Safe enough to learn: placing an affirmative duty of protection on public schools under 42 U.S.C. section 1983
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Greater attention should be given to arguments that school officials are state actors in actions based on Section 1983 targeting school violence. Courts typically focus their response on the students and on abridging the students' privacy rights. The focus should shift to school officials under analysis reminiscent of state action analysis of Establishment Clause claims. State tort law immunity for government officials may mean that federal civil rights statutes are the only recourse for redress harm that occurs as a result of school official action or inaction.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1995
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Fighting Section 8 discrimination: the Fair Housing Act's new frontier
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The Fair Housing Act should be amended to prohibit discrimination by landlords against potential tenants holding Section 8 rent subsidy vouchers. Widespread discrimination against Section 8 tenants has the effect of discrimination against low-income people of color. Landlords attempt to justify this discrimination based on overcrowding concerns, but US policies aimed at integrating housing are not served by Section 8 rentals concentrated in certain neighborhoods. Banning such discrimination will reduce the economic costs borne by Section 8 voucher holders.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1996
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Affirmative action in higher education: the diversity rationale and the compelling interest test
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Affirmative action programs ensuring diversity among university student bodies are constitutionally valid when constructed to enhance educational diversity rather than racial diversity. Institutions must consider certain evidentiary requirements when developing their programs to meet the compelling interest test regarding diversity rationales. This approach places educational diversity into existing constitutional doctrines for guiding remedial actions under equal protection standards.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1998
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