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Equal Protection
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Sentencing Law and Policy
First Circuit endorses fast-track disparities
Main November 19, 2007First Circuit endorses fast-track disparitiesThanks to this post at AL&P, I see that the First Circuit today in US v. Andujar-Arais, No. 06-1189 (1st Cir. Nov. 19,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New SSRN Articles
Unlawful Status as a Constitutional Irrelevancy?: The Equal Protection Rights of Illegal Immigrants" Golden Gate University Law Review, Forthcoming JASON H. LEE Full Text: http://ssrn.com/abstract=989863 "Delimiting the Culture Defense" Quinnipiac…
inversecondemnation.com
▪ HAWSCT Lowers The Bar in Equal Protection “Rational Basis” Analysis
"Rational basis" judicial review in equal protection law, as every law student knows, means virtually no review. As long as the government provides a "plausible" justification for its discrimination between…
ImmigrationProf Blog
BREAKING NEWS: Plaintiffs Win BIG in Hazleton!
As predicted here yesterday, the federal district court in Pennsylvania has issued a decision on the case challenging the Hazleton immigration ordinance. Among other findings, which I will comment after…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Articles From SSRN
"1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the US: Dispersion from States of Immigration?" IZA Discussion Paper No. 2274 Author: MARK ELLIS University of Washington Full Text: http://ssrn.com/abstract=928827"Unlawful Status as a Constitutional…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Inheritance Rights of Unwed Fathers and Their Children
Linda Kelly Hill (M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law) has recently published her article entitled Equal Protection Misapplied: The Politics of Gender and Legitimacy and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The Paris jail saga continues … and raises equal justice concerns
Main June 8, 2007The Paris jail saga continues ... and raises equal justice concernsAs this AP article details, only a matter of hours "after Paris Hilton was sent home under…
Family Law Prof Blog
Plessy v. Ferguson and Same Sex Marriage
By Family Law
"A potentially groundbreaking legal battle over Connecticut’s exclusion of gay people from the state’s marriage law has catapulted the debate over same-sex marriage to a new level. Appearing last month…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Cass Sunstein on Gonzales v. Carhart
I wish I felt as optimistic as Cass Sunstein apparently does about the possibility of an equal protection based argument for the right to abortion, as articulated in Justice Ginsburg's…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Seeking to capitalizeBush v. Gore
Main April 4, 2007Seeking to capitalize Bush v. GoreODPI has lots and lots of good stuff these days, and perhaps nothing more bemusing than this AP report from Florida:An attorney…