The Place of “Higher Law” in the Quotidian (Lesbian Porn Star) Practice of Law
The Place of “Higher Law” in the Quotidian Practice of Law
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THE SUPERMAN OF BASEBALL’S OLD BOY’S CLUB: THE TRUE AND AMAZING STORY OF HOW, WITH A SINGLE HAND, BRANCH RICKEY SLOWED A SPEEDING BULLET TO “ALL DELIBERATE SPEED”
Is there an American who has advanced beyond the sixth grade unfamiliar with that most affirming morality tale in American history - the story of Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball in 1947? As symbolic and ingrained in the national fabric as the game is, it was seen, and has been recalled, as an American tipping point. Because baseball in America had mirrored the nation’s racial practices for decades, the event was perceived as momentous and precipitous because here, baseball foreshadowed nationwide, federally-imposed and endorsed desegregation, coming as it did seven years before the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. As the story goes, once Major League Baseball rejected the “separate but equal” fiction of the Court’s 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, it was inevitable that the case was on its last legs. It is not the only story that can be told, however. The same facts and information that lead to the popular tale can also lead to a different one; one which is equally illuminating in that it shows men in a powerful institution doing all they could to beat back a rising tide against them - the tide of integration - that threatened their status and way of life. One which is not so much a story of equality but one where these powerful men fought to maintain control over the process of integration such that the resulting “story” was one about equality only in its most superficial sense, with true equality having been delayed and denied to the majority of African Americans despite the success of Jackie Robinson. For in the end, although the powerful men may not have been able to alter history itself to the extent they desired, they could, however, greatly affect how that history was recounted and remembered. The popular story of the integration of Major League Baseball is perhaps one of the most resonant and powerful in our culture. But, at its core, it is simply that: a story. One that, like most stories, is complete with gaps and inconvenient facts left on the cutting room floor. What follows is another story - one that sweeps up these facts and picks them out of the dustbin of history in order to tell a far different tale of the integration of “America’s game.” It is likely that the powerful men would be far less pleased with this story, exposing as it does their flaws, fears and misperceptions. But that is precisely why they have chosen not to tell it.
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How many procedural safeguards does it take to get a psychiatrist to leave the lightbulb unchanged?
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The not-so Weisman: The Supreme Court’s continuing misuse of social science research
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SELF- LOVE AND FORGIVENESS: A Holy Alliance?
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How the Separation of Powers Doctrine Shaped the Executive
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Delivering the Goods: Herein of Mead, Delegations, and Authority
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