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Of Citizen Suits And Citizen Sunstein, Harold J. Krent, Ethan G. Shenkman Jun 1993

Of Citizen Suits And Citizen Sunstein, Harold J. Krent, Ethan G. Shenkman

Michigan Law Review

After briefly summarizing Lujan and addressing Sunstein's critique, we explore the concept of accountability underlying the creation of a single executive in Article II. We then apply our theory of the unitary executive to several examples of broad grants of statutory standing, concluding that Congress can confer standing on private citizens only if it specifically articulates and individuates the interests whose violation gives rise to a cognizable case. Although we agree with Sunstein's view that broad grants of statutory standing do not necessarily trench upon constitutional values, we ultimately side with Justice Scalia in concluding that universal citizen standing, as …


The Music Of Murder, Dennis R. Martin May 1993

The Music Of Murder, Dennis R. Martin

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Towards A More Perfect European Human Rights Standard: A New Argument Against A United Kingdom Bill Of Rights, Keith Cope May 1993

Towards A More Perfect European Human Rights Standard: A New Argument Against A United Kingdom Bill Of Rights, Keith Cope

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Virtues (And Limits) Of Shared Values: The Fourth Amendment And Miranda's Concept Of Custody, Richard A. Williamson Apr 1993

Virtues (And Limits) Of Shared Values: The Fourth Amendment And Miranda's Concept Of Custody, Richard A. Williamson

Faculty Publications

Miranda only protects suspects who the police subject to custodial interrogation. The concept of custody is tethered to the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination; thus, to render a suspect in custody, law enforcement officials must subject the suspect to a compelling environment that tends to undermine that privilege. In this article, Professor Richard A. Williamson examines the application of Miranda to Terry stops. He reviews the impact of the Beheler and Berkemer decisions, which held that suspects who officials stop based on reasonable suspicion, as opposed to suspects who officials arrest, are not entitled to Miranda warnings. Professor Williamson generally …


State Constitutional Protection Of Religious Exercise: An Emerging Post-Smith Jurisprudence, Angela C. Carmella Mar 1993

State Constitutional Protection Of Religious Exercise: An Emerging Post-Smith Jurisprudence, Angela C. Carmella

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Further Word Against Consensus, John O. Mcginnis Feb 1993

A Further Word Against Consensus, John O. Mcginnis

Articles

In their Response to my Essay, Professors Strauss and Sunstein not only take issue with a few of my arguments but also suggest a measure of consensus between their views and mine on the confirmation process.1 While I very much appreciate their proffer of half an olive branch, upon reflection I believe that the differences between us concerning the confirmation process remain very great and illustrate even more profound differences concerning the premises and structure of our republican Constitution.


Evolving Thresholds Of Nuisance And The Takings Clause, John A. Humbach Jan 1993

Evolving Thresholds Of Nuisance And The Takings Clause, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article reviews the historical tradition in which the common law core of nuisance has been the frequent subject of statutory additions and refinements, providing most of our modern law of land use and environmental protection. Until Lucas, the Takings Clause had not been treated as a charter establishing the courts as boards of revision to rethink and selectively veto legislative determinations in the land use field. Within the scope of “total takings,” however, Lucas has converted the Takings Clause from its original meaning and made it exactly that.


R.A.V. V. St. Paul: The Debate Over The Constitutionality Of Hate Crime Laws Ends; Or Is This Just The Beginning, Joseph E. Starkey Jr. Jan 1993

R.A.V. V. St. Paul: The Debate Over The Constitutionality Of Hate Crime Laws Ends; Or Is This Just The Beginning, Joseph E. Starkey Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Identifying, Protecting And Preserving Individual Rights: Traditional Federal Court Functions, Roger J. Miner '56 Jan 1993

Identifying, Protecting And Preserving Individual Rights: Traditional Federal Court Functions, Roger J. Miner '56

Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Takings Law, Lucas, And The Growth Management Act, John M. Groen, Richard M. Stephens Jan 1993

Takings Law, Lucas, And The Growth Management Act, John M. Groen, Richard M. Stephens

Seattle University Law Review

In light of Lucas and the recent constitutionally questionable Washington decisions, government entities charged with implementing the GMA may have a more difficult time avoiding takings liability than previously thought. Accordingly, this Article first seeks to clarify the modern takings analysis as refined by Lucas. Second, Washington takings precedent is contrasted with the federal approach and several key changes are suggested to make state law consistent with controlling federal precedent. Third, key aspects of the GMA are identified that can be expected to raise takings implications. By identifying potential trouble spots in the GMA now, hopefully some takings will …


Presidential Systems In Stress: Emergency Powers In Argentina And The United States, William C. Banks, Alejandro D. Carrió Jan 1993

Presidential Systems In Stress: Emergency Powers In Argentina And The United States, William C. Banks, Alejandro D. Carrió

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article offers three comparative insights. First, it concludes that comparative inquiries into presidential systems may be useful for those interested in constitutional government, regardless of historical, cultural, or other contextual differences among nations. Thus, nations with presidentialist constitutional systems may have common problems because of the institutional presidency. The article maintains that our presidential systems are in such states of disrepair that a fundamental reinvigoration of the legislative and judicial branches is required, so that government may better serve important constitutional values in our nations.


