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Civil Liberty And The Civil War: The Indianapolis Treason Trials, William Rehnquist
Civil Liberty And The Civil War: The Indianapolis Treason Trials, William Rehnquist
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Labor And The Supreme Court: Review Of The 1996-1997 Term, Keith N. Hylton
Labor And The Supreme Court: Review Of The 1996-1997 Term, Keith N. Hylton
Faculty Scholarship
The U.S. Supreme Court's 1996-1997 Term will surely not be remembered among lawyers for its decisions in the employment area. Most of these decisions involved narrow questions of statutory interpretation, and for the most part the Court has handed down opinions consistent with existing case law. There was not one National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) decision this Term and the two employment discrimination cases involved fairly technical issues of statutory interpretation. The feeling of a quiet year is put across by simply reading the statutes at issue other than Title VII: the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) (one case), the …
Putting Martinez To The Test: Tribal Court Disposition Of Due Process, Christian M. Freitag
Putting Martinez To The Test: Tribal Court Disposition Of Due Process, Christian M. Freitag
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Plain Meaning, The Tax Code, And Doctrinal Incoherence, Mary L. Heen
Plain Meaning, The Tax Code, And Doctrinal Incoherence, Mary L. Heen
Law Faculty Publications
This Article examines the Supreme Court's interpretive approach in recent tax cases. Part I of the Article sets the stage by describing the Court's interpretive approach, its focus on the relative determinacy of statutory language, and the backdrop of Chevron. Part II examines the effect of these issues on tax law, focusing on three cases that construe the same Code provision, section 104(a)(2), but apply quite different interpretive approaches. In United States v. Burke, the Court appeared to find the provision ambiguous and relied in part upon an interpretation of the statute contained in a Treasury regulation. Subsequently, in Commissioner …
Will The Punishment Fit The Victims? The Case For Pre-Trial Disclosure, And The Uncharted Future Of Victim Impact Information In Capital Jury Sentencing, José F. Anderson
Will The Punishment Fit The Victims? The Case For Pre-Trial Disclosure, And The Uncharted Future Of Victim Impact Information In Capital Jury Sentencing, José F. Anderson
All Faculty Scholarship
The United States Supreme Court decision in Payne v. Tennessee, upholding the use of victim impact statements in capital jury sentencing proceedings, marked one of the most dramatic reversals of a precedent in the history of United States constitutional jurisprudence. The decision in Payne expressly overruled Booth v. Maryland decided only four years earlier. The Booth case rejected the use of victim impact statements in capital sentencing cases that involved juries. In Payne, the Supreme Court made it clear that victims were entitled to offer, and juries were permitted to consider, the effect that a "death eligible" homicide had on …
Thurgood Marshall: Legal Strategist For The Civil Rights Movement, F. Michael Higginbotham, José F. Anderson
Thurgood Marshall: Legal Strategist For The Civil Rights Movement, F. Michael Higginbotham, José F. Anderson
All Faculty Scholarship
This brief article covers the career of attorney and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, covering his early days as an attorney working for the NAACP, up to his career on the nation's highest court. Of particular interest are the hardships of his early days as a lawyer, as one of only 32 African American lawyers in Maryland in 1935. The key cases during his career are touched upon, along with the legal strategies used to further the cause of civil rights.
Human Dignity, Privacy, And Personality In German And American Constitutional Law, Edward J. Eberle
Human Dignity, Privacy, And Personality In German And American Constitutional Law, Edward J. Eberle
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Court Opens Its Mind, And Medical Books, And Refuses ‘You Can Walk, You Can Talk, You Don’T Seem Sick Enough’ Approach To Asymptomatic Hiv Coverage Under The Americans With Disabilities Act, Rebecca Walker Embry
Saint Louis University Public Law Review
No abstract provided.
Character And Fitness Requirements For Bar Admission In New York, Avrom Robin
Character And Fitness Requirements For Bar Admission In New York, Avrom Robin
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Public Welfare, Supreme Court Monroe County, Brown V. Wing
Public Welfare, Supreme Court Monroe County, Brown V. Wing
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Congressional Self-Discipline: The Constitutionality Of Supermajority Rules, Susan Low Bloch
Congressional Self-Discipline: The Constitutionality Of Supermajority Rules, Susan Low Bloch
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Congress needs to be more disciplined. It has at times become sloppy and even cavalier. When, for example, Congress enacted the federal Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1990, it was asking for trouble. Neither the legislation nor the legislative history said anything about any effect on interstate commerce. It was therefore not surprising to see the Supreme Court strike the law down in United States v. Lopez.
Supreme Court, New York County Stringfellow's Of New York Ltd. V. City Of New York
Supreme Court, New York County Stringfellow's Of New York Ltd. V. City Of New York
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Court And Local Government Law 1995-96 Term Introduction, Dean Howard A. Glickstein
The Supreme Court And Local Government Law 1995-96 Term Introduction, Dean Howard A. Glickstein
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Right To Counsel, Supreme Court, Appellate Division Second Department, People V. Taylor
Right To Counsel, Supreme Court, Appellate Division Second Department, People V. Taylor
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Search And Seizure, Supreme Court, Bronx County People V. Williams
Search And Seizure, Supreme Court, Bronx County People V. Williams
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Limits On Preemption And Punitive Damages: Can They Be Related?, Peter Zablotsky
Limits On Preemption And Punitive Damages: Can They Be Related?, Peter Zablotsky
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Old Chief V. United States: Stipulating Away Prosecutorial Accountability?, Daniel Richman
Old Chief V. United States: Stipulating Away Prosecutorial Accountability?, Daniel Richman
Faculty Scholarship
Earlier this year, in Old Chief v. United States, the Supreme Court finally resolved a circuit split on a nagging evidentiary issue: When a defendant charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm offers to satisfy one of the statute's elements by stipulating to the existence of a prior felony conviction, may the government decline the stipulation and prove the existence and the nature of that prior felony?
