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Rebuilding Grid Governance, Joel B. Eisen, Heather E. Payne

BYU Law Review

As climate change sharpens the focus on our electricity systems, there is widespread agreement that the institutions that govern our electric grid must change to realize a clean energy future in the timescale necessary. Scholars are actively debating how grid governance needs to change, but in this Article we demonstrate that current proposals are insufficient because they do not contemplate “rebuilding.” This Article defines “rebuilding” as ending entities tasked with grid governance and creating new ones to take their place. We propose what no one else has: an overarching framework for rebuilding any grid governance institutions.

This Article discusses when …

Regulating Strategic Sovereign Wealth, Paul Rose

BYU Law Review

In an era of ascendant globalization, sovereign wealth funds were used by governments around the world – and, in particular, by governments with massive natural resource wealth or balance-of-trade surpluses – to invest widely in foreign markets. Sovereign wealth funds were products of the international economic order then in existence, adapted to a political and economic environment in which borders could be easily crossed and foreign assets seemed abundant and easily acquired. After the Financial Crisis, and with the increasing nationalization seen in the 2010s, this environment began to change. Both domestic and international forces spurred the development of new, …

The Tesla Meets The Fourth Amendment, Adam M. Gershowitz

BYU Law Review

Can police search a smart car’s computer without a warrant? Although the Supreme Court banned warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest in Riley v. California, the Court left the door open for warrantless searches under other exceptions to the warrant requirement. This is the first article to argue that the Fourth Amendment’s automobile exception currently permits the police to warrantlessly dig into a vehicle’s computer system and extract vast amounts of cell phone data. Just as the police can rip open seats or slash tires to search for drugs under the automobile exception, the police can warrantlessly extract …

Clark Memorandum: Spring 2023, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Byu Law School Alumni Association, J. Reuben Clark Law Society

The Clark Memorandum

• Fidei Defensor: Defending Faith to Enable Communities of Reconciliation
• Conscience, Peacebuilding, and Faith-Based Law Schools
• Elvis Was Right: The Unavoidable Intersection Between Personal Values and a Fulfilling Practice of Law
• The Future of the Establishment Clause: Implications of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

The Trouble With Time Served, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

BYU Law Review

Every jurisdiction in the United States gives criminal defendants "credit" against their sentence for the time they spend detained pretrial. In a world of mass incarceration and overcriminalization that disproportionately impacts people of color, this practice appears to be a welcome mechanism for mercy and justice. In fact, how ever, crediting detainees for time served is perverse. It harms the innocent. A defendant who is found not guilty, or whose case is dismissed, gets nothing. Crediting time served also allows the state to avoid internalizing the full costs of pretrial detention, thereby making overinclusive detention standards less expensive. Finally, crediting …

Interested Voting, Matteo Gatti

BYU Law Review

Corporate law is attentive to transactions with a controlling shareholder, but such transactions hardly cover all instances in which an interested shareholder may harm the corporation by casting a pivotal vote to pass a resolution. Interested votes cast by directors, managers, acquirers, cross-holders, arbitrageurs, institutional investors, hedge funds, and several other actors can be as detrimental as votes by a controlling shareholder. Yet, despite the ever growing influence of shareholders in corporate governance, interested voting has received scant attention.

This Article is the first to offer a systematic mapping of interested voting based on type of shareholder and type of …

A Basic Needs Baseline For Distributional Analysis, Ari Glogower

BYU Law Review

Studies of income inequality and the distributive effects of taxes and government spending drive debates over progressive fiscal reform and economic justice. These distributional studies provide vital information on inequality in market outcomes and how government policies mitigate these disparities.

Despite its critical importance, however, distributional analysis encounters inevitable and familiar limitations. These studies face practical challenges in measuring income and the distributional impacts of government policies. Distributional analysis also faces inherent complications in seeking to distinguish between the effects of the market and the government.

