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Non-Compactness And Voter Exchange; Towards A Constitutional Cure For Gerrymandering, Shlomo Angel
Non-Compactness And Voter Exchange; Towards A Constitutional Cure For Gerrymandering, Shlomo Angel
Shlomo Angel
No abstract provided.
Excluding Exclusion: How Herring Jeopardizes The Fourth Amendment’S Protections Against Unreasonable Searches And Seizures, Hariqbal Basi
Excluding Exclusion: How Herring Jeopardizes The Fourth Amendment’S Protections Against Unreasonable Searches And Seizures, Hariqbal Basi
Hariqbal Basi
Abstract- For nearly a half-century, the exclusionary rule has remained an important mechanism for ensuring police compliance with the Fourth Amendment and deterring unconstitutional searches and seizures. In January 2009, the Supreme Court held in Herring v. United States that the exclusionary rule does not apply to good faith negligent police behavior. This significantly broadened the law, and severely limits the future application of the exclusionary rule. Furthermore, this holding has strong potential for abuse by police departments. By analogizing to Fifth Amendment jurisprudence and Miranda rights, I argue that the ruling in Herring needs to be limited in order …
Escaping Legal Limbo: Can Illinois Residents Who Entered Into A Legally Recognized Same-Sex Marriage Or Civil Union In Another State Dissolve Their Marriage In Illinois?, Michelle R. Green, Allen Wall, Jacob H. Karaca, Melissa Sereda
Escaping Legal Limbo: Can Illinois Residents Who Entered Into A Legally Recognized Same-Sex Marriage Or Civil Union In Another State Dissolve Their Marriage In Illinois?, Michelle R. Green, Allen Wall, Jacob H. Karaca, Melissa Sereda
Michelle R. Green
Legal limbo: when a same-sex couple in a valid, legally performed marriage performed in a jurisdiction that recognizes such marriages wants to dissolve their marriage, but now lives in a jurisdiction that refuses to recognize their marriage as valid. This article explores the options available to such couples in Illinois and provides a practical roadmap for practitioners that we think provides the best chance of success for their clients seeking to dissolve a same-sex union.
While Illinois courts have not yet determined whether such a couple may lawfully dissolve their marriage in Illinois, many lessons can be gleaned from other …
Dennis The Menace?: An Analysis Of Whether The Episcopal Church’S Dennis Canon Entitles The Church To An Exemption From Neutral Trust Law, Robert W. Humphrey Ii
Dennis The Menace?: An Analysis Of Whether The Episcopal Church’S Dennis Canon Entitles The Church To An Exemption From Neutral Trust Law, Robert W. Humphrey Ii
Robert W Humphrey II
In 1979, the Episcopal Church amended its canons to include a provision whereby all dioceses and local churches agreed to hold their property in trust for the national church. The Dennis Canon, as it is known, was a response to a schism within the church and an attempt by the church to preserve real property owned by local churches. Many courts construing the effect of the Dennis Canon have found it applies even when common law trust principles would provide otherwise. However, the Supreme Court of South Carolina recently refused to give effect to it, stating it has “no legal …
Smt. Selvi And Ors. Versus State Of Karnataka: Case Note, Vivek Jain
Smt. Selvi And Ors. Versus State Of Karnataka: Case Note, Vivek Jain
vivek jain
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Ghostwriting: Filling In The Gaps Of Pro Se Prisoners’ Access To The Courts, Ira P. Robbins
Ghostwriting: Filling In The Gaps Of Pro Se Prisoners’ Access To The Courts, Ira P. Robbins
Ira P. Robbins
Compared with other litigants, pro se prisoners are at an inherent disadvantage when they try to vindicate their rights. They lack many of the resources enjoyed by non-prisoner litigants. They have limited finances and limited access to legal-research materials. Even if they had such access, their illiteracy would lessen its effectiveness. Moreover, many attorneys are unwilling or unable to undertake full representation of prisoner litigants. As a result, pro se prisoners struggle to navigate the complex legal system, often losing their cases on procedural grounds before ever reaching a decision on the merits. This Article argues that, in order to …
Lessons From Hurricane Katrina: Prison Emergency Preparedness As A Constitutional Imperative, Ira P. Robbins
Lessons From Hurricane Katrina: Prison Emergency Preparedness As A Constitutional Imperative, Ira P. Robbins
Ira P. Robbins
Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters ever to strike the United States, in terms of casualties, suffering, and financial cost. Often overlooked among Katrina's victims are the 8,000 inmates who were incarcerated at Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) when Katrina struck. Despite a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, these men and women, some of whom had been held on charges as insignificant as public intoxication, remained in the jail as the hurricane hit, and endured days of rising, toxic waters, a lack of food and drinking water, and a complete breakdown of order within OPP. When the inmates …
Iran’S “New Constitutionalism”: Constitutional Politics In Post-Revolutionary Iran, Kambiz Behi
Iran’S “New Constitutionalism”: Constitutional Politics In Post-Revolutionary Iran, Kambiz Behi
Kambiz Behi
This Article argues that the Iranian constitutional system, although distinctive in application and in jurisprudence, is structurally and functionally similar to a set of rapidly globalizing forms of constitutional arrangement. These similarities include, in the main, legal institutions, legal thought, and methods of jurisprudence. In particular, I argue that the post-1989 constitutional reforms in Iran incorporate a globalizing constitutional mode of legal arrangement marked by proportionality analysis and judicial interventionism at the expense of representative politics. The Article also aims to make a contribution to the methodology of legal analysis by applying a Critical approach to the study of a …
No Place To Hide: First Amendment Protection For Geolocation Privacy, Theodore F. Claypoole
No Place To Hide: First Amendment Protection For Geolocation Privacy, Theodore F. Claypoole
Theodore F Claypoole
The article analyzes the conflict between established Constitutional rights and evaporating privacy, by exploring technological changes that threaten anonymity and examining the First Amendment rights to be anonymous in association and speech.
Women And Pornography: The Reasons, The Benefits And The Risks, Guy Kochlani
Women And Pornography: The Reasons, The Benefits And The Risks, Guy Kochlani
Guy Kochlani
This Article examines the reasons why women enter the porn industry, the benefits of joining it and its risks. Specifically, this Article concentrates on the five major reasons why women enter the porn industry: 1) physical/sexual/mental abuse (reasons for building self-confidence and feeling important); 2) financial (last resort to earn money in a short time frame or building a business empire); 3) fame (believes that this is a stepping stone into Hollywood); 4) nymphomania (sexual addiction); and 5) human trafficking (forced in becoming a sex slave). In addition, this Article will lay out the benefits of entering such an industry, …
The Fiduciary Theory Of Governmental Legitimacy And The Natural Charter Of The Judiciary, Luke A. Wake
The Fiduciary Theory Of Governmental Legitimacy And The Natural Charter Of The Judiciary, Luke A. Wake
Luke A. Wake
In legal academia, there are various claims as to the proper role of the courts and the standard of review to be employed in evaluating claims of right. These competing judicial philosophies have been the subject of great debate in recent years. Yet underlying these debates is the question of rights and whether men are entitled, in justice, to assurances of personal autonomy, or whether the concept of rights is a mere legal fiction.
In a recent article in the Journal of Law and Philosophy, Evan Fox-Decent argues that individuals are entitled, at a minimum, to certain guarantees of bodily …
Hate Funeral Protests? Then Ignore Them, Alan E. Garfield
Hate Funeral Protests? Then Ignore Them, Alan E. Garfield
Alan E Garfield
No abstract provided.
Patriotism For Profit And Persuasion: The Trademark, Free Speech, And Governance Problems With Protection Of Governmental Marks In The United States, Malla Pollack
Malla Pollack
“Governmental marks” are words or phrases which involve the identity of a social group that is partly defined in terms of its citizenship in a government-institution. The power to name a social group (especially one from which exit is difficult) confers enormous power over the group’s members. Legally classifying such words as trademarks commodifies them, increasing the namer’s power: both by giving the word monetary value and by providing the mark-holder with the legal right to prevent others from manipulating the word’s meaning.
Destination marketing employing governmental marks has become ubiquitous. The municipal governments of both New York City and …
Social Security, Modes Of Communication For Blind And Visually Impaired Persons And The Rehabilitation Act – American Council Of The Blind V Astrue, Mel Cousins
Mel Cousins
This note examines a recent District Court decision in which the plaintiffs successfully challenged the adequacy of modes of communication by the Social Security Administration in its notices and other correspondence to blind and visually impaired persons. The case shows the potential of the Rehabilitation Act to improve services to persons with disabilities.
Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis And Equal Protection In Kentucky – Cain V Lodestar Energy, Gardner V Vision Mining And Martinez V Peabody Coal, Mel Cousins
Mel Cousins
This note discusses a number of recent decisions of the Kentucky courts concerning coal workers pneumoconiosis and equal protection. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has recently found unconstitutional a special ‘consensus’ procedure by which coal workers affected by pneumoconiosis were required to prove their claim for workers compensation. The case is currently under appeal to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Executing Foster V. Neilson: Enforcing Treaties Against The States, David Sloss
Executing Foster V. Neilson: Enforcing Treaties Against The States, David Sloss
David Sloss
In Medellin v. Texas, the Supreme Court held that Article 94 of the United Nations Charter is non-self-executing. In so holding, the Court applied the “intent-based” doctrine of self-execution. Conventional wisdom traces that doctrine to an 1829 opinion by Chief Justice Marshall in Foster v. Neilson. The conventional wisdom is wrong. Marshall applied the “two-step” approach to self-execution, not the modern intent-based doctrine. The two-step approach distinguishes clearly between questions of international and domestic law. International law governs the content and scope of the United States’ treaty obligations. Domestic law determines which government officers are responsible for domestic treaty implementation. …
Section 7: Individual Rights, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School
Section 7: Individual Rights, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School
Supreme Court Preview
No abstract provided.
Completing Ely's Representation Reinforcing Theory Of Judicial Review By Accounting For The Constitutional Values Of State Citizenship, Shane Pennington
Completing Ely's Representation Reinforcing Theory Of Judicial Review By Accounting For The Constitutional Values Of State Citizenship, Shane Pennington
Shane Pennington
John Hart Ely famously proposed a representation reinforcing theory of judicial review. Ely said that the Constitution embodies certain procedural principles that make the ideal of American representative democracy possible. Thus, where courts find that the political process has broken down, putting that republican goal out of reach, they must step in and exercise judicial review to correct for the procedural breakdown and to reinforce the representational principles the Constitution embodies.
Whether Ely’s theory is constructed on a foundation of sand or stone depends—to a large extent—on the rigor of his conception of “American representative democracy,” which he gleans largely …
Takings By Regulation: How Should Courts Weigh The Balancing Factors?, David Crump
Takings By Regulation: How Should Courts Weigh The Balancing Factors?, David Crump
David Crump
The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution provides that private property may not be taken without just compensation. But the Takings Clause does not provide much guidance to a court that is struggling to decide in a given case whether the facts before it amount to a taking. In Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York, the Supreme Court said that an ad hoc balancing test was to be the general approach to a regulatory takings case. The Court did not tell us how the factors were to be weighed, and in fact it left some of the balancing factors themselves …
Government Under Party, Party Under Constitution: On The Construction Of Chinese State-Party Rule Of Law Constitutionalism, Larry Cata Backer
Government Under Party, Party Under Constitution: On The Construction Of Chinese State-Party Rule Of Law Constitutionalism, Larry Cata Backer
Larry Cata Backer
Since the establishment of the Soviet Union, constitutional theory has tended to look suspiciously at the constitutionalization of Marxist Leninist state apparatus under the control of a single party in power. These judgments have formed the basis of analysis of Chinese constitutionalism as well. But are these criticisms inevitably correct in general, and wholly applicable in the post 1989 Chinese context after the structural reforms of Deng Xiaoping and his successors? This paper explores those questions, developing a constitutional theory for states organized on a state-party model. The thesis of the article is this: Chinese constitutionalism presents a coherent and …
The Thirteenth Amendment As A Model For Revolution, Sandra L. Rierson
The Thirteenth Amendment As A Model For Revolution, Sandra L. Rierson
Sandra L Rierson
To date, the United States has experienced only a handful of successful revolutionary movements. The first was the American Revolution itself. Although the original colonies’ war of independence and the resulting creation of a democratic republic was assuredly a revolution, it was incomplete in at least one major respect: it failed to resolve the fundamental conflict between the aspiration of freedom and the reality of slavery. Moreover, the bargains made and compromises struck at the time of the Revolution and as embodied within the Constitution neither encouraged nor enabled a course of gradual abolitionism, as the Founders purportedly hoped. Instead, …
Anti-Cyber Bullying Statutes: Threat To Student Free Speech, John O. Hayward
Anti-Cyber Bullying Statutes: Threat To Student Free Speech, John O. Hayward
John O. Hayward
In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier committed suicide because of postings on MySpace, an Internet social networking site. As a result, twenty-one states have passed statutes prohibiting cyber bullying, i.e., bullying by electronic means. Many of these laws threaten student free speech. This article examines cyber bullying, the laws it has spawned, how they chill student speech, their constitutionality, and proposes a Model Anti-Cyber Bullying Law.
