Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2020, Volume 33, Number 2
Content
- A Long and Winding Road to Undo Bad Supreme Court Law
- Affirmative Action Quandaries the Affirmative Action Puzzle: a Living History from Reconstruction to Today (Pantheon:322 Pages) By Melvin I. Urofsky
- Editor's Foreword Sweet Successes — On or About 31 Flavors
- From the Section Chair News for a New World
- Insurance Coverage Analysis Avoids Malpractice Landmines
- Intellectual Property Litigation and Other Updates in the Video Game Industry as of April 2020
- Masthead
- MCLE Article Threats, Extortion and Legitimate Advocacy
- Navigating the New Settled Statement Procedures
- Nuts and Bolts of Videoconference Dispute Resolution in the Time of Covid-19
- Recent Legislative Changes Affect Long-Standing Pre-Trial Discovery Practice
- Showing Lack of Probable Cause: Plaintiff's Burden of Proof in Opposing an Anti-Slapp Motion Attacking a Malicious Prosecution Claim
- Stringfellow Acid Pits: the Toxic and Legal Legacy By Brian Craig
- Table of Contents
- That Family Is Wrong for You: Religious Objections Before the Supreme Court
- The Puzzle of Precedent in the California Court of Appeal
- From Cla's Ceo a Personal Plea for Addressing the Root Causes of Racism
FROM CLA’S CEO A Personal Plea for Addressing the Root Causes of Racism
By Ona Alston Dosunmu
In addition to being the CEO and Executive Director of CLA, I am also an attorney. The death of George Floyd has affected me and turned my attention to the meaningful policy interventions that lawyers can champion to help reduce the likelihood that others suffer the same fate. But this month’s piece is less about those policy interventions than it is the personal cry of a mother, a wife and a sister to Black men.
Ahmaud Arbery. Trayvon Martin. Eric Garner. Philando Castile. Botham Jean. Michael Brown. Freddie Gray. Walter Scott. Tamir Rice.
George Floyd is just one of many in a long line of Black men and boys who have died at the hands of police or at the hands of vigilantes who are confident that when it comes to Black men, they may act with impunity. The facts, circumstances, and law around these incidents are varied and complicated but the root cause is not. Many people are incapable of seeing African Americans as fully human. Added to this is the demonization of Black men as "criminals" and "thugs."