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The Supreme Court's Labor And Employment Decisions: 2002-2003 Term, Maria O'Brien
The Supreme Court's Labor And Employment Decisions: 2002-2003 Term, Maria O'Brien
Faculty Scholarship
This article summarizes U.S. Supreme Court cases from the October 2002 term that related directly or indirectly to labor or employment law or have implications for labor and employment practitioners. Of particular interest are the University of Michigan affirmative action cases' and the Texas criminal sodomy case. 2 Although not nominally "labor and employment" cases, these cases will profoundly affect labor and employment issues. Lawrence v. Texas has already altered the lenses through which society views homosexuality and altered public discourse related to homosexuality and same-sex relationships. 3 The reasoning of the Court shows how far issues of sexuality have …
The Federal Court System: A Principal-Agent Perspective, Tracey E. George, Albert H. Yoon
The Federal Court System: A Principal-Agent Perspective, Tracey E. George, Albert H. Yoon
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Professor Merrill ably demonstrates that Supreme Court decisions should be examined as the product of an inherently political institution. Observers who assert that Justices are best understood as prophets of the law are practicing an intellectual sleight of hand that allows them to ignore the non doctrinal factors that affect judicial behavior. Such an effort is understandable. The Court is a much more complicated subject if its rulings reflect nonlegal factors as well as legal ones. The desire, however, to ignore the true character of the Court produces accounts of its behavior that are inadequate, incorrect, or wholly without content. …
Supreme Court Section 1983 Decisions: (October 2001 Term), Martin A. Schwartz
Supreme Court Section 1983 Decisions: (October 2001 Term), Martin A. Schwartz
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