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The Origins Of The Urban Crisis: Race And Inequity In Postwar Detroit, Jeremy P. Soileau

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 159-161

The Birmingham Vicinity: Archives And Manuscript Collections, James L. Baggett, Wayne Coleman, Tim L. Pennycuff

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 7-14

Into The Valley Rode The Six Hundred: The 7th Calvary And The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, Andrew T. Baird

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 83-104

Student Activities And Self-Esteem Of Adolescents, Jennifer Spotanski

Theses

This thesis explores the relationship between adolescent self-esteem and participation in student activities. Conducted in a Midwestern public high school, the study involved 111 tenth-grade students who completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and a questionnaire about their involvement in extracurricular activities. The hypothesis proposed that adolescents who participated in school activities would report higher self-esteem than those who did not. Statistical analyses, including t-tests and Pearson correlations, were used to evaluate the data. Results indicated that both male and female students who participated in at least one activity had significantly higher self-esteem scores than nonparticipants. However, a significant positive correlation …

Amicus Curiae: Friend Or Foe: The Limits Of Friendship In American Jurisprudence, Michael J. Harris

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Plea Agreements: Progressing The Fight Against Crime Or Bribing Witnesses, Sheila Creaton

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Editor's Note, Robert D. Laurie

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

The Inadequacy Of The Massachusetts Voir Dire, Debora A. Cancado

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

When Does Time Begin: A Clarification Of The Federal Courts' Inconsistent Application Of The Federal Catch-All Statute Of Limitations, Robert D. Laurie

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Protecting The Poor: The Dangers Of Altering The Contingency Fee System, Kristin A. Porcu

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Communication With Represented Persons: An Analysis Of The Scope Of Rule 4.2 Of The Massachusetts Rules Of Professional Conduct As It Applies To Corporations And Federal Prosecutors, Ashlie L. Ringel

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Thoughts On Some Potential Appellate And Trial Court Applications Of Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Steve Leben

Faculty Works

To date, the application of therapeutic jurisprudence principles has been concentrated mainly on specialized trial courts: drug treat­ment courts, domestic violence courts, criminal courts, and juvenile and family courts. Its application to trial courts generally, as well as its application to the appellate courts, remains largely unexplored. This Article considers three areas in which trial and appellate courts may want to consider applying therapeutic jurisprudence.

My conclusions about the application of therapeutic jurispru­dence to the appellate courts are admittedly tentative ones: my day job is sitting as a state general jurisdiction trial judge, not as an appel­late court judge. Although …

Salvaging Amistad, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

Moviemakers believe that history can be made more dramatic. They add and subtract characters, invent dialogue and scenes, make heroes more heroic, make villains more villainous, correct incorrectness, make ends happier, and turn shades of gray into black or white. They even tell lies-all in the interest of providing a good show, of course. Steven Spielberg, producer-director of the 1997 historical drama "Amistad," is no exception.

Whether Hollywood's reshaping of history is good or bad depends upon whether one believes it is more important to be thoroughly entertained or to have a clear sense of history. Right now, on this …

On Wings Of Hope, January-March 2000, Volume 5, No. 1, Phadp, Darrell Grayson, Tim Davis

On Wings of Hope

January–March 2000 edition. Includes A Christian Perspective, whose authors are listed elsewhere in this archive.

Title Of Page, Mc Law

MC Law Review

Title Page

Pardon Me But You Got My Best Bits: Misappropriation Of Personal Characteristics And The New Age Of Privacy And Publicity Rights In Digitally Manipulated Works, Timothy E. Nielander, Don E. Tomlinson

MC Law Review

Symposium: The New World of Intellectual Property

Mississippi Statory Claims For False Advertising, E. Barney Robinson Iii

MC Law Review

Mississippi Focus

Overview Of Recent Fifth Circuit Jurisdictional Decisions, Robert N. Markle

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Thinking Critically About Equality: Government Can Make Us Equal, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit

Faculty Works

As kids we called it having to use the old noodle: needing to think real hard about something that was real hard to think about. It was the kind of thinking that would cause your face to get all scrunched up, and if you didn't stop or if someone didn't stop you - it would eventually make your head hurt. The expression came from our families when we figured something out: that's using your old noodle, they'd tell us. The noodle we eventually understood to be our brains, which, we reckon, do look something like noodles, though we were quite …

Without Fear Or Favor: Judge James Edwin Horton And The Trial Of The Scottsboro Boys, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Before Brown: Charles H. Houston And The Gaines Case, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

In 1895 in Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court announced the legal principle, separate but equal, that would guide American race relations for over half a century. For Charles Houston, the training of black lawyers was a key to mounting an attack on segregation. While at Harvard, Houston wrote that there must be Negro lawyers in every community and that the great majority of these lawyers must come from Negro schools. It was, he concluded, in the best interests of the United States - to provide the best teachers possible at law schools where Negroes might be trained. After graduating …

