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The “Ample Alternative Channels” Flaw In First Amendment Doctrine, Enrique Armijo
The “Ample Alternative Channels” Flaw In First Amendment Doctrine, Enrique Armijo
Washington and Lee Law Review
In reviewing a content-neutral regulation affecting speech, courts ask if the regulation leaves open “ample alternative channels of communication” for the restricted speaker’s expression. Substitutability is the underlying rationale. If the message could have been expressed in some other legal way, the ample alternative channels requirement is met. The court then deems the restriction’s harm to the speaker’s expressive right as de minimis and upholds the law. For decades, courts and free speech scholars have assumed the validity of this principle. It has set First Amendment jurisprudence on the wrong course. Permitting a speech restriction because the speaker could have …
Diversifying To Mitigate Risk: Can Dodd–Frank Section 342 Help Stabilize The Financial Sector?, Kristin Johnson, Steven A. Ramirez, Cary Martin Shelby
Diversifying To Mitigate Risk: Can Dodd–Frank Section 342 Help Stabilize The Financial Sector?, Kristin Johnson, Steven A. Ramirez, Cary Martin Shelby
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Rhetoric Of The Fourth Amendment: Toward A More Persuasive Fourth Amendment, Timothy C. Macdonnell
The Rhetoric Of The Fourth Amendment: Toward A More Persuasive Fourth Amendment, Timothy C. Macdonnell
Washington and Lee Law Review
In the last forty-five years, the United States Supreme Court’s jurisprudence through the lens of classical rhetoric. Opinions are assessed based on three areas of persuasion: appeals to logic (logos); appeals to emotion (pathos); and appeals to credibility (ethos). By examining the Justices’ opinions in this fashion, patterns of unpersuasive opinion writing emerge. While a common source for all unpersuasive opinions is not available, common patterns of weak persuasion in particular appeals do exist. Weak appeals to ethos commonly stem from Justices failing to fully confront the doctrine of stare decisis. Weak pathos-based appeals often involve Justices engaging in misplaced …
Guns And Alienage: Correcting A Dangerous Contradiction, D. Mcnair Nichols Jr.
Guns And Alienage: Correcting A Dangerous Contradiction, D. Mcnair Nichols Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mental Illness, Severe Emotional Distress, And The Death Penalty: Reflections On The Tragic Case Of Joe Giarratano, Richard J. Bonnie
Mental Illness, Severe Emotional Distress, And The Death Penalty: Reflections On The Tragic Case Of Joe Giarratano, Richard J. Bonnie
Washington and Lee Law Review
Joe Giarratano was on death row for twelve years, and remains incarcerated today, because mental illness and severe emotional distress wholly undermined reliable adjudication in his case. Using Giarratano’s remarkable story as a case study, I illustrate some of the ways in which mental illness and acute emotional distress can lead to unreliable findings and judgments and—even worse—can actually propel the criminal justice system toward a death sentence. I cover the unreliability of his confession, his impaired ability to assist counsel, his impaired capacity to make a rational decision regarding whether to initiate or continue post-conviction proceedings, his diminished mental …
The Death Penalty And Mental Illness In International Human Rights Law: Toward Abolition, Richard J. Wilson
The Death Penalty And Mental Illness In International Human Rights Law: Toward Abolition, Richard J. Wilson
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Post-Trial Plea Bargaining In Capital Cases: Using Conditional Clemency To Remove Weak Cases From Death Row, Adam M. Gershowitz
Post-Trial Plea Bargaining In Capital Cases: Using Conditional Clemency To Remove Weak Cases From Death Row, Adam M. Gershowitz
Washington and Lee Law Review
Plea bargaining accounts for over ninety percent of criminal convictions and it dominates the American criminal justice system. Yet, once a defendant is convicted, bargaining almost completely disappears from the system. Even though years of litigation are on the horizon, there is nearly no bargaining in the appellate and habeas corpus process. There are two reasons for this. First, prosecutors and courts typically lack the power to alter a sentence that has already been imposed. Second, even if prosecutors had the authority to negotiate following a conviction, they would have little incentive to do so. Affirmance rates in ordinary criminal …
The Commonwealth Of Virginia V. Joseph Michael Giarratano: A Cautionary Tale, Todd C. Peppers
The Commonwealth Of Virginia V. Joseph Michael Giarratano: A Cautionary Tale, Todd C. Peppers
