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Warren R. Watkins' Motion for Reconsideration of Order Denying Motion for Office of Public Advocacy |
(6/16/2008) |
Trial Court Documents |
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Warren R. Watkins*, on behalf of Monarch Community Improvement Center, Motion for reconsideration of Court ORDER denying Motion for Office of Public Advocacy because movant is without... |
2008 |
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Frivolous Positions |
Notice 2007-30 (3/16/2007) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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2007 |
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Jpmorgan Chase & Co. |
(3/6/2007) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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2007 |
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The National Taxpayer Advocate's Report to Congress |
(6/30/2007) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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2007 |
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Appellees' Answering Brief |
(12/12/2007) |
Briefs |
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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 |
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Brief Amici Curiae Aarp and National Senior Citizens Law Center in Support of Petitioner Ãsevere Burden on Older Voters⨠|
(11/13/2007) |
Briefs |
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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 |
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Brief for Appellee |
(10/31/2007) |
Briefs |
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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 |
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Initial Brief of Appellant |
(8/1/2007) |
Briefs |
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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 |
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Opening Brief of Appellant |
(1/4/2007) |
Briefs |
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Note: Table of Contents page numbers missing in original document This is an appeal from an Order dated August 7, 2006, and filed August 7, 2006, under District Court Docket Number... |
2007 |
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Petition for a Writ of Certiorari |
(2/6/2007) |
Briefs |
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Democratic National Committee and National Democratic Party Wayne Perryman on behalf of himself and the African American Citizens of the United States v. Democratic National Committee:... |
2007 |
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Petition for a Writ of Certiorari |
(5/14/2007) |
Briefs |
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Deadria Farmer-Paellmann on behalf of herself and other similarly situated persons of African-American slave descent and the class she represents. FleetBoston Financial Corporation, CSX... |
2007 |
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Petition for a Writ of Certiorari |
(7/20/2007) |
Briefs |
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FN* Counsel of Record Petitioners are Exxon Mobil Corporation, Mobil Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation, and ExxonMobil Oil Indonesia Inc. Petitioners are the defendants-appellants below.... |
2007 |
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Petition for Writ of Certiorari |
(10/12/2007) |
Briefs |
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The parties to the proceeding are shown in the caption. Petitioners are not a corporation. Respondent is a foreign bank and we have no knowledge of parent corporations or subsidiaries. The... |
2007 |
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Plaintiff-appellant's Opening Brief |
(11/23/2007) |
Briefs |
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FN1. Ironically, workload issues was the same reason used by Ayotte to justify his failure to timely give Browning an opportunity to improve prior to giving her a not met rating as... |
2007 |
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Reply Brief of Appellants |
(3/16/2007) |
Briefs |
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Vacators concur with the Court's liberal view on joinder, Comment, Rule 21, MRCP, and permissive view on standing. FN1. See Point III, 11, infra. The argument persists that citizens... |
2007 |
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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 |
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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 |
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U.s. v. Emmanuel |
Not Reported in F.Supp.2d, United States District Court, S.D. Florida, Miami Division. (7/5/2007) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
THIS CAUSE is before the Court on Defendant, Charles Emmanuel's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Based on the Unconstitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 2340A, Both on Its Face and As Applied to the Allegations of the Indictment [D.E. 38], filed on March 2, 2007. The Court has carefully considered the parties' written submissions, the Brief of Amici Curiae... |
2007 |
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Expert Witness Report of Sandra Stotsky, Ed. D. |
(4/2/2007) |
Expert Materials |
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(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 |
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| Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Identity, Marriage, and Family |
95 California Law Review 2393 (December, 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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During the mid-1920s, the story of the courtship, marriage, and separation of Alice Beatrice Jones and Leonard Kip Rhinelander astounded the American public, especially the citizens of New York and black Americans across the country. Alice, a chambermaid and the racially mixed daughter of English immigrants who had worked as servants on a large... |
2007 |
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| S. Alan Ray |
A Race or a Nation? Cherokee National Identity and the Status of Freedmen's Descendants |
12 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 387 (Spring 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Critics of tribal sovereignty increasingly point to perceived contradictions between the egalitarian ideals of modern democracies and the citizenship criteria of Indian nations to argue for diminished tribal sovereign immunity and increased federal intervention in Indian affairs. When tribal nations employ citizenship criteria based on Indian... |
2007 |
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| Christine L. Jones |
Affirmative Action and Land-grant Universities in the Millennium: When Will We Fulfill the Original Promise? |
10 University of the District of Columbia Law Review Rev. 1 (Spring 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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On the occasion of the Bicentennial of the Constitution, Associate Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall observed that the Constitution's framers - even those with anti-slavery convictions - made compromises that enshrined and protected slavery and the slave trade, all without ever mentioning the words slave or slavery in the final document.... |
2007 |
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| Girardeau A. Spann |
Affirmative Inaction |
50 Howard Law Journal 611 (Spring 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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INTRODUCTION. 612 I. SUNSET ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 613 A. Twenty-Five Years. 613 1. Rhetorical Surplus. 614 2. Instrumental Concerns. 618 3. Possible Holding. 621 B. The Substance of Dicta. 622 1. White Entitlement. 623 2. Minority Culpability. 627 3. Racial Parity. 631 II. INVIDIOUS EQUALITY. 635 A. Constitutionalizing the Status Quo. 636 1.... |
2007 |
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| Jenny Rivera |
An Equal Protection Standard for National Origin Subclassifications: the Context That Matters |
82 Washington Law Review 897 (November, 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Abstract: The Supreme Court has stated, [c]ontext matters when reviewing race-based governmental action under the Equal Protection Clause. Judicial review of legislative race-based classifications has been dominated by the context of the United States' history of race-based oppression and consideration of the effects of institutional racism.... |
2007 |
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| Svetlana Meyerzon Nagiel |
An Overlooked Gateway to Victim Compensation: How States Can Provide a Forum for Human Rights Claims |
46 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 133 (2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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This Note argues that state statutory and common law causes of action are viable alternatives to the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). After discussing the challenges to bringing ATS claims in federal court, this Note examines cases brought against corporations and individuals for human rights violations under state law. Although state law claims are not... |
2007 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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Book Notes |
32 Law and Social Inquiry 869 (Summer, 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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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 |
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| Paul M. Igasaki |
Civil Rights and the American Bar Association |
34-WTR Human Rights 11 (Winter, 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| e. christi cunningham |
Exit Strategy for the Race Paradigm |
50 Howard Law Journal 755 (Spring 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| Anthony V. Alfieri |
Faith in Community: Representing "Colored Town" |
95 California Law Review 1829 (October, 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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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 |
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Federalism: Executive Power in Wartime |
5 Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 309 (Summer, 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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Frivolous Return Positions Subject to Recently Increased Penalty |
78 Practical Tax Strategies 369 (June, 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| André Nollkaemper |
Internationally Wrongful Acts in Domestic Courts |
101 American Journal of International Law 760 (October, 2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| Ruth Colker |
Justice Sandra Day O'connor's Friends |
68 Ohio State Law Journal 517 (2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| Alfred L. Brophy |
Legal History Symposium Honoring Professor Wythe Holt |
58 Alabama Law Review 945 (2007) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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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 |
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