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Follett, Marguerite A., Comp. – 1978
This report contains the following information in regard to the Women's Educational Equity Act: a brief description of the original legislation and the pending legislation; comments on program development; analysis of applications received and funded in the 1978 fiscal year; analysis of three years of funding; identification of products to be…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Equal Protection, Federal Legislation
Lindmark, Joyce A. – 1975
Three changes in trial procedure are proposed to minimize the effects of individual juror bias and those biases that are artifically induced by lawyers. Since certain personality types are likely to maintain whatever prejudices they bring to court, no one should be exempted from jury duty unless he is mentally retarded or physically incapacitated…
Descriptors: Bias, Court Litigation, Court Role, Courts
Sherman, Joel D. – 1976
This paper describes the research that has been required to develop the factual evidence for challenges to inequitable school finance laws and for defenses of school finance reform legislation in Oregon and Wisconsin. Both the challenge to and the defense of school finance legislation use an analytical framework that focuses on the following…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Equal Protection, Expenditure per Student
Tractenberg, Paul L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1976
Discusses written and unwritten tests of teachers and such issues as due process, equal protection, and test validity. (IRT)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Qualifications
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McNamara, Timothy K. – MKC Law Review, 1978
Discusses Yellow Springs Exempted Village School District Board of Education vs Ohio High School Athletic Association where U.S. District Court in Ohio held unconstitutional a state athletic association rule prohibiting girls from participating on the same team as boys in contact sports. Available from City School of Law, 5100 Rockhill Road, K.C.,…
Descriptors: Athletics, Basketball, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Chisholm, Barbara A. – Interchange, 1977
Development of child advocacy theories in the areas of broad constitutional rights and privileges, specific rights and privileges (e.g. work, education, parental responsibilities), and the right of individual participation in the developmental process are slowly changing the legal concept of children as dependent, incompetent, essentially passive…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Civil Rights, Concept Formation, Court Doctrine
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Friedman, Lee S.; Wiseman, Michael – Harvard Educational Review, 1978
The authors examined the effects of school finance reforms on equality of educational opportunities in several states, analyzing court cases in California, New York, and Illinois, and suggest that reform policies may not work as their designers intended. Illinois was used as a case study in constructing tests to measure school finance reform…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Analysis, Court Litigation, Educational Finance
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Strickman, Leonard P. – University of Florida Law Review, 1977
The constitutional ramifications of excluding academically qualified persons from public university degree programs because of their inability to meet tuition requirements are explored. Focus is on equality of access for those without the financial capacity to begin a degree program, and the right to continue for those unable to meet rising…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Equal Education
McCarthy, Martha – NOLPE School Law Journal, 1976
Reviews court cases involving educators' right to classify students and concludes that although that right is not being challenged, the procedures and bases for classification are in some cases being subjected to strict judicial scrutiny under the equal protection clause. (JG)
Descriptors: Classification, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Protection
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Jenkins, Richard L. – Family Coordinator, 1977
The author describes six maxims which are an outgrowth of his experience as an expert witness in cases involving child custody. He emphasizes neutrality regarding the parents, in order to put the child's interests first. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Court Litigation, Decision Making, Divorce
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Collins, Sheila D. – Social Policy, 1987
Current debates about the Constitution fall into the three following categories: (1) reappraisals of consitutional origins; (2) disagreements on hermeneutical principles used in contemporary applications; and (3) discussions of contemporary events whose consequences for law and political stability could not have been foreseen by the Constitution's…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Court Role
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Lobel, Jules – Social Policy, 1987
Discusses the history of the following movements' attitudes towards the Constitution: (1) abolition; (2) feminism; (3) trade unions; (4) socialism and communism; and (5) civil rights and anti-war. Maintains that the tensions in these movements' towards the Constitution represent basic contradictions in the document itself. (PS)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Communism, Constitutional Law
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Arendell, Terry J. – Signs, 1987
Households headed by women are more likely to be poor than those headed by men. The number of impoverished female-headed families is increasing due in part to the rising divorce rate. Other factors are the following: (1) lack of child care; (2) wage discrimination; (3) unfair divorce settlements; and (4) inadequate public assistance. (VM)
Descriptors: Divorce, Economic Status, Equal Protection, Family Income
Irons, Peter; Masugi, Ken – New Perspectives, 1986
The arguments in favor of and against monetary redress for survivors of America's wartime internment camps are presented. Pro-redress arguments emphasize the injustices done the victims. Anti-redress arguments focus on the duties for citizenship and the reasonable actions politicians might have concluded were necessary to win the war. (PS)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Flygare, Thomas J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
A district court decision that the firing of a bisexual counselor violated free speech and equal protection of the law was reversed by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Although the United States Supreme Court declined to review the case, Justices Brennan and Marshall wrote dissenting opinions claiming unresolved constitutional issues. (MLF)
Descriptors: Bisexuality, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Equal Protection
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