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Lethal Injection: A Horrendous Brutality, Robin C. Konrad
Lethal Injection: A Horrendous Brutality, Robin C. Konrad
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Regulation Of Forensic Evidence, Brandon L. Garrett
Constitutional Regulation Of Forensic Evidence, Brandon L. Garrett
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Solitary Confinement Until Death By State-Sponsored Homicide: An Eighth Amendment Assessment Of The Modern Execution Process, Robert Johnson
Solitary Confinement Until Death By State-Sponsored Homicide: An Eighth Amendment Assessment Of The Modern Execution Process, Robert Johnson
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Demise Of Capital Clemency, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
The Demise Of Capital Clemency, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Matters Of Strata: Race, Gender, And Class Structures In Capital Cases, Phyllis Goldfarb
Matters Of Strata: Race, Gender, And Class Structures In Capital Cases, Phyllis Goldfarb
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
“Merchants And Thieves, Hungry For Power”: Prosecutorial Misconduct And Passive Judicial Complicity In Death Penalty Trials Of Defendants With Mental Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin
“Merchants And Thieves, Hungry For Power”: Prosecutorial Misconduct And Passive Judicial Complicity In Death Penalty Trials Of Defendants With Mental Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Court’S Talmudic Debate On The Meanings Of Guilt, Innocence, And Finality, Jonathan D. Colan
The Supreme Court’S Talmudic Debate On The Meanings Of Guilt, Innocence, And Finality, Jonathan D. Colan
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Foreign Governments As Plaintiffs In U.S. Courts And The Case Against “Judicial Imperialism”, Hannah L. Buxbaum
Foreign Governments As Plaintiffs In U.S. Courts And The Case Against “Judicial Imperialism”, Hannah L. Buxbaum
Washington and Lee Law Review
One consequence of the increasingly transnational nature of civil litigation is that U.S. courts must frequently address the interests of foreign sovereigns. These interactions arise primarily in three contexts: when a foreign government is the defendant in a U.S. court; when a claim requires a U.S. court to scrutinize actions taken by a foreign government; and when a U.S. court seeks to apply U.S. law to persons or conduct within a foreign government’s borders. Each of these contexts invokes a narrative in which the engagement of U.S. courts interferes or conflicts with the prerogatives of a foreign sovereign. As a …
Taking Patents, Gregory Dolin, Irena D. Manta
Taking Patents, Gregory Dolin, Irena D. Manta
Washington and Lee Law Review
The America Invents Act (AIA) was widely hailed as a remedy to the excessive number of patents that the Patent & Trademark Office issued, and especially ones that would later turn out to be invalid. In its efforts to eradicate “patent trolls” and fend off other ills, however, the AIA introduced serious constitutional problems that this Article brings to the fore. We argue that the AIA’s new “second-look” mechanisms in the form of Inter Partes Review (IPR) and Covered Business Method Review (CBMR) have greatly altered the scope of vested patent rights by modifying the boundaries of existing patents. The …
Keeping Cases From Black Juries: An Empirical Analysis Of How Race, Income Inequality, And Regional History Affect Tort Law, Donald G. Gifford, Brian Jones
Keeping Cases From Black Juries: An Empirical Analysis Of How Race, Income Inequality, And Regional History Affect Tort Law, Donald G. Gifford, Brian Jones
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Freedom To Pursue A Common Calling: Applying Intermediate Scrutiny To Occupational Licensing Statutes, Alexandra L. Klein
The Freedom To Pursue A Common Calling: Applying Intermediate Scrutiny To Occupational Licensing Statutes, Alexandra L. Klein
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Tale Of Two Cases, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
A Tale Of Two Cases, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Curious Call For More Judicial Activism: Comment On Alexandra Klein's "The Freedom To Pursue A Common Calling", Mark Rush
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
In Need Of Direction: An Evaluation Of The "Direct Effect" Requirement Under Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act, Claire L. Leonard
In Need Of Direction: An Evaluation Of The "Direct Effect" Requirement Under Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act, Claire L. Leonard
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.