Racially-Motivated Violence and Intimidation: Inadequate State Enforcement and Federal Civil Rights Remedies

Specialty board certification and federal civil rights statutes.

Establishing Rights without Remedies? Achieving an Effective Civil Gideon by Avoiding a Civil Strickland

INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................893 I. AVENUES FOR ESTABLISHING A CIVIL GIDEON ................................898 A. Judicial Strategies ............................................................. 898 1. Federal Due Process Claims ...................................899 2. Federal Equal Protection Claims .........................

Civil Remedies and Crime Prevention: an Introduction

Civil remedies are procedures and sanctions, specified by civil statutes and regulations, used to prevent or reduce criminal problems and incivilities. Civil remedies generally aim to persuade or coerce nonoffending third parties to take responsibility and action to prevent or end criminal or nuisance behavior. Early examples of civil remedy approaches typically targeted non-offending third par...

GINA, genism, and civil rights.

Culminating its 13-year legislative gestation, The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), was signed by President George W. Bush on May 21, 2008. GINA is the first major federal law to come out of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) portion of the Human Genome Project. The passage of GINA has been widely celebrated. For the genetic research community, the act was sought...

Federal civil rights policy and mental health treatment access for persons with limited English proficiency.

As noted in the supplement to the U.S. Surgeon General's report on mental health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001), overcoming language access barriers associated with limited English proficiency (LEP) should help to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care access and quality. Federal policy requires remedial action to overcome language barriers: Under Ti...