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The Modern Energizer Bunny - Hopping Into The Nuclear Energy Revolution: The Tenth Circuit's Analysis In New Mexico Ex Rel. Balderas V. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Jack A. Mansur May 2024

The Modern Energizer Bunny - Hopping Into The Nuclear Energy Revolution: The Tenth Circuit's Analysis In New Mexico Ex Rel. Balderas V. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Jack A. Mansur

Villanova Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


No Need To Reinvent The Wheel: The Positive Relationship Between Green Technology And Patent Enforcement, Addison S. Fowler Feb 2024

No Need To Reinvent The Wheel: The Positive Relationship Between Green Technology And Patent Enforcement, Addison S. Fowler

Villanova Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


On The Fence About Immigration And Overpopulation: "Environmentalists" Challenge Dhs Policies On Nepa Basis In Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District V. Mayorkas, Maya J. Williams Jun 2023

On The Fence About Immigration And Overpopulation: "Environmentalists" Challenge Dhs Policies On Nepa Basis In Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District V. Mayorkas, Maya J. Williams

Villanova Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


What A Waste! An Evaluation Of Federal And State Medical And Biohazard Waste Regulations During The Covid-19 Pandemic And Their Impact On Environmental Justice, Samantha Newman Feb 2023

What A Waste! An Evaluation Of Federal And State Medical And Biohazard Waste Regulations During The Covid-19 Pandemic And Their Impact On Environmental Justice, Samantha Newman

Villanova Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


An Easy Sell: The Third Circuit Protects Religious Advertising In Colts V. Freethought, William Zachary Mineo Feb 2022

An Easy Sell: The Third Circuit Protects Religious Advertising In Colts V. Freethought, William Zachary Mineo

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Getting Away With Murder: How California State Law Determined Recovery In First Roundup Cancer Case Johnson V. Monsato Co., Eliza L. Quattlebaum May 2021

Getting Away With Murder: How California State Law Determined Recovery In First Roundup Cancer Case Johnson V. Monsato Co., Eliza L. Quattlebaum

Villanova Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Less Mischief, Not None: Respecting Federalism, Respecting States And Respecting Judges In Diversity Jurisdiction Cases, Doris Deltosto Brogan Jan 2015

Less Mischief, Not None: Respecting Federalism, Respecting States And Respecting Judges In Diversity Jurisdiction Cases, Doris Deltosto Brogan

Doris DelTosto Brogan

Abstract: In 2009, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided Berrier v. Simplicity, a tragic, but otherwise modest personal injury diversity case that was brought under Pennsylvania products liability law. The Third Circuit predicted that Pennsylvania would adopt the Restatement (Third) of Torts, and abandon what everyone (including several members of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court) considered an incomprehensible products liability jurisprudence that had evolved under Pennsylvania’s interpretation of the Restatement (Second). But for five years the Pennsylvania Supreme Court did not adopt the Restatement (Third), despite several opportunities to do so. Yet during those years, the Third Circuit …


“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Jul 2013

“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

John Locke understood human happiness to amount to the removal of "uneasiness." This paper argues that,to the extent that the United States is a nation dedicated to "the pursuit of happiness" understood as the removal of "uneasiness," same-sex unions or marriages should be given legal recognition. While Locke defended a variation on traditional marriage on the grounds of progenitiveness and care for dependent offspring, his more foundational commitment to the importance of the removal of uneasiness precludes, on pain of inconsistency, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. This paper argues, furthermore, that conservatives and neo-conservatives who celebrate this nation's being …


Two Cheers For The Constitution Of The United States: A Response To Professor Lee J. Strang, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Jun 2012

Two Cheers For The Constitution Of The United States: A Response To Professor Lee J. Strang, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This article is an invited response to Professor Lee Strang’s article Originalism and the Aristotelian Tradition: Virtue’s Home in Originalism, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 1997 (2012). Strang defends original public meaning originalism from a virtue theoretic perspective that he traces to the “central Western tradition” and ultimately to Aristotle. I reply that those committed to that tradition do better (1) to reject original pubic meaning originalism, (2) to embrace some version of original intent originalism, and (3) to defend the original intent meaning of the U.S. Constitution only with important reservations and on certain conditions. The original sin of …


Legal Affinities: Explorations In The Legal Form Of Thought, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Jan 2012

Legal Affinities: Explorations In The Legal Form Of Thought, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This is my Introduction to Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (forthcoming 2012) (co-edited with H. Jefferson Powell and Jack Sammons), a volume of essays dedicated to exploring the work of Joseph Vining. The Introduction introduces Vining’s phenomenology of law and surveys the themes and topics developed by the volume’s eight authors: Joseph Vining, Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., Rev. John McCausland, H. Jefferson Powell, Jack Sammons, Steve Smith, James Boyd White, and Patrick Brennan.


