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Abigail Penzell Apology in the Context of Wrongful Conviction: Why the System Should Say It's Sorry 9 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 145 (Fall 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Since 1989, there have been 198 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. Out of that number, fourteen DNA exonerees were at one time sentenced to death or served time on death row. The 198 exonerees spent an average of twelve years in prison each, meaning that since 1989, those exonerated by DNA testing served approximately 2,376... 2007
  Appellees' Answering Brief (12/12/2007) Briefs   FN1. Near the end of 2004, after plaintiff was demoted from her team leader position, the IRS instituted a new program that permits team leaders to tape calls and conduct the reviews later.... 2007
Daniel A. Farber Basic Compensation for Victims of Climate Change 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1605 (June, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Global climate change is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today. The most urgent issue is how to prevent further accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that will only fuel the process. The next priority is to implement adaptive measures, limiting harm to the extent that climate change cannot be avoided. Some degree of climate... 2007
  Book Notes 32 Law and Social Inquiry 869 (Summer, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   L1-2CONTENTS Rights. 870 Criminal Justice and Social Control. 870 Capital Punishment. 871 Public Regulation. 871 Courts and Judges. 871 U.S. Supreme Court. 872 Legal Profession. 873 Biography. 873 Jurisprudence and Sociolegal Theory. 873 Rule of Law. 873 Transformation of Legal Systems. 874 Legal Culture. 874 Law and Language. 874 Law and Art. 875... 2007
  Brief Amici Curiae Aarp and National Senior Citizens Law Center in Support of Petitioner Ýsevere Burden on Older Voters⨠(11/13/2007) Briefs   FN* Counsel of Record AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of Americans aged 50 and older. AARP is the largest membership... 2007
  Brief Amicus Curiae of Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation in Support of Petitioner (6/20/2007) Briefs   This amicus curiae brief is submitted on behalf of the Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation. FN1. Counsel for both the Petitioner and Respondents have consented to the filing... 2007
  Brief for Appellee (10/31/2007) Briefs   FN1. / Appellee's Supplemental Excerpts of Record (SER) consists of the entire 347-page Certified Administrative Transcript filed by the Commissioner in the District Court proceedings.... 2007
Paul M. Igasaki Civil Rights and the American Bar Association 34-WTR Human Rights 11 (Winter, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The roots of the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities (IRR) lie in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Section's future is tied to the civil rights movements that will emerge in the coming decades and beyond. IRR has provided leadership to the American Bar Association (ABA), the legal profession, and the nation on one issue... 2007
Surya Deva Corporate Complicity in Internet Censorship in China: Who Cares for the Global Compact or the Global Online Freedom Act? 39 George Washington International Law Review 255 (2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The involvement of corporations in human rights abuses is arguably as old as incorporation. Corporate involvement in abuses can be traced to as early as the activities of the British East India Company, a time when even the notion of human rights in its present form was unknown. In the twentieth century, the corporate complicity of IBM and other... 2007
Matthew D. Adler Corrective Justice and Liability for Global Warming 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1859 (June, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This brief Commentary focuses on Professor Farber's suggestion that corrective justice (CJ) might justify institutions imposing liability on greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters so as to compensate the victims of climate change. He advances other arguments as well, and indeed it is plausible that considerations of overall well-being, or distributive... 2007
Daniel J. Sharfstein Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-drop Rule, 1600-1860 91 Minnesota Law Review 592 (February, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   It ain't no lie, it's a natural fact, / You could have been colored without being so black . . . . -- Sung by deck hands, Auburn, Alabama, 1915-16 They are our enemies; we marry them. -- African Proverb In 1819 a Scotsman named James Flint crossed the Atlantic Ocean, made his way from New York to Pittsburgh, sailed down the Ohio, and settled... 2007
Cynthia Lee Cultural Convergence: Interest Convergence Theory Meets the Cultural Defense 49 Arizona Law Review 911 (Winter 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Defendants who successfully introduce cultural evidence in their defense have one thing in common?the cultural norms underlying their claims are either similar to or complement American cultural norms, including retrograde racist and sexist norms. This Article argues that cultural convergence is one way to understand these results. Cultural... 2007
  Defendant's 2nd Set of Motions in Limine to Limit And/or Exclude Evidence%n1%n (7/17/2007) Trial Court Documents   FN1. The motions were due on July 16, 2007, but due to technical difficulties with the City's computers, Counsel left a message for Plaintiff and also contacted the Court for a one-day... 2007
