Susan L Pollet

June 27, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Susan L. Pollet, the executive director of the Pace Women's Justice Center, wrties that it seems that we read news stories almost daily reporting about estranged husbands and boyfriends hunting down women at work, and ultimately killing these women before committing suicide. The "spillover" of domestic violence into the workplace is a widespread phenomenon and one that employers must acknowledge and deal with.

By Susan L. Pollet

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January 04, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Susan L. Pollet, executive director of the Pace Women's Justice Center, writes that many of us know adoptees who have a fervent desire to meet their biological parents or to have access to the medical history of those parents for their use, and for that of their own children. For some adult adoptees, this "need to know" becomes a "mission" in their lives. The open adoption records debate is about that search.

By Susan L. Pollet

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December 22, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Susan L. Pollet, counsel and director of the New York State Parent Education & Awareness Program, writes: In New York more than 90 counties, cities, towns and villages in the state have local laws limiting where sex offenders can live. Commentators have argued that when the U.S. Supreme Court does rule on the constitutionality of residency restrictions, they will find that those that are too broad violate the right against self incrimination, the right to inter- and intrastate travel, the right to procedural and substantive due process and may not survive ex post facto challenges.

By Susan L. Pollet

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July 15, 2002 | New York Law Journal

W hat is a "hate crime?" Shoot up a school because you hate teachers or a courthouse because you hate lawyers: not a hate crime. Shoot up a senior-citizens center because you hate old people or a Chinese New Year`s parade because you hate Asians: a hate crime.

By Susan L. Pollet

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December 23, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Susan L. Pollet, the coordinator of the New York State Parent Education and Awareness Program of the Office of Court Administration, writes that legal scholars have begun to look at the law and emotion literature (the role of emotion on the law) in the context of family law, and while that literature had focused on "negative emotions such as anger, disgust and vengefulness," one scholar explored the law's ability to facilitate positive emotions, such as "love, hope, and forgiveness" in the context of what he calls a "healing divorce."

By Susan L. Pollet

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August 06, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Susan L. Pollet, Coordinator of the New York State Parent Education and Awareness Program, discusses some of the issues divorcing parents of a special needs child must consider, including: guardianship if one or both parents should die before the child reaches majority; conservatorship vs. self-sufficiency once the child reaches majority; and a determination of who will act as advocate for the child once the parents have died.

By Susan L. Pollet

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April 16, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Susan L. Pollet, the coordinator of the New York State Parent Education and Awareness Program of the Office of Court Administration, writes that New York, with the passage of the Safe Harbor for Exploited Children Act that took effect on April 1, has taken a momentous step forward in recognizing and addressing the needs of commercially sexually exploited children. More states need to do the same.

By Susan L. Pollet

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December 20, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Susan L. Pollet, an attorney in Westchester County and New York City, writes that, by one estimate, close to 60 percent of married immigrant women experience domestic violence, and while the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2000 removed some obstacles that battered immigrant women face, serious gaps remain.

By Susan L. Pollet

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