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Sixty years ago, on Wednesday, April 8, 1964, Professor Harry Kalven, Jr., gave the second of three lectures at The Ohio State University College of Law Forum.1 These lectures were published two years later in a book entitled The Negro & the 1st Amendment.2 In the second lecture, Kalven distinguished between direct and indirect threats to the associational freedom of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).3 Kalven categorized the 1958 decision in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson4 as an indirect effort to control the NAACP. With the benefit of material obtained from numerous archival sources, this Article argues that Kalven's categorization of Patterson (and the three other rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States5 that it ultimately took to ensure Alabama's compliance with the 1958 decision) was mistaken. Instead, the litigation was designed and intended to put the NAACP out of business (which, in Alabama, it did for eight years). On June 1, 1956, the injunction preventing the NAACP from doing business in the state was secured by Alabama's Attorney General John M. Patterson from Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Walter B. Jones. This Article is narrowly focused on the two years leading up to, and the first few months following June 1, 1956, and is part of an extensive research project focused on the history of this protracted litigation. Ultimately, Alabama's injunction led to an effort to compel the NAACP to turn over its Alabama membership lists to the Attorney General. To borrow and only slightly change Jason Robards's famous line in All the President's Men, 6 nothing was riding on this litigation except the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to peaceably assemble, and the future of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This case commentary considers unique features of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) in the Veterans Health Administration that may potentially mediate and minimize ethical tensions that may arise in MLP collaborations involving diagnosing and documenting disability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: Mental health trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic have been examined in Veterans with tenuous social connections, i.e., those with recent homelessness (RHV) or a psychotic disorder (PSY), and in control Veterans (CTL). We test potential moderating effects on these trajectories by psychological factors that may help individuals weather the socio-emotional challenges associated with the pandemic (i.e., 'psychological strengths'). Methods: We assessed 81 PSY, 76 RHV, and 74 CTL over 5 periods between 05/2020 and 07/2021. Mental health outcomes (i.e., symptoms of depression, anxiety, contamination concerns, loneliness) were assessed at each period, and psychological strengths (i.e., a composite score based on tolerance of uncertainty, performance beliefs, coping style, resilience, perceived stress) were assessed at the initial assessment. Generalized models tested fixed and time-varying effects of a composite psychological strengths score on clinical trajectories across samples and within each group. Results: Psychological strengths had a significant effect on trajectories for each outcome (ps < 0.05), serving to ameliorate changes in mental health symptoms. The timing of this effect varied across outcomes, with early effects for depression and anxiety, later effects for loneliness, and sustained effects for contamination concerns. A significant time-varying effect of psychological strengths on depressive symptoms was evident in RHV and CTL, anxious symptoms in RHV, contamination concerns in PSY and CTL, and loneliness in CTL (ps < 0.05). Conclusion: Across vulnerable and non-vulnerable Veterans, presence of psychological strengths buffered against exacerbations in clinical symptoms. The timing of the effect varied across outcomes and by group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many colleges have moved away from folklore studies and privileged theoretical perspectives believing that the study of folklore is no longer relevant. However, folklore is the study of what people do individually, communally, and societally and why they choose to do so. Understanding people's thoughts and actions at all levels of society and through time cannot be outdated. Using embodied identity as a framework and oral-formulaic analysis as a process clears pathways for a new understanding of how folktales, social practices, and performances capture the lasting effects of imposed historical narratives and beliefs in social hierarchies. Reviewing these forms of communication and their role in creating societal cohesion or discord allows us to adopt a more egalitarian analytical lens that reveals a more accurate picture of ourselves and our societies. KEYWORDS: Colonialism, Suriname, Embodied Space, Liminality, Oral-Formulaic Theory., An encounter I had as an older undergraduate at UCLA captured the experience of becoming aware of 'liminal spaces,' a term coined by William John Thoms in 1846. (Winick 2014). [...]