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Hate Crime
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Religion Clause
ADL Reports Rise in Online Hate and Harassment
On Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League released its report titled Online Hate and Harassment: The American Experience 2023 (full text). The Executive Summary reads in part:Over the past year, online hate and harassment…
Religion Clause
FBI Charges Michigan Man with Plotting Mass Casualty Attack at Synagogue
Last week, the FBI filed a Criminal Complaint charging a 19-year-old Michigan man with taking steps to plan a mass casualty suicide attack on a synagogue in Lansing, Michigan. The Criminal…
Kirakosian Law Blog
What is California Civil Code § 52.1 which is also known as the Bane Act?
Cal. Civ. Code § 52.1, also known as the Bane Act, is a California state law that provides a civil cause of action for victims of hate crimes, threats, intimidation,…
Other
Buffalo mass shooter formally sentenced to LWOP in New York state court
Though New York in 1995 brought back the state's death penalty legislatively, New York's highest court in June 2004 decided that the state's death penalty statute violated the New York…
ImmigrationProf Blog
El Paso shooter pleads guilty to federal charges, “invasion rhetoric” used by shooter continues in immigration debate
Morgan Lee and Paul J. Weber for the Associated Press report that a Texas man pleaded guilty today to federal charges accusing him of killing nearly two dozen people in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Los Angeles Has Selected Six Finalists to Design a Memorial to the 1871 Chinese Massacre.
Sadly, we have seen too much hate violence in recent days, with Monterey Park a tragic example. Unknown to many, if not most, Angelenos, the Chinese Massacre of 1871 occurred in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Michael Luo: The Spectre of Anti-Asian Violence in the Monterey Park Shooting
Hate violence against Asian Americans spiked during the pandemic. Against a backdrop of violence, the nation braced itself upon learning of the mass murder perpetrated on the Lunar New Year…
Lawels Blog
Training for Civil Society on Addressing Religion-Related Hate Crime
By Lawels
When: 1 February 2023, 14:00 – 15 February 2023, 17:15 Where: Online Organized by: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) This online course, taking place on 1, 8 and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The look of a federal capital moratorium(?): prosecutors not seeking death penalty for El Paso Walmart shooter
As detailed in this Wall Street Journal piece, the "Justice Department won’t seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing 23 people in 2019 at a Walmart in…
Religion Clause
Some Charges Against Tree of Life Synagogue Shooter Are Dismissed
United States v. Bowers, (WD PA, Dec. 15, 2022), involves the prosecution of the defendant who is charged with killing 11 people in 2018 at the Tree of Life Synagogue in…