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Playing Hot Potato With Copa: The Supreme Court Defers Deciding Whether The Child Online Protection Act Is Constitutional Once Again, Anne S. Johnston Jan 2005

Playing Hot Potato With Copa: The Supreme Court Defers Deciding Whether The Child Online Protection Act Is Constitutional Once Again, Anne S. Johnston

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

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Modeling Constitutional Doctrine, Mark D. Rosen Jan 2005

Modeling Constitutional Doctrine, Mark D. Rosen

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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Telling A Constitutional Story: Examples Of Constitutional Dialogue, Lisa A. Kloppenberg Jan 2005

Telling A Constitutional Story: Examples Of Constitutional Dialogue, Lisa A. Kloppenberg

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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Constitutional Dialogue And The Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Joel K. Goldstein Jan 2005

Constitutional Dialogue And The Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Joel K. Goldstein

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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Introduction, David J. Seipp Jan 2005

Introduction, David J. Seipp

Faculty Scholarship

Have we come to bury Lochner, or to praise it? Lochner v. New York,' decided 100 years ago, gave its name to an era in which judges struck down popular statutes that regulated hours, wages, and conditions of work, on grounds that such labor regulations violated a constitutional liberty of contract. After 1937, Lochnerism and Lochnerizing were more or less uniformly condemned by judges and law professors alike. Recently, some scholars have tried to resurrect the Lochner approach, presumably as a way to render much of the twentieth-century regulatory state unconstitutional.


Originalism And Formalism In Criminal Procedure: The Triumph Of Justice Scalia, The Unlikely Friend Of Criminal Defendants?, Stephanos Bibas Jan 2005

Originalism And Formalism In Criminal Procedure: The Triumph Of Justice Scalia, The Unlikely Friend Of Criminal Defendants?, Stephanos Bibas

All Faculty Scholarship

In Crawford v. Washington, Justice Scalia's majority opinion reinterpreted the Confrontation Clause to exclude otherwise reliable testimonial hearsay unless the defendant has been able to cross-examine it. In Blakely v. Washington, Justice Scalia's majority opinion required that juries, not judges, find beyond a reasonable doubt all facts that trigger sentences above ordinary sentencing-guidelines ranges. Crawford and Blakely are prime case studies in the strengths, weaknesses, and influence of originalism and formalism in criminal procedure. Crawford succeeded because it cleared away muddled case law, laid a strong foundation in the historical record, and erected a simple, solid, workable rule. …