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Neutral Principles In The 1950'S, Gary Peller
Neutral Principles In The 1950'S, Gary Peller
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
In this Essay, I explore the intellectual setting within which Wechsler believed that defending freedom also required defending the legality of racial domination. I argue that the key to understanding this apparent paradox is to grasp the ideological/ cultural complex of the 1950's within which mainstream American intellectuals in law and in other disciplines came to terms with the disintegration of the traditional, "old order" paradigms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by means of an intense and overriding distinction between controversial issues of values and noncontroversial questions of framework and structure within which substantive conflict would take …
Clearing The Roadblocks To Sobriety Checkpoints, Mark R. Soble
Clearing The Roadblocks To Sobriety Checkpoints, Mark R. Soble
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note examines the constitutional and policy implications of sobriety checkpoints. Part I discusses the competing interests involved in implementing sobriety checkpoints. Part II presents an appropriate constitutional standard for judging sobriety checkpoints. Part III proposes reform-oriented measures that conform to constitutional guidelines. This Note concludes that properly conducted sobriety checkpoints are constitutional.
Preclusion And Procedural Due Process In Rule 23(B)(2) Class Actions, Mark C. Weber
Preclusion And Procedural Due Process In Rule 23(B)(2) Class Actions, Mark C. Weber
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Article examines whether Rule 23(b)(2) violates the procedural due process rights of absent class members by binding them to the judgment in a class case without notice of the suit. It concludes that the Rule almost certainly violates due process and proposes a reform that would permit nonbinding class actions similar to the old "spurious" class suits.