by David Shea | Nov 28, 2018 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Policing and Law Enforcement, Racial Justice
For the city of Baltimore, it’s been three long years since Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody was declared a homicide by Baltimore’s state attorney, Marilyn Mosby. After an internal investigation that included reviewing of police tape, the autopsy report,...
by David Shea | Nov 1, 2018 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Housing, Legal History
In 2015, The Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project that seemed to finally confirm the Court’s recognition of a private right to bring “disparate impact” claims of discrimination...
by David Shea | Oct 15, 2018 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Graham Sternberg co-authored this week’s round-up with David Shea. This week the Supreme Court upheld a North Dakota voting law that disproportionately impacts Native Americans, a women’s prison in Arizona...
by David Shea | Oct 4, 2018 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Policing and Law Enforcement, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice
Last fall, CR-CL highlighted the problematic history and application of the lesser known, but more-often used, counterpart to criminal forfeiture: civil asset forfeiture. As a mechanism that generally allows police to seize any personal property they suspect to have...
