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Prediction Markets And The First Amendment, Miriam A. Cherry, Robert L. Rogers
Prediction Markets And The First Amendment, Miriam A. Cherry, Robert L. Rogers
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The continuing development of prediction markets is important because of their success in foretelling the future in politics, economics, and science. In this article, we identify the expressive elements inherent in prediction markets and explore how legislation such as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 might harm such predictive speech. This article is the first to explore First Amendment protections for prediction markets in such depth, and in so doing, we distinguish prediction markets from other regulated areas such as gambling, commodities, and securities trading. The article’s examination of prediction markets also illustrates the limitations of current commercial …
Supreme Court Clerks' Recollections Of October Term 1951, Including The Steel Seizure Cases, John Q. Barrett, Charles C. Hileman, Abner J. Mikva, James C.N. Paul, Neal P. Rutledge, Marshall L. Small, William H. Rehnquist, Gregory L. Peterson, Ken Gormley
Supreme Court Clerks' Recollections Of October Term 1951, Including The Steel Seizure Cases, John Q. Barrett, Charles C. Hileman, Abner J. Mikva, James C.N. Paul, Neal P. Rutledge, Marshall L. Small, William H. Rehnquist, Gregory L. Peterson, Ken Gormley
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A roundtable panel discussion at the Chautauqua Institution. The panel brought together five lawyers who fifty-five years ago served as law clerks to Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. The panelists discussed the Justices and some of the cases of that Supreme Court Term, including the Steel Seizure Cases,1 which came to the Supreme Court in the spring of 1952. The honored guests and panelists are five lawyers who have led high-achieving, diverse and public-spirited lives: Charles C. Hileman, Abner J. Mikva , James C.N. Paul , Neal Person Rutledge, Marshall L. Small.
The Problem Of Religious Learning, Marc O. Degirolami
The Problem Of Religious Learning, Marc O. Degirolami
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The problem of religious learning is that religion—including the teaching about religion—must be separated from liberal public education, but that the two cannot be entirely separated if the aims of liberal public education are to be realized. It is a problem that has gone largely unexamined by courts, constitutional scholars, and other legal theorists. Though the U.S. Supreme Court has offered a few terse statements about the permissibility of teaching about religion in its Establishment Clause jurisprudence, and scholars frequently urge policies for or against such controversial subjects as Intelligent Design or graduation prayers, insufficient attention has been paid to …