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The New Maternity, Courtney Megan Cahill

Scholarly Publications

Constitutional law has long assumed that mothers andfathers are fundamentally different. Maternity, that law posits, is certain, obvious, and monolithic - consolidated in an easily identifiable person who is at once a biological, social, and legal parent. Paternity, in contrast, is construed as uncertain, nonobvious, relative, and often unclear. Over time, constitutional law has grown more insistent about the obviousness of motherhood. It also has cemented its idea of maternity into a fundamental principle of sex equality law that applies in settings - like transgender rights - that have nothing to do with certain mothers and uncertain fathers.

Constitutional law's …

Vertical Stare Decisis And Three-Judge District Courts, Michael T. Morley

Scholarly Publications

Three-judge federal district courts have jurisdiction over many issues central to our democratic system, including constitutional challenges to congressional and legislative districts, as well as to certain federal campaign-finance statutes. They are similarly responsible for enforcing key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Litigants often have the right to appeal their rulings directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Because of this unusual appellate process, courts and commentators disagree on whether such three-judge district court panels are bound by circuit precedent or instead are free to adjudicate these critical issues constrained only by U.S. Supreme Court rulings.

The applicability of court …

Contracting For Fourth Amendment Privacy Online, Wayne A. Logan, Jake Linford

Scholarly Publications

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The Devil In The Detail: Mitigating The Constitutional & Rule Of Law Risks Associated With The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In The Legal Domain, Catrina Denvir, Tristan Fletcher, Jonathan Hay, Pascoe Pleasence

Florida State University Law Review

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Murr V. Wisconsin And The Inherent Limits Of Regulatory Takings, Lydia L. Butler

Florida State University Law Review

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Disaggregating Nationwide Injunctions, Michael T. Morley

Scholarly Publications

Nationwide injunctions have become a focus of heated judicial, academic, and even public debate. Much of this analysis treats nationwide injunctions as a unitary concept, referring to a particular type of court order. In fact, the term may apply to five different categories of orders of national applicability, each of which raises very different constitutional, fairness, rule-based, structural, prudential, and other concerns.

This Article presents a taxonomy of the five types of nationwide injunctions and the proper judicial treatment of each. Rather than focusing on the geographic applicability and scope of a court order, injunctions should instead be categorized based …

Republicans And The Voting Rights Act, Michael T. Morley

Scholarly Publications

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Informational And Procedural Standing After Lujan V. Defenders Of Wildlife, Brian J. Gatchel

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Ripeness And Forum Selection In Fifth Amendment Takings Litigation, Thomas E. Roberts

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Takings: The Fifth Amendment, Government Regulation, And The Problem Of The Relevant Parcel, Laura M. Schleich

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Justice Scalia And The Demise Of Environmental Law Standing, Patti A. Meeks

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Of Mice And Missiles: A True Account Of Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council, Daniel R. Mandelker

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Neighborhood Opposition And The Permissible Purposes Of Zoning, Harold A. Ellis

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Who Owns Cross Creek?, Charles L. Siemon

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Case Note: Constitutional Questions In Environmental Regulation: Epa's Use Of Aerial Photography Does Not Constitute A Fourth Amendment Search, Mark Massey

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Overcoming Williamson County's Troubling State Procedures Rule: How The England Reservation, Issue Preclusion Exceptions, And The Inadequacy Exception Open The Federal Courthouse Door To Ripe Takings Claims, J. David Breemer

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

This article discusses an avenue available to takings claimants so that they may open the nearly closed door of the federal courts. In Williamson County, the United States Supreme Court established two ripeness prongs that create powerful barriers to landowners seeking to have their takings claims heard on the merits in federal court. Through an in depth analysis of the facts and litigation of this case and others, the author assesses the foundation of the state procedures requirements and concludes it is not required by the Takings Clause. The article scrutinizes the rule's fundamental unfairness and error in its application. …

Standing On Its Last Legs: Bennett V. Spear And The Past And Future Of Standing In Environmental Cases, Sam Kalen

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

This Article examines the evolution of standing in environmental disputes. The Article traces environmental standing from the 1970s when the "zone of interests" test was first applied in Association of Data Processing Service Organizations v. Camp, through Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife over twenty years later, which outlined the three requirements of concrete and particularized imminent injury, traceability, and redressibility. The Article then describes how Bennett v. Spear, decided by the Supreme Court in1997, and other recent lower court decisions have produced a haphazard and incoherent approach to standing in cases involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the …

Drawing The Lines In The Shifting Sands Of Cape Canaveral: Why Common Beach Erosion Should Not Yield A Compensable Taking Under The Fifth Amendment, Jeremy N. Jungreis

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Will Florida's New Net Ban Sink Or Swim?: Exploring The Constitutional Challenges To State Marine Fishery Restrictions, Alexandra M. Renard

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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The Ripeness Doctrine Of The Taking Clause: A Survey Of Decisions Showing Just How Far Federal Courts Will Go To Avoid Adjudicating Land Use Cases, Gregory Overstreet

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Everglades Restoration: A Constitutional Takings Analysis, Sharon S. Tisher

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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The Public Trust Doctrine And Sovereignty Lands In Florida: A Legal And Historical Analysis, Sidney F. Ansbacher, Joe Knetsch

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Avoiding The Takings Clause Through The Myth Of Public Rights: The Public Trust And Reserved Rights Doctrines At Work, James L. Huffman

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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Environmental Protection Through Constitutional Amendment, Robert T. Mann, Richard Jackson

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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General Propositions And Concrete Cases: The Search For A Standard In The Conflict Between Individual Property Rights And The Social Interest, Donald C. Dowling, Jr.

Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

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The Takings Keepings Clause: An Analysis Of Framing Effects From Labelling Constitutional Rights, Donald J. Kochan

Florida State University Law Review

Did you know that the "Takings Clause" was not called the "Takings Clause" by any court before 1955? That was the first time that any court of any jurisdiction referred to the provisions regarding takings of private property in either the federal or state constitutions under the label "Takings Clause." Did you know that justices of the U.S. Supreme Court did not use the moniker "Takings Clause" in any opinion before 1978? Given this history, the phrase "Takings Clause," whether an apt descriptor or not, certainly cannot be justified as the dominant way to refer to these provisions by contemporaneous …

A Process-Based Approach To Presidential Exit, Mark Seidenfeld

Scholarly Publications

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Prophylactic Redistricting? Congress's Section 5 Power And The New Equal Protection Right To Vote, Michael T. Morley

Scholarly Publications

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Populist Constitutions, David Landau

Scholarly Publications

This Essay draws on recent academic definitions of populism and recent examples of its use in order to show that there is an affinity between populism and widespread constitutional change. It argues that populists use constitutional change to carry out three functions: deconstructing the old institutional order, developing a substantive project rooted in a critique of that order, and consolidating power in the hands of populists. Thus, access to the tools of constitutional change may accentuate both the promise of populism as a corrective to stagnating liberal democracies and the threat that it poses to those constitutional orders. I also …

Tiered Constitutional Design, David Landau, Rosalind Dixon

Scholarly Publications

Scholarship has posited two models of constitutionalism. One is short, abstract, and rigid, like the United States Constitution. The other is lengthy, detailed, and flexible, like the constitutions found in many U.S. states and in many other countries around the world. This Article argues that there is a descriptively common and normatively attractive third model: tiered constitutional design. A tiered design aims to combine the virtues of rigidity and flexibility by creating different rules of constitutional amendment for different parts of the constitution. Most provisions are made fairly easy to change, but certain articles or principles are given higher levels …