Second-Parent Adoption By Same-Sex Couples In Ohio: Unsettled And Unsettling Law, Susan J. Becker

Cleveland State Law Review

In addition to the need for homes for children without any legally recognized parent, the need for a child who already has one legal parent to be adopted by the parent's gay or lesbian partner who is already serving as a de facto parent is very important to the child's emotional stability and material well being. This type of adoption, frequently referred to as a "second-parent" adoption,' is the focal point of this article. However, the matters discussed herein also apply directly and by analogy to situations where gay and lesbian couples and heterosexual unmarried couples desire to jointly adopt …

Masthead, Cleveland State Law Review

Cleveland State Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Religious Liberty Protection Act: The Validity Of Using Congress' Commerce And Spending Powers To Protect Religion, Jennifer Dorton

Cleveland State Law Review

Although the Religious Liberty Protection Act appears, on its face, to be simple, there are many constitutional issues which call into question the validity of the proposed bill. This note will focus on the constitutional problems of using Congress' commerce and spending powers to protect religion. It will examine the problem of attaching religious conditions to the States' receipt of federal funds, and the potential problem that may result from using the spending power to protect religious exercise. The note then turns to the commerce clause justification for the RLPA. It will point out the major flaw in using the …

The Moral Hazard Of The Estate Tax , Carolyn C. Jones

Cleveland State Law Review

The current debate about wealth transfer taxation has its themes of morality as well. Opponents have labeled the tax as “immoral.” Taxation is about morality. It is both useful and necessary to consider moral arguments in the debate about the estate tax. In an area largely consigned to economists and philosophers, it is beneficial to broaden perspectives. One could expand the range of academic disciplines considered-to history, psychology, and sociology, for example. One should also take into account the narratives of those affected by the issue. This essay can only probe into this question, beginning with Andrew Carnegie and the …

The Death Of The "Death Tax"?: An Introduction, Deborah A. Geier

Cleveland State Law Review

I would like to consider the question: What brings us together today to consider the possible repeal of the estate tax? We would not likely be here today if the repeal of the estate tax were not a serious political possibility, and it would not likely be a serious political possibility if many middle-class taxpayers earning the median household income of about $40,000 to $50,000 per year did not support outright repeal, rather than much needed reform. The article then explains why taxpayers support outright repeal today when they would not have done so even ten years ago. The article …

The Attorney-Client Privilege: An Analysis Of Involuntary Waiver, Shawn T. Gaither

Cleveland State Law Review

This paper will first define the attorney-client privilege, and explore the forms of waiving the attorney-client privilege: voluntary, implied, and inadvertent. Next the discussion will focus on the three schools of federal case law concerning inadvertent waiver, known as the "lenient approach," the "strict approach," and the "middleground approach," with an emphasis on the middle-ground approach as adopted by McCafferty's. The paper then will introduce the possibility of a new "hybrid" approach to inadvertent waiver of the privilege. The discussion will continue with analyzing agency law and its parallels to the attorney-client privilege. Finally this paper will conclude that the …

Decide The Law, Clearly - A Reply To Judge Bettman, Ben Glassman

Cleveland State Law Review

The Honorable Marianna Brown Bettman’s dilemma is roughly this: if a clause of a state constitution is worded similarly to a clause in the federal Constitution, how can a state court develop constitutional law? But in important respects, Judge Bettman's question reflects a misunderstanding of the law. This misunderstanding prevents her from identifying what is really at stake in cases like the one she describes. Judge Bettman seems to have misread Michigan v. Long. The Long Court laid out a clear test for determining the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction over state cases where the grounds-federal or state-of the state court's …

The Grand Jury And Exculpatory Evidence: Should The Prosecutor Be Required To Disclose Exculpatory Evidence To The Grand Jury, Ali Lombardo

Cleveland State Law Review

In 1992, the United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Williams that the federal courts do not have the supervisory power to require prosecutors to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury. This Note argues that the Williams decision is flawed because it diminishes crucial rights of defendants and because it prevents the grand jury from fulfilling its protective function. In Section II, this Note examines the historical background and purpose of the grand jury in England and America. Section III discusses the Williams decision and the rationale behind both the majority and dissenting opinions. It also discusses …

The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Local Human Rights Ordinances, Robert Salem

Cleveland State Law Review

This panel will discuss the prospects and perils of local human rights initiatives. Specifically, I will talk about the nature of these local initiatives and their advantages and disadvantages. Time permitting, I will also talk about our successful effort last year in Toledo, Ohio to pass a human rights ordinance that includes sexual orientation as a protected category, and why it is so crucial that lawyers and law professors become involved in these local campaigns. I believe that with determination, most communities can achieve what we did in Toledo. Local human rights ordinances (HROs) take a variety of forms, and …