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Why Judicial Deference To Administrative Fact-Finding Is Unconstitutional, John Gibbons
Why Judicial Deference To Administrative Fact-Finding Is Unconstitutional, John Gibbons
BYU Law Review
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Making The Premises About Constitutional Meaning Express: The New Originalism And Its Critics, Andre Leduc
Making The Premises About Constitutional Meaning Express: The New Originalism And Its Critics, Andre Leduc
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
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Quasi-Constitutional Protections And Government Surveillance, Emily Berman
Quasi-Constitutional Protections And Government Surveillance, Emily Berman
BYU Law Review
The post-Edward Snowden debate over government surveillance has been vigorous. One aspect of that debate has been widespread criticism of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), alleging that the FISC served as a rubber stamp for the government, consistently accepting implausible interpretations of existing law that served to expand government surveillance authority; engaging in tortured analyses of statutory language; and ignoring fundamental Fourth Amendment principles. This Article argues that these critiques have entirely overlooked critical aspects of the FISC’s jurisprudence. A close look at that jurisprudence reveals a court that did, in fact, vigorously defend the interests customarily protected by …
On Doctrinal Confusion: The Case Of The State Action Doctrine, Christopher W. Schmidt
On Doctrinal Confusion: The Case Of The State Action Doctrine, Christopher W. Schmidt
BYU Law Review
In this Article, I use a case study of the Fourteenth Amendment’s state action doctrine as a vehicle to consider, and partially defend, the phenomenon of persistent doctrinal confusion in constitutional law. Certain areas of constitutional law are messy. Precedents seem to contradict one another; the relevant tests are difficult to apply to new facts and new issues; the principles that underlie the doctrine are difficult to discern. They may become a “conceptual disaster area,” as Charles Black once described the state action doctrine. By examining the evolution of the state action doctrine, this notoriously murky field of constitutional law, …