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1982

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Seqra's Siblings: Precedents From Little Nepa's In The Sister States, Nicholas A. Robinson Jan 1982

Seqra's Siblings: Precedents From Little Nepa's In The Sister States, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The technique of environmental impact assessment has emerged as the principal regulatory tool for assuring that each person acts "so that due consideration is given to preventing environmental damage." Just as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires that each of the federal government's agencies assure that its decisions will be environmentally sound, so have many of the various states decreed that their agencies and political subdivisions shall maximize environmental protection.

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Pass In Review: Due Process And Judicial Scrutiny Of Classification Decisions Of The Selective Service System, Donald L. Doernberg Jan 1982

Pass In Review: Due Process And Judicial Scrutiny Of Classification Decisions Of The Selective Service System, Donald L. Doernberg

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The Article suggests a better basis for retaining the requirement that the Selective Service System state reasons for its denial of a registrant's deferment request than the two reasons most often stated: facilitation of administrative decisions and of judicial review. The Selective Service System determines whether a person shall be required involuntarily to serve two years in the military, possibly at the risk of life and limb. Certainly those deprivations are as real and as severe as any to which the due process clause is addressed. The Article concludes that due process, not administrative or judicial convenience, should be held …

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Confidentiality And The "Dangerous" Patient: Implications Of Tarasoff For Psychiatrists And Lawyers, Vanessa Merton Jan 1982

Confidentiality And The "Dangerous" Patient: Implications Of Tarasoff For Psychiatrists And Lawyers, Vanessa Merton

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This essay examines the role conflict of the professional whose patient or client may be “dangerous” to others, and the ways in which professional standards of ethics and practice, incorporated by judicial ruling, contribute to that role conflict. The paper's focus is on the plight of the psychiatrist, but it also addresses the strain felt by the lawyer who either represents such a client or is asked to advise a psychiatrist who has such a patient. It suggests that health-care providers are not altogether justified in assigning sole responsibility for some of their professional difficulties to the law's incursions on …

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Entrapment, Shocked Consciences, And The Staged Arrest, Bennett L. Gershman Jan 1982

Entrapment, Shocked Consciences, And The Staged Arrest, Bennett L. Gershman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article discusses the relatively spare and unsettled case law relating to the staged arrest, reflected primarily in United States v. Archer and Nigrone v. Murtagh. Part III of this Article examines the defense of entrapment, one of the most confusing and controversial legal doctrines, and its application to the staged arrest. Because the staged arrest ineluctably raises questions of offensive government conduct that neither constitutes unlawful entrapment nor invades any independent rights of citizens, part IV considers the analysis of courts that have invoked the due process clause to limit government investigations. In view of the failure of these …

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The Relationship Of Contractual Remedies To Political And Social Status: A Preliminary Inquiry, David S. Cohen Jan 1982

The Relationship Of Contractual Remedies To Political And Social Status: A Preliminary Inquiry, David S. Cohen

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This paper has, then, two major themes. In the first part I hope to elucidate the relationship of political, legal, and social status associated with land ownership to the unique legal remedies - specific performance and non-recovery of damages - which society created in respect to exchanges of land (and thus exchanges of status) for money. In the conclusion I examine the transformation of legal rules applied to agreements in which labour is exchanged for money. If, in fact, property rules in contract evolved in response to the political, legal, and social attributes of land ownership, then one may be …

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Reexamining Federal Housing Programs In A Time Of Fiscal Austerity: The Trend Toward Block Grants And Housing Allowances, John R. Nolon Jan 1982

Reexamining Federal Housing Programs In A Time Of Fiscal Austerity: The Trend Toward Block Grants And Housing Allowances, John R. Nolon

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article begins with an examination of the evolution of the federal government's predominant role in collecting and spending revenues for social programs, including housing. It traces the growth of federal spending, and the evolution of federally assisted programs for housing. It continues with an analysis of the trend toward block grants and housing allowances, and concludes by commenting on this trend's effect on the future of housing programs for households with limited incomes.

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Comment On The Plain English Movement, David S. Cohen Jan 1982

Comment On The Plain English Movement, David S. Cohen

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The purpose of this comment is to demonstrate that plain English contracts may carry more risks than benefits; the approach may, in fact, present a regressive stage in the evolution of consumer law.

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Community Property After Hisquierdo V. Hisquierdo, Marie Stefanini Newman Jan 1982

Community Property After Hisquierdo V. Hisquierdo, Marie Stefanini Newman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Comment will briefly discuss California's community property system, and the standards traditionally required by the Supreme Court for federal pre-emption of state property law. It will also examine the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Railroad Retirement Act which led the Court to conclude that the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution and demanded federal pre-emption in this case. It will discuss the Hisquierdo test for federal pre-emption, which the Supreme Court has since used to override state community property systems. Finally, it will evaluate whether the case was correctly decided.

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A Unifying Theory For The Just-Compensation Cases: Takings, Regulation And Public Use, John A. Humbach Jan 1982

A Unifying Theory For The Just-Compensation Cases: Takings, Regulation And Public Use, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This discussion begins with some remarks concerning the concept of property as a general matter. It will then consider briefly an approach to the problem which, though promising and advanced, nevertheless falls short of achieving an internally consistent, unifying theory. Following this introduction, an attempt will be made to specify the two distinctive conceptual components of property interests on whose difference the cases seem to turn, and then to demonstrate the suitability of this conceptual distinction as the foundation for a coherent theory of the law.

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Abscam, The Judiciary, And The Ethics Of Entrapment, Bennett L. Gershman Jan 1982

Abscam, The Judiciary, And The Ethics Of Entrapment, Bennett L. Gershman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Part I of this Article surveys the development of the competing threads of entrapment theory. Part II shows how these theories were applied in the Abscam prosecutions. Part III turns to the predisposition test and demonstrates its analytical flaws and its ineffectiveness in restraining he improper use of inducements in undercover investigations. Part IV offers specific suggestions for a federal entrapment statute to remedy these defects. The statute allows an entrapment defense where the undercover techniques used fall outside a narrowly defined range of permissible conduct. If the government's conduct is permissible, the statute nevertheless requires the decision-maker to examine …

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Challenges Against Jurors In Courts-Martial, Karl R. Rábago Jan 1982

Challenges Against Jurors In Courts-Martial, Karl R. Rábago

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Note will summarize the provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Manual for Courts-Martial as well as the decisions of the military appellate courts in order to assist counsel in preparing for the conduct of voir dire and the challenge procedure. The Note will also discuss pre-trial preparation for the voir dire. The goals are to help the military attorney make better use of his client's right to challenge members of the court; and to give the civilian attorney a better understanding of the challenge process in courts-martial so that he will be more inclined to …

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