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Apr. 2012, Vol. 64, No. 2
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Category Archives: Civil Rights Law
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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Jeannette Cox, Disability Stigma and Intraclass Discrimination
62 Fla. L. Rev. 429 (2010) | | | | ABSTRACT :: By dramatically enlarging the Americans with Disabilities Act’s (ADA) protected class, the recent amendments to the ADA increase the opportunities for employers to replace one … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Disability Law, Discrimination Law, Employment Law, Uncategorized
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, biological severity of disabilities, Civil Rights Law, Cox, Disability, disability-based animus, Employment decisions, intraclass discrimination, negative social responses, no intraclass claims, stigma
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Allison Sirica, The New Federal Pleading Standard: Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. 1937 (2009)
62 Fla. L. Rev. 547 (2010) | | | | CASE COMMENT :: In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim citizen of Pakistan, was arrested and detained in a maximum … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Law, Uncategorized
Tagged 2001, abusive, Ashcroft, Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Pleading Standard, Iqbal, Javaid Iqbal, John Ashcroft, Muslim Citizen, Pakistan, Robert Mueller, September 11, Sirica, strip and body cavity searches, United States Attorney General, unnecessary
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Dale E. Ho, Silent at Sentencing: Waiver Doctrine and a Capital Defendant’s Right to Present Migitating Evidence After Schriro v. Landrigan
62 Fla. L. Rev. 763 (2010) | | | | CASE COMMENT ::The consideration of mitigating evidence-evidence that weighs against the imposition of the death penalty in a capital defendant’s individual case-has been deemed a “constitutionally indispensable” feature of a … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Energy & Utilities Law, Uncategorized
Tagged abritrary imposition of death penalty, Capital Defendant, Capital Punishment, death sentence, Eighth Amendment, Habeas Relief, Ho, knowingly, Landrigan, longstanding precedent, Mitigating Evidence, Ninth Circuit, Schriro, Sentencing, Silence, understanding, Waiver Doctrine
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Anita Bernstein, Civil Rights Violations – Broken Windows: De Mimis Curet Lex
62 Fla. L. Rev. 895 (2010) | | | | ABSTRACT :: Civil rights violations that appear relatively slight may warrant judicial redress despite their small size; some of them point up important principles. Leaving these violations unremedied may contribute … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Discrimination Law, Employment Law, Governments and Legislation, Uncategorized
Tagged appear small, Bernstein, Broken Windows, Civil Rights Violations, criminological construct, Curet, De Mimis, Lex, police impose, progressive ends, slight civil rights violations, statutory mandate
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Jeff Fabian, Don’t Tase Me Bro!: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Laws Governing Taser Use by Law Enforcement
62 Fla. L. Rev. 763 (2010) | | | | INTRODUCTION ::Financially destitute and homeless, a man began to sob after receiving a speeding ticket. When the man refused to sign the ticket, the ticketing officer arrested the man. The … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Energy & Utilities Law, Fourth Amendment, Uncategorized
Tagged Brutality, Fabian, flee, law enforcement, Laws, Police, reasonable force, resisting arrest, Tase, Taser Use, violent crimes
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