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Section 1: Profiles Of The Supreme Court, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Oct 1996

Section 1: Profiles Of The Supreme Court, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 4: Business, Commerce, Property, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Oct 1996

Section 4: Business, Commerce, Property, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 5: Civil Rights, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Oct 1996

Section 5: Civil Rights, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 3: First Amendment, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Oct 1996

Section 3: First Amendment, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 7: Criminal Law, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Oct 1996

Section 7: Criminal Law, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 6: Voting Rights, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Oct 1996

Section 6: Voting Rights, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 2: Moot Court, Clinton V. Jones, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Oct 1996

Section 2: Moot Court, Clinton V. Jones, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 8: Federalism, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Oct 1996

Section 8: Federalism, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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The “Midnight Assassination Law” And Minnesota’S Anti-Death Penalty Movement, John Bessler Jan 1996

The “Midnight Assassination Law” And Minnesota’S Anti-Death Penalty Movement, John Bessler

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This article traces the history of Minnesota's anti-death penalty movement and the 1889 Minnesota law - dubbed by contemporaries as the "midnight assassination law" - requiring private, nighttime executions. That law, authored by Minnesota legislator John Day Smith, restricted the number of execution spectators, prohibited newspapers from printing any execution details, and provided that only the fact of the execution could be lawfully printed. Also commonly referred to as the "John Day Smith law," this Minnesota statute was challenged as being unconstitutional by Minnesota newspapers after those newspapers printed details of a botched hanging and were charged with violating the …


Arbitration: Back To The Future, Theodore J. St. Antoine Jan 1996

Arbitration: Back To The Future, Theodore J. St. Antoine

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A strong new ideological current is sweeping through much of the Western World. At one extreme it manifests itself as a deep distrust of big government. In more modest form, it is a sense of skepticism or disillusionment about the capacity of big government to deal effectively with the problems confronting our society. In continental Europe today there is much talk of the principle of "subsidiarity," the notion that social and economic ills should be treated at the lowest level feasible, usually the level closest to the people directly affected. In the United States there is much talk of "privatization," …


Government Lawyers And The New Deal, Neal Devins Jan 1996

Government Lawyers And The New Deal, Neal Devins

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The Term Limits Dissent: What Nerve, Robert F. Nagel Jan 1996

The Term Limits Dissent: What Nerve, Robert F. Nagel

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The Future Of Federalism, Robert F. Nagel Jan 1996

The Future Of Federalism, Robert F. Nagel

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Hiding The Ball, Pierre Schlag Jan 1996

Hiding The Ball, Pierre Schlag

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Telling The Story Of The Hughes Court, Richard D. Friedman Jan 1996

Telling The Story Of The Hughes Court, Richard D. Friedman

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When Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., died in 1935, he left the bulk of his estate to the United States Government. This gift, known as the Oliver Wendell Hnlmes Devise, sat in the Treasury for about twenty years, until Congress set up a Presidential Commission to determine what to do with it. The principal use of the money has been to fund a multivolume History of the United States Supreme Court. The history of the project itself has not always been a happy one, for some of the authors have been unable to complete their volumes. Among them was one …


Physician Assisted Suicide: A Bad Idea, Yale Kamisar Jan 1996

Physician Assisted Suicide: A Bad Idea, Yale Kamisar

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It would be hard to deny that there is a great deal of support in this country - and ever-growing support - for legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Why is this so? I believe there are a considerable number of reasons. I shall discuss five common reasons - and explain why I do not find any of them convincing.


The 'Right To Die': On Drawing (And Erasing) Lines, Yale Kamisar Jan 1996

The 'Right To Die': On Drawing (And Erasing) Lines, Yale Kamisar

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Until this year, no state or federal appellate court had ever held that there was a right to assisted suicide no matter how narrow the circumstances or stringent the conditions. In 1996, however, within the span of a single month, two federal courts of appeals so held; in an 8-3 majority of the Ninth Circuit (sitting en banc) in Compassion in Dying v. Washington and a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit in Quill v. Vacco. What heartened proponents of a right to physician-assisted suicide even more, and pleased those resistant to the idea even less, was that the two …