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Indecency Four Years After Fox Television Stations: From Big Papi To A Porn Star, An Egregious Mess At The Fcc Continues, Clay Calvert, Minch Minchin, Keran Billaud, Kevin Bruckenstein, Tershone Phillips Jan 2017

Indecency Four Years After Fox Television Stations: From Big Papi To A Porn Star, An Egregious Mess At The Fcc Continues, Clay Calvert, Minch Minchin, Keran Billaud, Kevin Bruckenstein, Tershone Phillips

University of Richmond Law Review

Using the WDBJ case as an analytical springboard, this article examines the tumultuous state of the FCC's indecency enforcement regime more than three years after the Supreme Court's June 2012 opinion in Fox Television Stations. Part I of this article briefly explores the missed First Amendment opportunities in Fox Television Stations, as well as some possible reasons why the Supreme Court chose to avoid the free-speech questions in that case." Part II addresses the FCC's decision in September 2012 to target only egregious instances of broadcast indecency and, in the process, to jettison hundreds of thousands of complaints that had …


Testing Sex, Rachel Rebouché Jan 2015

Testing Sex, Rachel Rebouché

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Litigating Federal Health Care Legislation And The Interstices Of Procedure, Wendy Collins Perdue Mar 2012

Litigating Federal Health Care Legislation And The Interstices Of Procedure, Wendy Collins Perdue

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Doctrine: Five Questions That Will Determine The Aca's Constitutional Fate, Bradley W. Joondeph Mar 2012

Beyond The Doctrine: Five Questions That Will Determine The Aca's Constitutional Fate, Bradley W. Joondeph

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No abstract provided.


The Anti-Injunction Act, Congressional Inactivity, And Pre-Enforcement Challenges To § 5000a Of The Tax Code, Kevin C. Walsh Mar 2012

The Anti-Injunction Act, Congressional Inactivity, And Pre-Enforcement Challenges To § 5000a Of The Tax Code, Kevin C. Walsh

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


States' Rights And State Standing, Stephen I. Vladeck Mar 2012

States' Rights And State Standing, Stephen I. Vladeck

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Facial And As-Applied Challenges To The Individual Mandate Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Edward A. Hartnett Mar 2012

Facial And As-Applied Challenges To The Individual Mandate Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Edward A. Hartnett

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No abstract provided.


The Anatomy Of A Search: Intrusiveness And The Fourth Amendment, Renée Mcdonald Hutchins May 2010

The Anatomy Of A Search: Intrusiveness And The Fourth Amendment, Renée Mcdonald Hutchins

University of Richmond Law Review

In this essay, I contend that when evaluating the constitutionality of enhanced surveillance devices, the existing test for assessing the occurrence of a Fourth Amendment search should be modified. Specifically, I suggest that intrusiveness should be unambiguously adopted by the Court as the benchmark for assessing and defining the existence of a search under the Fourth Amendment. Moreover, intrusiveness should be clearly defined to require an examination of two factors: the functionality of a challenged form of surveillance and the potential for disclosure created by the device.