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The Locus Of Sovereignty: Judicial Review, Legislative Supremacy, And Federalism In The Constitutional Traditions Of Canada And The United States, Calvin R. Massey

Duke Law Journal

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Pure Politics, Girardeau A. Spann

Michigan Law Review

Part I of this article considers the impact that judicial discretion has on the traditional model of judicial review, and that model's reliance on the Supreme Court as the primary guardian of minority interests. Part II argues that the interests of racial minorities can be better advanced through the ordinary political process than through the process of Supreme Court adjudication. Part Ill emphasizes that minority participation in Supreme Court proceedings cannot ultimately be avoided and, accordingly, suggests a political model of the Court that minorities can use in an effort to neutralize the Court's distortion of the political process. Part …

The Product Liability Mess: How Business Can Be Rescued From The Politics Of State Courts, Matthew Harris

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Product Liability Mess: How Business Can Be Rescued from the Politics of State Courts by Richard Neely

That Old Due Process Magic: Growth Control And The Federal Constitution, Keith R. Denny

Michigan Law Review

This Note argues that the interests of nonmunicipal federal citizens in being able freely to migrate about the nation are not adequately accounted for in a due process analysis which sanctions regulations with any, even a debatable, relation to the public welfare.

More adaptable and appropriate are the constitutional safeguards designed to protect the interests of nonmunicipal federal citizens: the privileges and immunities clause, the right of interstate travel, and the commerce clause. This Note concludes that GCOs should be measured against these safeguards and not the standards of the due process clause. When so reviewed, GCOs are found wanting. …

An Analysis Of The Myths That Bolster Efforts To Rewrite Rico And The Various Proposals For Reform:"Mother Of God-Is This The End Of Rico?", G. Robert Blakey, Thomas A. Perry

Vanderbilt Law Review

In 1970 Congress enacted the Organized Crime Control Act, Title IX of which is known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. Congress enacted the 1970 Act to "strengthen[]the legal tools in the evidence-gathering process, [to] establish[] new penal prohibitions, and [to] provid[e] enhanced sanctions and new remedies .,, RICO covers violence, the provision of illegal goods and services, corruption in labor or management relations, corruption in government, and commercial fraud. Congress found in 1970 that the sanctions and remedies available to combat these crimes under the law then in force were unnecessarily limited in scope and …

Board Of Trustees V. City Of Baltimore: Public Pension Fund Divestment Of South African Securities Upheld, Garrett M. Smith

Maryland Law Review

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Book Review, Richard B. Collins

Publications

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