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The Devil In The Detail: Mitigating The Constitutional & Rule Of Law Risks Associated With The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In The Legal Domain, Catrina Denvir, Tristan Fletcher, Jonathan Hay, Pascoe Pleasence Oct 2019

The Devil In The Detail: Mitigating The Constitutional & Rule Of Law Risks Associated With The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In The Legal Domain, Catrina Denvir, Tristan Fletcher, Jonathan Hay, Pascoe Pleasence

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Murr V. Wisconsin And The Inherent Limits Of Regulatory Takings, Lydia L. Butler Oct 2019

Murr V. Wisconsin And The Inherent Limits Of Regulatory Takings, Lydia L. Butler

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Informational And Procedural Standing After Lujan V. Defenders Of Wildlife, Brian J. Gatchel Aug 2018

Informational And Procedural Standing After Lujan V. Defenders Of Wildlife, Brian J. Gatchel

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Ripeness And Forum Selection In Fifth Amendment Takings Litigation, Thomas E. Roberts Aug 2018

Ripeness And Forum Selection In Fifth Amendment Takings Litigation, Thomas E. Roberts

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Takings: The Fifth Amendment, Government Regulation, And The Problem Of The Relevant Parcel, Laura M. Schleich Aug 2018

Takings: The Fifth Amendment, Government Regulation, And The Problem Of The Relevant Parcel, Laura M. Schleich

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Justice Scalia And The Demise Of Environmental Law Standing, Patti A. Meeks Aug 2018

Justice Scalia And The Demise Of Environmental Law Standing, Patti A. Meeks

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Of Mice And Missiles: A True Account Of Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council, Daniel R. Mandelker Aug 2018

Of Mice And Missiles: A True Account Of Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council, Daniel R. Mandelker

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Neighborhood Opposition And The Permissible Purposes Of Zoning, Harold A. Ellis Aug 2018

Neighborhood Opposition And The Permissible Purposes Of Zoning, Harold A. Ellis

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Who Owns Cross Creek?, Charles L. Siemon Aug 2018

Who Owns Cross Creek?, Charles L. Siemon

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Case Note: Constitutional Questions In Environmental Regulation: Epa's Use Of Aerial Photography Does Not Constitute A Fourth Amendment Search, Mark Massey Aug 2018

Case Note: Constitutional Questions In Environmental Regulation: Epa's Use Of Aerial Photography Does Not Constitute A Fourth Amendment Search, Mark Massey

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Overcoming Williamson County's Troubling State Procedures Rule: How The England Reservation, Issue Preclusion Exceptions, And The Inadequacy Exception Open The Federal Courthouse Door To Ripe Takings Claims, J. David Breemer Aug 2018

Overcoming Williamson County's Troubling State Procedures Rule: How The England Reservation, Issue Preclusion Exceptions, And The Inadequacy Exception Open The Federal Courthouse Door To Ripe Takings Claims, J. David Breemer

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

This article discusses an avenue available to takings claimants so that they may open the nearly closed door of the federal courts. In Williamson County, the United States Supreme Court established two ripeness prongs that create powerful barriers to landowners seeking to have their takings claims heard on the merits in federal court. Through an in depth analysis of the facts and litigation of this case and others, the author assesses the foundation of the state procedures requirements and concludes it is not required by the Takings Clause. The article scrutinizes the rule's fundamental unfairness and error in its application. …


Standing On Its Last Legs: Bennett V. Spear And The Past And Future Of Standing In Environmental Cases, Sam Kalen Aug 2018

Standing On Its Last Legs: Bennett V. Spear And The Past And Future Of Standing In Environmental Cases, Sam Kalen

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

This Article examines the evolution of standing in environmental disputes. The Article traces environmental standing from the 1970s when the "zone of interests" test was first applied in Association of Data Processing Service Organizations v. Camp, through Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife over twenty years later, which outlined the three requirements of concrete and particularized imminent injury, traceability, and redressibility. The Article then describes how Bennett v. Spear, decided by the Supreme Court in1997, and other recent lower court decisions have produced a haphazard and incoherent approach to standing in cases involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the …


Drawing The Lines In The Shifting Sands Of Cape Canaveral: Why Common Beach Erosion Should Not Yield A Compensable Taking Under The Fifth Amendment, Jeremy N. Jungreis Aug 2018

