Professor Chin Comments on Ninth Circuit Ruling for Arizona Public Radio

Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin commented for Arizona National Public Radio affiliate KJZZ on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling regarding an Arizona law that banned ethnic studies programs from public schools. On July 7, the Ninth Circuit upheld parts of the law, but also remanded to the U.S. District Court in Arizona a claim by plaintiffs that the law was enacted with discriminatory intent.

"The issue is whether the law was motivated by discrimination and the Court of Appeals said we're looking at all the information that's available and the types of evidence they're looking at are the statements, behavior, motivation of the people who were involved in passage of the law," Chin said.

Gabriel "Jack" Chin, who joined the King Hall faculty in 2011, is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.

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