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Hip-Hip-Hurray For Illinois Taxpayers, Or Is It Too Early To Cheer?: An Analysis Of In Re Consolidated Objections To Tax Levies Of School District No. 205, For Years 1991 Through 1996, Christina M. Cantlin-Vanwiggeren
Hip-Hip-Hurray For Illinois Taxpayers, Or Is It Too Early To Cheer?: An Analysis Of In Re Consolidated Objections To Tax Levies Of School District No. 205, For Years 1991 Through 1996, Christina M. Cantlin-Vanwiggeren
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This casenote will discuss and examine how the Local Government and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act ("Tort Immunity Act" or "the Act") should be applied in Illinois based on a case of first impression: In re Consolidated Objections to Tax Levies of School District No. 205, for Years 1991 Through 1996. Section I of this casenote is divided into two segments. Section A discusses the development and historical attributes of tort liability by analyzing the common law development of tort liability and the doctrine of sovereign immunity. Section B chronologically examines the development and language modifications of the Tort Immunity …
Law & Literature And The Moderns: Explorations, George Anastaplo
Law & Literature And The Moderns: Explorations, George Anastaplo
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Law and Literature courses are intended, at least in part, to supply the sound moral understanding as well as the elementary intellectual skills that law students need before they can learn to read in the way that is needed for a profession which very much depends upon disciplined reading and writing. Unfortunately, many if not most of the texts drawn upon in the Law and Literature courses are, or are treated as if they were, of the third or fourth rank. These are texts which are mined in such courses for "cases" and legal issues rather than approached as texts …
George Anastaplo: An Autobiographical Bibliography (1947-2001), George Anastaplo
George Anastaplo: An Autobiographical Bibliography (1947-2001), George Anastaplo
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Includes public papers, books, other publications, talks and papers, and selected letters to editors.
Mp3 In Y2k: The Audio Home Recording Act And Other Important Copyright Issues For The Year Mm, Nathan Scharton
Mp3 In Y2k: The Audio Home Recording Act And Other Important Copyright Issues For The Year Mm, Nathan Scharton
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This comment will examine the issues and implications of music and the Internet as affected by several competing interests. Part I briefly outlines the current state of affairs in MP3 music by examining the driving forces behind Internet music. Part II explains the constitutional rights of copyright holders and the goals of copyright law. The constitutional issues are further developed under the United States Supreme Court's decision in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. Part Ill briefly introduces some important aspects of the AHRA. Part IV uses the recent Ninth Circuit case, Recording Industry Ass'n of America …