Professor Hart Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief
http://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=26">Associate Professor Melissa Hart filed an amicus brief today in the http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/06-01431qp.pdf"; target="_blank" title="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/06-01431qp.pdf">U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 48 historians in the case of http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/06-01431qp.pdf"; target="_blank" title="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/06-01431qp.pdf">CBOCS v. Humphries (No. 06-1431). The case raises the question whether http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1981.html"; target="_blank" title="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1981.html">42 U.S.C. 1981(Equal rights under the law) permits claims for retaliation. The case will be argued on February 20, 2008. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home/bio_cogletree"; target="_blank" title="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home/bio_cogletree">Professor Charles Ogletree and the http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Home.aspx"; target="_blank" title="http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Home.aspx">Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School 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.
Read the http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46308.html"; target="_blank" title="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46308.html">History News Network story about the brief