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Constitutional Law-Conservation Of Waters-Validity Of Statute Limiting Riparian Rights Dec 1935

Constitutional Law-Conservation Of Waters-Validity Of Statute Limiting Riparian Rights

Michigan Law Review

By the common law a riparian owner on a non-navigable stream has a vested right in the continuous natural flow of the stream on or bordering his land. An Oregon statute undertakes to cut down this right; it provides that a riparian owner's vested right to the continuous flow of the stream is limited to such flow as is necessary to preserve to him the beneficial uses to which he is already putting the water. Inasmuch as the right to the full continuous flow as against non-riparian appropriators is really a right to insist upon the availability of the stream …


Constitutional Law--Constitutionality Of The Hit-And-Run Drivers' Act Jun 1935

Constitutional Law--Constitutionality Of The Hit-And-Run Drivers' Act

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Police Power-Compulsory Military In Land Grant College Mar 1935

Constitutional Law-Police Power-Compulsory Military In Land Grant College

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Gold Clause Decisions, John P. Dawson Mar 1935

The Gold Clause Decisions, John P. Dawson

Michigan Law Review

The gold clause decisions of February 18, 1935, have already taken their place among the great landmarks of American constitutional history. They have given a partial answer to some basic questions of constitutional law. Directly they have disposed of claims amounting to a total of many billions of dollars. But their further implications, both for public and private law, are of even greater magnitude; it may be many years before these wider implications are more fully understood.


The Delegation Of Federal Legislative Power To Executive Officials, Theodore W. Cousens Feb 1935

The Delegation Of Federal Legislative Power To Executive Officials, Theodore W. Cousens

Michigan Law Review

It will be the purpose of this article to attempt (1) a chronological survey of the previous Supreme Court cases relating to alleged delegations of legislative power, and (2) an analysis and discussion of the Panama Refining Co. decision in the light of this background. No discrimination is made between delegations of state and of federal legislative power, as the Supreme Court makes no such discrimination.


Judicial Method And The Constitutionality Of The N.I.R.A., Ralph F. Fuchs Jan 1935

Judicial Method And The Constitutionality Of The N.I.R.A., Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law--Federal Taxation Of State Liquor Monopoly, Robert W. Burk Dec 1934

Constitutional Law--Federal Taxation Of State Liquor Monopoly, Robert W. Burk

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law - Home Owners Loan Corporation Act - Penalties Clause Dec 1934

Constitutional Law - Home Owners Loan Corporation Act - Penalties Clause

Michigan Law Review

An indictment under the penalties clause of the Home Owners Loan Corporation Act, brought before the promulgation of authorization of charges for services rendered, was dismissed on the ground that, prior to such authorization, the act was not sufficiently definite to satisfy the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. United States v. Willard, (D. C. W.D.Mich.No.4057, September 27, 1934) 2 U.S.LAW WEEK, index p. 99.


Constitutional Law-Mortgage Moratorium Apr 1934

Constitutional Law-Mortgage Moratorium

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Capitalism, The United States Constitution And The Supreme Court, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1934

Capitalism, The United States Constitution And The Supreme Court, Hugh Evander Willis

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law - Federal Control Over Crime - Scope Of Power To Regulate Crime Under The Commerce Clause Jan 1934

Constitutional Law - Federal Control Over Crime - Scope Of Power To Regulate Crime Under The Commerce Clause

Michigan Law Review

The increase of criminal activities interstate in scope, and the growing dissatisfaction with state enforcement of local laws, have focused attention of late upon the power of Congress to regulate crime under the commerce clause of the Constitution. Outstanding among proposals for congressional legislation are the following: making interstate felonies federal offenses; punishing criminals who flee across state lines after committing a crime; and restricting the sale and transportation of firearms. Most, if not all, of this suggested legislation must rest on the commerce clause for its validity. We purpose here to discuss the nature and scope of this power, …


Capitalism, The United States Constitution And The Supreme Court, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1934

Capitalism, The United States Constitution And The Supreme Court, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law - Due Process - Regulation Of The Business Of The Contract Motor Carrier Jan 1933

Constitutional Law - Due Process - Regulation Of The Business Of The Contract Motor Carrier

Michigan Law Review

Much of the doubt and uncertainty concerning the power of the States to regulate the contract motor carrier has been dispelled by the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Stephenson et al. v. Binford et al. A Texas statute specifically defined the two categories of common and contract carriers for hire and undertook to regulate the business of each through the agency of the State Railroad Commission; the statute required contract carriers to secure "permits" which were to be granted by the commission only after a hearing and not if the …


Municipal Corporations-Power Of Board Of Appeals To Vary Application Of Zoning Ordinance Nov 1932

Municipal Corporations-Power Of Board Of Appeals To Vary Application Of Zoning Ordinance

Michigan Law Review

Although there was some dispute among the earlier authorities, it is the rule today that comprehensive zoning ordinances, if enacted under proper legislative authority, are constitutional and will be upheld in so far as they are reasonable in application. In order to give aggrieved property owners an opportunity to obtain relief upon the basis of the ordinance itself without attacking its constitutionality, it has become common practice to give the board of appeals the power to vary the operation of the ordinance in specific cases.


