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CASE STUDIES |
Oct. 21, 2009 |
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"Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity Through the State Courts"
Case Category: Education
By: Michael Rebell (Columbia University, and Campaign for Educational Equity Faculty)
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Countering the recent slew of books by Eric Hanushek, Al Lindseth, Paul Peterson and other critics of education adequacy and sound basic education litigations, a new book by Michael A. Rebell argues that successful outcomes in these cases, which have been initiated in dozens of states, is essential ...
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CASE STUDIES |
Oct. 19, 2009 |
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"Have Angels Done More? The Steel Industry Consent Decree"
Written: Jan. 1, 1983
By: Casey Ichniowski (MIT, Sloan School Student)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Jan., 1983), pp. 182-198
This study analyzes the consent decree of 1974 that reformed plant seniority systems in basic steel to resolve problems of equal employment opportunity. The author argues that the major factors leading to the negotiation of this industry-wide decree were the large number of plant-level suits being ...
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Oct. 16, 2009 |
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"The Law Transmission System and the Southern Jurisprudence of Employment Discrimination"
By: Alfred W. Blumrosen (Rutgers Faculty)
6 Indust. Relations L.J. 313 (1984)
This article uses the history of the nationwide steel industry consent decrees, entered in 1974 against nine of the 10 largest steel manufacturers, to assess law transmission. The abstract explains: During the past seven years, the Supreme Court has restricted the expansive reading given Title ...
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CASE STUDIES |
Oct. 16, 2009 |
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"Steel Industry Consent Decrees—A Model for the Future"
By: Moore
3 Employee Rel. L.J. 214 (1977)
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CASE STUDIES |
Oct. 16, 2009 |
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"Have Angels Done More? The Steel Industry Consent Decree"
By: Ichniowski
36 Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev. 182 (1983)
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CASE STUDIES |
Sep. 2, 2009 |
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"Legal Accountability in the Service-Based Welfare State: Lessons from Child Welfare Reform"
Case Category: Child Welfare
By: Kathleen G. Noonan, Charles F. Sabel, William H. Simon (Center for High Impact Philanthropy , Columbia Law School and Stanford Law School Faculty)
34 Law & Soc. Inquiry 523 (Summer 2009)
Current trends intensify the longstanding problem of how the rule of law should be institutionalized in the welfare state. Welfare programs are being redesigned to increase their capacities to adapt to rapidly changing conditions and to tailor their responses to diverse clienteles. These ...
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CASE STUDIES |
Sep. 2, 2009 |
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"Judicial Policymaking and Juvenile Detention Reform: A Case Study of Jimmy Doe et al. v. Cook County"
By: Emily N. Winfield (University of Iowa Law Student)
12 J. Gender Race & Just. 225 (Fall 2008)
[From the introduction:] In 1889, the nation's juvenile court system originated in Cook County with the passage of the Juvenile Court Act. Now this system, once heralded for its innovation, finds itself unable to account for its failure to provide even the most basic protection for juveniles ...
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CASE STUDIES |
Aug. 25, 2009 |
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"Jones v. Mayer Revisited"
By: Mira Tanna (Metro St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council)
57 Cleveland State Law Review No. 2 (2009)
The article traces the history of the landmark fair housing case that came out of the St. Louis area and was heard before the Supreme Court in 1968. The case was taken by the Greater St. Louis Committee for Freedom of Residence, an open housing organization that was headed by Ruth Porter. The ...
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