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Constitutional Law

Mar. 26, 2026

When protection prescribes speech

K. Chike Odiwe

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When protection prescribes speech
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The lawsuit filed by the California Department of Education against the Oakland Unified School District places a familiar but unresolved tension squarely before the law. The state alleges that a public school system failed to protect Jewish students from a discriminatory environment. The district's critics respond that the state has crossed a constitutional line by converting political disagreement in...

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