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Articles 31 - 54 of 54
Full-Text Articles in Law
Foreword, Paula A. Monopoli
Foreword, Paula A. Monopoli
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: The World's Most Powerful Jurist?, Diane Lowenthal, Barbara Palmer
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: The World's Most Powerful Jurist?, Diane Lowenthal, Barbara Palmer
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Sandra Day O'Connor's Position On Discrimination, Stephen E. Gottlieb
Sandra Day O'Connor's Position On Discrimination, Stephen E. Gottlieb
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Grutter And Gratz: A Critical Analysis, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.
Grutter And Gratz: A Critical Analysis, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This Article will analyze the Grutter and Gratz opinions, especially Justice O'Connor's important opinion for the majority in Grutter, and will consider the significance of these decisions in terms of university admissions policy, justifications for racial preferences, and equal protection doctrine. The article will conclude that the Court's defense of the use of racial preferences does not square well with the Powell opinion in Bakke on which it relied so heavily. It will suggest that the Court could have offered a more persuasive explanation for the result it reached but probably felt precluded by precedent from doing so.
Demythologizing The Legal History Of The Jehovah’S Witnesses And The First Amendment, Allen K. Rostron
Demythologizing The Legal History Of The Jehovah’S Witnesses And The First Amendment, Allen K. Rostron
Faculty Works
In 2002, for the first time in more than 20 years, the Supreme Court of the United States decided a case involving the First Amendment rights of Jehovah's Witnesses. The Court ruled that Witnesses cannot be required to give their names to local government authorities in order to obtain permits before going door-to-door to distribute their publications and preach their religious message.
While the amount of new law being generated by the religion's followers has slowed, scholars have finally begun in recent years to give significant attention to the legal history of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and, in particular, to their …
Defining Democracy: The Supreme Court's Campaign Finance Dilemma, Lori A. Ringhand
Defining Democracy: The Supreme Court's Campaign Finance Dilemma, Lori A. Ringhand
Scholarly Works
On December 10, 2003 the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in McConnell v. FEC. In McConnell, the Court was asked to determine the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ("BCRA"). A divided Court, in a deeply fractured decision in which six justices wrote individual opinions, upheld the major provisions of the legislation. Yet despite the almost 300 pages of reasoning provided by the Court, and a voluminous record developed by the district court, the Justices could not agree on what purportedly is the central issue in campaign finance law: whether the challenged regulations were necessary …
Preemption Of State Tort Law By Federal Safety Statutes: Supreme Court Preemption Jurisprudence Since Cipollone, Richard C. Ausness
Preemption Of State Tort Law By Federal Safety Statutes: Supreme Court Preemption Jurisprudence Since Cipollone, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article shall attempt to trace the twists and turns of Supreme Court preemption jurisprudence. Part I provides a brief overview of federal preemption law, considering the constitutional sources of preemption and the traditional preemption categories. Part II analyzes Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., the source of modem Supreme Court doctrine regarding preemption of state tort law by federal safety legislation. Part III reviews seven post-Cipollone Supreme Court preemption cases: CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Easterwood, Freightliner Corp. v. Myrick, Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr, Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Shanklin, Geier v. American Honda Motor …
Resorting To External Norms And Principles In Constitutional Decision-Making, Alvin L. Goldman
Resorting To External Norms And Principles In Constitutional Decision-Making, Alvin L. Goldman
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Given the very significant role of constitutional law in the American political system and the fact that Supreme Court Justices are appointed through a political process, it is understandable that the appropriate judicial approach to resolving constitutional issues often is the subject of political commentary. Unfortunately, discourse by politicians concerning this issue seldom rises to the deserved level of wisdom. One of President George W. Bush's public mantras is illustrative of political commentary respecting federal judicial appointments: "I'm going to put strict constructionists on the bench." On its face, and as understood by politically naive audiences, the statement appears to …
Copyright Under Siege: The First Amendment Front, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.
Copyright Under Siege: The First Amendment Front, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Over the past decade, the law of copyright - traditionally an arcane and obscure specialty - has evolved into an extraordinarily controversial legal arena. To a significant extent, though not exclusively, this has been caused by the emerging clashes between copyright on the one hand and digital technology and the internet on the other. Some see copyright as the aggressor in the copyright wars, guilty of threatening the digital revolution, the internet, information policy, privacy, freedom of speech and the public domain. Much of this assault on copyright is culturally driven by the Internet's champions. Inevitably, this cultural challenge is …
Federalism Re-Constructed: The Eleventh Amendment's Illogical Impact On Congress' Power, Marcia L. Mccormick
Federalism Re-Constructed: The Eleventh Amendment's Illogical Impact On Congress' Power, Marcia L. Mccormick
All Faculty Scholarship
The Constitution is designed to protect individual liberty and equality by diffusing power among the three branches of the federal government and between the federal and state governments, and by providing a minimum level of protection for individual rights. Yet, the Supreme Court seems to think that federalism is about protecting states as states rather than balancing governmental power to protect individuals. In the name of federalism, the Supreme Court has been paring away at Congress' power to enact civil rights legislation. In doing so, it has transformed the Fourteenth Amendment into a vehicle for protecting states rights rather than …
Supreme Court Watch, Reginald Oh
Supreme Court Watch, Reginald Oh
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Discusses the Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas, 123 S. Ct. 24 72 (2003). Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy held that the Texas anti-sodomy statute, by criminalizing adult consensual sexual conduct, violated the petitioners' vital interests in liberty and privacy as protected by the substantive due process doctrine under the Fourteenth Amendment.