Even if distributional analysis could precisely measure income and the effects of government policies, …

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 …

The Federalist And The Fourteenth Amendment — Publius In Antebellum Public Debate 1788–1860, Kurt T. Lash

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Publius’S Protectors Of Liberty: A Still Important Role For States, Adam Reed Moore

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Remand Without Vacatur And The Ab Initio Invalidity Of Unlawful Regulations In Administrative Law, John Harrison

BYU Law Review

An important administrative law doctrine developed by the lower federal courts called remand without vacatur rests on a mistaken premise. Courts that embrace the doctrine maintain that when they find that a federal agency regulation is unlawful, they have discretion to remand the regulation without vacating it. The remand gives the regulatory agency an opportunity to correct the flaws that render the regulation unlawful. When a regulation is remanded but not vacated, the courts assume the regulation binds regulated parties despite its illegality. Unlawful regulations, however, are in general void ab initio, just as unconstitutional statutory rules are void ab …

The Constitutional Model Of Mootness, Tyler B. Lindley

BYU Law Review

Article III limits the federal courts to deciding cases and controversies, and this limitation has given rise to the black-letter law of standing, ripeness, and mootness. But the law of mootness presents a puzzle: Over time, the Court has recognized various "exceptions" to ordinary mootness rules, allowing federal courts to hear arguably moot cases. On one hand, the Court consistently asserts that mootness doctrine, including its exceptions, is compelled by the original understanding of Article III. On the other hand, the scholarly consensus is that these exceptions are logically inconsistent with the Court s claims about Article III and that …

Good Representatives, Bad Objectors, And Restitution In Class Settlements, Jay Tidmarsh, Tladi Marumo

BYU Law Review

This Article uses two recent decisions — one prohibiting incentive awards to class representatives and one permitting disgorgement of side payments to class objectors — to explore deeper connections between class action settlements and the law of restitution. The failure to correctly apply the law of restitution led both courts astray. First, courts can approve incentive awards, as long as an award properly reflects the benefit that the representative's efforts bestowed on the class. Second, restitution provides a basis to disgorge improper side payments to objectors, but only under conditions different from those that the court described. More broadly, attention …

Rights Without A Remedy: Detained Immigrants And Unlawful Conditions Of Confinement, Brandon Galli-Graves

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Frederick Douglass And The Original Originalists, Bradley Rebeiro

BYU Law Review

Constitutional scholars incessantly grapple over the significance of the Constitution’s original meaning. More specifically, they are preoccupied with, on the one hand, what that meaning is (if such meaning exists) and, on the other hand, the exact nature of that meaning’s authority (if any) over the Constitution and its interpreters. But this debate is hardly novel. In fact, one of the most compelling voices in U.S. history was immersed in similar debates and, out of the constitutional sparring of his time, forged an arresting theory of constitutional interpretation. Frederick Douglass, once a fierce opponent of the U.S. Constitution, evolved into …

The Failure Of Market Efficiency, William Magnuson

BYU Law Review

Recent years have witnessed the near total triumph of market efficiency as a regulatory goal. Policymakers regularly proclaim their devotion to ensuring efficient capital markets. Courts use market efficiency as a guiding light for crafting legal doctrine. And scholars have explored in great depth the mechanisms of market efficiency and the role of law in promoting it. There is strong evidence that, at least on some metrics, our capital markets are indeed more efficient than they have ever been. But the pursuit of efficiency has come at a cost. By focusing our attention narrowly on economic efficiency concerns—such as competition, …

State Of Utah, Plaintiff And Appellee, V. Donald Dee Anderson, Defendant And Appellant.: Reply Brief Of Appellant

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

Appeal from Sentence, Judgment, Commitment entered March 14, 2022, and denial Defendant’s motion to suppress pursuant to Sery plea of the Second Judicial District Court in and for Davis County, the Honorable Michael S. Edwards, presiding

The State Of Utah, Appellee, V. Andrew Raymond Taylor, Appellant: Reply Brief Of Appellant

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

Appeal from a jury trial in the First Judicial District, in and for Box Elder County, State of Utah, the Honorable Brandon Maynard presiding.

