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18 Aug 2017, 9:30 am by Karen Tani
Here's a roundup:Writing for the Courts Law section, Steve Vladeck has posted an admiring review of James Pfander's Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror (2017).Writing for the Criminal Law section, Margareth Etienne directs readers to Michael Javen Fortner, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment (2015).A "Poverty Law" contribution, by Wendy Bach, flags Elizabeth Hinton's… [read post]
14 Aug 2017, 3:30 am by Margareth Etienne
Michael Javen Fortner, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment (2015). [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 6:52 pm
In riposte, he and other parvenus, including Goulds, Whitneys, Rockefellers and Morgans, contributed $10,000 each to incorporate a new opera boasting 122 private boxes, the Metropolitan Opera House Company. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 10:00 pm by News Desk
Food and Drug Administration, which NFI sees as increasing its focus on the issue. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm by Bill Otis
., the Rockefeller laws in New York) and federal law.And it worked. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 3:16 am by SHG
Just like the Rockefeller Drug Laws worked so well. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 4:20 am by SHG
In a New York Times op-ed, NYU urban studies professor Michael Fortner proffers the “real” roots of the 70s drug laws, starting with the dreaded Rockefeller Drug Laws, based on the theory that if draconian penalties are applied to possession and sale of drugs, people will stop using and selling them. [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"There is an excerpt from Michael Javen Fortner's Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment (Harvard University Press), titled, "How the Black Middle Class Pushed for Harsher Drug Laws," on The Daily Beast.On H-Net, William D. [read post]
31 May 2015, 5:54 am by SHG
And then there were drugs, which Nelly Rockefeller carved out because they were so darn evil that they had to be stopped, no matter what it took. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 3:53 pm by Jeremy Saland
Drug, controlled substance and narcotics crimes in New York may not be punished to the same magnitude as the Rockefeller Drug Laws of the past, but any New York Penal Law Article 220 crime in New York City or in a suburban New York State county still carries a significant punishment. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 7:57 am by Michael Markarian
Rounded up from random sources, they have also been given drugs and medications throughout their lifetimes that are not intended for and are actually prohibited from being introduced into the human food supply. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 10:09 am by The Public Employment Law Press
DeRosa led the office's effort to negotiate and pass the country’s most aggressive prescription drug reform package, I-STOP (Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing Act). [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 4:34 pm by Michael Markarian
Rounded up from random sources, they have also been given drugs and medications throughout their lifetimes that are not intended for and are actually prohibited from being introduced into the human food supply. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 12:35 pm by Mark Siesel
No drugs or alcohol were found in his system. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 9:00 pm by Joseph Margulies
In 2009, New York dismantled most of the Rockefeller drug laws, the model for many of the retributive drug sentencing schemes adopted nationwide during the War on Drugs. [read post]
23 Jul 2014, 2:58 pm by Stephen Bilkis
The People contend that the Penal Law revisions were designed to ameliorate the severe penalties imposed under the 'Rockefeller Drug Law,' and, consequently, would not be an unconstitutional retroactive application of the law. [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 2:50 pm by Stephen Bilkis
Counsel for the defendant effectively negotiated an extremely good deal for the defendant, who was facing a "Draconian" sentence if convicted of either or both of the "B" felonies that he was charged with, under the former so-called "Rockefeller Drug Laws. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 4:12 am by SHG
Yet even then, with the experiment of the unduly harsh Rockefeller Laws proving to be an utter failure to serve their theoretical purpose of deterring drug crime, no one dreamed that America would lead the civilized world in incarceration. [read post]