In an effort by the city to help ensure a fair testing process compliant with Title VII Civil Rights act they hired a professional testing company, IO Solutions, Inc. to design and administer a race neutral examination process. ... Out of the top ten scores on the test eight were white, and two were hispanic. ... As stated in the text Multicultural Law Enforcement Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society, fifth edition: Recruiting officers who reflect the gender, racial, ethnic, and sexual orientation, demographics of the community is one important challenge for law enforcement agen...

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She chaired the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project in the 1970s, arguing gender equal protection cases to the Supreme Court. ... Ginsburg believes that judges do not have a clear enough basis of review from the 5th and 14th Amendments to treat gender equal protection problems properly. ... She quotes Jeanne Coyne on the Supreme Court of Minnesota saying, "A wise old man and a wise old woman reach the same conclusion." 9 For Ginsburg, gender is an issue precisely because it should not be an issue. ... Early in his career, Kennedy authored two Fourth Amendment dr...

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A general definition of this guiding principle of diversity is, " any effort taken to fully integrate our society by expanding educational, employment, and contracting opportunities to the multitude of gender, ethnic, national origin, and handicapped-condition groups that have been and remain locked out of full economic, social, and/or political participation in our country." ... Eventually, the Thirteenth (the outlaw of slavery and servitude), Fourteenth (provide due process and equal protection under the law), Fifteenth (prohibits denial of voting rights because of race), and Nineteenth (pro...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, "freedom rides," and rallies received national attention in the struggle to end racial inequality. There were also continuing efforts to legally challenge segregation through the courts. Following the "separate but equal" decision of Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896, many Americans decided to push f...

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Annotated Bibliography The Death Penalty for Juveniles The following research draws upon different opinions and perceptions for and against the further enactment of the death penalty for juvenile offenders. The various articles that are presented draw conclusions on the pros and cons of using the death penalty as punishment for young offenders. Numerous views surfaced in my research such as the views of president Bush, prominent authors and court officials as well as the views of individual states. In order to fully evaluate this sensitive topic I have presented a mixture of opposing p...

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Abstract This paper explores age discrimination and the act of businesses forcing retirement on employees. This paper examines the case of D. Archie Hale v. ABF Systems, Inc. (2011), and Hale's relationship with ABF, a trucking company based in Arkansas with a terminal in Chattanooga, Tennessee. T...

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