  Defendants' Reply Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Further Support of Their Partial Motion to Dismiss the Amended Complaint (1/22/2007) Trial Court Documents   Action Filed: January 12, 2006 Amended Complaint: Oct. 16, 2006 Hearing Date: February 12, 2007 Deutsche Bank AG and Dresdner Bank AG (collectively, the Banks) demonstrated in their... 2007
Daniel A. Farber Disaster Law and Inequality 25 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 297 (Summer 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Having been a member of the faculty committee that selected the first editorial board of the Journal of Law and Inequality, I am particularly pleased at the opportunity to participate in this Symposium, which commemorates the Journal's twenty-fifth anniversary. I want to use the occasion to explore a new frontier for the study of law and... 2007
Nadia E. Nedzel, LL.M. , Walter Block, Ph.D. Eminent Domain: a Legal and Economic Critique 7 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 140 (Spring 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This article offers a legal and economic analysis and critique of eminent domain doctrine. Section I gives an overview of the historical development of the concept. Section II continues on to discuss major cases and problems with jurisprudential trends in the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Takings Clause. Section III provides an economic... 2007
Danielle N. Boaz Equality Does Not Mean Conformity: Reevaluating the Use of Segregated Schools to Create a Culturally Appropriate Education for African American Children 7 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal L.J. 1 (Fall/Winter 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Envision the education of an African American child. From a very early age, she learns that her ancestors were stolen from their homes and brought to America in chains. She is told that their clothes, their names, and their faiths were taken from them because they were barbarians, and that the white people wished to rid them of their primitive... 2007
e. christi cunningham Exit Strategy for the Race Paradigm 50 Howard Law Journal 755 (Spring 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   My great-great-grandfather was enslaved in Osage, Texas. His son, my great-grandfather, was a sharecropper on the Herder Plantation outside of Columbus, Texas, nineteen miles from the slave plantation in Osage and sixteen miles from Weimar, where my mother was born and raised. According to my grandfather: The Herders had a big farm back there down... 2007
  Expert Witness Report of Sandra Stotsky, Ed. D. (4/2/2007) Expert Materials   (ENGLISH) Purpose Definition of viewpoint My viewpoints Methodology (1) Viewpoints in Anthologies, Texts, and Syllabi Approved by the University of California A. Viewpoints in McDougal... 2007
Karen E. Bravo Exploring the Analogy Between Modern Trafficking in Humans and the Trans-atlantic Slave Trade 25 Boston University International Law Journal 207 (Fall 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 209 II. An Overview of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, White Slavery, and Modern Trafficking in Humans. 212 A. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. 213 B. White Slavery. 215 C. Modern Trafficking in Humans. 218 III. Combating Modern Trafficking in Humans: Conceptual Frameworks. 221 A. Law Enforcement. 224 B. Human Rights. 230 C. Women's... 2007
Anthony V. Alfieri Faith in Community: Representing "Colored Town" 95 California Law Review 1829 (October, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   What about this isn't a community? Community lawyering is all about faith, faith in others and faith outside the law. For progressive lawyers working in the fields of civil rights and poverty law, faith is expressed in the professional norms of legal-political activism. Ours is the positivist faith of the lawyer-engineer laboring inside the... 2007
  Federalism: Executive Power in Wartime 5 Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 309 (Summer, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   PANELISTS: Prof. Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law School, Hoover Institution Dr. Roger Pilon, Vice President, Legal Affairs, Cato Institute Prof. Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago Law School Prof. John C. Yoo, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law Moderator: Hon. William H. Pryor Jr., U.S. Court of... 2007
Sheryl L. Buske Foster Children and Pediatric Clinical Trials: Access Without Protection Is Not Enough 14 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 253 (Spring 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   To say as a group that foster children should be excluded from clinical trials would have meant excluding these children from the best available therapies at the time. . . . From an ethical perspective, I never thought that was a stand I could take. Dr. Mark Kline, pediatric AIDS expert The drugs being given to the children are toxic - they're... 2007
N. Jeremi Duru Friday Night 'Lite': How De-racialization in the Motion Picture Friday Night Lights Disserves the Movement to Eradicate Racial Discrimination from American Sport 25 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 485 (2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Introduction. 486 I. From Real to Reel: Crafting the Idyllic Picture. 492 A. Odessa, Texas: A History of Racial Discord and Discrimination. 493 B. Race and Football in Odessa. 496 C. The Decision to De-racialize. 497 II. Racial Discrimination and the Athletic Double Standard. 499 A. The Discriminatory Double Standard - Applied. 499 B. Bases for the... 2007
