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Harold S. Lewis, Jr. Affirmative Distraction: Race Preference and Bias in the New South 9 Journal of Southern Legal History Hist. 1 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The forms of affirmative action most widely condemned today involve some degree of preference based on race, gender, or national origin. We can put to one side outreach programs designed simply to enlarge the pool from which to recruit qualified minority applicants. Those are widely supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans .. Rather,... 2001
Philip C. Aka Africa in the New World Order: the Trouble with the Notion of African Marginalization 9 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 187 (Spring 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This Article presents an analysis of the place of Africa in the new world order. It is a role or position marked by the kind of heterogeneity and complexity conceivable of a continent of fifty-three states, over forty of them from sub-Saharan Africa alone. There are three aspects to the analysis. First is a theoretical statement on the concept of a... 2001
Maria Ellinikos American Mncs Continue to Profit from the Use of Forced and Slave Labor Begging the Question: Should America Take a Cue from Germany? 35 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems Probs. 1 (Fall 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Globalization inspired American multinational corporations (MNCs) to establish themselves in expanding Asian, Latin American, and Eastern European markets and to profit from international human rights abuses, including forced and slave labor. The American government currently permits this activity to persist, implicitly accepting the MNCs' claim... 2001
  Appellant's Opening Brief (11/6/2001) Briefs   This action, originally filed in the California Superior Court, was removed to the district court on the basis of diversity between the parties and the amount in controversy exceeding... 2001
  Appellants' Reply to Amici Curiae (1/1/2001) Briefs   By order of January 11, 2002, this court allowed three organizations the right to participate in this appeal as amici curiae, but granted the appellants leave to interpose by no later than... 2001
  Appendix JCX- 33-01 NO 8 (5/4/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001
K. Lee Boyd Are Human Rights Political Questions? 53 Rutgers Law Review 277 (Winter, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This Article discusses the applicability of the political question doctrine in the adjudication of international human rights claims. The political question doctrine insulates from judicial determination controversies that involve underlying political issues. Under this doctrine, federal courts are compelled to refrain from hearing certain cases... 2001
  Arkansas Attorney General's Office Testifies on Misleading Mailings Targeting Seniors 2001-JUL National Association of Attorneys General: Consumer Protection Report 25 (July, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Chief of Staff and Counsel Darrin Williams, on behalf of Arkansas Attorney General Mark Pryor, testified before the Subcommittee on Social Security of the House Committee on Ways and Means about misleading mailings that target seniors. Joining Williams on the panel were: TREA Chairman George Smith, Former Executive Director Michael J. Zabko, and... 2001
Richard O. Faulk Armageddon Through Aggregation? The Use and Abuse of Class Actions in International Dispute Resolution 10 Michigan State University-DCL Journal of International Law 205 (Summer, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   A troubling and dangerous phenomenon has emerged onto the international litigation landscape. The system of justice understood and appreciated by citizens in most democratic states, one which guarantees individual plaintiffs and defendants their day in court, is increasingly being sidestepped by procedural rules that allow entrepreneurial lawyers... 2001
Karolyn A. Eilers Article 14(b) of the 1951 Treaty of Peace with Japan: Interpretation and Effect on Pows' Claims Against Japanese Corporations 11 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 469 (Fall, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. L2-4,T4Introduction 470 II. L2-4,T4Forced Labor in Japan During World War II 471 III. L2-4,T4Reparations 472 IV. L2-4,T4U.S. POWs' Forced Labor Claims 474 A. L3-4,T4POWs' Lawsuits 475 B. L3-4,T4California's Extension of the Statute of Limitations 475 C. L3-4,T4U.S. District Court Holds that the 1951 Treaty of Peace Bars POWs Claims 477 V.... 2001
H. Jefferson Powell Attorney General Taney & the South Carolina Police Bill 5 Green Bag 75 (Autumn 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   ALTHOUGH THE SYSTEMATIC preservation of the opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States began with Attorney General William Wirt (1817-1829), they were not publicly available until the House of Representatives published a collection in 1841. In July 1850, the House called on President Millard Filmore to make available the opinions... 2001
