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Bill Of Rights Nondelegation, Eli Nachmany Dec 2023

Bill Of Rights Nondelegation, Eli Nachmany

BYU Law Review

Speculation about the “revival” of the nondelegation doctrine has reached a fever pitch. Although the Supreme Court apparently has not applied the nondelegation doctrine to declare a federal statute unconstitutional since 1935, the doctrine may be making a comeback. The common understanding is that the nondelegation doctrine prohibits Congress from “delegating” legislative power to the executive branch. While the nondelegation doctrine may appear to be about limiting Congress, its ultimate target is delegation. But if the nondelegation doctrine is about policing delegation, then the Court has been regularly — and rigorously — applying the doctrine in a different context: In …


Searches Without Suspicion: Avoiding A Four Million Person Underclass, Tonja Jacobi, Addie Maguire Jan 2023

Searches Without Suspicion: Avoiding A Four Million Person Underclass, Tonja Jacobi, Addie Maguire

BYU Law Review

In Samson v. California, the Supreme Court upheld warrantless, suspicionless searches for parolees. That determination was controversial both because suspicionless searches are, by definition, anathema to the Fourth Amendment, and because they arguably undermine parolees’ rehabilitation. Less attention has been given to the fact that the implications of the case were not limited to parolees. The opinion in Samson included half a sentence of dicta that seemingly swept probationers into its analysis, implicating the rights of millions of additional people in the United States. Not only is analogizing parolees and probationers not logically sound because the two groups differ in …


Quasi-Constitutional Protections And Government Surveillance, Emily Berman Apr 2016

Quasi-Constitutional Protections And Government Surveillance, Emily Berman

BYU Law Review

The post-Edward Snowden debate over government surveillance has been vigorous. One aspect of that debate has been widespread criticism of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), alleging that the FISC served as a rubber stamp for the government, consistently accepting implausible interpretations of existing law that served to expand government surveillance authority; engaging in tortured analyses of statutory language; and ignoring fundamental Fourth Amendment principles. This Article argues that these critiques have entirely overlooked critical aspects of the FISC’s jurisprudence. A close look at that jurisprudence reveals a court that did, in fact, vigorously defend the interests customarily protected by …


Third-Party Consent Under The United States And Utah Constitutions: Should Utah Adopt The Federal Standard?, S. Matthew Cook Mar 1999

Third-Party Consent Under The United States And Utah Constitutions: Should Utah Adopt The Federal Standard?, S. Matthew Cook

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Alien Membership In The Constitutional Compact: Fourth Amendment Reasonableness In Foreign Lands-United States V. Verdugo-Urquidez, Stephen L. Lundwall Mar 1989

Alien Membership In The Constitutional Compact: Fourth Amendment Reasonableness In Foreign Lands-United States V. Verdugo-Urquidez, Stephen L. Lundwall

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Closing The "Open Fields" Question: Oliver V. United States, Brian K. Jorgensen Mar 1985

Closing The "Open Fields" Question: Oliver V. United States, Brian K. Jorgensen

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fourth Amendment Search And Seizure Requirements As Applied To Sniffing Investigations By Police Dogs: People V. Mayberry, Steven M. Bradford May 1983

Fourth Amendment Search And Seizure Requirements As Applied To Sniffing Investigations By Police Dogs: People V. Mayberry, Steven M. Bradford

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Fourth Amendment-Immigration Checkpoint Stops For Questioning Are Reasonable Without Individualized Suspicion-United States V. Martinez-Fuerte, Russell A. Hakes May 1977

Constitutional Law-Fourth Amendment-Immigration Checkpoint Stops For Questioning Are Reasonable Without Individualized Suspicion-United States V. Martinez-Fuerte, Russell A. Hakes

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.