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Constitutional Injury And Tangibility, Rachel Bayefsky
Constitutional Injury And Tangibility, Rachel Bayefsky
William & Mary Law Review
The Supreme Court, in the 2016 case Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, announced a framework for determining whether a plaintiff had alleged an injury that would permit entry into federal court. The Court indicated that a plaintiff, in order to have constitutional standing, needed to suffer harm that was “concrete” or “real.” In explaining how courts could ascertain whether an alleged harm was concrete, the Court created a category of “intangible” harm subject to a distinctive, and arguably more demanding, concreteness inquiry than “tangible” harm, a category that seemingly includes only physical or economic harm. In particular, Spokeo directed courts …
Legislative Exhaustion, Michael Sant’Ambrogio
Legislative Exhaustion, Michael Sant’Ambrogio
William & Mary Law Review
Legislative lawsuits are a recurring by-product of divided government. Yet the Supreme Court has never definitively resolved whether Congress may sue the executive branch over its execution of the law. Some scholars argue that Congress should be able to establish Article III standing when its interests are harmed by executive action or inaction just like private parties. Others, including most prominently the late Justice Antonin Scalia, argue that intergovernmental disputes do not constitute Article III “cases” or “controversies” at all. Rather, the Framers envisioned the political branches resolving their differences through nonjudicial means.
This Article proposes a different approach to …
Protean Statutory Interpretation In The Courts Of Appeals, James J. Brudney, Lawrence Baum
Protean Statutory Interpretation In The Courts Of Appeals, James J. Brudney, Lawrence Baum
William & Mary Law Review
This Article is the first in-depth empirical and doctrinal analysis of differences in statutory interpretation between the courts of appeals and the Supreme Court. It is also among the first to anticipate how the Supreme Court’s interpretive approach may shift with the passing of Justice Scalia.
We begin by identifying factors that may contribute to interpretive divergence between the two judicial levels, based on their different institutional structures and operational realities. In doing so, we discuss normative implications that may follow from the prospect of such interpretive divergence. We then examine how three circuit courts have used dictionaries and legislative …
Speech, Intent, And The Chilling Effect, Leslie Kendrick
Speech, Intent, And The Chilling Effect, Leslie Kendrick
William & Mary Law Review
Speaker’s intent requirements are a common but unremarked feature of First Amendment law. From the “actual malice” standard for defamation to the specific-intent requirement for incitement, many types of expression are protected or unprotected depending on the state of mind with which they are said. To the extent that courts and commentators have considered why speaker’s intent should determine First Amendment protection, they have relied upon the chilling effect. On this view, imposing strict liability for harmful speech, such as defamatory statements, would overdeter, or chill, valuable speech, such as true political information. Intent requirements are necessary prophylactically to provide …
The Failure Of Bowles V. Russell, Scott Dodson
The Failure Of Bowles V. Russell, Scott Dodson
Faculty Publications
The Supreme Court recently decided Bowles v. Russell—perhaps that Term’s most underrated case—which characterized the time to file a civil notice of appeal as jurisdictional and therefore not subject to equitable excuses for noncompliance. In so holding, the Court overstated the supporting precedent, inflated the jurisdictional importance of statutes, and undermined an important recent movement to clarify when a rule is jurisdictional and when it is not. This did not have to be. The Court missed a golden opportunity to chart a middle course—holding the rule mandatory but nonjurisdictional—that would have been more consistent with precedent while resolving the …
Coercion And Choice Under The Establishment Clause, Cynthia V. Ward
Coercion And Choice Under The Establishment Clause, Cynthia V. Ward
Faculty Publications
In recent Establishment Clause cases the Supreme Court has found nondenominational, state-sponsored prayers unconstitutionally "coercive" -although attendance at the events featuring the prayer was not required by the state; religious dissenters were free to choose not to say the challenged prayers; and dissenters who so chose, or who chose not to attend the events, suffered no state-enforced sanction. Part I of this Article lays out the historical background that gave rise to the coercion test, traces the development of that test in the Court's case law, and isolates the core elements in the vision of coercion that animates the test. …
Space, Place, And Speech: The Expressive Topography, Timothy Zick
Space, Place, And Speech: The Expressive Topography, Timothy Zick
Faculty Publications
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When Lochner Met Dolan: The Attempted Transformation Of American Land Use Law By Constitutional Interpretation, Ronald H. Rosenberg, Nancy Stroud
When Lochner Met Dolan: The Attempted Transformation Of American Land Use Law By Constitutional Interpretation, Ronald H. Rosenberg, Nancy Stroud
Faculty Publications
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Textualism, Constitutionalism, And Federal Statutes, Jerry L. Mashaw
Textualism, Constitutionalism, And Federal Statutes, Jerry L. Mashaw
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Humor, Defamation And Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress: The Potential Predicament For Private Figure Plaintiffs, Catherine L. Amspacher, Randel Steven Springer
Humor, Defamation And Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress: The Potential Predicament For Private Figure Plaintiffs, Catherine L. Amspacher, Randel Steven Springer
William & Mary Law Review
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The Judicial Development Of The Parent-Child Testimonial Privilege: Too Big For Its Britches?, Gregory W. Franklin
The Judicial Development Of The Parent-Child Testimonial Privilege: Too Big For Its Britches?, Gregory W. Franklin
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Reputation, Compensation, And Proof, David A. Anderson
Reputation, Compensation, And Proof, David A. Anderson
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Carlson V. Green: The Inference Of A Constitutional Cause Or Action Despite The Availability Of A Federal Tort Claims Act Remedy, Gregory P. Williams
Carlson V. Green: The Inference Of A Constitutional Cause Or Action Despite The Availability Of A Federal Tort Claims Act Remedy, Gregory P. Williams
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mead Data Central, Inc. V. United States Department Of The Air Force: Extending The Foia's Fifth Exemption
William & Mary Law Review
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Amendment Of The Seventh Exemption Under The Freedom Of Information Act
Amendment Of The Seventh Exemption Under The Freedom Of Information Act
William & Mary Law Review
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Constitutional Law - Search And Seizure - Wife's Consent To Search And Seizure Of Husband's Property Held Not Sufficient To Waive Constitutional Rights Protecting Husband. State V. Hall, 142 S.E.2d 177 (1965)., R. H. Kraftson
William & Mary Law Review
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Constitutional Law - Right To Counsel - Gideon V. Wainright Made Retroactive. United States Ex Rel. Durocher V. Lavallee, 330 F.2d 303 (2d Cir. 1964), Jeffery Graham
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.