  Bell v. U.s. Not Reported in F.Supp.2d, United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division. (8/31/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. After making an independent review of the pleadings, files, and records in this case, and the July 9, 2001 findings, conclusions, and recommendation of the magistrate judge, the court concludes that the findings and conclusions are correct. It is therefore ordered that the findings, conclusions, and recommendation of the magistrate judge are... 2001
Elazar Barkan Between Restitution and International Morality 25 Fordham International Law Journal 46 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a sudden rush of restitution cases all over the world. I see in the pattern formed by these cases a central component of a new international morality. These cases testify to a new globalism that pays greater attention to human rights. Critics of these trends often refer to the spread of a victims... 2001
  Brief and Appendix for Plaintiff-appellant, Thomas Williams (1/1/2001) Briefs   On April 20, 2001, the Honorable John C. Lifland, sitting in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, entered an Order Affirming the Decision of the Commissioner of... 2001
  Brief for Respondent (4/25/2001) Briefs   This case involves the appropriateness of the collection action proposed by the respondent for the unpaid balance of an erroneous refund for tax year 1998 totaling $80,000. On March 26,... 2001
  Brief of Amici Curiae of International Law Eric K. Yamamoto, University of Hawaii School of Law, Dale Minami, Minami, Lew & Tamaki, and Natsu Saito, Georgia State University College of Law in Support of Petitioners (7/12/2001) Briefs   FN1. Letters of consent to the filing of this brief have been lodged with the Clerk of Court pursuant to Rule 37.3 of this Court. Pursuant to Rule 37.6, amici state that they authored this... 2001
  Brief of Appellant Adrian J. Jaymes (6/28/2001) Briefs   Oral argument is not requested in this case. This Court has jurisdiction to consider this case pursuant to Title 18 U.S.C. §3742(a), Title 28 U.S.C. §1291 and Rule 4, Federal Rules of... 2001
  Brief of Appellees the Turner Corporation and Kitchell Corporation (3/27/2001) Briefs   Pursuant to Rule 26.1 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, defendants and appellees The Turner Corporation (Turner) and Kitchell Corporation (Kitchell) state that defendant... 2001
  Brief of Plaintiffs-appellees in Response to Appellant Abraham Friedman (7/9/2001) Briefs   FN1. The standard of review in this Circuit of District Court decisions determining the allocation of a Rule 23 class action settlement fund is abuse of discretion. See In re Agent Orange... 2001
  Brief of Settlement Class Plaintiffs-appellees (9/27/2001) Briefs   Appellants, UBS and Credit Suisse, claiming to act on behalf of an unidentified and quite possibly non-existent category of non-party Swiss companies, seek to appeal from an April 4, 2001... 2001
Kara C. Ryf Burger-fischer v. Degussa Ag: U.s. Courts Allow Siemens and Degussa to Profit from Holocaust Slave Labor 33 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 155 (Winter, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Zelig Preis was only eighteen-years-old when he was forced to work as a slave laborer for Siemens, Germany's largest electronics and communications manufacturer. Siemens acquired Preis and thousands of other laborers from Nazi concentration camps to assist in the company's production of war-related equipment. Siemens subjected its laborers to the... 2001
Martin D. Carcieri Bush v. Gore and Equal Protection 53 South Carolina Law Review 63 (Fall 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 63 II. Critiques of the Equal Protection Ruling. 66 A. Bush v. Gore Has No Basis in Precedent . 66 B. Bush v. Gore Has Basis in Precedent, and That's the Bad News. 75 III. Conclusion. 82 2001
Madeline Doms Compensation for Survivors of Slave and Forced Labor: the Swiss Bank Settlement and the German Foundation Provide Options for Recovery for Holocaust Survivors 14 Transnational Lawyer 171 (Spring, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. L2-5,T5Introduction 172 II. L2-5,T5The US$1.25 Billion Swiss Bank Settlement Agreement 175 A. L3-5,T5Terms of the Settlement Agreement 177 B. L3-5,T5The Three-Step Evaluation Process 179 1. L4-5,T5Preliminary Approval and Class Certification 179 2. L4-5,T5Notice to Settlement Class Members 180 3. L4-5,T5Fairness Hearings 180 a. Procedural... 2001
Vivian Grosswald Curran Competing Frameworks for Assessing Contemporary Holocaust-era Claims 25 Fordham International Law Journal 107 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   There are many angles from which to perceive the contemporary holocaust-era claims. In 1997, Time magazine quoted Elie Wiesel as saying that [i]f all the money in all the Swiss banks were turned over, it would not bring back the life of one Jewish child. But the money is a symbol. It is part of the story. If you suppress any part of the story, it... 2001
