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Book Three Briefs on Proposition 14 in the California Supreme Court

Download or read book Three Briefs on Proposition 14 in the California Supreme Court written by American Jewish Congress. Commission on Law and Social Action and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California  Supreme Court  Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Supreme Court Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Court of Appeal Case(s): B052118

Book Mismatch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Sander
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2012-10-09
  • ISBN : 0465030017
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Mismatch written by Richard Sander and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been anything but. Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative action's original goals, but after many years of studying racial preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action's failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new data and numerous interviews with affected former students and university officials of color, the authors show how racial preferences often put students in competition with far better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish; why there are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and engineering degrees and doctorates; why black law graduates fail bar exams at four times the rate of whites; and why universities accept relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people of all races. Sander and Taylor believe it is possible to achieve the goal of racial equality in higher education, but they argue that alternative policies -- such as full public disclosure of all preferential admission policies, a focused commitment to improving socioeconomic diversity on campuses, outreach to minority communities, and a renewed focus on K-12 schooling -- will go farther in achieving that goal than preferences, while also allowing applicants to make informed decisions. Bold, controversial, and deeply researched, Mismatch calls for a renewed examination of this most divisive of social programs -- and for reforms that will help realize the ultimate goal of racial equality.

Book California  Court of Appeal  1st Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 1st Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fair Housing Act of 1967

Download or read book Fair Housing Act of 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 1358, and related S. 2280 and 2114, to provide Federal civil rights protections in the area of housing and to establish Federal loan and loan guarantee programs for individuals unfairly denied mortgage loans.

Book Blacks and Their Contributions to the American West

Download or read book Blacks and Their Contributions to the American West written by James de T. Abajian and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1974 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discourse  Identity  and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates

Download or read book Discourse Identity and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates written by Karen Tracy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering whether to revise state marriage laws. The book's analysis spans ten years, beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of sodomy laws in 2003 and ending in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal government's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, and it particularly focuses on how social change was accomplished through and reflected in these law-making and law-interpreting discourses. Focal materials are the eight cases about same-sex marriage and civil unions that were argued in state supreme courts between 2005 and 2009, and six of a larger number of hearings that occurred in state judicial committees considering bills regarding who should be able to marry. Tracy concludes with analysis of the 2011 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on DOMA, comparing it to the initial 1996 hearing and to the 2013 Supreme Court oral argument about it. The book shows that social change occurred as the public discourse that treated sexual orientation as a "lifestyle" was replaced with a public discourse of gays and lesbians as a legitimate category of citizen.

Book Index to California Legal Periodicals and Documents

Download or read book Index to California Legal Periodicals and Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California  Court of Appeal  4th Appellate District   Division 3  Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 4th Appellate District Division 3 Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number of Exhibits: 1

Book California  Court of Appeal  2nd Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 2nd Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings     Annual Meeting of the Conference of Chief Justices

Download or read book Proceedings Annual Meeting of the Conference of Chief Justices written by Conference of Chief Justices and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California  Court of Appeal  5th Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 5th Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Constitution in Private Relations

Download or read book The Constitution in Private Relations written by András Sajó and published by Eleven International Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors of this volume address various issues pertaining to 'Third Party Effect'. It provides an in-depth analysis of jurisprudence, placing problems in a comparative legal and theoretical perspective. According to a classical tenet of constitutionalism the constitution and constitutional law deal with state actors. In the 20th century the concept of 'third party effect' emerged, which has seen constitutional rights and principles apply in private relations as well. This raises various questions, such as what are the jurisprudential and political reasons of this change? Is this concept brought about by the welfare state? What are its practical consequences? Is individual liberty enhanced when the state claims to promote a right? How do such understandings influence the role of constitutional and supreme courts? Are there equivalent doctrines to the third party effect? How does the trend influence government spending and redistribution? How does the US 'state action' doctrine compare with the third party/horizontal effect doctrine familiar in other domestic and international jurisdictions?

Book Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting

Download or read book Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting written by Olivier Richomme and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting: From the 1965 Voting Rights Act to Present studies redistricting and its evolution in California since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It poses the question: What is the interactive play of race and partisanship in redefining the meaning of political representation through redistricting? Unlike other studies of redistricting, it focuses not on the South but on the West, not on White versus Black, but on the difficulties of diversity. It tells the story of redistricting in California, which has now become one of the most left-leaning states and is considered a harbinger of political trends in the United States. Ultimately, this is a book that looks forward by looking backward at the tug-and-pull of redistricting efforts aimed at ensuring greater equality in a racially diverse democracy and asks: What is the role played by race and partisanship in the voting rights revolution? How does that vary far from the traditional flashpoints of American race relations? What does that tell us about the redefinition of political representation in the past half-century? And––most crucially––what does it foretell, for the next half century?

Book Proud Heritage  3 volumes

Download or read book Proud Heritage 3 volumes written by Chuck Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 1611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking three-volume reference traces the roots and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights and issues in the United States from the pre-colonial period to the present day. With the social, religious, and political stigmas attached to alternative lifestyles throughout history, most homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender people lived covertly for much of, if not all of, their lives. Likewise, the narrative of our country excludes the contributions, struggles, and historical achievements of this group. This revealing, chronologically arranged reference work uncovers the rich story of the LGBT community in the United States and discusses the politics, culture, and issues affecting it since the early 17th century. Author Chuck Stewart traces the evolution of LGBT issues as part of our nation's shared cultural past and modern-day experience. Volume 1 focuses on the origins of the movement with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 through the 1970s and the beginning of gay rights activism in the United States. Volume 2 spans the 1980s and the AIDs pandemic through the present-day issues of marriage equality. Volume 3 gives a concise review of this society in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.