Professor Hart Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief

<p><a href="/profiles/profile.jsp?id=26" target="_self" title="http://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=26">Associate Professor Melissa Hart</a> filed an amicus brief today in the <a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/06-01431qp.pdf&quot; target="_blank" title="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/06-01431qp.pdf">U.S. Supreme Court</a> on behalf of 48 historians in the case of <a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/06-01431qp.pdf&quot; target="_blank" title="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/06-01431qp.pdf">CBOCS v. Humphries (No. 06-1431)</a>. The case raises the question whether <a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1981.html&quot; target="_blank" title="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1981.html">42 U.S.C. 1981</a>(Equal rights under the law) permits claims for retaliation. The case will be argued on February 20, 2008. <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home/bio_cogletree&quot; target="_blank" title="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home/bio_cogletree">Professor Charles Ogletree</a> and the <a href="http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Home.aspx&quot; target="_blank" title="http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Home.aspx">Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School</a> hired Professor Hart to author the brief. Several second-year students- Warren Myers, Thea Mustari, and Jonathan Friesen¾helped with research on the brief, for which Professor Hart wrote as a pro bono project.</p><p><a href="/news/attachments/06-1431Amicus_Hart.pdf" target="_blank">Read the brief</a>.</p>Read the <a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46308.html&quot; target="_blank" title="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46308.html">History News Network story</a> about the brief