  Complaint (7/23/2001) Trial Court Documents   Comes Now, Bishop Thomas Smith, Jr., Rev. Charles O. Williams, Joyce Rogers, Greg Robinson, Curtis Mullins, Algerita Brooks, Robert C. Tucker and Jacqueline Davis, individually and on... 2001
  Complaint (9/12/2001) Trial Court Documents   Plaintiffs Gilbert M. Hair and Ethel Blaine Millett, on their own behalf, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, by their attorneys Anthony D'Amato, David G. Duggan, and Susan M.... 2001
  Constitutionality of the Rohrabacher Amendment (7/25/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001
  Department of Insurance 17-WTR California Regulatory Law Reporter 239 (Winter, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Commissioner: Harry W. Low (415) 538-4500 (916) 492-3500 (213) 897-8921 Toll-Free Consumer Hotline: 1-800-927-4357. Insurance is the only interstate business wholly regulated by the several states rather than the federal government. In California, this responsibility rests with the Department of Insurance... 2001
Eric K. Yamamoto , Susan K. Serrano , Minal Shah Fenton , James Gifford , David Forman , Bill Hoshijo , Jayna Kim Dismantling Civil Rights: Multiracial Resistance and Reconstruction 31 Cumberland Law Review 523 (2000-2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I am from Hawai'i, America's fiftieth state. I am a third generation Japanese-American. At the turn of the last century, my grandparents hoped to better their hard life in Japan and emigrated to work on Hawai'i's sugar plantations. In response to oppressive work and living conditions, my grandfather helped a fledging union fight the White... 2001
Michael S. Rosier, President National Bar Association Do Something 15-OCT NBA National Bar Association Magazine Mag. 1 (September/October, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   As I write this initial Presidential message, I believe more than ever, that in order for us to fulfill our commitments to carry forth the legacy of our founders, we must develop a network of partnerships to maximize our effectiveness as an organization. For the past several months I have been contemplating with great interest, the issue of... 2001
  Don't Be Misled by Tax Scams; Irs Warns of 8 Common Schemes IR- 2001-19 (2/18/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001
Richard H. Chused Euclid's Historical Imagery 51 Case Western Reserve Law Review 597 (Summer, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The standard image of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. places it in the pantheon of constitutional cases signaling the demise of unbridled, laissez-faire based, substantive due process theory in land use jurisprudence. Despite the present Supreme Court's partial regression to pre-New Deal theories in recent takings cases, many land use... 2001
Shawn Pompian Expectations of Discrimination as a Justification for Affirmative Action 8 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 517 (Spring 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Affirmative action is difficult to reconcile with commonly held beliefs about equality of opportunity and equal treatment under the law. As a consequence, we must find a particularly strong justification for any program that uses favorable consideration of minority status as a means to address the widespread and deep discrepancies between the... 2001
Rose Weston Facing the Past, Facing the Future: Applying the Truth Commission Model to the Historic Treatment of Native Americans in the United States 18 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 1017 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Bill Moyers, Journalist The history of the United States is rife with allegations of the most serious... 2001
Terrie Lewis Fifty Ways to Exploit Your Grandmother: the Status of Financial Abuse of the Elderly in Minnesota 28 William Mitchell Law Review 911 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 911 II. Minnesota Statutes. 914 A. Vulnerable Adults Protection Act. 915 B. Financial Exploitation of Vulnerable Adult Act. 918 C. Deceptive or Unfair Trade Practices; Elderly or Handicapped Victims Act. 920 III. Types of Exploitation and Abuse. 921 A. Misuse of Assets. 921 B. Consumer Fraud. 924 IV. Specialized Soutions in Other... 2001
Alfred L. Brophy Foreword: Ralph Ellison and the Law 26 Oklahoma City University Law Review 823 (Fall, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Invisible Man, we are gaining the distance that is necessary to evaluate dispassionately the novel and the civil rights revolution that surrounds it. Following the initial, warm embrace of the novel, Ralph Ellison was seen as a conservative in the 1960s and early 1970s; and... 2001
Kevin Hopkins Forgive U.s. Our Debts? Righting the Wrongs of Slavery 89 Georgetown Law Journal 2531 (August, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   We must make sure that their deaths have posthumous meaning. We must make sure that from now until the end of days all humankind stares this evil in the face . and only then can we be sure it will never arise again. President Ronald Reagan In recent months, claims for reparations for slavery have gained new popularity amongst black intellectuals... 2001
