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Justice Carter\u27s Dissent in Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co.: Foreshadowing Privacy Concerns for an Age of Digital Cameras, Video Voyeurism, and Internet Excess
No full textJesse W. Carter served as a justice on the California Supreme Court from 1939-1959, where he was known as “The Lone Dissenter” because he wrote so many solo dissents. Many of these opinions were in passionate defense of civil rights, civil liberties, and the rights of labor, criminal defendants, and personal injury victims. Several of the cases were reversed by the United States Supreme Court, or by later decisions of the California Supreme Court, adopting Justice Carter’s reasoning. Professor Cooper points out in her essay that not all of Justice Carter’s dissenting positions were later vindicated by these courts. In Justice Carter’s Dissent in Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co.: Foreshadowing Privacy Concerns for an Age of Digital Cameras, Video Voyeurism, and Internet Excess, she discusses Justice Carter’s views on privacy rights in public places noting that Justice Carter saw privacy as a “matter of dignity, not just a matter of location” and suggesting that his view is instructive in an age of digital cameras, advanced technology, and the Internet.https://commons.law.famu.edu/faculty-books/1000/thumbnail.jp
Obama Effect: A Pipeline Issue
Get PDFThe law allows schools to strive for a critical mass of minority students. As law schools are already required to demonstrate a commitment to diversity, they must take steps to ensure that the pool of qualified candidates for positions in the academy expands instead of contracts. President Obama can have an impact on this process by taking steps to improve our educational system, encouraging students to make the most of their educations, and increasing the availability of higher education for all students. African Americans will then have access and ability to succeed in their academic pursuits. As a result, more will become law professors. Instead of remaining at the same level, the percentage of African American law professors will begin to rise. An increase in diversity would-be beneficial-to the academy and to our country
2010 Hooding Ceremony Program
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The Importation of Female Genital Mutilation to the West: The Cruelest Cut of All
Get PDFTHE RECENT WIDESPREAD IMMIGRATION of African and Middle Eastern people and the importation of their traditions and practices into Western societies have given Westerners a firsthand view of cultural practices once shielded by distance, silence, and a bit of disinterest. Such is the case with Female Genital Mutilation ( FGM ). Prior to its importation, most Westerners had not heard the term female genital mutilation and certainly did not know what its impact has been on girls and women in the countries that practice it.
This Article will explore the phenomenon of the importation of the practice of female genital mutilation to the Western world and the legal steps some countries have taken to ban it from their borders. This Article will also attempt to identify the culprits in perpetuating FGM and proffer some solutions
REDD, White, and Blue: Is Proposed U.S. Climate Legislation Adequate To Promote a Global Carbon Credits System for Avoided Deforestation in a Post-Kyoto Regime?
Get PDFReducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has emerged as an important albeit controversial, component of negotiations for a new international climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012 Not permitted under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, REDD involves paying developing countries to protect their tropical forests as a climate change mitigation strategy REDD gained widespread attention by 2005 and took center stage in the months preceding the negotiation of the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009. After more than a decade of nonparticipation in international climate change compliance efforts, the United States has signed the Copenhagen Accord which contains several provisions addressing REDD. Significant questions remain, however regarding the manner and degree to which REDD mechanisms will be implemented. One of the most critical lingering questions is the potential use of REDD as a component of US participation in a post-Kyoto climate change regime The climate change legislation pending before Congress contains important provisions addressing REDD. If signed into law, the US legislation would help promote the use of REDD as an indispensable component of an international carbon market and enable the United States to assume a long-overdue leadership role in international climate change regulation
Parents Super-Sizing Their Children: Criminalizing and Prosecuting The Rising Incidence of Childhood Obesity as Child Abuse
Get PDFWith all of the mudslinging that is taking place in the current healthcare debate, very few proponents and opponents seem to be addressing the elephant in the room-obesity. Childhood obesity, specifically, is rising at an alarming rate. The prevalence of obesity (BMI 30) continues to be a health concern for adults, children and adolescents in the United States. Sadly, the rate of adult obesity is increasing almost as dramatically as that of childhood obesity. Based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) study, in the combined years of 2003-2006, of children between the ages of two and nineteen, 16.3% of them were obese. There is a 70% chance that a child who is obese will grow up to be an obese adult. Since adults do not seem to have a problem becoming overweight all on their own, there is no reason we should send kids into adulthood already burdened with this problem. I bet we all remember growing up and playing outside with our friends, riding bikes, and running all over the neighborhood. Children today cannot do this while they are plagued by excessive extra weight. The habits you teach your child to day could mean the difference between life or death later on. It is estimated that [o]besity kills 300,000 people a year
Conceptualizations of Legalese in the Course of Due Process, from Arrest to Plea Bargain: The Perspectives of Disadvantaged Offenders
Get PDFEqual protection and due process of law are constitutional guarantees tenaciously embraced by all Americans.\u27 While numerous studies focused on how these guarantees play out in the lives of offenders, few sought to examine these guarantees from the standpoint of offenders, particularly those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Equal Protection Clause makes clear, in part, that, No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
Law Day Oral Argument Session 5th District Court of Appeal, 2009
Get PDFAs part of Law Day, a panel of three justices from the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal hear oral arguments for the following three cases: Huck v. State, Alsobiae v. Parkinson, and Demings, Sheriff v. Orange County Citizen Review Board. Following each oral argument, the Court takes questions on Court procedures and operations.https://commons.law.famu.edu/law-day/1002/thumbnail.jp