The
Color of Law shows how this operated across the United States during the first half of the 20th century and in many places lingers today.
The
Color of Law updates the history of residential racial segregation, relates it to contemporary outbursts of racial enmity, particularly the alienation between blacks and police that is so evident in many poor African American neighborhoods, and humanizes the consequences of racial division in housing.
While not groundbreaking for experts familiar with this history, The
Color of Law is a story particularly well told and should help educate a younger generation of Americans.
In restricting the cemetery fund's use in bankruptcy claims, Randa stated that first, the claimants represented government actors in the proceedings "under
color of law" for Religious Freedom Restoration Act purposes, and that second, depleting the funds would "substantially burden the Trustee's [Archbishop James Listecki's] free exercise of religion."
As for the TVPA, it provides a cause of action against an individual who, under actual or apparent authority, or
color of law, subjects an individual to torture or extrajudicial killing.
Caption: Under
color of law? Tim Demler has been the victim of some pretty interesting shenanigans perpetrated, it appears, by his political enemies.
(27) In addition, the court found the plaintiffs satisfied the state action requirement for other crimes by showing that the Bosnian-Serb leader acted under
color of law because he acted in concert with the state officials of the former Yugoslavia.
"Do its activities--including but not limited to the Securities Valuation Office, System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing, Financial Standards and Accreditation Program, Market Analysis Procedures Working Group, and National Insurance Producer Registry-amount to regulating interstate commerce and/or exercising governmental, authority under
color of Law?" Royce asked.
Nonetheless, adverse possession laws could set off a tremor that would rock the global economy, and there is no harm in requiring people not to steal, even under
color of law. The entire system has to be reinforced with strong values if we have any hope at all of avoiding a complete collapse.
* "The
Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights" by Steven Babson, David Elsila, and Dave Riddle (Wayne State University Press).
1983 under
color of law, Fourth Amendment standards and police misconduct, procedural due process and property interests, absolute immunity for judges and prosecutors, qualified immunity, local government liability, parental liberty interest, and freedom of religion in prison.