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6 Mar 2008, 12:11 pm
Bill Clinton, as President in 1999, was a strong backer of hate crimes legislation in the wake of the Matthew Shepard murder. [read post]
6 Apr 2024, 10:51 am by John Floyd
Today, the federal government has the following statutes that penalize and punish hate and its violence in varying degrees: the Civil Rights Act of 1968; the Violence Against Women Act of 1994; the Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Control Act of 1994; the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996; the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 3:38 am by Mary Anne Franks
They have picketed the Holocaust Memorial Museum (from a WBC press release: “The American Jews are the real Nazis… who hate God and the rule of law”), as well as the funerals of Matthew Shepard, Coretta Scott King, Elizabeth Edwards, and Matthew Snyder. [read post]
17 May 2012, 7:55 am by John Elwood
  (In a later concurrence in part and in the judgment in Shepard v. [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 8:25 am by Alex Hunt
Creating a Safer Country President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. [read post]
24 May 2012, 12:25 pm
During that same period Lexis/Matthew Bender print prices increased a mere 70%.The unprecedented and inexplicable print price increases were the overwhelming factor cited in defining the Thomson-West merger as the "worst legal publishing merger. [read post]
25 Jul 2015, 5:05 am by SHG
One of the laws under which Roof was charged, the Matthew Shepard Act of 2009, is notable for its passage under the Thirteenth Amendment’s “authority to eradicate badges and incidents of slavery,” which effectively eliminates the need to prove the classic jurisdictional “hook” to obtain a conviction. [read post]
1 Aug 2009, 3:37 am
”   Witness this story from Christianity Today, in which Ashley Horne of Focus on the Family warns of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act: if passed, the law could expose pastors to federal prosecution if an attendee of their church committed a crime and blamed it on sermons about homosexuality. [read post]
14 May 2007, 4:31 pm
James Byrd's tormentors are now on death row; Matthew Shepard's are serving life sentences. [read post]
4 Sep 2018, 4:16 am by Edith Roberts
” At Politico, Steven Shepard looks at a new poll showing that “[a] plurality of voters support confirming … Kavanaugh on the eve of [the] hearings. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 5:24 am by Brian Cuban
The ghosts of Martin Luther King, Matthew Shepard and Stephen Tyrone Johns can speak all to well to that. [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 5:59 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Matthew Shepard. 10,000 hate crimes documented every year. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 2:24 pm by Eugene Volokh
Div. 2002) (apparently treating the law as covering plaintiff's "involvement in a vigil for Matthew Shepard, the gay college student who was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming," Jennifer Gonnerman, Avon Firing, Village Voice, Mar. 2, 1999) with Kolb v. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 9:00 am by Holland & Hart
  Advocacy groups including Wyoming Equality and the Matthew Shepard Foundation continue to work toward the passage of a statewide law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. [read post]