Constitutional Solipsism: Toward A Thick Doctrine Of Article Iii Duty; Or Why The Federal Circuits’ Nonprecedential Status Rules Are (Profoundly) Unconstitutional, Penelope J. Pether Oct 2009

Constitutional Solipsism: Toward A Thick Doctrine Of Article Iii Duty; Or Why The Federal Circuits’ Nonprecedential Status Rules Are (Profoundly) Unconstitutional, Penelope J. Pether

Working Paper Series

Constitutional Solipsism is the fourth in a series of articles on aspects of the private judging practices which have come to characterize the U.S. state and federal courts since the late 1950s. The first, Inequitable Injunctions: The Scandal of Private Judging in the U.S. Courts, 56 STAN. L. REV. 1435 (2004) gave a critical historical account of the development of the “practices of private judging” in U.S. Courts. Take a Letter, Your Honor: Outing the Judicial Epistemology of Hart v. Massanari, 62 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1553 (2005), analyzed the development of a distinctive U.S. theory of precedent. Sorcerers, …


Legislative Proposals To Restrict The Jurisdiction Of The Federal Courts: Are They Wise - Are They Constitutional, Dolores K. Sloviter Jan 1982

Legislative Proposals To Restrict The Jurisdiction Of The Federal Courts: Are They Wise - Are They Constitutional, Dolores K. Sloviter

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Congressional Power To Regulate Supreme Court Appellate Jurisdiction Under The Exceptions Clause: An Internal And External Examination, Martin H. Redish Jan 1982

Congressional Power To Regulate Supreme Court Appellate Jurisdiction Under The Exceptions Clause: An Internal And External Examination, Martin H. Redish

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Majoritarian Constraints On Judicial Review: Congressional Control Of Supreme Court Jurisdiction, Leonard G. Ratner Jan 1982

Majoritarian Constraints On Judicial Review: Congressional Control Of Supreme Court Jurisdiction, Leonard G. Ratner

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Congress And The Supreme Court's Jurisdiction, Charles E. Rice Jan 1982

Congress And The Supreme Court's Jurisdiction, Charles E. Rice

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Court Stripping Bills: Their Impact On The Constitution, The Courts, And Congress, Max Baucus, Kenneth R. Kay Jan 1982

The Court Stripping Bills: Their Impact On The Constitution, The Courts, And Congress, Max Baucus, Kenneth R. Kay

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Congressional Power Over The Jurisdiction Of The Federal Courts, Paul M. Bator Jan 1982

Congressional Power Over The Jurisdiction Of The Federal Courts, Paul M. Bator

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Symposium Proceedings, Various Editors Jan 1982

Symposium Proceedings, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Congressional Retraction Of Federal Court Jurisdiction To Protect The Reserved Powers Of The States: The Helms Prayer Bill And A Return To First Principles, James Mcclellan Jan 1982

Congressional Retraction Of Federal Court Jurisdiction To Protect The Reserved Powers Of The States: The Helms Prayer Bill And A Return To First Principles, James Mcclellan

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Prohibition Of Group-Based Stereotypes In Jury Selection Procedures, Howard M. Klein Jan 1980

The Prohibition Of Group-Based Stereotypes In Jury Selection Procedures, Howard M. Klein

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Example Of Judicial Legislation: The Third Circuit's Expansion Of Exemption 6 Of The Freedom Of Information Act To Include Union Authorization Cards, Martin J. Sobol Jan 1977

An Example Of Judicial Legislation: The Third Circuit's Expansion Of Exemption 6 Of The Freedom Of Information Act To Include Union Authorization Cards, Martin J. Sobol

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Recent Developments, Various Editors Jan 1976

Recent Developments, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Federal Practice And Procedure, Martin J. Kane Jan 1976

Federal Practice And Procedure, Martin J. Kane

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Federal Courts - Declaratory Judgment - A Federal Court May Grant Declaratory Relief From A State Statute Allegedly Unconstitutional As Applied If State Prosecution Is Threatened, But Not Pending, Rachel Wolkin Jan 1974

Federal Courts - Declaratory Judgment - A Federal Court May Grant Declaratory Relief From A State Statute Allegedly Unconstitutional As Applied If State Prosecution Is Threatened, But Not Pending, Rachel Wolkin

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Presently Expanding Concept Of Judicial Notice, Fortunata Giudice, C. William Kraft Jan 1968

The Presently Expanding Concept Of Judicial Notice, Fortunata Giudice, C. William Kraft

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Resurgence Of The Klaxon Controversy - Contemporary Legal Trends Revitalize An Old Principle, William H. Danne Jr. Jan 1967

A Resurgence Of The Klaxon Controversy - Contemporary Legal Trends Revitalize An Old Principle, William H. Danne Jr.

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Recent Developments, Various Editors Jan 1967

Recent Developments, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


United States V. Tempia: The Questionable Application Of Miranda To The Military, James F. Falco Jan 1967

United States V. Tempia: The Questionable Application Of Miranda To The Military, James F. Falco

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Present Frontiers In Constitutional Law, William T. Coleman Jr. Jan 1967

Present Frontiers In Constitutional Law, William T. Coleman Jr.

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Advisory Opinions As A Problem Solving Process, David Lenefsky Jan 1966

Advisory Opinions As A Problem Solving Process, David Lenefsky

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.