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Reclaiming Humphrey’S Executor: Expertise And Impartiality In The Ftc, Thomas Smith Oct 2023

Reclaiming Humphrey’S Executor: Expertise And Impartiality In The Ftc, Thomas Smith

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The commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sit just beyond the president’s removal power, for now. The U.S. Supreme Court has all but overruled Humphrey’s Executor, which declared the constitutionality of the FTC’s statutory protections from at-will presidential removal. Recent rulings in Seila Law, Free Enterprise Fund, and Collins held that restrictions on the president’s removal of various government agency officials are unconstitutional. Despite these cases, the Court has not directly overruled Humphrey’s Executor, and in theory, its precedent still provides the FTC commissioners with protection from the president’s removal power. However, the modern FTC is easily distinguishable from …


Recapturing The Orphan Drug Act: An Analysis Of Proposals, Rajdeep Trilokekar Sep 2023

Recapturing The Orphan Drug Act: An Analysis Of Proposals, Rajdeep Trilokekar

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Corporate Purpose And The Separation Of Powers, Benjamin T. Seymour Feb 2022

Corporate Purpose And The Separation Of Powers, Benjamin T. Seymour

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Despite its intense focus on inter-jurisdictional competition, corporate law scholarship has thus far overlooked the influence of inter-branch competition on business organizations. This Article shows how interbranch struggles for control over corporations catalyzed the advent of modern corporate law and helped propel Delaware to its dominant position in the market for corporate charters. For centuries, the legislature, judiciary, and executive vied for the decisive role in dictating the means and ends of corporations. Through the nineteenth century, competition among the branches produced a dysfunctional and volatile relationship between government and private enterprise, with each branch successively assuming a leading role …


Safety Net Or Trap? A Policy-Oriented Analysis Of The Public Sex Offender Registry As Compelled Speech, Ann Weigly Deam Mar 2021

Safety Net Or Trap? A Policy-Oriented Analysis Of The Public Sex Offender Registry As Compelled Speech, Ann Weigly Deam

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A Constitutional Right To A Functioning United States Government? Are Government Shutdowns Unconstitutional?, Allen Shoenberger Nov 2020

A Constitutional Right To A Functioning United States Government? Are Government Shutdowns Unconstitutional?, Allen Shoenberger

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Presidential Immunity From Prosecution: Tolling The Statute Of Limitations, Margit Livingston Mar 2020

Presidential Immunity From Prosecution: Tolling The Statute Of Limitations, Margit Livingston

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The Medicare Problem: A Solution To Insolvency, Oscar Castro Aug 2019

The Medicare Problem: A Solution To Insolvency, Oscar Castro

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"Standing" On Formality: Hollingsworth V. Perry And The Efficacy Of Direct Democracy In The United States, Matthew Melone, George A. Nation Iii Nov 2014

"Standing" On Formality: Hollingsworth V. Perry And The Efficacy Of Direct Democracy In The United States, Matthew Melone, George A. Nation Iii

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How The Signing Statement Thought It Killed The Veto; How The Veto May Have Killed The Signing Statement, Jeremy M. Seeley May 2008

How The Signing Statement Thought It Killed The Veto; How The Veto May Have Killed The Signing Statement, Jeremy M. Seeley

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Did The Sky Really Fall? Ten Years After California's Proposition 209 , Eryn Hadley May 2005

Did The Sky Really Fall? Ten Years After California's Proposition 209 , Eryn Hadley

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Long-Range Highway Corridor Preservation: Issues, Methods And Model Legislation, David A. Thomas, Robert S. Payne Mar 1998

Long-Range Highway Corridor Preservation: Issues, Methods And Model Legislation, David A. Thomas, Robert S. Payne

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.


Utah Zoning Law And Proposals For Legislative Change, Richard S. Dalebout May 1994

Utah Zoning Law And Proposals For Legislative Change, Richard S. Dalebout

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No abstract provided.


The Civil Rights Act Of 1991'S Answer To Lorance V. At&T Technologies, Inc., R. Chet Loftis Mar 1992

The Civil Rights Act Of 1991'S Answer To Lorance V. At&T; Technologies, Inc., R. Chet Loftis

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Legislative Update On The State Adoption Of The 1987 Revision To The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act Of 1968, Daphne D. Sipes May 1990

Legislative Update On The State Adoption Of The 1987 Revision To The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act Of 1968, Daphne D. Sipes

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No abstract provided.