Abstract California’s Juvenile Justice System (“CAJJS”) is a complex network of county and state policies and programs enacted with a rehabilitative purpose intended “[t]o provide opportunities for growth and change by identifying and responding to the unique needs of our youth… through effective treatment, education, and interventions in order to encourage positive lifestyles, reduce recidivism,…
Day: April 24, 2023
Serving a Country That Will Not Accommodate Our Religion: The Sikh American Struggle to Choose Between Career or Faith
If somebody says, ‘I’m willing to die for you by defending my country, my unit,’ we should allow them to keep their articles of faith. Jaskirat Singh The United States Trend of Discrimination Against Sikhs Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world, with approximately thirty million followers of the faith worldwide. It is…
Supreme Court Stayed Vaccine Mandate
National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration, 142 S. Ct. 661 (2022) I. Introduction On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court published a landmark ruling regarding the COVID-19 vaccine mandate issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a division of the U.S. Department of Labor. …
Don’t Touch My Hair: How Hair Discrimination Contributes to the Policing of Black and Brown Identities While Upholding White Supremacy
The History of Hair Discrimination Against Black Americans Image by Leighann Blackwood on Unsplash. In order to engage in a meaningful conversation of the significance a person’s hair holds, we must begin by understanding the root of hair discrimination. In the fifteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade took place that robbed individuals of their freedom, rich cultures, traditions,…
The Aftermath of Dobbs: How the Criminalization of Abortion has Obstructed the Exercise of Bodily Autonomy
This Blog addresses the topic of bodily autonomy in relation to the criminalization of abortion because everyone should be entitled to the right to make their own choices, especially when it comes to their bodies, and even greater, their selves as a whole. With the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, the ability to exercise…