Constitution For The State Of Indiana, Hugh E. Willis Jan 1932

Constitution For The State Of Indiana, Hugh E. Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Foreign Diplomats And The Prohibition Laws, Lawrence Preuss Jan 1932

Foreign Diplomats And The Prohibition Laws, Lawrence Preuss

Michigan Law Review

Notwithstanding the general and inclusive nature of the Eighteenth Amendment and of the enforcement legislation enacted under its terms, the executive departments of the national government have acted on the assumption that foreign diplomats are exempted from the operation of the prohibition laws, and have issued regulations by which the importation of liquor by members of this class is permitted. According to statements of the responsible officers concerned, this privilege is based upon "international comity and usage," and upon "the established principles of international Jaw and the statutes of the United States, including the provisions of sections 4063-4065 of the …


Proximate Sources Of The Constitution, Clarence Emmett Manion Nov 1929

Proximate Sources Of The Constitution, Clarence Emmett Manion

Journal Articles

The average American who thinks of our Federal Document only in terms of the Philadelphia Convention may not have fully appreciated the fact that before the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, every American State had already achieved its constitutional independence and had established its own organic law, by which it should not only remain free from the foreign dominion of Great Britain, but should also remain an indestructible unit in The American Federal System. He must remember that the "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union" which leagued the alleged sovereign and independent States, were in force at the time of …


Constitutional Law For Popular Consumption, By Thomas James Norton, Robert C. Brown Jan 1929

Constitutional Law For Popular Consumption, By Thomas James Norton, Robert C. Brown

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Our Continuous Conflict, Clarence E. Martin Apr 1928

Our Continuous Conflict, Clarence E. Martin

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Due Process Of Law In State Labor Legislation, Fowler Vincent Harper Apr 1928

Due Process Of Law In State Labor Legislation, Fowler Vincent Harper

Michigan Law Review

Any regulation on the part of the state of the relations between the laborer and his employer must necessarily deprive the one or the other of his liberty or property, by interfering with his freedom to contract. The protection of freedom of contract which the Constitution affords is not, however, an absolute right. There is nothing necessarily unconstitutional about such legislation unless it is "without due process of law." In other words, legislation of this kind is usually a valid regulation if it can be justified as coming within the due process of law provision.


Due Process Of Law In State Labor Legislation, Pt. 1, Fowler V. Harper Jan 1928

Due Process Of Law In State Labor Legislation, Pt. 1, Fowler V. Harper

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Liberty And The Police Power, Clarence Emmett Manion Jan 1928

Liberty And The Police Power, Clarence Emmett Manion

Journal Articles

The American citizen now has practically no rights of person or property that neither Congress nor the State legislature may not impair by legislation. The adoption of the Articles of Confederation and the Federal Constitution served merely to transfer to the Federal government certain powers formerly exercised by the individual States. When all individuals were protected in the exercise of their respective rights it was never supposed that the rights of the individual were to be protected or approached through the avenues of legislation dictated by majority opinions as to what is now and again for the "general good". The …


Some Conflicting Decisions Of The United States Supreme Court, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1927

Some Conflicting Decisions Of The United States Supreme Court, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Compulsory Indemnity For Persons Injured By Automobiles Apr 1926

Constitutional Law-Compulsory Indemnity For Persons Injured By Automobiles

Michigan Law Review

The problem of protecting the public from injuries arising from the use of automobiles upon public highways has recently been subjected to a form of legislative solution that is distinctly different from the earlier attempts. The devices first employed were measures which dealt with the licensing of cars and with the regulation of their use. Later, when the need for giving financial substance to the tort liabilities of motorists appeared, steps were taken in the direction of fixing vicarious liabilities upon the owners of automobiles. This was done to some extent by the courts which announced the "family purpose doctrine," …


Recent Important Decisions Dec 1925

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Freedom Of Speech Under Our Constitution, Abraham Pinsky Jun 1925

Freedom Of Speech Under Our Constitution, Abraham Pinsky

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutionality Of Zoning Ordinances, George W. Meuth Jan 1925

Constitutionality Of Zoning Ordinances, George W. Meuth

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law--"Liberty" Under Fourteenth Amendment--Validity Of Foreign Languages Statutes Jan 1924

Constitutional Law--"Liberty" Under Fourteenth Amendment--Validity Of Foreign Languages Statutes

Michigan Law Review

Nine states during the months immediately following the conclusion of the World War passed statutes in substantially the same language, forbidding the teaching of any modem language except English to children below the eighth grade in any school, private or public. Ohio also passed a law applying only to the German language. Teachers in Nebraska, Iowa, and Ohio were convicted during 1920 and 1921 of violating these statutes and, after the supreme courts of the various states had held them valid, their cases were combined in an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Held, the statutes deprived appellants …


Constitutional Law--Police Power, Regulation, And Confiscation Mar 1923

Constitutional Law--Police Power, Regulation, And Confiscation

Michigan Law Review

Whether the power be taken away directly, or be deadened and atrophied in its action by adverse criticism and demagogic clamor, when the judiciary no longer feel at liberty to construe the provisions of the fundamental Law 'in the light of reason,' constitutional government, in the sense in which it has been understood for a century and a half, will be at an end, and the doctrine of the police power will have been swallowed up in the capacious maw of unrestrained democracy." 27 HARV. L. REV. 316. Mr. Wickersham penned this warning during the period when the swell of …


Has A Person The Constitutional Right To Abstain From Work, William F. Keefer Nov 1922

Has A Person The Constitutional Right To Abstain From Work, William F. Keefer

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.