Short Circuit 158 | Privileges or Immunities and Consent Decrees
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The Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause resurfaces in the Seventh Circuit, where the State of Indiana treated some newcomers differently from some long-time residents. Meanwhile, an Arkansas school district augments a consent decree from the days of school desegregation. But there’s a question of whether it did so for the right reasons.
Transcript: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/short-circuit-158.pdf
Hope v. Commissioner of Indiana Department of Correction, http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2021/D01-06/C:19-2523:J:Rovner:aut:T:fnOp:N:2640105:S:0
Junction City School District v. Arkansas Department of Education, https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/20/12/191340P.pdf
Saenz v. Roe, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/526/489/
Justin Pearson, https://ij.org/staff/justin-pearson/
Robert Peccola, https://ij.org/staff/rpeccola/
Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/
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