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11 Feb 2020, 1:36 pm by Steve Lash
ANNAPOLIS – Gay rights activists hailed legislation Tuesday that would bar murder defendants from claiming they were provoked to violence after discovering the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity in an effort to reduce their offense to manslaughter, a defense most famously tried by the killers of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in the ... [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 2:32 pm by Marty Lederman
  (It doesn't, for example, allege that Thomas knew he was intruding upon a Sabbath or holiday celebration.)Second, if the government had chosen to prosecute under Subsection 249(a)(1) of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, it wouldn't have to prove any connection to interstate or foreign commerce because that provision is an exercise of Congress's enforcement power under Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment--an authority that can be applied to… [read post]
11 Aug 2019, 7:32 am by John Floyd
The federal government now has four primary hate-crime related statutes:   Civil Rights Act of 1968; Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (1994); Church Arson Prevention Act (1996); and Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Koch was found guilty last December of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 10:48 am by Steven D. Schwinn
The Fourth Circuit this week rejected an as-applied Commerce Clause challenge to the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd, Jr. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 1:15 pm by [email protected]
While the federal act is often associated with the killing of Matthew Shepard, a gay student who was beaten to death in Wyoming, the law’s full name is the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 1:15 pm by [email protected]
While the federal act is often associated with the killing of Matthew Shepard, a gay student who was beaten to death in Wyoming, the law’s full name is the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 10:30 am by Catherine Biondo
ASPIRE PROGRAM FOR GRADUATES ENGAGED IN NON-PROFIT WORK:  The ASPIRE program provides 12 months of free access to federal and state cases, codes, regulations, law reviews, Shepard’s® Citation Service and Matthew Bender® treatises to graduates who are engaged in verifiable 501(c)(3) public interest work. [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 4:41 pm by Jennifer Long
However, Matthew Shepard’s death galvanized the issue for the American public. [read post]
11 Oct 2018, 12:07 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Washington Post [paywall] – His family didn’t bury his remains after Shepard was beaten and left to die near Laramie, Wyo., out of concern that the site would be desecrated: “When Matthew Shepard died on a cold night 20 years ago, after being beaten with a pistol butt and tied to a split-rail wood fence, his parents cremated the 21-year-old and kept his ashes, for fear of drawing attention to a resting place of a person who was a victim of one of the… [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]
29 Jul 2018, 7:22 pm by Tom Smith
In it, we argue that Section 249(a)(1) of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (the "HCPA") is unconstitutional. [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 5:10 am by Gail Heriot
In it, we argue that Section 249(a)(1) of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (the "HCPA") is unconstitutional. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 6:30 am by Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
A los fines de alcanzar los propósitos dispuestos en este estatuto, esta definición será interpretada tan ampliamente como sea necesario para extender sus beneficios a todo ciudadano expuesto a un episodio o patrón de discrimen y de conformidad con lo dispuesto en la Ley Federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. [read post]
22 May 2017, 9:14 am by Farrah Nagrampa
 Graduates engaged in verifiable 501(c)(3) public interest work may apply to the ASPIRE program, which provides 12 months of free access to federal and state cases, codes, regulations, law reviews, Shepard’s Citation Service and Matthew Bender treatises. [read post]