The constitutionality of race-conscious admissions programs in public elementary and secondary schools
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Race-based admissions programs for public elementary and secondary schools, designed to eliminate lingering segregation, should withstand strict scrutiny analysis because achieving an integrated school environment constitutes the compelling interest necessary under that analysis. Recent Supreme Court decisions indicate an end to judicially enforced desegregation and raise doubts that race-conscious admissions would survive strict scrutiny. However, the existence of a compelling pedagogical interest should cause that standard to be satisfied.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1999
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"Location, location, location": recent developments in the qualified immunity defense
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The author examines the tests by which US Courts of Appeals have attempted to determine whether government employees' actions fall under qualified immunity from suit. The different methods which individual courts have used to achieve this have virtually decided the cases.
Publication Name: New York University Annual Survey of American Law
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0066-4413
Year: 2000
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The constitutionality of vouchers after Mitchell v . Helms
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The status of government vouchers for private religious schools is analyzed in light of the US Supreme Court's controversial 2000 Mitchell v . Helms decision. The relative values of individual justices, as reflected in the decision's varying opinions, are analyzed.
Publication Name: New York University Annual Survey of American Law
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0066-4413
Year: 2000
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