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Why Courts Use Laws Tied to Slavery And How to Stop Them

By Renata Sago, Word In Black  That disregard, or disinterest, by the courts led Simard to create the Citing Slavery Project, an online database of hundreds of thousands of instances in which slave-era laws are used to support present-day legal cases. With more than 100 million cases filed each year in state trial courts, Simard and his students […]

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