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Fighting Exclusion From Televised Presidential Debates: Minor-Party Candidates' Standing To Challenge Sponsoring Organizations' Tax-Exempt Status, Gregory P. Magarian Feb 1992

Fighting Exclusion From Televised Presidential Debates: Minor-Party Candidates' Standing To Challenge Sponsoring Organizations' Tax-Exempt Status, Gregory P. Magarian

Michigan Law Review

This Note argues that courts should recognize minor-party presidential candidates' standing to challenge the section 50l(c)(3) tax-exempt status of organizations sponsoring televised debates that exclude minor-party candidates. Part I situates the issue within the context of the Supreme Court's standing jurisprudence and concludes that the validity of a third-party tax-status challenge by an aggrieved minor-party presidential candidate remains an open question. Part II analyzes the Second and District of Columbia Circuits' decisions and concludes that the Second Circuit's approach properly interprets the Supreme Court's standing doctrine and correctly resolves the particular arguments which both courts consider. Part III first demonstrates …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1909

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--General Assignment--Liens Acquired by Assignee; Bills and Notes--Contract of Wife--bona Fide Purchasers; Bills and Notes--Non-Existing Payee--Negotiable Instruments Law; Constitutional Law--Jurisdiction of Federal Courts--suits Against A State; Contracts--Agreement in Restraint of Trade if Severable and Reasonable as to Part is Valid; Corporations--Taxation--Franchise Tax; Elections--Primary Elections--Use of Emblem on Ballots; Evidence--Competency of Witness--Transaction With Agent, Since Deceased; Evidence--Judicial Notice of "Football Season"; Evidence--Public Records of Another State; Guaranty--Change in Principal Contract--Discharge of Guarantor; Injunction--Vendee's Fraud Vitiates Right to Use Patented Machine; Insurance--Mutual Life Insurance--Invalid By-Law--Waiver of Breach; Interstate Commerce--Power of Courts to Enjoin Enforcement of Rates; Judgment--Of Foreign Country--Conclusiveness; Judgment--Power of Court …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Impeachment--Examination of Married Woman; Bankruptcy--Discharge--Libel; Bankruptcy--Selection of Trustee--Right of Creditors to Elect; Bills and Notes--Genuine Draft with Forged Bill of Lading; Bills and Notes--Release of Indorsers; Carriers--Refulsal to Give Transer--Passenger's Motive in Requesting; Covenants--covenant Against Incumbrances--Runs with the Land; Deeds--Parties--One Not Names as Grantor Signing; Elections--Corrupt Practices Act--who is a Candidate; elections--voting Machines--Statute Unconstitutional; Eminent Domain--Taking of railroad Right of Way for Street Purposes--Measure of Damages; Equity--maxims--application in Suit for Divorce on Statutory Grounds; Evidence--Opinion as to One's Physical Condition--Expert Testimony; Foreign Corporations--Right to do business in State can Become Vested; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on--What Constitutes "Doing Business"; Foreign …


Note And Comment, James H. Brewster, Frank L. Sage, Harry B. Hutchins, Frank L. Sage, Henry M. Bates, Henry M. Bates Nov 1906

Note And Comment, James H. Brewster, Frank L. Sage, Harry B. Hutchins, Frank L. Sage, Henry M. Bates, Henry M. Bates

Michigan Law Review

A Spurious Law Course; Railroad Taxation in Michigan and Wisconsin; Surgical Operation on Minor Without Consent of Parent; The Power of Municipal Corporations to Grant Exclusive Privileges; Inheritance Taxes and the Right to Transfer and Inherit Property; The Sovereign Power of a State to Prevent Election Frauds; Original Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in Election Cases;


Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Harry B. Hutchins, Ralph E. Jenney, Charles L. Dribble, Charles H. L'Hommedieu Mar 1906

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Harry B. Hutchins, Ralph E. Jenney, Charles L. Dribble, Charles H. L'Hommedieu

Michigan Law Review

Internal Revenue Tax on State Dispensaries Upheld; What is the Practice of Medicine?; Appeals from Decrees for Costs; The Hearst Election Contest; The Lapse of a Legacy to a Deceased Child; Unsightly Advertisements and Billboards


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks--Equity--Insolvency--Preference of Creditors; Banks--Special or General Deposit; Constitutional law--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Right of Property; Contract--Liability for Breach in Discharge of a Professor; Corporations--Liability of Directors for Excessive Indebtedness; Criminal Law--Larceny Distinguished from False Pretenses; Criminal Law--Remarks of District Attorney--Appeals to Race Prejudice; Damages--Proper Averment in an Action for Deceit in the Sale of Realty; Easement--Right of Way--Immemorial Custom--Easements Appurtenant; Elections--Constitutionality of Law Changing Date--Holding Over; Evidence--Personal Injury--Physical Examination of Plaintiff; Evidence--Physical Examination of Accused; Evidence--Privileged Communication--County Attorney; Execution--Premature--Collateral Attack; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on Officer; Homestead--Oral Contract for Conveyance--Specific Performance; Husband and Wife--Liability of Husband for the Support …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Jun 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Michigan Railroad Tax Cases; Is a vote by Machine a Constitutional Ballot?--Signing "At the End" of a Will; Another Attempt to Evade the Lottery Laws; Saving Exception on Overruling of Motion to Quash Summons; Wills Executed Without Animus Testandi; The Legal Status of a Participant in a Guessing Contest