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Ifeminism, Ashlie Warnick
Ifeminism, Ashlie Warnick
Michigan Law Review
Laws should be judged not by their words or intentions, but by their effects and consequences. When government enacts laws designed to benefit one group, society should judge those laws first by examining whether they have, in practice, provided a net benefit to the law's intended beneficiaries. Next, any such benefit must be weighed against the costs imposed on the rest of society. If the benefits outweigh the costs, this is a socially efficient law. Government should repeal a law when the costs it imposes outweigh its benefits. When laws do not provide a net benefit to the group they …
Criminal Law-Prosecution Of Mormon "Fundamentalists'' Under The Mann Act-Doctrine Of Caminetti V. United States, John A. Huston S.Ed.
Criminal Law-Prosecution Of Mormon "Fundamentalists'' Under The Mann Act-Doctrine Of Caminetti V. United States, John A. Huston S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Petitioners, Mormon "Fundamentalists," transported one or more plural wives in interstate commerce. They were convicted in the district court on the authority of Caminetti v. United States for violation of the Mann Act which prohibits the transportation of women or girls in commerce "for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose." The circuit court affirmed and the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari. Held, affirmed. The phrase "or for any other immoral purpose" was properly interpreted in Caminetti v. United States to extend the prohibition of the act to cases where the ·transportation was …