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United States Of America V. Robert Jared Smith, A/K/A J-Dog, Appeal From The United States District Court For The Southern District Of West Virginia, Margaret M. Lawton Nov 2008

United States Of America V. Robert Jared Smith, A/K/A J-Dog, Appeal From The United States District Court For The Southern District Of West Virginia, Margaret M. Lawton

Margaret M. Lawton

No abstract provided.


Cyber Embargo: Countering The Internet Jihad, Gregory S. Mcneal Apr 2008

Cyber Embargo: Countering The Internet Jihad, Gregory S. Mcneal

Greg McNeal

Terrorists are engaged in an online jihad, characterized by the use of the internet to fundraise, distribute messages and directives, recruit and proselytize. It is impossible to shut down the entire presence of terrorists on the internet; however, this article details a proposal which can have a marked impact on the presence of terrorists on the internet. Using existing statutes, it is possible to regionalize terrorist websites, limiting them to an extremely small number of countries from which they may receive internet services. Once the terrorist message is limited to a particular region, a modification of current laws can allow …


The Fourth Amendment And Privacy Implications Of Interior Immigration Enforcement, Anil Kalhan Jan 2008

The Fourth Amendment And Privacy Implications Of Interior Immigration Enforcement, Anil Kalhan

Anil Kalhan

This Article proposes privacy as a descriptive and normative framework to analyze the constellation of recent initiatives to expand interior enforcement of federal immigration laws. By expanding the circumstances in which individuals are expected to demonstrate their lawful presence in the United States, these various initiatives seek to transform the significance of immigration and citizenship status in day-to-day life from something largely invisible and irrelevant to something visible and salient in a variety of settings. This transformation, however, carries underappreciated social costs. Building upon scholarship theorizing privacy as protecting a set of social or structural interests, and using the U.S. …


Beyond Guantanamo, Obstacles And Options, Greg Mcneal Dec 2007

Beyond Guantanamo, Obstacles And Options, Greg Mcneal

Greg McNeal

The essay focuses on the structure of the military commission system, to date left largely unaltered by Boumediene, but which Congressional reformers will need to modify in order to ensure fair trials. In Part 1, I identify three specific structural reforms necessary to improve military commissions. In Part 2, I focus on obstacles created by the current commissions system which will affect the ability of Congressional reformers to abolish military commissions or transition to national security courts.


Drugs And Justice, Erik Luna, Margaret Battin Dec 2007

Drugs And Justice, Erik Luna, Margaret Battin

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


Shared Sovereign Immunity As An Alternative To Federal Preemption: An Essay On The Attribution Of Responsibility For Harm To Others, Martin A. Kotler Dec 2007

Shared Sovereign Immunity As An Alternative To Federal Preemption: An Essay On The Attribution Of Responsibility For Harm To Others, Martin A. Kotler

Martin A. Kotler

Beginning with the Supreme Court’s 1992 decision in Cipollone, courts have engaged in the practice of parsing the preemption language of federal legislation ostensibly to determine whether Congress intended to preclude the possibility of imposing liability on manufacturers under state products liability law. This article argues that congressional intent is largely a fiction and the cases based on it have been improperly decided. Nevertheless, the results reached in many of the cases are intuitively appealing. The reason for this is that the results commonly are based on the long-standing fairness principle that one should not be subjected to liability in …


Responding To Potential Employee Misconduct In The Age Of The Whistleblower: Foreseeing And Avoiding Hidden Dangers, Lucian E. Dervan Dec 2007

Responding To Potential Employee Misconduct In The Age Of The Whistleblower: Foreseeing And Avoiding Hidden Dangers, Lucian E. Dervan

Lucian E Dervan

The number of law suits brought against corporations in the United States as a result of employee whistleblowers has risen in recent years. There are two predominant reasons for this trend. First, publicity surrounding cases such as Enron in the early 2000s have made employees more sensitive to potential misconduct in the workplace. For instance, a 2007 study found that 56% of employees reported that they had observed conduct that “violated company ethics standards, policy, or the law” in the previous twelve months. Second, employees are now more aware of the role of whistleblowers and are more likely to report …


Stripping Judicial Review During Immigration Reform: The Certificate Of Reviewability, Jill E. Family Dec 2007

Stripping Judicial Review During Immigration Reform: The Certificate Of Reviewability, Jill E. Family

Jill E. Family

Congress contemplated a drastic change during the 2005-2006 immigration reform debate that sought to narrow access to the federal courts: a proposed certificate of reviewability requirement. The requirement would compel foreign nationals subject to an administrative removal order to obtain permission from a single federal court of appeals judge to access the federal courts. The U.S. House of Representatives endorsed the requirement but the U.S. Senate dropped it from its slate of immigration reform priorities. Why did the requirement disappear from the Senate's agenda during an era of increased congressional restrictions on judicial review of immigration cases?

