Hacking Qualified Immunity: Camera Power and Civil Rights Settlements
Excessive force cases are intensely fact-specific. Did the suspect resist, necessitating the use offorce? What threat did the suspect pose, if any? Was the use of force excessive in light of the situation? These are judgment...
Accelerated Civil Rights Settlements in the Shadow of Section 1983
Accelerated civil rights settlement relies on Section 1983, but in a new way that differs from its previous uses. Still, this paper concludes that just as accelerated civil rights settlement represents brilliant strategy, its...
OFFICERS BEING RECORDED BY CITIZENS WHILE WORKING
ENFORCEMENT ACTION IS NOT THE BEST PRACTICE AND MAY LEAD TO LIABILITY
http://www.patc.com/weeklyarticles/print/2011_recorded.pdf
Roughly one-in-five police frequently feel angry and frustrated on the job Pew Research Center
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/09/roughly-one-in-five-police-frequently-feel-angry-and-frustrated-on-the-job/
Police-Report_FINAL_web Pew Research Center
Amid protests and calls for reform, how police view their jobs, key issues and recent fatal encounters between blacks and police
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/01/Police-Report_FINAL_web.pdf
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18 USC Ch. 119: WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION AND INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATI - Wiretap
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Which types of speech are not protected by the First Amendment
Although different scholars view unprotected speech in different ways, there are basically nine categories:
Obscenity
Fighting words
Defamation (including libel and slander)
Child pornography
Perjury
Blackmail
Incitement to...
The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly
The freedom of assembly has been at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history: antebellum abolitionism, women's suffrage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the labor movement in the Progressive Era and after the New...
The Strange Origins of the Constitutional Right of Association
Although much has been written about the freedom of association and its ongoing importance to American constitutionalism, much recent scholarship mistakenly relies on a truncated history that begins with Roberts v. United States...
The Unsettling ‘Well-Settled’ Law of Freedom of Association
This article brings historical, theoretical, and doctrinal critiques to bear upon the current framework for the constitutional right of association. It argues that the Supreme Court’s categories of expressive and intimate association...
Virtual Assembly
This Article provides one of the first scholarly considerations of the constitutional boundaries for online groups. It explores both why and how we should protect these groups by asking two related questions. The first question is theoretical: do online groups implicate the...
More is More: Strengthening Free Exercise, Speech, and Association
Prominent scholars have suggested that one important means of strengthening the First Amendment is by limiting its protections to “core” interests. Philip Hamburger has asserted the argument most forcefully. His generalized...
The First Amendment’s Public Forum
The quintessential city park symbolizes a core feature of a democratic polity: the freedom of all citizens to express their views in public spaces free from the constraints of government imposed orthodoxy. The city park finds an unlikely cousin in the federal...
Unlawful Assembly as Social Control
Public protests from Occupy to Ferguson have highlighted anew the offense of unlawful assembly. This Article advances the simple but important thesis that contemporary understandings of unlawful assembly cede too much discretion to law enforcement by...
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