Drawing The Lines In The Shifting Sands Of Cape Canaveral: Why Common Beach Erosion Should Not Yield A Compensable Taking Under The Fifth Amendment, Jeremy N. Jungreis

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Will Florida's New Net Ban Sink Or Swim?: Exploring The Constitutional Challenges To State Marine Fishery Restrictions, Alexandra M. Renard Aug 2018

Will Florida's New Net Ban Sink Or Swim?: Exploring The Constitutional Challenges To State Marine Fishery Restrictions, Alexandra M. Renard

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


The Ripeness Doctrine Of The Taking Clause: A Survey Of Decisions Showing Just How Far Federal Courts Will Go To Avoid Adjudicating Land Use Cases, Gregory Overstreet Aug 2018

The Ripeness Doctrine Of The Taking Clause: A Survey Of Decisions Showing Just How Far Federal Courts Will Go To Avoid Adjudicating Land Use Cases, Gregory Overstreet

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Everglades Restoration: A Constitutional Takings Analysis, Sharon S. Tisher Aug 2018

Everglades Restoration: A Constitutional Takings Analysis, Sharon S. Tisher

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


The Public Trust Doctrine And Sovereignty Lands In Florida: A Legal And Historical Analysis, Sidney F. Ansbacher, Joe Knetsch Aug 2018

The Public Trust Doctrine And Sovereignty Lands In Florida: A Legal And Historical Analysis, Sidney F. Ansbacher, Joe Knetsch

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Avoiding The Takings Clause Through The Myth Of Public Rights: The Public Trust And Reserved Rights Doctrines At Work, James L. Huffman Aug 2018

Avoiding The Takings Clause Through The Myth Of Public Rights: The Public Trust And Reserved Rights Doctrines At Work, James L. Huffman

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Environmental Protection Through Constitutional Amendment, Robert T. Mann, Richard Jackson Aug 2018

Environmental Protection Through Constitutional Amendment, Robert T. Mann, Richard Jackson

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


General Propositions And Concrete Cases: The Search For A Standard In The Conflict Between Individual Property Rights And The Social Interest, Donald C. Dowling, Jr. Aug 2018

General Propositions And Concrete Cases: The Search For A Standard In The Conflict Between Individual Property Rights And The Social Interest, Donald C. Dowling, Jr.

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


The Takings Keepings Clause: An Analysis Of Framing Effects From Labelling Constitutional Rights, Donald J. Kochan Jul 2018

The Takings Keepings Clause: An Analysis Of Framing Effects From Labelling Constitutional Rights, Donald J. Kochan

Florida State University Law Review

Did you know that the "Takings Clause" was not called the "Takings Clause" by any court before 1955? That was the first time that any court of any jurisdiction referred to the provisions regarding takings of private property in either the federal or state constitutions under the label "Takings Clause." Did you know that justices of the U.S. Supreme Court did not use the moniker "Takings Clause" in any opinion before 1978? Given this history, the phrase "Takings Clause," whether an apt descriptor or not, certainly cannot be justified as the dominant way to refer to these provisions by contemporaneous …


Loving Retroactivity, Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes Jan 2018

Loving Retroactivity, Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes

Florida State University Law Review

Pending actions across the nation highlight the ongoing struggle between adjudicative retroactivity and marital equality. The Supreme Court's constitutional decisions overruling prior precedents or applying new legal rules to the parties retroactively govern all pending and future adjudicative proceedings on direct review, even if the underlying operative events occurred under a prior legal framework. But this understanding of the temporal boundaries of legal change is being challenged after the Supreme Court's holding in Obergefell v. Hodges that laws excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples are invalid. The retroactive application of Obergefell …


Big Brother Or Big Pharma: The Lion Fight Over The Surveillance And Promotion Of Pharmaceutical Use In America, Patrick Bailey Jul 2017

Big Brother Or Big Pharma: The Lion Fight Over The Surveillance And Promotion Of Pharmaceutical Use In America, Patrick Bailey

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Smith V. Obama: A Neoclassical After Action Review, Sam Walenz Jul 2017

Smith V. Obama: A Neoclassical After Action Review, Sam Walenz

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Intermediate Scrutiny For Corporate Political Contributions, Joseph K. Leahy Apr 2017

Intermediate Scrutiny For Corporate Political Contributions, Joseph K. Leahy

Florida State University Law Review

A corporation contributes to a Super PAC that supports a candidate for public office. A shareholder sues, alleging that management breached its duty of loyalty by making the contribution to promote its own political views rather than to serve the corporation’s best interests—i.e., by acting in bad faith. What standard will a Delaware court apply when reviewing management’s decision to cause the corporation to make the contribution?