Tax Lawyers, Tax Defiance, And The Ethics Of Casual Conversation, Michael Hatfield
Tax Lawyers, Tax Defiance, And The Ethics Of Casual Conversation, Michael Hatfield
Michael Hatfield
Tax Lawyers, Tax Defiance, and the Ethics of Casual Conversation Tax lawyers routinely navigate politically-charged waters when a tax topic is dropped into conversation. Increasingly, however, tax lawyers are confronted with comments that undermine the authority of the federal tax system itself. These comments may take several forms, including arguments that the income tax is unconstitutional. Regardless of form, this rhetoric differs from legitimate criticisms of the tax system because it encourages non-compliance as either a moral right or a political good . In the current environment, the tax bar should take up the call to be public educators with …
Balanced Budget Amendment Is Dangerous Gimmick, Not Solution, Nathan B. Oman
Balanced Budget Amendment Is Dangerous Gimmick, Not Solution, Nathan B. Oman
Popular Media
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A Modest Appeal For Decent Respect, Jessica Olive, David C. Gray
A Modest Appeal For Decent Respect, Jessica Olive, David C. Gray
David C. Gray
In Graham v. Florida, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits imposing a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of release for nonhomicide crimes if the perpetrator was under the age of eighteen at the time of his offense. In so holding, Justice Kennedy cited foreign and international law to confirm the Court’s independent judgment. In his dissent, Justice Thomas recited now-familiar objections to the Court’s reliance on these sources. Those objections are grounded in his originalist jurisprudence. In this short invited essay, which expands on prior work, we argue that Justice Thomas should abandon these …
Rights Bring Responsibility: Clear Constitutional Protections May Be Only The Beginning Of The Discussion, Alan E. Garfield
Rights Bring Responsibility: Clear Constitutional Protections May Be Only The Beginning Of The Discussion, Alan E. Garfield
Alan E Garfield
No abstract provided.
A Framework To Apply The Article Iii Case Or Controversy Requirement To Motions To Confirm Or Vacate Arbitral Awards Pursuant To The Federal Arbitration Act, Aaron Franklin
Aaron Franklin
Arbitration is an important method of dispute resolution but it requires courts that can confirm or vacate arbitral awards. When parties move to confirm or vacate these awards, federal courts largely ignore the Article III case or controversy requirement’s role as a limit on their power. Applying this requirement is not as simple as it sounds, and courts have little guidance in doing so. This Article therefore provides a framework that resolves two problems. First, motions to confirm or vacate arbitral awards always involve an underlying dispute (the dispute that necessitated arbitration) and a dispute about whether to grant the …
Déjà Vu: From Comic Books To Video Games: Legislative Reliance On “Soft Science” To Protect Against Uncertain Societal Harm Linked To Violence V. The First Amendment, Terri R. Day, Ryan C.W. Hall M.D.
Déjà Vu: From Comic Books To Video Games: Legislative Reliance On “Soft Science” To Protect Against Uncertain Societal Harm Linked To Violence V. The First Amendment, Terri R. Day, Ryan C.W. Hall M.D.
Terri R. Day
This article discusses the weaknesses and limitations of social science evidence to prove that the virtual world of violent video games causes any real world harm. The Supreme Court, in its next term, will consider the constitutionality of California’s ban on the sale and rental of violent video games to minors. The controversy on violent video games is the latest legislative attempt to ban access and distribution of violent materials to children, reminiscent of the comic books debate over sixty years ago. This paper goes beyond a discussion of the First Amendment obstacles to violent video game restrictions. It focuses …
A Criminal Justice System That Works, Alan E. Garfield
A Criminal Justice System That Works, Alan E. Garfield
Alan E Garfield
No abstract provided.
The Great American Public, Mass Society, And The New Constitutional Order, Richard C. Boldt
The Great American Public, Mass Society, And The New Constitutional Order, Richard C. Boldt
Richard C. Boldt
No abstract provided.