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New Federal Rules In Sex Offense Cases, Lynn Mclain
New Federal Rules In Sex Offense Cases, Lynn Mclain
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This article from the November/December 1995 issue of the Maryland Bar Journal details the changes made to the Federal Rules of Evidence following the enactment of the 1994 Comprehensive Crime Bill. Questions raised by the new rules and the response of the Judicial Conference are also discussed.
Empowerment Zones: Urban Revitalization Through Collaborative Enterprise, Audrey Mcfarlane
Empowerment Zones: Urban Revitalization Through Collaborative Enterprise, Audrey Mcfarlane
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The federal government recently designated six empowerment zones in selected urban areas as an urban revitalization demonstration program. The program is derived from the enterprise zone strategy promoted by former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp that sought to address urban poverty by encouraging business growth through deregulation and tax incentives. The Clinton administration modified the original concept and now refers to the target areas as empowerment zones. As the definitions of "enterprise" and "empower" indicate, renaming the zones reflects a significant shift in emphasis-from a focus on stimulating business enterprise through reducing regulation to one in which regulation is used to …
Freedom Of Information And The Eu Data Protection Directive, James Maxeiner
Freedom Of Information And The Eu Data Protection Directive, James Maxeiner
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The EU Data Protection Directive attempts to balance protection of privacy and freedom of information acquisition. It does this by authorizing Member States to provide exemptions and derogations in their individual legislation.
Closing The Barn Door After The Genie Is Out Of The Bag: Recognizing A "Futility Principle" In First Amendment Jurisprudence, Eric Easton
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This article argues for a simple proposition: the First Amendment imposes a presumption against the suppression of speech when suppression would be futile. Suppression is futile when the speech is available to the same audience through some other medium or at some other place. The government can overcome this presumption of futility only when it asserts an important interest that is unrelated to the content of the speech in question, and only when the suppression directly advances that interest.
In Part I, the article explores the role that this unarticulated "futility principle" has played in Supreme Court and other decisions …
No Magic Formula: A New Approach For Calculating The Ten Year Time Period For Admission Of Prior Conviction Evidence, Amy E. Sloan
No Magic Formula: A New Approach For Calculating The Ten Year Time Period For Admission Of Prior Conviction Evidence, Amy E. Sloan
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Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 609 governs admission of prior conviction evidence. Under this rule, it is easier to admit evidence of a prior conviction that is less than ten years old than to admit evidence of older convictions. The ten year period is measured from the later of either the date of conviction or the date of release from confinement.
Calculating the ten year period is fairly straightforward in most cases but becomes confusing when the witness has been confined for violating the terms of probation, parole, or some other period of conditional release. Does the confinement for violation …
Takings Of Wildlife Under The Endangered Species Act After Babbitt V. Sweet Home Chapter Of Communities For A Great Oregon, Lawrence R. Liebesman, Steven A.G. Davison
Takings Of Wildlife Under The Endangered Species Act After Babbitt V. Sweet Home Chapter Of Communities For A Great Oregon, Lawrence R. Liebesman, Steven A.G. Davison
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Business Information And "Personal Data": Some Common-Law Observations About The Eu Draft Data Protection Directive, James Maxeiner
Business Information And "Personal Data": Some Common-Law Observations About The Eu Draft Data Protection Directive, James Maxeiner
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Discusses the public interest in the free flow of information.
Back To The Parent: Holding Company Liability For Subsidiary Banks — A Discussion Of The Net Worth Maintenance Agreement, The Source Of Strength Doctrine, And The Prompt Corrective Action Provision, Cassandra Jones Havard
Back To The Parent: Holding Company Liability For Subsidiary Banks — A Discussion Of The Net Worth Maintenance Agreement, The Source Of Strength Doctrine, And The Prompt Corrective Action Provision, Cassandra Jones Havard
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Given the statutory goal of parental accountability, this Article focuses on a narrow issue: Whether parental guarantees are the most effective regulatory tool for shielding the federal deposit insurance fund from losses when insured banking subsidiaries that are members of a multibank holding company system are insolvent. This Article posits that a needed complement to parental guarantees is temporary substantive consolidation of a holding company's affiliated banks. This would require the parent company to combine the assets of its banking siblings to facilitate the reorganization of a financially troubled subsidiary. Temporary enterprise consolidation is a necessary regulatory tool because it …
Alteration Of Wildlife Habitat As A Prohibited Taking Under The Endangered Species Act, Steven A.G. Davison
Alteration Of Wildlife Habitat As A Prohibited Taking Under The Endangered Species Act, Steven A.G. Davison
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Litigation In The U.S. And In The Civil Law System: What Can We Learn From Each Other?, James Maxeiner
Litigation In The U.S. And In The Civil Law System: What Can We Learn From Each Other?, James Maxeiner
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Discusses the lack of American interest in learning about foreign civil procedure. Considers points where America might benefit from foreign experiences. Suggests significant differences in procedure can be attributed to emphasis on day-in-court thinking over reasoned decision thinking.
