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Search results for "Civil Rights Act" ...
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White Mayor's Burden
In the summer of 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced he was starting the Young Man's Initiative, a multi-million dollar public-private partnership to "help" young black and Latino male New Yorkers. What he neglected to mention in the rollout was that under his tenure, New York City has arrested record numbers of black and Latino young men using the controversial "stop and frisk" technique, has suspended record numbers of black and Latino men from schools, and has actively fought a federal lawsuit to make the Fire Department comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Tags: Civil Rights Act of 1964; Michael Bloomberg; Mayor; New York City; Young Man's Initiative Black; Latino; Fire Department
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May I See Some Identification? The Real ID Act will change current New Mexico driver's license laws and could pose a serious threat to civil liberties
The author investigates the impact that the Real ID Act, which mandates a federal ID card system, could have on New Mexico. The author explores the ways that the new law could affect immigration, civil liberties, and states rights. The author focuses specifically on how the law will affect New Mexico's illegal immigrants, because the bill nullifies a current state law that allows illegal immigrants to legally receive a New Mexico driver's license.
Tags: ID; immigration; naturalization; Real ID Act. Driver's License
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Detroit's Terror Trial
In 2003, three men in Detroit were tried on charges of terror-related crimes. They were all of Arab descent and had phony passports. After all three were convicted, reporters conducted an investigation of the trial and found that at least a hundred documents had been withheld from defense lawyers and the chief witness against the men was an international con-artist. The convictions were thrown out and the prosecutor was charged with misconduct.
Tags: war on terror; attorney general John Ashcroft; Patriot Act; sleeper-cells; terrorism; consititutional rights; civil rights; FBI; justice department; federal court
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Telling Tales Out of School
"Educators are duping parents, lying to them, and experimenting on their children. That's what legislators nationwide are hearing as they ponder laws that would codify parent rights. The question is: What do these tales, so full of sound and fury, really signify?" Education Week then examines recent political movements and law suits, and attempts to answer that question.
Tags: education; lawsuit; legislation; parents; civil court; representative; rights; politics; sex education; condoms; birth control; supreme court; constitution; federalism; Chip Angell; counselor; parental rights and responsibilities act
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Serial Tiller
A con man with 27 felony convictions decided to shift his act over to fleecing prisoners and their families. John Gary Tiller previously took advantage of banks and small businesses but when he formed the Civil Rights Legal Defense Team he found a con that would get little criticism. The CRLDT was a law firm that advertised help for inmates and their families in fighting for their release. Once the families or prisoners paid money upfront Tiller's law firm would disappear or perform very little work. As a law firm it was a sham anyway since Tiller did not hold a law degree. Only one member of the CRLDT actually was a lawyer and he was disbarred. Tiller got away with all of it. Fleecing businessmen was illegal but taking advantage of inmates was not as big a deal.
Tags: criminal justice; corrections; cons; law; lawyers; civil defense; inmates; prisoners; prisons; jail
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Second String: Gender inequality in high school athletics
Carl Prine, in a four-part series, details the gender inequalities in athletics at 129 high schools in southwestern Pennsylvania see how well the 1972 Title IX of the Educational Amendments is being enacted in schools. "At each school, the Trib examined the athletic program's participation rates; money spent on equipment, training, travel, uniforms and officials; and coaching salaries for the 1999-2000 school year." While the number of girls interested and playing sports is increasing, Prine investigates why the majority of high school athletic resources go to boys. The Tribune-Review found out that policy in some schools makes sure that two out of every three athletes are boys, for every tax dollar spent on sports, 69 cents goes to boys athletics, school booster clubs poured dollars - sometimes illegally - into boys while neglecting girls, some schools rarely hire female coaches or athletic directors, and few schools and districts hire people to oversee the enforcement of Title IX violations.
Tags: sports; Title IX; National Collegiate Athletic Association; Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association; Civil Rights Restoration Act; Office of Civil Rights; girls athletes
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How public is losing legal rights
San Francisco Chronicle investigates the loss of civil rights, resulting from mandatory arbitration imposed on employees. Many workers sign their employment contracts without reading the text in fine print, which binds them to accept the arbitration clause, the story reveals. Under the court rulings, arbitrators can be "wholly unqualified" to decide civil right cases, and "are rarely required to follow the law." Other flaws of the system include prohibitive filing fees, limited size of awards, and reluctance by most arbitration firms to enforce ethics codes.
Tags: Federal Arbitration Act; conflicts of interest; judges; courts; business; fairness standards; labor; Supreme Court; civil rights; discrimination; wrongful firing
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Serving Up Civil Rights
Somewhere within the powers granted by the "commerce clause" of the constitution lies the right to keep restaurants from discriminating against customers and to regulate ponds on private property used by migratory birds. Ghannam reports on the changes to civil rights and other rights that might be effected if the commerce clause is weakened by the Supreme Court.
Tags: Kazenbach v. McClung; Civil Rights Act; aggregation doctrine; Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. US; US v. Lopez; US v. Morrison; Soild Waste Agency v. US Army Corps of Engineers; Gibbs v. Babbitt; commerce clause
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Second String: Gender Inequalities in High School Athletics
Carl Prine, in a four-part series, details the gender inequalities in athletics at 129 high schools in southwestern Pennsylvania. "At each school, the Trib examined the athletic program's participation rates; money spent on equipment, training, travel, uniforms and officials; and coaching salaries for the 1999-2000 school year." While the number of girls interested and playing sports is increasing, Prine investigates why more schools aren't upholding Title IX rules and the issues surrounding this long-lived debate.
Tags: sports; Title IX; National Collegiate Athletic Association; Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association; Civil Rights Restoration Act; Office of Civil Rights; gender; inequalities; education
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Bashing the Disabled
Kathi Wolfe presents a first person account of being disabled and how the treatment she's encountered in Washington, D.C., is a new kind of hate crime against people with disabilities. Her's is not unique--there's a frightening backlash against not only disabled people, but minorities, gays and all those whose civil rights need protection. (November, 1995)
Tags: Wolfe Bashing the Disabled Americans with Disabilities Act ADA wheelchairs