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Cruel, As Usual: Application Of The Eighth Amendment To The Use Of Juvenile Criminal Records In Higher Education Admissions, Rabab Alajmi

St. John's Law Review

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This Note addresses the systemic barrier to societal reintegration faced by juvenile offenders applying to enroll in higher education. Specifically, this Note will examine whether, in light of the Fifth Circuit’s recent Hopkins v. Hosemann decision, Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishments should be extended to college applicants with juvenile criminal records who have completed their sentences. This Note argues that the Eighth Amendment reasoning in the Hopkins decision should be applied to higher education institutions who consider an applicant’s juvenile criminal record where the applicant has already completed their sentence. While the Hopkins decision concerned “the …

The Deferential Asian American: Low Racial Status And The Invisibility Of Asian Americans In Leadership And The American Narrative, Reginald Oh

St. John's Law Review

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This Article will proceed in five parts. First, an important caveat. When the Article refers to Asian Americans, it refers to all Asian American subgroups except for South Asian Americans, because South Asian Americans are not perceived to be deferential in the same way as other Asian American subgroups. Consequently, their experience with leadership is unique among Asian Americans, and much of the analysis in this Article does not apply to them.

With that caveat, Part I will discuss the invisibility of Asian Americans generally, but particularly in leadership positions. Part II will discuss the concept of social status …

Vestigial Fiscal Constitutions, Joe Schomberg

St. John's Law Review

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This Article examines the history and original intent of fiscal constitutions in the United States, providing helpful context for their usefulness today. It argues that, due to the rigidity of states’ fiscal constitutions, they are ultimately ineffective at preventing state and local governments from incurring more and more debt. Ultimately, it suggests that the weakness of state fiscal constitutions is a result of their functionality being overtaken by increased efficiencies in the capital markets and Tiebout-Tullock markets. Our state fiscal constitutions have suffered the same fate as our wisdom teeth or appendixes—they have become less useful and less relied …

"Intolerable" Inquiries, Zachary R. Cormier

St. John's Law Review

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A growing majority of courts have broadly accepted travel-plan questions (and their follow-up questions) as a qualifying category of traffic-mission inquiries under Rodriguez, leaving officers with a clear pathway from pretextual traffic stop—to extended discussion about vehicle occupant activities outside the traffic violation—to drug dog sniff—to vehicle search. A closer analysis of Rodriguez, however, precludes such passage through the heart of its traffic-mission rule. This Article will demonstrate that travel-plan questioning cannot qualify alongside the roadway safety checks identified by Rodriguez in its traffic-mission inquiry list because such checks provide direct information about another safety-related traffic violation …

Officers Of Administration And Faculty

St. John's Law Review

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Volume 99, 2025, Number 1

St. John's Law Review

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Table Of Contents

St. John's Law Review

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Upland Switchgrass Cultivars Have Similar Bioethanol Production Profile Under Separate Hydrolysis And Fermentation: A Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience (Cure) In Biofuel Production, Kadyn Berg, Derek Follett, Adelyn Jackson, Mark Kalyegira, Jaleigha Kambeitz, Nathaniel Lanthier, Elaina Merfeld, Nathan Nelson, Sara Parliament, Peyton Plagman, Thomas Poegel, Alex Schemek, Sajan Mathew, Brady Steffen, Chloe Van Heuveln, Keerthi Mandyam, Arvid Boe, Ananda K. Nanjundaswamy

RURALS: Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences

The modified Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in bioenergy research evaluated four upland switchgrass cultivars namely Carthage, NE2010, RC Sundance, and Sunburst for bioethanol production using a separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF) process. The cultivars were not different in their biomass composition, sugar and ethanol yields. Carthage produced the highest ethanol yield (10 g/L), followed by Sunburst (9 g/L). A strong correlation was observed between glucose concentration at 48 hours (maximum glucose release) and ethanol yield at 72 hours. Ethanol production increased after 48 hours, and by 72 hours, residual glucose levels in the fermentation medium were negligible. The fermentation …

"David And Oprah," Song Lyrics, Undated, Bill Gessner

Bill Gessner Song Lyrics and Poems

Song lyrics for "David and Oprah" by Bill Gessner. A song about David, who is Bill's friend, overly watching Oprah on television, to the point where he is losing sleep over it.

"Baseball Blues," Song Lyrics, 1978, Bill Gessner

Bill Gessner Song Lyrics and Poems

Lyrics for "Baseball Blues," a song written by Bill Gessner in April 1978. The song regards a dream he had while napping in his "favorite chair" while listening to a game. The lyrics are typed, with hand written revisions. One sheet of paper, which was a photocopy from the book "Private Screenings."

"Disillusioned Downbeat," Song Lyrics, Undated, Bill Gessner

Bill Gessner Song Lyrics and Poems

Song lyrics for "Disillusioned Downbeat" by Bill Gessner. Two pages on one sheet of paper. One side includes typed lyrics, and the other side is a copied page of "Civil Disobedience." The song follows a character who Gessner refers to as a "disillusioned downbeat" and makes several references to events/topics from the late 1970s, such as the discotheque and the Vietnam War.