Myriad scholars have opined that the court will apply the standard of review for ordinary business decisions: the management-friendly business judgment rule. Unfortunately for our shareholder plaintiff, this rule presumes that management acts …


Innocent Until Born: Why Prisons Should Stop Shackling Pregnant Women To Protect The Child, Melanie Kalmanson Jan 2017

Innocent Until Born: Why Prisons Should Stop Shackling Pregnant Women To Protect The Child, Melanie Kalmanson

Florida State University Law Review

The practice of American prisons to shackle and otherwise restrain incarcerated, preg-nant women is problematic for several reasons. Such practices include shackling, chaining, and handcuffing pregnant inmates during their third trimester, transportation to and from medical facilities, labor and delivery, and postpartum recovery. Current discourse on this topic focuses primarily on how these practices invade the woman’s civil liberties, particularly the Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment, and international human rights. Recent case law vindicates policy rationales for such practices—safety of others, safety of the woman herself, and securing flight risks.

These discussions overlook and this Note confronts …


Cybersecurity For Infrastructure: A Critical Analysis, Eldar Haber, Tal Zarsky Jan 2017

Cybersecurity For Infrastructure: A Critical Analysis, Eldar Haber, Tal Zarsky

Florida State University Law Review

Nations and their citizens rely on infrastructures. Their incapacitation or destruction could prevent nations from protecting themselves from threats, cause substantial economic harm, and even result in the loss of life. Therefore, safeguarding these infrastructures is an obvious strategic task for any sovereign state. While the need to protect critical infrastructures (CIs) is far from novel, digitization brings new challenges as well as increased cyber-risks. This need is self-evident; yet, the optimal policy regime is debatable. The United States and other nations have thus far opted for very light regulation, merely encouraging voluntary steps while choosing to intervene only in …


The Second Amendment Burden: Arming Courts With A Workable Standard For Reviewing Gun Safety Legislation, Melanie Kalmanson Oct 2016

The Second Amendment Burden: Arming Courts With A Workable Standard For Reviewing Gun Safety Legislation, Melanie Kalmanson

Florida State University Law Review

Two controversial topics; one framework. Jurisprudence surrounding the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lacks a workable standard under which courts are to review gun control legislation. This Note presents an intersectional argument whereby the abortion “undue burden” framework is applied to Second Amendment legislation. Through this approach of applying the abortion framework to gun control legislation, like those recently proposed or discussed, this Note argues that these provisions would likely be constitutional. Though abortion is at the center of this discussion, this Note does not aim to contribute to discourse concerning reproductive rights and accepts prima facie the current-standing …


Federalizing Retroactivity Rules: The Unrealized Promise Of Danforth V. Minnesota And The Unmet Obligation Of State Courts To Vindicate Federal Constitutional Rights, Ruthanne M. Deutsch Oct 2016

Federalizing Retroactivity Rules: The Unrealized Promise Of Danforth V. Minnesota And The Unmet Obligation Of State Courts To Vindicate Federal Constitutional Rights, Ruthanne M. Deutsch

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Road To The Gettysburg Address, Alfred L. Brophy Apr 2016

The Road To The Gettysburg Address, Alfred L. Brophy

Florida State University Law Review

This Article recovers the forgotten ideas about public constitutionalism in seventy published addresses given at cemetery dedications from Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story’s address at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1831, to the addresses by Edward Everett and Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg in November 1863. It reveals an important, but forgotten, set of ideas that provided a precedent for Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Those addresses, including Lincoln’s, reveal the centrality of constitutional values—as opposed to constitutional text—in framing Americans’ interpretation of the Constitution. Pre-Civil War Americans had a vibrant public discussion of constitutional principles, in addition to constitutional text. …