Cocaine, Race, and Equal Protection

An equal protection analysis of United States reproductive health policy: gender, race, age, and class.

Equal Protection and Peremptory Challenges

Solicitation for Prostitution: Privacy, Free Speech and Equal Protection

The War between Disparate Impact and Equal Protection

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.1 Title VII was originally enacted as a regulation of interstate commerce and applied only to private employers. In 1972, however, the Act was extended to the public sector pursuant to Congress’s Fourteenth Amendment authority to ensure that ‘‘[n]o State shall . . . deny ...

Rapid and robust protection against cocaine-induced lethality in rats by the bacterial cocaine esterase.

There is no approved means to prevent the toxic actions of cocaine. Cocaine esterase (CocE) is found in a rhodococcal strain of bacteria that grows in the rhizosphere soil around the coca plant and has been found to hydrolyze cocaine in vitro. The esteratic activity of CocE (0.1-1.0 mg, i.v.) was characterized and confirmed in vivo by assessing its ability to prevent cocaine-induced convulsions...