Martin O’Loughlin, As Trustee For The Martin O’Loughlin Living Trust, Rosalind M. O’Loughlin Living Trust, And Rosalind M. O’Loughlin Irrevocable Trust, Appellant, V. Asea Enterprises, Llc, Et Al., Appellees: Principal Brief Of Appellant

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

On appeal from the Fourth Judicial District Court, Utah County, Honorable Derek P. Pullan,

Martin O’Loughlin, As Trustee For The Martin O’Loughlin Living Trust, Rosalind M. O’Loughlin Living Trust, And Rosalind M. O’Loughlin Irrevocable Trust, Appellant, V. Asea Enterprises, Llc, Et Al., Appellees: Appellee Brief Of Sorensen And The Reoxcyn Entities

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

On appeal from the Fourth Judicial District Court, Utah County, Honorable Derek P. Pullan

Martin O’Loughlin, As Trustee For The Martin O’Loughlin Living Trust, Rosalind M. O’Loughlin Living Trust, And Rosalind M. O’Loughlin Irrevocable Trust, Appellant, V. Asea Enterprises, Llc, Et Al., Appellees: Principal Brief Of Appellee Asea Enterprises, Llc

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

On appeal from the Fourth Judicial District Court, Utah County, Honorable Derek P. Pullan

The State Of Utah, Plaintiff/Appellee, V. Michael Lee Allen, Defendant/Appellant : Brief Of Appellant

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

Appeal from a jury trial in the Sixth Judicial District, in and for Sevier County, State of Utah, the Honorable Marvin D. Bagley presiding.

The State Of Utah, Plaintiff/Appellee, V. Michael Lee Allen, Defendant/Appellant: Brief Of Appellee

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

Appeal from convictions for failure to stop or respond at command of police, a third degree felony; and refusing a chemical test, a class B misdemeanor, in the Sixth Judicial District, Sevier County, the Honorable Marvin D. Bagley presiding

The State Of Utah, Plaintiff/Appellee, V. Michael Lee Allen, Defendant/Appellant: Reply Brief Of Appellant

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

Appeal from a jury trial in the Sixth Judicial District, in and for Sevier County, State of Utah, the Honorable Marvin D. Bagley presiding.

R & M Durrant Family, Llc, Appellee, Vs. Roger Rigby Durrant, Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from a final judgment and underlying rulings entered by the Third Judicial District Court of Utah, in and for Tooele County, the Honorable Teresa Welch, Presiding

R & M Durrant Family, Llc, Appellee, Vs. Roger Rigby Durrant, Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from a final judgment and underlying rulings entered by the Third Judicial District Court of Utah, in and for Tooele County, the Honorable Teresa Welch, Presiding

Manuel Lopez, Appellant, V. Owell Precast And/Or Worker's Compensation Fund Appellees, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

BRIEF OF APPELLEES OWELL PRECAST AND WCF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

Manuel Lopez, Petitioner/Appellant, V. Orwell Precast; Workers Compensation Fund,Respondents/Appellees, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

BRIEF OF APPELLANT Appeal From Labor Commission - Appeals Board

Roger Rigby Durrant, Appellant, V. R&M Durrant Family, Llc, Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

No abstract provided.

Treaty Interpretation At The Human Rights Committee: Reconciling International Law And Normativity, David H. Moore

Faculty Scholarship

The Human Rights Committee, the expert body overseeing states’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (“ICCPR”), is a key institution in the international human rights architecture. The Committee’s work requires constant interpretation of the ICCPR’s human rights guarantees. While international law dictates how to interpret treaty provisions, including those of the ICCPR, the Committee does not consistently follow the international law of treaty interpretation. Rather, normativity plays an influential role in the Committee’s interpretations. This approach is not uniformly negative; it has both costs and benefits. To minimize the costs, however, this Article identifies a path …