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Jessica A. Clarke
The Yale Law Journal - Jessica A. Clarke Jessica A. Clarke Article Courts often hold that antidiscrimination law protects “immutable” characteristics, like
Reproductive Rights
law protects “immutable” characteristics, like sex and race. In a series of recent cases, gay rights advocates have persuaded courts to expand the
Forum: Evidence-Based Sentencing and the Taint of Dangerousness
immutable characteristics . . . may exacerbate unwarranted and unjust disparities that are already far too common in our criminal justice system and in
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sentencing decisions on static factors and immutable characteristics . . . may exacerbate unwarranted and unjust disparities that are already far too
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characteristics. As I argue in Part III, however, asylum law protects homosexuals on the basis of their immutable sexual orientation and thus precludes the
Civil-Rights Law
hold that antidiscrimination law protects “immutable” characteristics, like sex and race. In a series of recent cases, gay rights advocates have
Against Immutability
Court’s equal protection jurisprudence. Other scholarly treatments of this subject have examined immutable traits defined as those characteristics that
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Court, to adopt a different under- standing of immutable characteristics.2 Many courts now ask “not whether a characteristic is strictly unchangeable
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of case law and sch… Article Courts often hold that antidiscrimination law protects “immutable” characteristics, like sex and race. In a series of
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completely immutable characteristics such as race or national origin. Second, the fairness rationale does not distinguish weight discrimination