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Constitutional Law

Selected Works

Health care

2012

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Health Care Back Where It Belongs, Before The Voters, Alan E. Garfield Jul 2012

Health Care Back Where It Belongs, Before The Voters, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Obama Didn't Deny Court's Right Of Review, Alan E. Garfield Apr 2012

Obama Didn't Deny Court's Right Of Review, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Liberty Isn't The Issue In Health Care Case, Alan E. Garfield Mar 2012

Liberty Isn't The Issue In Health Care Case, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Equal Protection, Immigrants And Access To Health Care And Welfare Benefits, Mel Cousins Dec 2011

Equal Protection, Immigrants And Access To Health Care And Welfare Benefits, Mel Cousins

Mel Cousins

The introduction of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) led to considerable litigation on the rights of immigrants to welfare benefits and access to health care. There was considerable divergence between the approaches adopted by the different courts (both federal and State) based, in part, on the different statutory schemes involved but also on different approaches to equal protection. However, none of the cases reached the Supreme Court so the ‘correct’ approach remained unclarified. Perhaps inspired by the fiscal crisis of 2008, several States have again excluded certain legal immigrants from the scope of State …