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Equal Protection
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Federal Court Lawsuit: Hawaii Legislative Reapportionment Cannot Exclude Military, Military Families
It may be Good Friday (an official State Holiday in Hawaii), but the federal courts are open, and today, on behalf of six plaintiffs including several veterans, we filed a…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Upholds California Ban on Affirmative Action
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Section 31 of Article IX of the California Constitution - - - Prop 209 passed in 1996 - - - was upheld by a panel of the Ninth Circuit in…
The Faculty Lounge
Civil Rights Data Collection: Policy Change or More of the Same
Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Education began collecting more data on potential educational inequalities. Last week, the agency released the second batch of this data. The Secretary of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Equal Protection and Taxes: Oral Argument in Armour v. Indianapolis
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Does tax forgiveness by a municipality present an equal protection problem? Do the taxpayers who paid in a timely manner have a constitutional claim for reimbursement when the debt of…
Land Use Prof Blog
Mandelker on Housing Quotas for People with Disabilities
Daniel R. Mandelker (Washington U) has a new article called Housing Quotas for People with Disabilities: Legislating Exclusion, Urban Lawyer, Vol. 43, No. 4, p. 915, 2011. The abstract:The transfer…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Ohio asks SCOTUS to vacate stay of state execution
Main January 21, 2012Ohio asks SCOTUS to vacate stay of state executionAs reported in this AP piece, "Ohio has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the state’s lethal injection…
The Faculty Lounge
Thoughts on Coleman and the 14th Amendment’s Enforcement Power
Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals, argued earlier this week at the USSC, poses a narrow but interesting question about the scope of Congress's power to abrogate state sovereign immunity…
The Right Coast
The Original Meaning of the Equal Protection ClauseMike Rappaport
I have a post over at the Originalism Blog on this subject. Here is an excerpt: Under this interpretation [which has very powerful evidentiary support], the Equal Protection Clause protects against the…
The Right Coast
The Original Meaning of the Equal Protection ClauseMike Rappaport
David Gan's paper appears to offer an interpretation of the original meaning of the Equal Protection Clause. While I have only skimmed the paper, I don't believe it can be…
The Faculty Lounge
Taxes and Equal Protection
The buzz today is about the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in the Health Care cases, and that certainly merits comment, but the Court also granted cert in Armour v.…