A definitive answer …


Threats To The Future Of The Immigration Class Action, Jill E. Family Dec 2007

Threats To The Future Of The Immigration Class Action, Jill E. Family

Jill E. Family

The immigration class action, a form of action that litigants have used to achieve systematic reform, is under threat. This paper examines three threats to the immigration class action: (1) a general congressional willingness to restrict immigration judicial review; (2) the application of waivers of judicial review to immigration law and (3) legislative jurisdiction-stripping attacks more specific to the immigration class action. The general congressional willingness to strip immigration judicial review sets the atmosphere for proposals to require judicial review waivers as a condition of obtaining an immigration benefit and for jurisdiction-stripping legislation aimed more specifically at the class action. …


Peace: A Public Purpose For Punitive Damages?, Symposium: Punitive Damages, Due Process, And Deterrence: The Debate After Philip Morris V. Williams, Christopher J. Robinette Dec 2007

Peace: A Public Purpose For Punitive Damages?, Symposium: Punitive Damages, Due Process, And Deterrence: The Debate After Philip Morris V. Williams, Christopher J. Robinette

Christopher J Robinette

There is widespread agreement that tort (and criminal) law developed historically as an alternative to violence. Given that pedigree, it is not surprising that preserving the peace would be pursued as a goal of punitive damages, as is claimed in several cases and law review articles. The precise relationship between peace and punitive damages is left relatively vague. However, a recent article by Professor Anthony Sebok can be used to fill in the details.

Professor Sebok constructs a private-law theory of punitive damages that emphasizes two features. First, punitive damages are awarded for violations of only a certain kind of …


Introduction, Crimtorts Symposium, Christopher J. Robinette Dec 2007

Introduction, Crimtorts Symposium, Christopher J. Robinette

Christopher J Robinette

Crimtorts is a word coined by Professors Thomas Koenig and Michael Rustad to describe the middle ground between criminal and tort law. Crimtorts is not a new body of law or even a new cause of action. Rather, crimtorts is an explicit recognition that criminal law principles of punishment and deterrence have been assimilated into tort law. The extent of the assimilation and its effects on the tort system are issues that merit robust consideration.

The Crimtorts symposium, held at the Widener University School of Law on February 25, 2008, took up this challenge. The participants were Professors Martha Chamallas, …


Establishing Separate Criminal And Civil Evidence Codes, John J. Capowski Dec 2007

Establishing Separate Criminal And Civil Evidence Codes, John J. Capowski

John J. Capowski

This article suggests that the Federal Rules of Evidence (Rules) should be separated into distinct criminal and civil evidence codes. The arguments for this separation are both practical and theoretical, and this article is the first comprehensive discussion of this proposed separation.

The most important of the arguments for bifurcation is that our current unified evidence code leads to inappropriate admission decisions. These inappropriate admission decisions most often occur when the interpretation of a rule in a criminal case is applied in later civil law cases. This result is in part because our rules, and their interpretations, are transubstantive; they …


Immigration Enforcement And Federalism After September 11, 2001, Anil Kalhan Dec 2007

Immigration Enforcement And Federalism After September 11, 2001, Anil Kalhan

Anil Kalhan

In recent years, the U.S. federal government has aggressively sought to involve state and local government institutions more extensively and directly in the day-to-day regulation of immigration status and the interior enforcement of federal immigration laws. In this chapter, I discuss two sets of these initiatives - the efforts to involve state and local police in routine immigration enforcement and the development of federal issuance and eligibility standards for state driver's licenses - in order to explore the ways in which these developments may challenge conventional assumptions about the relationships between state and local governments and their non-U.S. citizen residents. …


Fourth Amendment Protection For Stored E-Mail, Susan Freiwald, Patricia L. Bellia Dec 2007

Fourth Amendment Protection For Stored E-Mail, Susan Freiwald, Patricia L. Bellia

Susan Freiwald

The question of whether and how the Fourth Amendment regulates government access to stored e-mail remains open and pressing. A panel of the Sixth Circuit recently held in Warshak v. United States, 490 F.3d 455 (6th Cir. 2007), that users generally retain a reasonable expectation of privacy in the e-mails they store with their Internet Service Providers (ISPs), which implies that government agents must generally acquire a warrant before they may compel ISPs to disclose their users' stored e-mails. The Sixth Circuit, however, is reconsidering the case en banc. This Article examines the nature of stored e-mail surveillance and argues …


Electronic Surveillance At The Virtual Border, Susan Freiwald Dec 2007

Electronic Surveillance At The Virtual Border, Susan Freiwald

Susan Freiwald

A virtual border divides people into two groups: those subject to the Fourth Amendment’s protections when the U.S. government conducts surveillance of their communications and those who are not. The distinction derives from a separation in powers: inside the virtual border, U.S. citizens and others enjoy the extensive oversight of the judiciary of executive branch surveillance. Judges review such surveillance before, during, and after it transpires. Foreign persons subject to surveillance in foreign countries fall within the executive branch’s’ foreign affairs function. However, the virtual border does not exactly match the physical border of the United States. Some people inside …


Legal Services Support Centers And Rebellious Advocacy: A Case Study Of The Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Bill Ong Hing Dec 2007

Legal Services Support Centers And Rebellious Advocacy: A Case Study Of The Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Bill Ong Hing

Bill Ong Hing

Public interest lawyers and clinical law faculty are quite familiar with the strategies of rebellious or collaborative lawyering set forth forcefully by scholars such as Gerald López, Lucie White, and most recently Ascanio Piomelli. Some of the principles include educating clients and communities to support resistance; opening ourselves to being educated by clients, communities, and allies; respecting and not subordinating our clients; collaborating with clients and allies; recognizing that collaborative advocacy can lead to extremely challenging battles; and understanding that the rebellious style involves integrating and navigating many worlds. These principles have been adopted by those aspiring to practice in …