Category Archives: Civil Rights Law

Daniel J. DiMatteo, To Enforce a Privacy Right: The Sovereign Immunity Canon and the Privacy Act’s Civil Remedies Provision After Cooper

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Brock Hankins

In 2005, a joint investigation between separate government agencies revealed that Stanmore Cooper, a pilot, failed to disclose to the Federal Aviation Administration that he was HIV positive. Cooper sued the agencies in the United States District Court for the Northern District … Continue reading →

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Camilla Cohen, Goodyear Dunlop’s Failed Attempt to Refine the Scope of General Personal Jurisdiction

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Brock Hankins

In first-year civil procedure, students spend a great deal of time parsing an “answer” to a deceptively simple question: When may a state exercise its adjudicatory authority over an out-of-state defendant? Since Pennoyer v. Neff, the United States Supreme Court has addressed the issue … Continue reading →

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Steven G. Calabresi & Abe Salander, Religion and the Equal Protection Clause: Why the Constitution Requires School Vouchers

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Brock Hankins

Ask anyone whether the Constitution permits discrimination on the basis of religion, and the response will undoubtedly be no. Yet the modern Supreme Court has not recognized that the antidiscrimination command of the Fourteenth Amendment protects religion in the same … Continue reading →

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Christian Turner, State Action Problems

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Brock Hankins

The state action doctrine is a mess. Explanations for why federal courts sometimes treat the private actions of private parties as public actions subject to the Constitution, as the Supreme Court did in Shelley v. Kraemer, are either vastly over-inclusive … Continue reading →

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Janai S. Nelson, The First amendment, Equal Protection and Felon Disenfranchisement: A New Viewpoint

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Brock Hankins

This Article engages the equality principles of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause to reconsider the constitutionality of one of the last and most entrenched barriers to universal suffrage—felon disenfranchisement. A deeply racialized problem, felon disenfranchisement is additionally … Continue reading →

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Nancy Leong, The Open Road and the Traffic Stop: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the American Dream

Posted on March 13, 2012 by mike814

American culture is steeped in the mythology of the open road. In our collective imagination, the road represents freedom, escape, friendship, romance, and above all, the possibility for a better life. But our shared dream of the open road comes … Continue reading →

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