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+The use of greater legal reform creates legal grey holes—piecemeal reform is legal legitimation without meaningful legal constrains; that’s terminal defense to the AFF. Feldman ‘15 |
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+Police Violence and the Legal Temporalities of Immunity Leonard Feldman Hunter College, CUNY. 2015 |
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+The advantage of Dyzenhaus’ “legal grey holes” concept over the concept of “ |
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+even as fully consistent with norms of due process, reasonableness and equality. |
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+The history of qualified immunity court decisions shows how each attempt to create more sound civil rights litigation procedures ends up inadvertently expanding protection for police officers. Layering temporalities, creating legal time frames, and replacing bright line rules with balancing tests prove how every single immunity reform just creates larger legal indeterminacy. The affirmative simply adds onto that indeterminacy turning case. Feldman ‘15 |
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+Police Violence and the Legal Temporalities of Immunity Leonard Feldman Hunter College, CUNY. 2015 |
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+My argument in this section is that the Supreme Court has created a legal grey |
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+to the factual circumstances as they appeared to a reasonable officer on the scene |
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+. In 2006, the Supreme Court in Scott v. Harris went even further |
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+determination of “qualified immunity,” which I discuss in the next section. |
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+Legal reforms hurt social justice– starting from the perspective of legal solutions forecloses the political imaginary and hampers radical solutions—turns the aff Kandaswamy ‘12 |
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+Kandaswamy 12 (Priya Kandaswamy; Associate Professor Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; “THE OBLIGATIONS OF FREEDOM AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL EQUALITY” SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW Vol. 41, pg 265, 1/21/2012) |
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+Despite a vast array of critiques that have elucidated the ways in which the U |
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+could look like and locate legal interventions in relation to this broader vision. |
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+The negative advocates a rejection of the faith the affirmative places in the law’s ability to solve social problems in favor of critical analysis of the laws purported objectivity and its violent exclusion of alternative perspectives. Singer ‘84 |
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+“The Player and the Cards: Nihilism and Legal Theory,” Yale Law Journal (94 Yale L.J. 1), November, http://www.jstor.org/stable/796315 |
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+What shall we do then about legal theory? I think we should abandon the |
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+live together. We are going to have to answer that question ourselves. |
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+We ought to prioritize movements for deconstructive resistance over blind faith in legal studies. Only the alt can effectively contest domestic cultures of violence. Hirst ‘15 |
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+Hirst ‘15 (Aggie She, Lecturer in International Politics @ City University London, “Derrida and Political Resistance: The Radical Potential of Deconstruction” Globalizations, Vol. 12.1) |
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+There are many manifestations of the practical consequences of deconstructive resistance across a range of |
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+and interventions are by no means dissociable from the concrete sphere of global politics |
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+. While certainly not their sole origin or source, socio-political framings and |
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+commitments, dealing with difference in terms and contexts other than the familiar. |