Stories Out Of School: Teaching The Case Of Brown V. Voss, Elizabeth Samuels
Stories Out Of School: Teaching The Case Of Brown V. Voss, Elizabeth Samuels
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As a law teacher, I have observed these benefits of the case method, particularly with conducive appellate opinions and a skillfully assembled text. But I have also experienced, as I suspect most law teachers have, instances in which a case that lacks a sufficiently revealing narrative seems to mystify more than elucidate. One example is the case of Brown v. Voss, which appears in a number of property law casebooks, including the widely used Property by Jesse Dukeminier and James E. Krier. In Brown v. Voss the State of Washington Supreme Court departs, in a somewhat disingenuous way, from an …
Proportionality In Non-Capital Sentencing: The Supreme Court's Tortured Approach To Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Steven P. Grossman
Proportionality In Non-Capital Sentencing: The Supreme Court's Tortured Approach To Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Steven P. Grossman
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This Article examines the Supreme Court's treatment of the Eighth Amendment with respect to claims of excessive prison sentences. Specifically, it addresses the issue of whether and to what degree the Eighth Amendment requires that a punishment not be disproportionate to the crime. In analyzing all of the modern holdings of the Court in this area, this Article finds significant fault with each. The result of this series of flawed opinions from the Supreme Court is that the state of the law with respect to proportionality in sentencing is confused, and what law can be discerned rests on weak foundations. …
A Teacher's Trouble: Risk, Responsibility And Rebellion, Margaret Martin Barry, Lisa Lerman, Homer La Rue, Odeana R. Neal
A Teacher's Trouble: Risk, Responsibility And Rebellion, Margaret Martin Barry, Lisa Lerman, Homer La Rue, Odeana R. Neal
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What follows is an edited transcript of a session at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7, 1995. The meeting was a joint plenary session of the AALS Section on Professional Responsibility and the Section on Clinical Legal Education. The meeting was planned and the role plays were written by Professors Margaret Martin Barry and Lisa Lerman of The Catholic University of America and Professor Homer La Rue of Howard University.
The purpose of the program was to foster interaction among teachers of professional responsibility and clinical teachers about …
Social Justice And The Myth Of Fairness: A Communal Defense Of Affirmative Action, Phillip J. Closius
Social Justice And The Myth Of Fairness: A Communal Defense Of Affirmative Action, Phillip J. Closius
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This Article shall examine the characteristics of the current analytical framework by first examining some harmful effects resulting from the prioritization of fairness: excessive generalization, formalism and superficiality, and materialism. The Article will then examine in detail the Supreme Court's resolution of modern affirmative action issues. The Court has generated confusion and discord by applying simplistic concepts to complex problems and by adhering to the primacy of fairness in a context in which all interested parties claim that fairness favors their result. Finally, this Article will critique the Court's inability to provide a consistent doctrinal basis for discussing affirmative action …
Authors, Editors, And Uncommon Carriers: Identifying The "Speaker" Within The New Media, Michael I. Meyerson
Authors, Editors, And Uncommon Carriers: Identifying The "Speaker" Within The New Media, Michael I. Meyerson
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First Amendment analysis has historically depended on whether a party is a speaker, an editor, or a carrier. With communications technology rapidly evolving, determining which category is appropriate becomes increasingly complex, and ascertaining the First Amendment protections that are applied to various actors in the process of diffusing ideas becomes difficult. This article looks to the historical treatment of the First Amendment rights of speakers, editors, and distributors. This article traces the Supreme Court’s treatment of speech regulations on new technologies, from telegraph and telephone regulations to the seminal Turner Broadcast System, Inc. v. FCC case that created rules for …
Myths And Moms: Images Of Women And Termination Of Parental Rights, Odeana R. Neal
Myths And Moms: Images Of Women And Termination Of Parental Rights, Odeana R. Neal
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For most of us, the word "mother" evokes a myriad of often conflicting images and emotions, expectations and disappointments, and gratitude and blame. What a mother is - our own mothers and the class of people who are mothers - means much more than that a woman has given birth. We expect mothers to provide their children with all the love, caring, nurturing, and emotional fulfillment that we perceive those children need and desire; we expect her to be all things that we want her to be when we need her to be them. A woman who can fulfill the …
The Virtual Clerk's Office: A Proposed Model Judgement Lien Act For The Computer Age, Charles Shafer
The Virtual Clerk's Office: A Proposed Model Judgement Lien Act For The Computer Age, Charles Shafer
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This article addresses one aspect of the law regarding the satisfaction of judgments: when a creditor is determined to have a lien on property of the debtor. The unnecessary cumbersomeness of the present system, which limits the ability of creditors to promptly obtain a legally cognizable interest in specific property, hampers creditors in preventing the debtor's use, sale, or hypothecation of property that could be used to satisfy their debts. This is particularly true of intangible property and property where federal law or the law of sister states controls transfers. Not only do judgment creditors face the risk that the …
Rejecting The Fruits Of Action: The Regeneration Of The Waste Land’S Legal System, Phillip J. Closius
Rejecting The Fruits Of Action: The Regeneration Of The Waste Land’S Legal System, Phillip J. Closius
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In his greatest work, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot presents a picture of twentieth century Western civilization as a culture which has lost its essential values and has come undone from its historical moorings. Material wealth has become the focal point of society and its inhabitants. In such a value distorted context, human relationships are devoid of meaning. Honest communication and a meaningful life for the soul and intellect are lost in a dehumanizing daily grind. Religious, communal, and even familial values are subverted to a culturally encouraged drive for personal gain. In this respect, modern Western civilization in …
The Law Of Humanity And The Law Of Nations, Mortimer N.S. Sellers
The Law Of Humanity And The Law Of Nations, Mortimer N.S. Sellers
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The nineteenth-century doctrines known as "international law" developed out of the seventeenth-century "jus gentium" and eighteenth-century "law of nations." Now we see that twentieth-century scholars such as Richard Falk would like to speak of the "law of humanity". What is the value of such semantic shifts? Proponents of "international law" sought to promote a positivist doctrine, which would minimize the natural law elements of the old law of nations to privilege the views of governments and states. Advocates of the "law of humanity" presumably seek to diminish the role of states in international law by eliminating "nations" as the basis …