  Frivolous Positions Notice 2007-30 (3/16/2007) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2007
  Frivolous Return Positions Subject to Recently Increased Penalty 78 Practical Tax Strategies 369 (June, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Notice 2007-30, 2007-14 IRB 883, contains a list of 40 tax return positions that the IRS has identified as frivolous. Some of those positions are explained in greater detail in new revenue rulings (i.e., Rev. Rul. 2007-19, 2007-14 IRB 843, for frivolous arguments involving claims that compensation received in exchange for services is not taxable... 2007
Bernadette Atuahene From Reparation to Restoration: Moving Beyond Restoring Property Rights to Restoring Political and Economic Visibility 60 SMU Law Review 1419 (Fall 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. INTRODUCTION. 1420 II. INVISIBILITY. 1425 A. Property Confiscation Can Remove Individuals and Communities from the Social Contract and Render Them Invisible. 1425 B. Widespread Property Induced Invisibility Can Lead to Increased Enforcement Costs and Political and Economic Instability. 1440 III. RESTORATION. 1444 A. The Importance and Limits of... 2007
  Gross v. the German Foundation Industrial Initiative 499 F.Supp.2d 606, United States District Court, D. New Jersey. (8/15/2007) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. INTERNATIONAL LAW - Treaties and Conventions. Joint statement between United States and Germany regarding creation of Holocaust reparation foundation was not privately enforceable. 2007
Howard J. Vogel Healing the Trauma of America's Past: Restorative Justice, Honest Patriotism, and the Legacy of Ethnic Cleansing 55 Buffalo Law Review 981 (December, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   We grow up and live our lives surrounded by stories. In this sense, each of us participates in an experience that is found in many cultures across the ages even while that experience varies widely among individuals and peoples. Stories can delight us, but they can also tell us who we are, what is true, and what we are called to do in this world.... 2007
Faith Rivers Inequity in Equity: the Tragedy of Tenancy in Common for Heirs' Property Owners Facing Partition in Equity 17 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This article considers the impact of the default intestacy estate of tenancy in common on African-American heirs' property. This piece considers the evolution of the heirs' property conundrum in the Lowcountry of South Carolina--the birthplace of the dream of African-American land ownership--and explores the implications of this form of property... 2007
  Initial Brief of Appellant (8/1/2007) Briefs   Number Date Time Calling No. Called No. C6Duration C7Answered C8Call Type #1650 05/31/03 10:53 954-925-1741 954-922-6661 1 YES 001 #1651 05/31/03 10:55 954-925-1741 954-922-6661 1 YES 001... 2007
André Nollkaemper Internationally Wrongful Acts in Domestic Courts 101 American Journal of International Law 760 (October, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This article explores the relevance of the law of international responsibility to the practice of domestic courts. In addition to proposing analytical distinctions that allow us to systematize and differentiate domestic case law pertaining to international responsibility, the article essentially advances three arguments. First, in certain... 2007
Scott E. Vincent, Vincent & Fontg LLC, Kansas City Irs Publishes List of Frivolous Positions Putting Higher Penalty Provisions into Effect 63 Journal of the Missouri Bar 92 (March-April,) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The IRS recently issued Notice 2007-30 listing multiple frivolous positions. The IRS considers taxpayers taking these positions to have no basis in law for the positions, and several of the provisions have also been deemed frivolous in court. Importantly, changes in statutory penalty provisions now subject taxpayers to a penalty of $5,000 for... 2007
  Jpmorgan Chase & Co. (3/6/2007) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2007
Tara Kolar Ramchandani Judicial Recognition of the Harms of Slavery: Consumer Fraud as an Alternative to Reparations Litigation 42 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 541 (Summer, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Beginning as early as 1915, African Americans have attempted to gain redress for the evils of slavery through the judicial system and consistently have met defeat. These cases have been dismissed for a variety of procedural and jurisdictional reasons, including statutes of limitations, the political question doctrine, sovereign immunity, and lack... 2007
Ruth Colker Justice Sandra Day O'connor's Friends 68 Ohio State Law Journal 517 (2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This Article examines the citations of amicus briefs by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in cases in which she authored the opinion for the Supreme Court in an effort to learn how amicus briefs might influence judicial behavior. Consistent with theories proposed in the political science literature, O'Connor was most likely to cite amicus briefs for... 2007
