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In Donte J. Carter v. United States, the DC Court of Appeals cited Professor Aliza Hochman Bloom’s Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties article “Objective Enough: Race Is Relevant to the Reasonable Person in Criminal Procedure.” Deciding that defendant-appellant Donte Carter was seized, within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, without the required criminal suspicion, the court relied on Hochman Bloom’s article and NYU Professor Daniel Harawa’s recent work arguing that race must be considered when courts make this determination.

“It’s gratifying to see advocates rely on my research in practice and to be cited with scholars I admire,” said Hochman Bloom, whose work has also appeared in the California Law Review, Washington University Law Review, University of Illinois Law Review and Minnesota Law Review.