ABSTRACT The child welfare system ostensibly exists to protect children. However, its methods—investigating allegations of abuse and neglect, filing cases against parents in court, removing children from their parents, and, in thousands of cases each year, permanently severing the legal
ABSTRACT Although the 1966 amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 were originally designed to empower civil rights lawyers to advance systemic reform, the modern damages class has evolved into a primarily private, profit-driven enterprise. The resulting disconnect between
ABSTRACT Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court held in Goss v. Lopez that students have cognizable property and liberty interests in their education. However, when stu- dents are accused of breaking school rules, that interest can be stripped away with
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