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Category Archives: Civil Rights Law
Jordan E. Pratt, An Open and Shut Case: Why (and How) The Eleventh Circuit Should Restrain the Government’s Forum Closure Power
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1487 (2011)| | | | The Supreme Court has made it clear that when the government opens a nontraditional public forum, it retains the power to shut down the forum subsequently. But the Court has not … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Governments and Legislation, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized
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Heather Reynolds, Irreconcilable Regulations: Why the Sun Has Set on the Cuban Adjustment Act in Florida
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1013 (2011)| | | NOTE :: Just past midnight, four Cubans walked off the beach in the dark and began to wade through warm waves out into the Florida Straits. They walked nearly a mile in waist-high … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Discrimination Law, Employment Law, Immigration Law, International Law, Uncategorized
Tagged be, CAA, Cuban Adjustment Act, Cuban Nationals, cuban patrols, Cubans, discovered, Dry Foot, fast-boat, Florida, high water, immigration channels, Key Largo, mile-marker, possessions, repatriate, United States Coast Guard, waist, Wet Foot
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David Marcus, Flawed but Noble: Desegregation Litigation and its Implications for the Modern Class Action
63 Fla. L. Rev. 657 (2011)| | | | INTRODUCTION :: From the perspective of the present day, Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure contains a difficult puzzle. After a court certifies a class pursuant to Rule … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Law, Class Actions, Discrimination Law, Education Law, Uncategorized
Tagged Class Action, class certification, class members, damages, decertification, declaratory relief, discrimination, estoppell, help, injunctive relief, money damages, opt out, representation, res judicata, right to sue, rule 23, Rule 23(b)(2), theory, trial rights, waiver
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Robert A. Garda, Jr., The White Interest in School Integration
63 Fla. L. Rev. 599 (2011)| | | | ABSTRACT :: Discussions concerning desegregation, affirmative action, and voluntary integration focus primarily, if not exclusively, on whether such policies harm or benefit minorities. Scant attention is paid to the benefits whites … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Computer & Internet Law, Discrimination Law, Education Law, Evidence, Uncategorized
Tagged benefits, co-workers, cross-cultural competence, de-bias, desegregation, effective, global business partners, Integration, interest-convergence theory, intregrate, magnet schools, minorities, multicultural customers, multiracial, schools, Supreme Court, white children, white interest
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Hillel Y. Levin, Resolving Interstate Conflicts Over Same-Sex Non-Marriage
63 Fla. L. Rev. 47 (2011)| | | | ABSTRACT :: States have adopted several different regimes of recognition for same-sex couples. A few states allow same-sex couples to marry; several others offer marriage- like partnerships (usually called civil unions), … Continue reading
Jennifer Lynch, The Eleventh Amendment and Federal Discovery: A New Threat to Civil Rights Litigation
62 Fla. L. Rev. 203 (2010) | | | | ABSTRACT :: Lawyers for the State of California have argued recently in several federal civil rights cases that the state sovereign immunity doctrine bars all discovery issued … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Civil Rights Law, Copyright Law, Internet Law, Uncategorized
Tagged case law, civil rights protections, Eleventh Amendment, federal courts, Federal Discovery, Federal District Courts, Lynch, March 2007, March 2008, soverign immunity, soverign immunity defense, State employees, tribal soverign immunity, yearly caseload
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