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Post V. Trinity Health-Michigan: Does 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3) Offer Protection From Disability Discrimination?, Joseph D. Burdine
Post V. Trinity Health-Michigan: Does 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3) Offer Protection From Disability Discrimination?, Joseph D. Burdine
Seattle University Law Review SUpra
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Mccleary V. State And The Washington State Supreme Court's Retention Of Jurisdiction—A Success Story For Washington Public Schools?, Jessica R. Burns
Mccleary V. State And The Washington State Supreme Court's Retention Of Jurisdiction—A Success Story For Washington Public Schools?, Jessica R. Burns
Seattle University Law Review SUpra
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Joint Reform?: The Interplay Of State, Federal, And Hemispheric Regulation Of Recreational Marijuana And The Failed War On Drugs, Steven W. Bender
Joint Reform?: The Interplay Of State, Federal, And Hemispheric Regulation Of Recreational Marijuana And The Failed War On Drugs, Steven W. Bender
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In 2012, Washington and Colorado voters surprised the nation by authorizing the recreational use of marijuana. The outcome sent state regulators scrambling to implement the directive and supply a product source, while the federal government faced its own dilemma of whether to tolerate or squelch these state initiatives contradicting longstanding federal law. Surely the Mexican drug cartels (and other illicit growers and suppliers from Canada and within the United States) weighed the prospect for wider reform and its consequences for their multi-billion dollar industry. Although few of these uncertainties have been resolved with any clarity at the time of this …
Voting Rights In California: 1982-2006, Joaquin G. Avila, Eugene Lee, Terry Ao
Voting Rights In California: 1982-2006, Joaquin G. Avila, Eugene Lee, Terry Ao
Faculty Articles
The article provides a comprehensive description of voting discrimination in California from 1982 to 2006. This article was presented as a report to Congress during the 2006 reauthorization and amendments to the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, et seq. The authors focus on the continued necessity for Section 5 review of changes affecting voting and for a bilingual election process in selected jurisdictions. In effect since 1965, Section 5 requires covered jurisdictions to submit all voting changes for approval to either the United States Attorney General or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The …
Acquiring In Personam Jurisdiction In Federal Question Cases: Procedural Frustration Under Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 4, Marilyn Berger
Acquiring In Personam Jurisdiction In Federal Question Cases: Procedural Frustration Under Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 4, Marilyn Berger
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With the adoption of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 1938, Congress finally attempted to provide a uniform standard for exercising personal jurisdiction in federal courts. Despite that attempt, there is currently no uniform method for acquiring personal jurisdiction in federal question cases. A contributing factor to the lack of uniformity is Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4. This article calls for a uniform personal jurisdiction standard in federal question cases. In so doing, it examines the three ways to acquire personal jurisdiction under Rule 4 and evaluates the adequacy of each method. Because some federal courts rely on …