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Equal Protection
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inversecondemnation.com
Two New Categories: Equal Protection, 42 U.S.C. § 1983/Civil Rights
Administrative note: I've added two new categories for indexing posts:Equal Protection42 U.S.C. § 1983 | Civil RightsEqual protection comes up often in land use litigation when the government discriminates against…
inversecondemnation.com
Pleading Class of One Equal Protection Land Use Claims
The most easily recognizable equal protection claim is one in which the plaintiff claims membership in a protected group, and some form of discrimination against the class. Another type of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Saturday Evening Review
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This week's installment of the "Saturday Evening Review" feature of the blog highlights an article I return to year after year. For an excellent schemata of the continuing debates of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Robson’s Saturday Evening Review
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Welcome to the first installment of a weekly feature we're calling "Robson's Saturday Evening Review." Every Saturday, I'll be posting about a law review or other scholarly article that I…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
CT Supreme Court Invalidates Opposite Sex Marriage Requirement
Via How Appealing:"High Court Grants Gay Marriage Rights": The Hartford Courant provides a news updatethat begins, "Same-sex couples won the right to marry in Connecticut inan historic ruling by the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Testing Uncomfortable Topics: Comments Requested
In addition to my labor/employment courses, I also teach Civil Procedure. This semester, I gave students a take-home (one week) collaborative mid-term exam consisting of a single question raising four…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
ACS Releases Issue Brief on Sex Stereotypes in Abstinence-Only Education Programs
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy has released Lesson One: Your Gender is Your Destiny — The Constitutionality of Teaching Sex Stereotypes in Abstinence-Only Programs, by Bonnie Scott…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable (though failed) attempt to attack prosecutorial discretion in Seventh Circuit
Main September 10, 2008Notable (though failed) attempt to attack prosecutorial discretion in Seventh CircuitThe Seventh Circuit has an extended discussion of prosecutorial discretion in the course of reject an interesting…
New Jersey Law Blog
Equal Protection: A State Employee Is Not a “Class-of-One”
In an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court on June 9, 2008, held that the "class-of-one" theory of equal protection does not apply to state employees. The Equal…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Cruel and Unequal Punishment”
Main August 11, 2008"Cruel and Unequal Punishment"The title of this post is the title of this new piece on SSRN from Nita Farahany. Here is the interesting abstract: This article…