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University of South Carolina

2008

Legislation

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From Bad To Worse: Some Early Speculation About The Roberts Court And The Constitutional Fate Of The Poor, Andrew M. Siegel Jul 2008

From Bad To Worse: Some Early Speculation About The Roberts Court And The Constitutional Fate Of The Poor, Andrew M. Siegel

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


Addressing Potential Drug Risks: The Limits Of Testing, Risk Signals, Preemption, And The Drug Reform Legislation, Margaret Gilhooley Jan 2008

Addressing Potential Drug Risks: The Limits Of Testing, Risk Signals, Preemption, And The Drug Reform Legislation, Margaret Gilhooley

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


Framework For The Next Civil Rights Act: What Tort Concepts Reveal About Goals, Results, And Standards, Derek W. Black Jan 2008

Framework For The Next Civil Rights Act: What Tort Concepts Reveal About Goals, Results, And Standards, Derek W. Black

Faculty Publications

This article anticipates that the next president and the current Congress will likely pursue civil rights legislation for the first time since 1991. Their most significant and difficult task will be determining whether to retain the Supreme Court’s intentional discrimination standard. Because this issue has so often led to polemic debates and court decisions in the past, this article attempts to provide a neutral framework for that discussion. Relying on tort concepts and their longstanding connection to constitutional torts, it demonstrates that the attempt to create a standard to prohibit immoral or “wrongful” conduct is both misguided and will prove …