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19 Jul 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Consider that in 1924, the year Forster published A Passage to India, with its depiction of how British colonial rule in India distorted human relationships, the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted its Racial Integrity Act (a “modern” version of its centuries old antimiscegenation law), struck down four decades later in Loving v. [read post]
18 Jul 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Moreover, over 50 years after the Supreme Court invalidated miscegenation laws in Loving v. [read post]
8 Jul 2024, 2:00 am by Patricia McKee
For instance, plaintiffs Richard Frederick Wheeler and Eleanor Geer Huddle sued on behalf of the Vilcabamba River in Ecuador in the case  Wheeler and Huddle v. [read post]
4 Jul 2024, 9:05 pm by Stephen Masterson
In a 6-3 decision, the Court rejected the petitioners’ claim that criminalizing sleeping outdoors is equivalent to criminalizing someone based on their status, which was barred under the Eighth Amendment by the 1962 decision Robinson v. [read post]
1 Jul 2024, 6:45 am by Austin Sarat
”To reach this result, he offered a cramped reading of the 1962 Supreme Court decision in Robinson v. [read post]
1 Jul 2024, 6:42 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Punishing people for their status is 'cruel and unusual' under the Eighth Amendment," she writes.The only precedent that potentially speaks to this issue is Robinson v. [read post]
28 Jun 2024, 10:48 am by Amy Howe
” Instead, he continued, the challengers point to the Supreme Court’s 1962 decision in Robinson v. [read post]
12 Jun 2024, 7:02 am by Ellena Erskine
Lindsey Graham says he will block Democrats’ effort to unanimously pass Supreme Court ethics bill (Zoë Richards, Sahil Kapur, & Frank Thorp V, NBC News) Samuel Alito, caught on tape, reinforces why people are skeptical of the Supreme Court (Joan Biskupic, CNN) Supreme Court’s Greater Revision Transparency Gets Little Notice (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law) Coming up: On Thursday, June 13 and Friday, June 14, the court expects to issue one… [read post]
11 May 2024, 10:09 am by Russell Knight
” 735 ILCS 5/12-107 This prohibition on imprisoning people for mere debt does not ring true in an Illinois divorce court. [read post]
6 May 2024, 8:44 am by Jeff Welty
Some of the questions concerned the distinction between status, which can’t be punished under the Eighth Amendment, see Robinson v. [read post]