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Time To Dilute The Dilution Statute And What Not To Do When Opposing Legislation: Beyond A Comment On Professor Port's The "Unnatural" Expansion Of Trademark Rights: Is A Federal Dilution Statute Necessary?, Malla Pollack
Malla Pollack
This article has three goals: to state clearly the practical problems with the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995, to suggest modifications to deal with these problems, and to explore why prior opposition pieces did not garner support from the uncommitted. This last project requires a subject for the dissection table. Because it won the coveted Ladas Memorial Award for the best trademark article in 1994 and because it was published by the Trademark Reporter just before Congress voted on the Act, this article focuses on Kenneth Port's article, "The 'Unnatural' Expansion of Trademark Rights: Is a Federal Dilution Statute …
Prayer In Public Schools: Without Heat, How Can There Be Light?, Or Narrative As The Reasonable Way To Discuss The Arational. Report On The Second Annual Law Day Symposium Jointly Sponsored By The Center For First Amendment Rights And The University Of Connecticut School Of Law, Malla Pollack
Malla Pollack
Prayer in public schools cannot be discussed fully without recognizing the high emotions tied to religion -- and the danger of such emotions. Against a historical account of the adoption of the Establishment Clause, this article reports on a conference in which speakers presented disparate approachs to prayer in public schools: (i) the religious objection to allowing the state to undermine religion which is historically tied to Roger Williams; (ii) a narrow allegedly originalist argument in support of the practice; (iii) a suggestion to defuse religious-factionalism by teaching about religion as part of a multi-cultural curriculum; and (iv) a critique …