  From the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (12/1/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001
Deborah M. Weissman Gender-based Violence as Judicial Anomaly: Between "The Truly National and the Truly Local" 42 Boston College Law Review 1081 (September, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Abstract: In United States v. Morrison, the Supreme Court struck down the federal civil rights remedy for gender-based violence in the Violence Against Women Act. Notwithstanding evidence considered by Congress documenting the economic impact of domestic violence, and despite the inability of state and local systems to address gender-based violence... 2001
  Government's Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Motions to Dismiss the Third Amended Verified Complaint of the Leopold Museum-privatstiftung and the Museum of Modern Art as Claimants and the American Association of Museums, et Al. As Amici Curiae (6/14/2001) Trial Court Documents   FN1. Leopold 1st Mem. refers to the Memorandum in Support of Motion by Claimant Leopold Museum (A) to Vacate the Seizure Warrant and (B) to Dismiss the Complaint; Leopold 2nd Mem.... 2001
  Guatemala (2/1/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001
  Hwang Geum Joo v. Japan 172 F.Supp.2d 52, United States District Court, District of Columbia. (10/4/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has been reversed or overruled. INTERNATIONAL LAW - Foreign Sovereigns. Japan's comfort women system during World War Two was not commercial activity under FSIA. 2001
Gil Gott Identity and Crisis: the Critical Race Project and Postmodern Political Theory 78 Denver University Law Review 817 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The arrival of the current post-Civil Rights, postcolonial, post-Cold War era has presented movement activists and progressive scholars with a unique set of challenges. Mobilizing constituencies within, let alone across, identity, national, and class lines has proven difficult as 19 th and 20 th century forms of white supremacy, imperialism, and... 2001
Nathanael Heasley, Rodger Hurley, Kara E. Irwin, Andrew H. Kaufman, Nadine Moustafa, Alain Personna ; Impunity in Guatemala: the State's Failure to Provide Justice in the Massacre Cases 16 American University International Law Review 1115 (2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   PREFACE. 1118 INTRODUCTION. 1120 I. GUATEMALA'S LEGAL OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE TIMELY JUSTICE IN THE MASSACRE CASES. 1123 A. INTERNATIONAL LAW. 1124 1. International Treaties. 1124 2. Customary International Law. 1127 B. DOMESTIC LAW. 1129 C. PEACE ACCORDS. 1130 D. THE FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. 1132 II. RECENT REFORMS OF GUATEMALA'S JUSTICE... 2001
  In Brief 2/22/2001 Vol.47 16 (2/22/2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources     2001
  In re Nazi Era Cases Against German Defendants Litigation 129 F.Supp.2d 370, United States District Court, D. New Jersey. (3/1/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. INTERNATIONAL LAW - Slave Labor. Slave labor claim arising from Nazi regime presented a non-justiciable political question. 2001
  In re World War Ii Era Japanese Forced Labor Litigation 164 F.Supp.2d 1160, United States District Court, N.D. California. (9/17/2001) Cases As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. INTERNATIONAL LAW - Economic Sanctions. California statute compensating wartime slave labor was unconstitutional. 2001
  In the Matter of George Blakemore, Complainant and Inter-parking, Inc., Previously Known as General Parking Corporation, Respondent (2/21/2001) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2001
Ben Saul In the Shadow of Human Rights: Human Duties, Obligations, and Responsibilities 32 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 565 (Summer 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introducing the Human Responsibilities Movement. 566 II. The Draft Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities. 573 III. International Responses to the Draft Declaration. 578 IV. Criticisms of the Draft Declaration. 580 A. Recognition of Duties in Human Rights Law and Theory. 581 1. The Concept of Legal Duties. 583 2. Duties and Limits in... 2001
Deborah Kenn Institutionalized, Legal Racism: Housing Segregation and Beyond 11 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 35 (Fall, 2001) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   About a year ago, a friend and I went in to a diner for breakfast. It wasn't very crowded; maybe four tables were occupied. We sat close to a table where four African Americans were seated. My friend and I are both Caucasian. The waitress, also white, came over and asked if we wanted coffee. On her way back from getting us coffee, a heated exchange... 2001
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