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Constitutional Law -- 1962 Tennessee Survey, James C. Kirby, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

I. Delegation of Legislative Power to Metropolitan Charger Commission

II. Right to Jury Trial: Special Findings Without General Verdict

III. Due Process of Law: In Personam Jurisdiction Over Nonresident Individual

IV. Due Process: Expulsion from Public University Without Hearing

V. Equal Protection: Legislative Apportionment

VI. Legislative Classification: Suspension of General Law for One County

VII. Legislative Classification: Exemption from Carrier Regulation

VIII. Equal Protection: Racial Discrimination

IX. Standing to Challenge Constitutionality

Federalism And Double Jeopardy: A Study In The Frustration Of Human Rights, Harlan R. Harrison

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ripeness And Reviewable Orders In Administrative Law, Louis L. Jaffe

Michigan Law Review

The requirement of "ripeness" as a condition for judicial review is not so much a definable doctrine as a compendious portmanteau, a group of related doctrines arising in diverse but analogically similar situations. In its most general sense ripeness is a requirement not of the administrative action to be reviewed but of the judicial controversy between the plaintiff and the agency. Consider the case where an agency has gone no further than to threaten a certain action which the plaintiff in an equity or declaratory proceeding claims would be contrary to law: here, in all strictness, the controversy concerns …

Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Frank Thomas Graff Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Obscenity In New York: Law, Fact—Or Both?, Richard S. Mayberry

Buffalo Law Review

Bunis v. Conway, 17 A.D.2d 207, 234 N.Y.S.2d 435 (4th Dep't 1962).

Mason: The Supreme Court: Palladium: Of Freedom, Joseph E. Kallenbach

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Supreme Court: Palladium: Of Freedom . By Alpheus T. Mason.

Prayer, Public Schools And The Supreme Court, Paul G. Kauper

Michigan Law Review

A more complete understanding of the case, while doing much to temper the initial outburst of disapproval, did not by any means dispel all criticism of the decision or allay all the apprehensions aroused by it. Believing that the Supreme Court's opinion was premised on a fundamentally erroneous interpretation of the establishment clause of the first amendment, Bishop James A. Pike headed a movement to amend the Constitution so as to restore what he regarded as the true and intended meaning of its pertinent language. In the meantime, the Supreme Court has agreed to review and has heard argument on …

The EngelCase From A Swiss Perspective, F. William O'Brien

Michigan Law Review

On June 25, 1962, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the State of New York, by using its public school system to encourage recitation of a prayer during classroom hours, had adopted a practice wholly inconsistent with that clause of the first amendment, applicable to the states by virtue of the fourteenth amendment, which prohibits laws respecting an establishment of religion. The opinion of the Court, written by Mr. Justice Black for himself and four other Justices, is interesting in that he rests the Court's decision exclusively upon the establishment clause. In previous decisions, the Court had …

Search And Seizure Incidental To A Lawful Arrest, Gregory U. Evans

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of To Secure These Blessings, Richard Crouch

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Administrative Due Process In Military Proceedings, Robert D. Powers, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Note, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

The book is divided into three major parts. Included in each of these parts are articles written by men who have studied these issues at length. Part I, "The People and Their State Government," deals with issues regarding an individuals relationship to his state--his protections against and his control over governing authorities. The second part, "The Representatives of the People," concerns itself with the established structure of state government and its effect on the quality of local leadership there under. Part III, entitled "The Powers of the State," explores the powers which are given and those denied to the state …

The Passing Of Nonsectarianism--Some Reflections On The School Prayer Case, Robert E. Rodes

Journal Articles

Engel v. Vitale was a landmark case which marked a jurisprudential shift in the constitutional meaning of the Establishment Clause. This paper, written in the aftermath of this important case, reflects on, and contrasts, England's historical establishment of the Church with historical nonsectarianism in the United States. After analyzing the role which the tripartite Protestant-Catholic-Jew nonsectariansm played in society before Engle, the paper suggests that nonsectarianism served the beneficial purpose of directing the whole institutional structure of society toward the last end of human beings. With the passing of nonsectarianism, the nation is left with the problem of accurately and …

Dissenchick V. Attorney General, Yoel Sussman, Moshe Landau, Zvi Berinson

Translated Opinions

The trial of one Rafael Blitz for murder stretched over a number of days. On the second day. a newspaper (of which the first appellant was the editor and the second appellant the responsible journalist) published a report which indicated that in answer to the charge defence counsel had pleaded not guilty before the accused could say anything. In the body of the article it was reported that before trial the accused had in fact admitted his guilt to a journalist, although it was noted that such admission not having been made in court was not binding. The appellants were …

El-Saruji V. Minister Of Religious Affairs And The Moslem Council, Moshe Landau, Moshe Silberg, Zvi Berinson

Translated Opinions

The petitioners complained generally of the alleged interference of the Minister of Religious Affairs in matters affecting the Moslem Community of Acre and more particularly of the activities and powers of the local Moslem council appointed by the Ministry.

