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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 virus has taken the lives of over half a million United States citizens. (1) Although the COVID-19 virus affected people of all walks of life, Indian country (2) was hit particularly hard. (3)...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION Wage theft is a simple idea: an employer steals an employee's wages. (1) In the early 2000s, advocates in the United States first deployed this term to frame employers' failure to comply with wage and hour...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION The Sixth Amendment mandates that a criminal defendant shall have the right to "the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." (1) A defendant who claims that ineffective assistance of counsel denied their...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION In 1993, at 25 years old, Dawn Stephenson pled guilty to bank fraud. (1) Ms. Stephenson took steps to turn her life around: she went to community college, received an associate's degree in human...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 1)The real-time development of multiple, efficacious vaccines through federal alliances with U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies via Operation Warp Speed during the COVID-19 pandemic is a shining achievement. The health...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION When the auto parts plant where he had worked for nine years closed down, Darryl Richardson was excited to land a job as a "picker" at an Amazon warehouse. (1) His excitement was short lived. Richardson...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION Luis Beltran was a maintenance building technician at a nursing home in New Jersey. (2) On March 24, 2020, he performed work in the room of a resident who soon after tested positive for COVID-19. (3) Luis...