The question of evidence law resolved in Old Chief is not particularly earth-shattering. Indeed, while the Court divided five to four on the issue, neither Justice Souter's opinion …
Section 1983 In The Second Circuit, Honorable George C. Pratt
Section 1983 In The Second Circuit, Honorable George C. Pratt
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Textualism's Selective Canons Of Statutory Construction: Reinvigorating Individual Liberties, Legislative Authority, And Deference To Executive Agencies, Bradford Mank
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
This Article demonstrates that textualist Judges, most notably Justices Scalia, Thomas, and, to a lesser extent, Kennedy, have applied some canons too aggressively, and slighted others. Textualist Judges have overused clear-statement rules that narrow statutory meaning, especially as a means to promote federalism and states' rights. On the other hand, textualists have neglected canons that promote individual liberty or executive authority Because canons must be applied on a case-by-case basis and different canons can conflict, it is impossible to formulate one rule for how they should be applied. Nevertheless, the common textualist approach of selectively favoring some canons at the …
William J. Brennan, Jr., American – In Memoriam, Gerard E. Lynch
William J. Brennan, Jr., American – In Memoriam, Gerard E. Lynch
Faculty Scholarship
At Justice Brennan's funeral, President Clinton spoke of the justice's enormous impact on our country's law-thirty-four years on the Supreme Court, over 1300 opinions authored, many of them landmarks: Baker v. Carr, opening the way to one person, one vote; Craig v. Boren, wielding the Equal Protection Clause to strike down discrimination on the basis of sex; Goldberg v. Kelly, insisting on the right of the poorest citizens of the administrative state to be heard in the face of an arbitrary bureaucracy; New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, articulating the modem rationale for a free press; …
William J. Brennan, Jr., Peter L. Strauss
William J. Brennan, Jr., Peter L. Strauss
Faculty Scholarship
When I was privileged to be Justice Brennan's law clerk, he had not yet earned even from his own law school the affection and respect that have prompted the editors of this law review, and doubtless many others, to offer an issue in dedication to him. In the three decades following, he made his claim to both unmistakably clear. His extraordinary tenure on the Court produced 1360 opinions, spread over the last 146 of the Court's first 497 volumes. Nearly a decade after his retirement, it is probably still the case that more opinions in constitutional law teaching materials carry …
Book Review. American Constitutionalism: From Theory To Politics, Daniel O. Conkle
Book Review. American Constitutionalism: From Theory To Politics, Daniel O. Conkle
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
It Was A Very Good Year - For The Government: The Supreme Court's Major Criminal Rulings Of The 1995-1996 Term, William E. Hellerstein
It Was A Very Good Year - For The Government: The Supreme Court's Major Criminal Rulings Of The 1995-1996 Term, William E. Hellerstein
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race, Redistricting And A Republican Poll Tax: The Supreme Court's Voting Rights Decisions Of The 1995-96 Term, Frank Parker
Race, Redistricting And A Republican Poll Tax: The Supreme Court's Voting Rights Decisions Of The 1995-96 Term, Frank Parker
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Right To Trial By Jury, Supreme Court, Appellate Division Fourth Department People V. Perkins
Right To Trial By Jury, Supreme Court, Appellate Division Fourth Department People V. Perkins
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Self-Incrimination, Supreme Court, Appellate Division Second Department People V. Hendricks
Self-Incrimination, Supreme Court, Appellate Division Second Department People V. Hendricks
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
How Conservative Is The Rehnquist Court--Three Issues, One Answer, Staci Rosche
How Conservative Is The Rehnquist Court--Three Issues, One Answer, Staci Rosche
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Decision: How The Supreme Court Decides Cases, Martin D. Gelfand
Decision: How The Supreme Court Decides Cases, Martin D. Gelfand
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Rethinking The Supreme Court's Hands-Off Approach To Questions Of Religious Practice And Belief, Samuel J. Levine
Rethinking The Supreme Court's Hands-Off Approach To Questions Of Religious Practice And Belief, Samuel J. Levine
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Part I of this Article discusses Supreme Court cases prior to 1981, in which the Court first expressed its hands-off approach to deciding questions of religious practice and belief. This Part suggests that in these decisions, as a result of a proper concern for religious autonomy, the Court already began the process of expanding the principle of judicial non-interference, at the cost of sacrificing effective adjudication of important constitutional issues. Part II of this Article critiques the Court's approach in Free Exercise Clause cases, identifying different problems that have arisen as a result of the Court's approach. This Part argues …
Making Constitutional Doctrine In A Realist Age, Victoria Nourse
Making Constitutional Doctrine In A Realist Age, Victoria Nourse
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this article the author considers three examples of modern constitutional doctrine that show how judges have stolen bits and pieces from popularized skepticisms about the job of judging and have molded this stolen rhetoric into doctrine. In the first example, she asks whether constitutional law's recent penchant for doctrinal rules based on "clear law" could have existed without the modern age's obsession with legal uncertainty. In the second, the author considers whether our contemporary rhetoric of constitutional "interests" and "expectations" reflects modern critiques of doctrine as failing to address social needs. In the third, she asks how an offhand …