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Federal Courts & Federal Rights, Gordon G. Young Oct 2011

Federal Courts & Federal Rights, Gordon G. Young

Gordon G. Young

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Federal Corporate Law, Federalism, And The Federal Courts, Gordon G. Young Aug 2011

Federal Corporate Law, Federalism, And The Federal Courts, Gordon G. Young

Gordon G. Young

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Comment: Seminole Tribe V. Florida, Gordon G. Young Aug 2011

Comment: Seminole Tribe V. Florida, Gordon G. Young

Gordon G. Young

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Equal Divisions In The Supreme Court: History, Problems, And Proposals, William L. Reynolds, Gordon G. Young Aug 2011

Equal Divisions In The Supreme Court: History, Problems, And Proposals, William L. Reynolds, Gordon G. Young

Gordon G. Young

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The Significance Of Border Crossings: Lopez, Morrison And The Fate Of Congressional Power To Regulate Goods, And Transactions Connected With Them, Based On Prior Passage Through Interstate Commerce, Gordon G. Young Aug 2011

The Significance Of Border Crossings: Lopez, Morrison And The Fate Of Congressional Power To Regulate Goods, And Transactions Connected With Them, Based On Prior Passage Through Interstate Commerce, Gordon G. Young

Gordon G. Young

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Justifying Motive Analysis In Judicial Review, Gordon G. Young Aug 2011

Justifying Motive Analysis In Judicial Review, Gordon G. Young

Gordon G. Young

Motives concern us in ordinary life and in the law of torts and crimes, and that concern is justified by consequentialist ethics. Despite occasional judicial protestations, motive analysis pervades large parts of constitutional law. Illegitimate motives aimed at suspect classes, or "designed to strike" at any number of rights identified as fundamental, presumptively invalidate the official actions that they animate. The consequentialist arguments for the use of motive review in this class of cases are relatively simple. Such illegitimate official motives tend to cause bad distributions of tangible benefits and burdens, or cause direct cognitive or emotional harm to the …