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Christian Legislative Prayers And Christian Nationalism, Caroline Mala Corbin
Christian Legislative Prayers And Christian Nationalism, Caroline Mala Corbin
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The Uncertain Path Of Class Action Law, Sergio J. Campos
The Uncertain Path Of Class Action Law, Sergio J. Campos
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For the past ten terms the Supreme Court has increased its focus on the law of class actions. In doing so, the Court has revised the law to better accord with a view of the class action as an exception to an idealized picture of litigation. This "exceptional" view of the class action has had a profound impact not only on class action law, but on procedural and substantive law in general. However, in the October 2015 term the Court decided three class action cases that support an alternative, 'functional" view of the class action, one that does not view …
State Constitutional General Welfare Doctrine, Gerald S. Dickinson
State Constitutional General Welfare Doctrine, Gerald S. Dickinson
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It is black-letter law that the U.S. Supreme Court’s takings doctrine presupposes exercises of eminent domain are in pursuit of valid public uses that require just compensation. But, neither federal doctrine nor the text of the Takings Clause offers any additional constraints. The story of the Supreme Court’s takings jurisprudence is, in other words, incomplete and deserves reexamination. However, the usual protagonists, such as the Supreme Court or federal courts, are not central to this Article’s reexamination. Instead, this Article’s narrative is federalism, its characters are state courts, and its script is state constitutions.
In the post-Kelo v. New London …