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The Past And Future Of Constitutional Torts: From Statutory Interpretation To Common Law Rules, Michael L. Wells
The Past And Future Of Constitutional Torts: From Statutory Interpretation To Common Law Rules, Michael L. Wells
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The cause of action for damages to redress violations of constitutional rights is now firmly established in our law. As recently as 1960, such constitutional tort suits were rare and attracted little attention from scholars. Today, they are a major part of the work of the federal courts and the academic literature is constantly growing. This change can be partly attributed to the expansion of constitutional rights in the 1960s and 1970s, and partly to the 1961 case of Monroe v. Pape. In Monroe, the Supreme Court revived a long-neglected, ninety-year-old statute, 42 U.S.C. 1983, making it the …
A Bicentennial Symposium--The Constitution And Human Values: The Unfinished Agenda, Milner S. Ball
A Bicentennial Symposium--The Constitution And Human Values: The Unfinished Agenda, Milner S. Ball
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The participants in this Symposium share a commitment to explore the question whether law--constitutional law in particular--is one of the humanities and therefore subject to understanding, critique, conceptualization, and practice in freshly humanizing modes. These authors--lawyers, poets, philosophers, writers, activists--make no great claims for their individuals labors or their shared enterprise. They prefer instead to let the work speak for itself.
Employer And Consultant Reporting Under The Lmrda, J. Ralph Beaird
Employer And Consultant Reporting Under The Lmrda, J. Ralph Beaird
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In light of the criticisms of the House and recent constitutional objections, this article reevaluates the viability of the employer and consultant reporting provisions of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA). Section I discusses the legislative history and purpose of the LMRDA's reporting provisions. Section II examines the courts' treatment of the provisions when attacked on constitutional and statutory grounds.
Legal Perspectives On The Interstate Incidence And Shifting Of State And Local Taxes, Walter Hellerstein
Legal Perspectives On The Interstate Incidence And Shifting Of State And Local Taxes, Walter Hellerstein
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Lawyers, especially constitutional lawyers, have long been concerned with the problems associated with the interstate incidence and shifting of state and local taxes. The Constitution has frequently been invoked as a restraint on the states' power to levy taxes on persons, property, or activities outside their borders. Yet the lawyer's view of tax incidence embodied in these constitutional disputes often bears little resemblance to the economist's. In recent years, however, lawyers have sought to import economic concepts of shifting and incidence into the legal analysis of the constitutional limitations on the states' power to export tax burdens to residents of …
Conflicts Between Copyright And The First Amendment After Harper & Row, Publishers V. Nation Enterprises, David E. Shipley
Conflicts Between Copyright And The First Amendment After Harper & Row, Publishers V. Nation Enterprises, David E. Shipley
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The relationship between copyright and the first amendment has been discussed repeatedly in the past fifteen years. A free speech privilege has been asserted as a defense in many copyright infringement actions, and the topic has been the subject of lively academic debate. Although no court has held an infringement claim to be defeated by a first amendment defense, considerable attention has been paid to the potential conflict between copyright and free speech interests. Commentators have speculated that in some situations copyright protection could impermissibly abridge the first amendment. The United States Supreme Court's decision in Harper & Row, Publishers …