Elizabeth Rush [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1999... |
1999 |
| Rebecca Porter |
Slavery, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration: Could the Thirteenth Amendment Hold the Key to Racial Equity in Criminal Justice? |
35-NOV Trial 13 (November, 1999) |
On some stretches of the nation's highways, it's not driving under the influence that alarms African American drivers. They may be more concerned with being pulled over for DWB--driving while black. Other minorities also feel that they have been scrutinized unnecessarily on the highways, in airports, and in public places because of their skin; Search Snippet: ...November, 1999 News & Trends SKIN DEEP: MINORITIES SEEK RELIEF FROM RACIAL PROFILING Rebecca Porter Copyright (c) 1999 Association of Trial Lawyers... |
1999 |
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Speech by Theodore M. Shaw: "From Brown to Grutter: the Legal Struggle for Racial Equality" |
18 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 361 (1999) |
I was walking up here and someone stopped me and they said, I used to watch you play basketball when I was a little boy. He was about 50 years old. I want to talk about a serious subject, but I first want to tell you one story from those years just so we have a frame of reference. I was in about my third year with the New York Knicks, and we; Search Snippet: ...relations were peaceful in the small town, the realities of racial prejudice in the 1940's and 1950's presented obstacles for Bradley as he traveled throughout the state with his racially mixed sporting teams. Bradley attended Princeton University before moving on... |
1999 |
| Phyllis W. Beck ; Patricia A. Daly, Esq. |
State Efforts to Reduce Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice: Empirical Analysis and Recommendations for Action |
72 Temple Law Review 597 (Fall 1999) |
A unanimous United States Supreme Court made itself quite clear in Whren v. United States: motor vehicle stops based on pretext are not prohibited by the Fourth Amendment. The primary concern with pretext stops is that they facilitate racial profiling, the process of singling out drivers based on their race. Although the Supreme Court was careful; Search Snippet: ...Review Fall 1999 Article STATE CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF PRETEXT STOPS: RACIAL PROFILING AND PUBLIC POLICY CONCERNS The Honorable Phyllis W. Beck... |
1999 |
| Justin T. Allen |
Supreme Court Signals an End to Discriminatory Use of Peremptories |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 622 (Spring, 1999) |
In Campbell v. Louisiana, a grand jury indicted the defendant on one count of second degree murder. The defendant moved to quash the indictment, and in doing so, alleged a longstanding practice of racial discrimination in the selection of grand jury forepersons by the Parish in which he was indicted. The Supreme Court of Louisiana held that the; Search Snippet: ...DEFENDANT TO RAISE EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE PROCESS CHALLENGES AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE SELECTION OF GRAND JURORS Justin T. Allen... |
1999 |
| Jay C. Carlisle |
Systemic Classism, Systemic Racism: Are Social and Racial Justice Achievable in the United States? |
19 Pace Law Review 431 (Spring 1999) |
The recent Report of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts (Taskforce) observes some biased conduct toward parties and witnesses based on gender or race or ethnicity has occurred on the part of both judges and lawyers. Biased conduct toward lawyers based on gender or race or ethnicity, has occurred... |
1999 |
| Michael A. Elliott |
Tender Ties: Husbands' Rights and Racial Exclusion in Chinese Marriage Cases, 1882-1924 |
24 Law and Social Inquiry 611 (Summer, 1999) |
Telling the Difference focuses on two legal opinions from the nineteenth century that carefully distinguish between those who should be racially marked as nonwhite and those who should not. In the first instance, a Michigan judge decides the appropriate blood fraction of African-American heritage that would prohibit a free man from voting. In; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 1999 TELLING THE DIFFERENCE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEGAL NARRATIVES OF RACIAL TAXONOMY Michael A. Elliott Copyright (C) 1999 American Bar Foundation... |
1999 |
| Steven Richman |
The Approach of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to Interpreting and Applying International Humanitarian Law |
200-DEC New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 44 (December, 1999) |
In his opening sentence, Christopher Burke, an assistant attorney general in Wisconsin's Department of Justice, explains his purpose: This book attempts to describe and undo various liberal and communitarian strategies of jurisdiction that structure United States Supreme Court opinions in the area of political representation. His conclusion is; Search Snippet: ...Magazine December, 1999 Department Lawyer's Bookshelf THE APPEARANCE OF EQUITY: RACIAL GERRYMANDERING, REDISTRICTING AND THE SUPREME COURT, BY CHRISTOPHER M. BURKE... |
1999 |
| Joel F. Hoover |
The Art of Racial Dissent: African American Political Discourse in the Age of Obama |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 631 (Spring, 1999) |
In 1994, Mr. MacKintrush was charged with the murder of his wife, Ogretta MacKintrush, and was convicted of second-degree murder on July 30, 1996. On appeal, MacKintrush claimed that the trial court committed reversible error in overruling his objections to the prosecution's peremptory challenges because the prosecution's reasons for using; Search Snippet: ...NECESSARY FOR TRIAL COURTS TO DETERMINE WHETHER PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES ARE RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY IN LIGHT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION... |
1999 |
| Charles S. Bullock, III ; Richard E. Dunn |
The Department of Education's Obama-era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Wrong for Students and Teachers, Wrong on the Law |
48 Emory Law Journal 1209 (Fall 1999) |
Many of the early stalwarts in the civil rights movement, including Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., placed their highest expectations on winning unencumbered access to the ballot box. They expected that once African-Americans became enfranchised, they would be able to use political muscle to bring about changes in other spheres such as employment,; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Emory Law Journal Fall 1999 Article THE DEMISE OF RACIAL DISTRICTING AND THE FUTURE OF BLACK REPRESENTATION [FNd1] Charles S... |
1999 |
| Stephanie Farrior |
The Never Ending Story of the Peremptory Challenge: Racial Discrimination in the New Jersey Jury System |
5 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law 291 (Spring, 1999) |
As we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this year, I would like to take particular note of the first of the core human rights treaties developed since adoption of the Universal Declaration, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Adopted in 1965 by; Search Snippet: ...THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Stephanie Farrior [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1999 by International Law... |
1999 |