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Harmful Speech And The Culture Of Indeterminacy, Anthony D'Amato
Harmful Speech And The Culture Of Indeterminacy, Anthony D'Amato
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I advocate two propositions in this Essay: the constitutional law of at least one category of content regulation of free speech is indeterminate, and recognition of this indeterminacy has been and ought to continue to be the Supreme Court's decisional basis for protecting speech against content regulation. Milkovich is worth examining at some length, not only because of the Court's failure to come up with general guidelines (after all, pragmatic indeterminacy predicts that failure!), but also because what the Court did say cannot even guide the lower court on remand.
If Major Wars Affect (Judicial) Fiscal Policy, How & Why?, Nancy Staudt
If Major Wars Affect (Judicial) Fiscal Policy, How & Why?, Nancy Staudt
Faculty Working Papers
This paper seeks to identify and explain the effects of major wars on U.S. Supreme Court decision-making in the context of taxation. At first cut, one might ask why we should even expect to observe a correlation between military activities and judicial fiscal policy. After all, the justices have no authority whatsoever to adopt funding laws intended to relieve the budgetary pressures that tend to emerge in times international crisis. The Court, however, is able to contribute to the wartime revenueraising efforts indirectly by adopting a pro-government stance in the cases it decides in wartime periods. As the probability of …