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...mail was sent after dinner in attempt to clarify the 3L’s point concerning intelligence. According to an article from the legal blog Above the Law, the e-mail said, “I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent...
Such a situation—where the University has funds but is unable to use them because of legal restrictions—has been a common problem in recent years, according to Dominguez...
...assumption is often that the woman was drunk and the man was not at fault," she said, adding that the victim is often blamed for appearing promiscuous or not putting up a fight. "In the face of general and even legal acceptance of violence against women, we need to work to change attitudes and laws, and individual awareness is especially important...
Wendy J. Murphy, a criminal justice system expert, also spoke about the legal difficulty of determining what constitutes rape, especially when alcohol is in the picture, rebutting arguments that a case in which two people are equally drunk—and thus equally unfit to make decisions—cannot be considered rape...
Minter, the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said some people object to the term ‘LGBT community’ because disparate individuals in a range of groups should not be considered a community...