Joachim J. Savelsberg , Ryan D. King Law and Collective Memory 3 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 189 (2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   cultural trauma, atrocities, human rights, international law, transitional justice Law and collective memory are reciprocally associated. Law steers collective memory, directly but selectively, as trials produce images of the past through the production and presentation of evidence in ritual practices and public discourse. Law affects collective... 2007
Alfred L. Brophy Legal History Symposium Honoring Professor Wythe Holt 58 Alabama Law Review 945 (2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The Editors of the Alabama Law Review respectfully dedicate this issue to Professor Wythe Holt. Many years before I first met Wythe Holt, I was his student. I think it was in the fall of 1990 that I read his famous essay in the William and Mary Law Review. It was a defense and extension of what was then and remains to this day one of my favorite... 2007
  Long v. U.s. Not Reported in F.Supp.2d, United States District Court, W.D. Kentucky, at Bowling Green. (9/14/2007) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. This matter is before the Court on the United States' motion to dismiss (DN 12), and on Plaintiff's motions for class certification (DNs 6 & 19), appointment of counsel for the class (DN 6), order to show cause (DN 9), modification of relief (DN 16), leave to proceed without payment of fees (DN 20), leave for parties' agreement or court settlement... 2007
Carla D. Pratt Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste and Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation 2007 Wisconsin Law Review 409 (2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 410 II. Tribal Miscegenation Laws. 414 A. The Genesis of Tribal Laws Regulating Loving. 414 B. The Context of Indian Miscegenation Law. 417 1. Geographical Containment Creates Vulnerability. 417 2. State Sovereignty Versus Tribal Sovereignty. 418 3. Science and Education Influence Tribal Policy. 421 4. The Tribes Seek the... 2007
Martha M. Ertman Mapping the New Frontiers of Private Ordering: Afterword 49 Arizona Law Review 695 (Fall 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Mapping is a definitional process, placing mountains, streams, and byways in relation to this or that meridian. The central dividing line in contract law distinguishes between legally enforceable agreements and everything else. Under traditional understandings of contract, the term itself denotes legally enforceable agreements alone, relegating... 2007
Suzanne H. Jackson Marriages of Convenience: International Marriage Brokers, "Mail-order Brides," and Domestic Servitude 38 University of Toledo Law Review 895 (Spring 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   OVER the last twenty-five years, as international marriage brokers (IMBs), informally known as mail-order bride companies, have become more numerous and visible, they have also become more controversial. When the marriages resulting from their efforts explode into violence and homicide, the tragedies seem depressingly predictable byproducts of... 2007
  Memorandum in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment or Alternatively Partial Summary Judgment (6/29/2007) Trial Court Documents   Frederick Greene and Terri Greene, (hereinafter plaintiffs), filed a complaint asking the Bankruptcy Court to determine that their student loans are dischargeable. Reference to the... 2007
  Memorandum in Support of United States' Motion for Summary Judgment (1/10/2007) Trial Court Documents   FN1. See Declaration of Alan Myers ¶ 3. FN2. See Myers Decl. ¶ 4; see also a copy of the indictment in Harris's criminal case, attached as Exhibit A to Myers Decl. FN3. Id. FN4. Id. FN5.... 2007
  Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' Third Amended Complaint (9/26/2007) Trial Court Documents   Defendants Bank of America Corporation, New York Life Insurance Company, Aetna Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation respectfully submit this... 2007
  Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' Third Amended Complaint (9/26/2007) Trial Court Documents   Defendants Bank of America Corporation, New York Life Insurance Company, Aetna Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation respectfully submit this... 2007
  Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction (12/17/2007) Trial Court Documents   Mark McPherson and Kevin Hummel are adult inmates who are presently incarcerated at Miami Correctional Facility, a penitentiary operated by the Indiana Department of Correction in Miami... 2007
  Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment (1/26/2007) Trial Court Documents   FN1. In light of the complex history of this case, plaintiffs have annexed four appendices to this Memorandum of Law. Appendix A is a bibliographical note listing the relevant authorities.... 2007
  Motion for Summary Judgment or Alternatively Partial Summary Judgment (6/29/2007) Trial Court Documents   Comes now the United States of America, on behalf of its agency, the Department of Education, by counsel, and moves pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local... 2007
Alfred L. Brophy Mrs. Lincoln's Lawyer's Cat: the Future of Legal Scholarship 39 CONNtemplations 11 (Spring, 2007) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   When Judge John Noonan wrote about law reviews in the Stanford Law Review back in 1995, he likened them to cathedrals. Just as every self-respecting medieval town had one, every self-respecting law school must have one. Schools that aspire to high rankings need more than one, actually. I might use a different analogy, more closely related to... 2007
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