Their image stigmatized by the development of the infamous exclusionary zoning decisions4 that bear its name, Mount Laurel Township (“Township”) has long struggled to define its own course in land development. The Township’s power to control the future of its own development was first restricted in the 1970s through judicial activism with the mandating of… continue reading
“I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart–the best brain.” There are many forms of illegal discrimination based on race, color, or national origin that can limit the opportunity of… continue reading
New Jersey is home to six major cities: Jersey City, Trenton, Newark, Camden, Patterson and Atlantic City. Over the past 30 years, these once robust industrial and manufacturing centers have deteriorated into rusty poverty traps and unemployment enclaves. Abandoned factories and dormant, aging warehouses pollute their dreary landscapes and serve as a symbolic “unwelcome” mat… continue reading
Zoning laws can be used to unjustly restrict the poor from moving into adequate housing surrounded by adequate space. This note considers the tension between the constitutional duty in New Jersey requiring municipalities to provide low income housing and the means actually used by those municipalities to provide such housing. The New Jersey Supreme Court… continue reading
Sometimes a change in legal doctrine happens quickly. The attached brief was filed in the Third Circuit in December 2002 and the attached original introduction to the brief written shortly thereafter. At that time, the scope of the parental liberty interest protected by substantive due process had split the federal circuits, with the Seventh and… continue reading
When Enron and WorldCom went bankrupt in 2001 and 2002, scholars, legislators, and corporate leaders scurried to find ways to prevent another major collapse in the U.S. equity markets. They scrutinized accounting practices, financial disclosure requirements, and the various components of corporations to develop new or stronger laws that would prevent future corruption and market… continue reading
Should the rights of over two million people to live freely, self-govern, and ultimately decide their own fate, be sacrificed for the sake of preserving an ever-eroding principle of territorial sovereignty? The aforementioned is a dilemma that the international community will face when deciding the future status of Kosova. Six years after the conclusion of… continue reading
Federal and state housing programs were created decades ago to increase the availability and quality of affordable housing in the United States. Among the most well-known of these federal programs is the Housing Choice Voucher Program (“Section 8”), that provides rental assistance to help meet the housing needs of the poor. Section 8 is administered… continue reading
Most Americans are familiar with whistleblowers, people who go public with information about corruption, fraud and abuse in their own organizations. Whistleblowers are often seen on the nightly news and discussed in the morning newspapers. In December 2002, three whistleblowers were named Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year.” Whistleblowers have been the subject of The… continue reading
The U.S. war on drugs has been waged along class and race lines, both domestically and internationally. Rather than finding long-term solutions to the social development issues in target communities, drug policy has exacerbated problems of poverty and social marginalization. This paper examines how the war on drugs has prejudicially targeted poor people of color… continue reading
