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First Amendment Ancillary Doctrines, David S. Bogen Jan 1978

First Amendment Ancillary Doctrines, David S. Bogen

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Recent Decisions Of The Supreme Court In Labor Law, David S. Bogen Jan 1978

Recent Decisions Of The Supreme Court In Labor Law, David S. Bogen

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Equality For Individuals Or Equality For Groups: Implications Of The Supreme Court Decision In The Manhart Case, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 1978

Equality For Individuals Or Equality For Groups: Implications Of The Supreme Court Decision In The Manhart Case, William W. Van Alstyne

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This commentary breaks down the case of the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power v. Manhart and discusses what effects the Supreme Court's decision will have when Title VII is applied to university employers, particularly in their relationship with TIAA-CREF


A Preliminary Report On The Bakke Case, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 1978

A Preliminary Report On The Bakke Case, William W. Van Alstyne

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This comment breaks down the variety of opinions in the Bakke case and discusses the immediate implications the decision may have on the academic community.


The Constitution Goes To Harvard, Henry Paul Monaghan Jan 1978

The Constitution Goes To Harvard, Henry Paul Monaghan

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Doctrinal disorder haunts a generation of Supreme Court decisions construing and applying the strands of the fourteenth amendment. But in a confusion contest between the Court and academic writers on constitutional law, picking a winner would be no simple task. Those of us in the academy, despite our comparatively ample time for reflection, have long resisted discussion of fundamental issues.

Professors Tribe and Michelman, two of our ablest writers, illustrate my point in their provocative recent essays on National League of Cities v. Usery. Neither purports to erect more adequate scaffolding for the decision's federalism foundation. Rather, each attempts …


The Enduring Significance Of Neutral Principles, Kent Greenawalt Jan 1978

The Enduring Significance Of Neutral Principles, Kent Greenawalt

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Almost twenty years have passed since Herbert Wechsler delivered his Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture, Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law. Although no one piece fully conveys the richness and rigor of Professor Wechsler's conception of constitutional law and the role of the judiciary, Neutral Principles sets out starkly, eloquently, and courageously some of his fundamental beliefs about constitutional decisionmaking. Shifts in jurisprudential fashion, as well as marked changes in constitutional doctrine and the composition of the Supreme Court, would make this an apt time to review what is almost certainly the most cited and most controversial discussion of constitutional …


The Burger Court And The Fourth Amendment, Larry Yackle Jan 1978

The Burger Court And The Fourth Amendment, Larry Yackle

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In his 1974 Holmes Lectures, Anthony Amsterdam likened the Supreme Court in search and seizure cases to a committee "attempting to draft a horse by placing very short lines on a very large drawing board at irregular intervals during which the membership of the committee constantly changes." On that perception of the matter he cautioned against precipitous criticism when the completed draft resembles a camel. That advice, in my judgment, is reliable only in part. On the one hand, only the most arrogant of armchair critics would not concede that the Court's work is as difficult as it is important. …