"Blue Lake, Blue Lake" Song Lyrics, Undated, Bill Gessner

Bill Gessner Song Lyrics and Poems

"Song lyrics for "Blue Lake, Blue Lake" by Bill Gessner. Two sheets of paper, that include typed lyrics and handwritten guitar chords. Both pages include handwritten notes and revisions. The song is about admiring a lake during the night.

"Somewhere In Between (Freezing Drizzle)" Song Lyrics, Undated, Bill Gessner

Bill Gessner Song Lyrics and Poems

Song lyrics for "Somewhere in Between (Freezing Drizzle)" by Bill Gessner. Two single-sided sheets of printed lyrics total, with one yellow sticky note indicating lyric revisions. No date is mentioned anywhere on the pages. The song is a mournful but resigned description of falling out of love. The lyrics utilize weather metaphors and vivid imagery to relate to listeners with similar experiences. No name is mentioned that may reveal the subject of the song, but the lyrics allude to the ending of the relationship by the end, so it is likely to be a past love in his life.

"Slow Motion," Song Lyrics, 1999, Bill Gessner

Bill Gessner Song Lyrics and Poems

Song lyrics for "Slow Motion" by Bill Gessner. Three separate pages which all include the same typewritten lyrics, with the first page having handwritten notes. A reflective mediation on inner stillness and the quiet beauty of surrendering to the flow of life.

"Peach Pie," Song Lyrics, 1999, Bill Gessner

Bill Gessner Song Lyrics and Poems

Lyrics for "Peach Pie," by Bill Gessner. The song describes the process of baking a peach pie, with Gessner's recipe being that of an unnamed loved one. There are three sheets of paper, with two of them being typed lyric sheets with handwritten notes on the side, and the third being fully handwritten lyrics and guitar chords. The first typed sheet also has the recipe's ingredients and instructions noted.

"Telephone Girl," Song Lyrics, Undated, Bill Gessner

Bill Gessner Song Lyrics and Poems

"Song lyrics for "Telephone Girl" by Bill Gessner. Five sheets of paper consisting of typed lyrics, along with guitar cords on the right side of the pages. The song has references about calling up a "telephone girl" and a possible relationship. The song states about the urges to call the telephone girl in the following lyrics:

"Gettin’ the urge, feelin’ a surge
To call up my telephone girl
I’m on the verge of a verbal purge
So I call up my telephone girl"

"Christmas Island", Song Lyrics, 1981, Bill Gessner

Bill Gessner Song Lyrics and Poems

Song lyrics for "Christmas Island", by Bill Gessner. One sheet of paper with typed lyrics that included handwritten notes and guitar chords. He has no revisions written on the lyric sheet. The song "Christmas Island" is about a place where it is Christmas every day. Gessner talks about how he was inspired to write this song by his love of the Christmas season and Christmas music.

Estes Family Tree - Tarrant County

Silas Estes Family Papers

The Estes family tree for Tarrant County.

Will Probate Records From Gary M. Roach, Gary M. Roach

Silas Estes Family Papers

A letter from Gary M. Roach and will probate records for James Estes.

Letter From Gary M. Roach, Gary M. Roach

Silas Estes Family Papers

A letter from Gary M. Roach discussing various family members.

Family Records

Silas Estes Family Papers

Family Record of the Estes Family.

Sallie & Sidney Heard Short History

Silas Estes Family Papers

Short summary of Sallie Lee Heard and Sidney Heard, including date of birth and death.

Silas Estes Short History

Silas Estes Family Papers

Short life history of Silas Estes.

Letter From Flora Thompson Enders, Flora Thompson Enders

Silas Estes Family Papers

Letter to Leta Estes from Flora Thompson Enders concerning a name search concerning John Franklin Mounce.

Letter From Bascom Giles, Bascom Giles

Silas Estes Family Papers

Letter to Leta Estes from Bascom Giles, Commissioner of The General Land Office, about the land grant to James Estes.

Death Certificate

Silas Estes Family Papers

Death certificate for Leta Marguarite Estes, who died on May 11, 1970.

R. L. Rogers Envelope

Silas Estes Family Papers

An open envelope belonging to R. L. Rogers County Clerk.

Last Will And Testament

Silas Estes Family Papers

Last Will and Testament of Leta Marguarite Estes, making her daughter, Dorris Estes Jones Atteberry, the independent Executrix of the Will. Witnesses to the will include Pegge Reed and Josephine Ray.

Marriage License

Silas Estes Family Papers

Marriage License for Leta Estes and Thomas D. Jones, signed on May 1, 1926[?]

Letter Of Guardianship

Silas Estes Family Papers

Letter of Guardianship transferring the estate of Leta M. Estes to Mrs. Pearl Estes Curry and J. H. Curry.