The Death Penalty: A Solution To The Problem Of Intentional Aids Transmission Through Rape, 26 J. Marshall L. Rev. 941 (1993), Stefanie S. Wepner Jan 1993

The Death Penalty: A Solution To The Problem Of Intentional Aids Transmission Through Rape, 26 J. Marshall L. Rev. 941 (1993), Stefanie S. Wepner

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Harmful Use And The Takings Clause In The Eye Of The Beholder: Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council, Charles H. Clarke Jan 1993

Harmful Use And The Takings Clause In The Eye Of The Beholder: Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council, Charles H. Clarke

Cleveland State Law Review

Whichever of these two possibilities prevails, both possibilities require the courts to perform essentially legislative functions regardless, in other words, of whether public ecological resources receive insufficient or ample protection from private enterprise that wants to consume them. The traditional Takings Clause precedents, on the other hand, would give public ecological resources and private property ample protection with minimum judicial oversight. The traditional position seems preferable for this reason.


Tribal-State Gaming Compacts: The Constitutionality Of The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, William T. Bisset Jan 1993

Tribal-State Gaming Compacts: The Constitutionality Of The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, William T. Bisset

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) permits Indian tribes to operate casino games on Indian lands, but only if the games are conducted in conformance with a tribal-state compact. Upon tribal request, a state must negotiate such a compact in good faith or risk losing its opportunity to regulate Indian gaming at all. In response to IGRA-sanctioned, federal-court actions by tribes to enforce their rights, states have successfully raised Tenth and Eleventh Amendment "states' rights" challenges to IGRA's constitutionality. This Article argues that the controlling Supreme Court precedent precludes states (a) from invoking the Eleventh Amendment as a defense to …


Did The Slaves Author The Thirteenth Amendment? An Essay In Redemptive History, Guyora Binder Jan 1993

Did The Slaves Author The Thirteenth Amendment? An Essay In Redemptive History, Guyora Binder

Journal Articles

American constitutional interpretation is deeply traditionalist, and privileges original intent. The difficulty with thus authorizing the past in interpreting the Thirteenth Amendment is that it purports to abolish custom and tradition as unjust. This essay argues that, given the Amendment’s denunciation of the polity that enacted it as illegitimate, its questionable formal pedigree, and the agency of the slaves in precipitating, defining, and resolving the crisis that enabled it, the slaves have a moral claim to status as its authors. It follows that the original intent guiding interpretation should be that of the slaves themselves.


Negotiated Sovereignty: Intergovernmental Agreements With American Indian Tribes As Models For Expanding First Nations’ Self-Government, David H. Getches Jan 1993

Negotiated Sovereignty: Intergovernmental Agreements With American Indian Tribes As Models For Expanding First Nations’ Self-Government, David H. Getches

Publications

Constitutional issues related to First Nations sovereignty have dominated Aboriginal affairs in Canada for a considerable period. The constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal self-government has, however, received a setback with the recent failure of the Charlottetown Accord in October of 1992. Nonetheless, day-to-day issues must be accommodated, even while this more fundamental constitutional question remains unresolved. This paper illustrates the American experience with negotiated intergovernmental agreements between tribes and individual states. These agreements have, for example, resolved jurisdictional disputes over taxation, solid waste disposal, and law enforcement between state governments and tribal authorities. The author suggests that these intergovernmental agreements in …


Washington Constitution Article 1, Section 7: The Argument For Broader Protection Against Employer Drug Testing, Ken Davis Jan 1993

Washington Constitution Article 1, Section 7: The Argument For Broader Protection Against Employer Drug Testing, Ken Davis

Seattle University Law Review

This Comment will analyze Article 1, Section 7 of the Washington Constitution, the search and seizure provision, and conclude that this provision should be construed to provide greater protection to employees against employer drug testing absent individualized suspicion than the Fourth Amendment does. The scope of this Comment, however, is limited to the rights of state employees with respect to suspicionless drug testing. The rights of federal employees are not included in this analysis because they are protected against suspicionless drug testing only by the Fourth Amendment, not by the analogous Washington provision. Moreover, Article 1, Section 7, like the …


The Americans With Disabilities Act And The Corpus Of Anti-Discrimination Law: A Force For Change In The Future Of Public Health Regulation, Lawrence O. Gostin Jan 1993

The Americans With Disabilities Act And The Corpus Of Anti-Discrimination Law: A Force For Change In The Future Of Public Health Regulation, Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this paper the author reviews the constitutional history of the courts' attempts to check the powers of the public health department. He demonstrates how ineffective and inconsistent constitutional review has been, and suggests that adequate review criteria have not emerged. The author shows that, whether the courts are applying First, Fourth, or Fourteenth Amendment standards, ultimately they are highly deferential to public health officials. Then he carefully examines the key concepts in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as they apply to communicable disease. He reveals Congress' clear intention to include communicable disease, even asymptomatic infection, as a disability. …


