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Hate Crime
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UK Human Rights Blog
Family Court Guilty of ‘State Sanctioned Abuse’? Plus Hate Speech and Judicial Bias- the Round Up
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law In the News: Credit: Colin The public consultation on Scotland’s controversial Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill has…
The Right Coast
Graffiti on monument commemorating Nazi SS division being investigated as a hate crime by police | Ottawa Citizen
Someone painted Nazi war monument on a stone cenotaph commemorating those who served with the 14th SS Division. The monument is located in Oakville in the St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery.The division,…
Religion Clause
Georgia Enacts Hate Crime Law
As reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Georgia legislature yesterday gave final passage (legislative history) to HB 426 (full text) which provides enhanced criminal penalties for assault, battery, theft…
The Right Coast
Frustration and Fury as Rand Paul Holds Up Anti-Lynching Bill in Senate – The New York Times
At issue is what, exactly, counts as lynching under federal law. The bill would add a new section called lynching to the civil rights statute to deal with group violence…
Simple Justice
San Antonio’s Kung Fu Fighting
On its surface, it can be dismissed as little more than another performative effort by some overly self-important local politicians to show their neighbors that they won’t tolerate the nastiness,…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
Anti-Asian Racism Must be Stopped Before it is Normalized
The scapegoating of an ethnic group during a national emergency has begun. Rumours are circulating that Chinese people are spreading the coronavirus in America. School children are bullied for being of…
Rick Horowitz Criminal Defense Blog
A Sickness Worse Than Coronavirus
There is a sickness worse than coronavirus in our land. I must write about it, even though I don’t feel fully qualified to speak on all aspects of it. I…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Edging Toward Civil War – The Early Skirmishes
In February two Georgia white men attempted to abduct a black jogger. When the jogger resisted he was shot and killed. The prosecutor felt there was insufficient evidence to take…
Religion Clause
Court Upholds Maryland’Hate Crime Statute
In Lipp v. State of Maryland, (MD Ct. Special Appeals, April 30, 2020), a Maryland state appellate court upheld the constitutionality of a Maryland statute which outlawed the destruction of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Anti-Asian racism must be stopped before it is normalised
The coronavirus has brought something besides illness to the United States, a spike in hate crimes directed at Asian Americans. In this commentary, Sahar Aziz warns of the rise in hate…