Held. The departure from the country of Moslem leaders and officials as a result of the events of 1948 had led to a complete collapse of all Moslem institutions and their ceasing to function. In order to remedy the situation and recreate these institutions the Ministry had not proceeded under any express statutory provision but by virtue of general power vested …

Political Thickets And Crazy Quilts: Reapportionment And Equal Protection, Robert B. Mckay

Michigan Law Review

If asked to identify the two most important cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in the twentieth century, informed observers would be likely to name, in whichever order, Brown v. Board of Education and Baker v. Carr.

Legislative Apportionment And Representative Government: The Meaning Of Baker V. Carr, Jo Desha Lucas

Michigan Law Review

In three recent cases the Supreme Court has reopened the question of the extent to which federal courts will review the general fairness of state schemes of legislative apportionment. It is a question on which the Court has had nothing to say for over a decade, leaving the bar to patch together the current state of the law from the outcome of cases disposed of without opinion considered against a backdrop of language used in earlier decisions.

Residency Requirements For Voting And The Tensions Of A Mobile Society, John R. Schmidhauser

Michigan Law Review

It is the purpose of this article to determine the extent to which persons otherwise qualified to vote are disenfranchised by the complex of state residency requirements and to assess the practical and constitutional aspects of any statutory prospects for change.

The Administraton's Anti-Literacy Test Bill: Wholly Constitutional But Wholly Inadequate, William W. Van Alstyne

Michigan Law Review

The nature of American national government has undergone a profound metamorphosis, moving from the near oligarchy which characterized the system as established in 1789 to the imperfectly representative government which it is today. At the time the Constitution was ratified, all restrictions then imposed by the several states on the right to vote for state and federal electors were preserved. These various limitations on the franchise restricted the active body politic to approximately four percent of the total population. Disfranchisement applied then, as now, to those under twenty-one, to those lacking sufficient residence in a given community, to the insane, …

Judicial Reaction To Evidence Obtained By Harsh And Unusual Means, Gene Haislip

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of The Sovereign Prerogative, John E. Donaldson

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Law - Electronic Eavesdropping

Duquesne Law Review

Recorded bribe attempt admissible at bribery trial at which agent, to whom the attempted bribe was made, testified - Rights under fourth amendment not violated where electronic device was not planted by an unlawful physical invasion of a constitutionally protected area.

Lopez v. United States, 83 Sup. Ct. 1381 (1963).

Procedural Due Process And State University Students, William W. Van Alstyne

Faculty Scholarship

This examination seeks to address the problems both universities and students confront regarding the growth of student expression. It is noted that contemporary students sometimes have fewer rights than petty criminals and this article explores the common reasons behind universities’ abbreviated procedures and reconcile those reasons with students’ emerging Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Resident Aliens And Due Process: Anatomy Of A Deportation, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Limitations Upon The Territorial Reach Of Federal Process, Gerald Abraham

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Law - Discrimination - Executive Speeches Banning Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Held To Be State Action In Violation Of The Fourteenth Amendment, John E. Good

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Gideon V. Wainwright: The Art Of Overruling, Jerold H. Israel

Articles

During the 1962 Term, the Supreme Court, on a single Monday, announced six decisions concerned with constitutional limitations upon state criminal procedure. The most publicized of these, though probably not the most important in terms of legal theory or practical effect, was Gideon v. Wainwright. In an era of constantly expanding federal restrictions on state criminal processes, the holding of Gideon-that an indigent defendant in a state criminal prosecution has an unqualified right to the appointment of counsel-was hardly startling. And while Gideon will obviously have an important effect in the handful of states that still fail to appoint counsel …

The Marshall Court: Nationalization Of Private Rights And Personal Liberty From The Authority Of The Commerce Clause, W. Howard Mann

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Can Congress Denationalize? The Supreme Court's View In Kennedy V. Mendoza-Martinez, Ralph J. Rohner, Jean J. Provost Jr.

Scholarly Articles

In an age when perhaps the foremost concern of the legal profession is the status and protection of the rights of individuals, the few decided cases on the right to citizenship-the most basic of all rights, the "right to have rights"- are of special significance. Since 1950, but prior to this Term, only two Supreme Court cases directly confronted the constitutional questions inherent in an assertion by Congress of the right to separate a person from his nationality. These cases, decided on the same day in 1957, were scarcely reconcilable with each other; now, in 1963, the Supreme Court has …

Territorial Courts And The Law: Unifying Factors In The Development Of American Legal Institutions-Pt.Ii-Influences Tending To Unify Territorial Law, William Wirt Blume, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown

Michigan Law Review

With the exception of Kentucky, Vermont, Texas, California, and West Virginia, all parts of continental United States south and west of the present boundaries of the original states came under colonial rule, and were governed from the national capital through territorial governments for varying periods of time. All territories in this area were "incorporated" in the sense that they were destined to become states of the United States. All became states by 1912, leaving only Alaska and Hawaii for future statehood. Now that these territories have become states, it seems desirable to review legal developments in all of these "incorporated" …