A New Birth Of Constitutionalism: Genetic Influences And Genetic Defects, Louis Henkin Jan 1993

A New Birth Of Constitutionalism: Genetic Influences And Genetic Defects, Louis Henkin

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Harm, Morality, And Feminist Religion: Canada's New -- But Not So New -- Approach To Obscenity, Daniel O. Conkle Jan 1993

Harm, Morality, And Feminist Religion: Canada's New -- But Not So New -- Approach To Obscenity, Daniel O. Conkle

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


The Exhaustion Doctrine: State Prisoners Caught Between Civil Rights Actions And Writs Of Habeas Corpus, Linda Marie Bell Aug 1992

The Exhaustion Doctrine: State Prisoners Caught Between Civil Rights Actions And Writs Of Habeas Corpus, Linda Marie Bell

San Diego Law Review

This Comment explores the conflict between two federal laws when prisoners challenging their confinement seek damages or declaratory relief. On one hand, the exhaustion doctrine requires state prisoners to exhaust their state remedies before filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court when they contest their confinement. On the other hand, prisoners challenging their civil rights may file in federal court without exhausting all state remedies. This Comment addresses how federal courts should determine which rule to apply when a prisoner brings an action contesting confinement, but seeks only declaratory relief or damages. The author proposes …


Joint Ventures, Inc. V. Department Of Transportation, 563 So. 2d 622 (Fla. 1990), Alan W. Roddy Apr 1992

Joint Ventures, Inc. V. Department Of Transportation, 563 So. 2d 622 (Fla. 1990), Alan W. Roddy

Florida State University Law Review

Takings-ISN'T THERE A BETTER APPROACH TO PLANNED CONDEMNATIONS?


The State And Federal Religion Clauses: Differences Of Degree And Kind, Neil Mccabe Jan 1992

The State And Federal Religion Clauses: Differences Of Degree And Kind, Neil Mccabe

St. Thomas Law Review

This article will critically analyze some recent decisions that have recognized greater rights under state constitutions in the area of religious freedom, but it will place more emphasis on the possibility of lesser or different protection under the state constitutions.


Economic Liberty As The Basis Of Social Liberty: Bowers Revised In The Context Of State Constitutions, Daniel R. Gordon Jan 1992

Economic Liberty As The Basis Of Social Liberty: Bowers Revised In The Context Of State Constitutions, Daniel R. Gordon

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Legislative Purpose And Equal Protection's Rationality Review, Robert C. Farrell Jan 1992

Legislative Purpose And Equal Protection's Rationality Review, Robert C. Farrell

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Gun Control Legislation And The Intent Of The Second Amendment: To What Extent Is There An Individual Right To Keep And Bear Arms, Jay R. Wagner Jan 1992

Gun Control Legislation And The Intent Of The Second Amendment: To What Extent Is There An Individual Right To Keep And Bear Arms, Jay R. Wagner

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The Role Of State Constitutions In An Era Of Big Government, Stanley Mosk Jan 1992

The Role Of State Constitutions In An Era Of Big Government, Stanley Mosk

University of Richmond Law Review

This is a speech delivered by The Honorable Stanley Mosk, Justice of the Supreme Court of California,at the T.C. Williams School of Law's eighth annual Emroch Lecture. Among his many achievements, Justice Mosk has authored some of California's most constructive legislative proposals in the crime and law enforcement fields, including the measure creating the Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training.


What Is Behind The "Property Rights" Debate?, John A. Humbach Jan 1992

What Is Behind The "Property Rights" Debate?, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council' obviously presents issues that range far more broadly than just whether people should be allowed to build on beaches and dunes. Many observers have viewed the case as a splendid opportunity for the Supreme Court to re-establish private owner autonomy in land use decisions - to cut down, perhaps drastically, on elected legislatures' traditional power to protect the environment by regulating uses of land. Behind the "property rights" debate is the question of whether states and communities really ought to have the power that they have traditionally had to control the development and patterns …


Eminent Domain (Update), James E. Krier Jan 1992

Eminent Domain (Update), James E. Krier

Book Chapters

One of the most challenging and enduring puzzles in American constitutional law is how one distinguishes a compensable taking of power from a legitimate and noncompensable exercise of the police power. To suggest the Supreme Court’s approach to the question, Harry N. Scheiber, author of the Encyclopedia’s principal article on eminent domain, looked back and away from the Court to Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts.


Birth Control As A Condition Of Probation--A New Weapon In The War Against Child Abuse, Thomas E. Bartrum Jan 1992

Birth Control As A Condition Of Probation--A New Weapon In The War Against Child Abuse, Thomas E. Bartrum

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.