Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Beneficial interest (1)
- Corruption (1)
- Development (1)
- Dubai (1)
- Exclusionary principles (1)
-
- Fraud (1)
- Impeachment (1)
- Indian Law (1)
- Mezzanatto (1)
- Mineral (1)
- Mineral development (1)
- Mineral estate (1)
- Mineral lease (1)
- Mining (1)
- Native American Law (1)
- Oklahoma (1)
- Osage (1)
- Osage Act (1)
- Osage Nation (1)
- Osage Wind (1)
- Overcharging (1)
- Overcriminalization (1)
- Overincarceration (1)
- Palm Islands (1)
- Plea bargaining (1)
- Prosecutors (1)
- Real Estate (1)
- Rules of Evidence (1)
- Surface estate (1)
- Tribal (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Contracts
Palm Papers, Nicole Rothwell
Palm Papers, Nicole Rothwell
Capstones
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) came into possession of a secret dataset of property owners of the Palm Islands, the elite high-end artificial islands on the coast of Dubai.
With over 250 neighborhoods on Dubai’s waterfront, a group of journalists around the world has been investigating who these individuals are that can afford the posh and pricey real estate. While most fall into the uber-rich category, some also have corrupt to criminal backgrounds leading to questions such as if the Palm Islands are truly a real-estate paradise, or instead a refuge for the corrupt.
The task for …
United States V. Osage Wind, Llc, Summer Carmack
United States V. Osage Wind, Llc, Summer Carmack
Public Land & Resources Law Review
The Osage Nation, as owner of the beneficial interest in its mineral estate, issues federally-approved leases to persons and entities who wish to conduct mineral development on its lands. After an energy-development company, Osage Wind, leased privately-owned surface lands within Tribal reservation boundaries and began to excavate minerals for purposes of constructing a wind farm, the United States brought suit on the Tribe’s behalf. In the ensuing litigation, the Osage Nation insisted that Osage Wind should have obtained a mineral lease from the Tribe before beginning its work. In its decision, the Tenth Circuit applied one of the Indian law …
"Make Him An Offer He Can't Refuse"-- Mezzanatto Waivers As Lynchpin Of Prosecutorial Overreach, Christopher B. Mueller
"Make Him An Offer He Can't Refuse"-- Mezzanatto Waivers As Lynchpin Of Prosecutorial Overreach, Christopher B. Mueller
Publications
Plea bargaining is the dominant means of disposing of criminal charges in the United States, in both state and federal courts. This administrative mechanism has become a system that is grossly abusive of individual rights, leading to many well-known maladies of the criminal justice system, which include overcharging, overincarceration, convictions on charges that would likely fail at trial, and even conviction of “factually innocent” persons. Instrumental in the abuses of plea bargaining is the so-called Mezzanatto waiver, which takes its name from a 1995 Supreme Court decision that approved the practice of getting defendants to agree that anything they say …