What Lawrence V. Texas Says About The History And Future Of Reproductive Rights, Cynthia Dailard
What Lawrence V. Texas Says About The History And Future Of Reproductive Rights, Cynthia Dailard
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article explores the ways in which the court's recognition of a broad zone of personal liberty in Lawrence v. Texas may serve to strengthen a woman's constitutionally protected reproductive rights in future Supreme Court decisions. Part of the author's analysis focuses on using particular Justices' opinions (and dissents) to predict the direction of future challenges to abortion rights in front of the Supreme Court.
To Be Announced: Silence From The United States Supreme Court And Disagreement Among Lower Courts Suggest An Uncertain Future For Class-Wide Arbitration - Green Tree Fin. Corp. V. Bazzle, Jonathan R. Bunch
Journal of Dispute Resolution
With growth in the area of arbitration agreements relating to employment, credit cards, loans, and other form agreements, the issue of class-wide arbitration has become an area of significant judicial activity. However, increased judicial activity has not resulted in increased clarity; to the dismay of those parties seeking to pursue or avoid class-wide arbitration, the law on this issue has become unpredictable from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The United States Supreme Court has expressed the importance of the class-action as a valuable device for vindicating plaintiffs' rights. Additionally, the Supreme Court has recognized arbitration as a valuable form of dispute resolution. …
Putting The Supreme Court Back In Place: Ideology, Yes; Agenda, No, Steven H. Goldberg
Putting The Supreme Court Back In Place: Ideology, Yes; Agenda, No, Steven H. Goldberg
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This essay is about the permanent damage to the Supreme Court and to the country that may occur if the current approach to judicial appointments continues, and offers an approach to the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court justices that will help put the Court back in its proper place - out of the eye of the elective political storm.
The Jose Padilla Story, Donna R. Newman
Torture, Marcy Strauss
The Torture Warrant: A Response To Professor Strauss, Alan M. Dershowitz
The Torture Warrant: A Response To Professor Strauss, Alan M. Dershowitz
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Investigating New York’S Son Of Sam Law: Problems With The Recent Extension Of Tort Liability For People Convicted Of Crimes, Jessica Yager
Investigating New York’S Son Of Sam Law: Problems With The Recent Extension Of Tort Liability For People Convicted Of Crimes, Jessica Yager
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Five Critical Issues In New York’S Grandparent Visitation Law After Troxel V. Granville, Stephen A. Newman
Five Critical Issues In New York’S Grandparent Visitation Law After Troxel V. Granville, Stephen A. Newman
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Homophobia And The “Matthew Shepard Effect” In Lawrence V. Texas, Kris Franklin
Homophobia And The “Matthew Shepard Effect” In Lawrence V. Texas, Kris Franklin
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Contrived Conflicts: The Supreme Court Versus The Basics Of Intellectual Property Law, F. Scott Kieff
Contrived Conflicts: The Supreme Court Versus The Basics Of Intellectual Property Law, F. Scott Kieff
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Asked by conference organizers to consider the impact of the Supreme Court on intellectual property this millennium, this essay offers the view that the Supreme Court's intellectual property decisions by its present members generally are premised upon what may be viewed as contrived conflicts among bodies of law. Proceeding from this faulty foundation, the Court's efforts to resolve those conflicts subsequently have generated bodies of judge-made law that frustrate in important ways the basic statutory framework of intellectual property law. Examples of cases employing this problematic approach include Bonito Boats, Dastar, Warner-Jenkinson, Festo, TrafFix, and Holmes. Avoiding the contrivances not …
The Dark Side Of Grutter, Girardeau A. Spann
The Dark Side Of Grutter, Girardeau A. Spann
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Liberals have generally cheered the Supreme Court's decision in Grutter v. Bollinger as validating the continued use of affirmative action in the struggle against racial injustice. But the Supreme Court's modern race cases rest on a misunderstanding of the nature of contemporary racial discrimination. From Brown, to Bakke, to Grutter, the Court has advanced a colorblind conception of racial equality that treats race-conscious affirmative action as constitutionally suspect, because it deviates from an aspirational baseline of race neutrality that lies at the core of the equal protection clause. However, race neutrality is a hopelessly artificial concept in …
'A Flame Of Fire': The Fourth Amendment In Perilous Times, John Burkoff
'A Flame Of Fire': The Fourth Amendment In Perilous Times, John Burkoff
Articles
The important questions we need to ask and to answer in the perilous times in which we live is whether the Fourth Amendment applies in the same fashion not just to run of the mill criminals, but also to terrorists and suspected terrorists, individuals who are committing or who have committed B or who may be poised to commit B acts aimed at the destruction of extremely large numbers of people? Professor Burkoff argues that we can protect ourselves from cataclysmic threats of this sort and still maintain a fair and objective application of Fourth Amendment doctrine that respects our …
Green Laws For Better Health: The Past That Was And The Future That Maybe - Reflections From The Indian Experience, Shubhankar Dam
Green Laws For Better Health: The Past That Was And The Future That Maybe - Reflections From The Indian Experience, Shubhankar Dam
Shubhankar Dam
No abstract provided.