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Second Class For The Second Time: How The Commercial Speech Doctrine Stigmatizes Commercial Use Of Aggregated Public Records, Brian N. Larson, Genelle I. Belmas
Second Class For The Second Time: How The Commercial Speech Doctrine Stigmatizes Commercial Use Of Aggregated Public Records, Brian N. Larson, Genelle I. Belmas
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This Article argues that access to aggregated electronic public records for commercial use should receive protection under the First Amendment in the same measure as the speech acts the access supports. In other words, we view commercial access to aggregated public records as an essential means to valuable speech. For many, however, the taint of the commercial speech doctrine is turning all “information flows” into commercial ones. This, in turn, is threatening the access to government records.
Might The Fact That 90% Of Americans Live Within 15 Miles Of A Wal-Mart Help Achieve Universal Health Care?, William M. Sage
Might The Fact That 90% Of Americans Live Within 15 Miles Of A Wal-Mart Help Achieve Universal Health Care?, William M. Sage
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The subject of this Essay is the retail medical clinic movement. Retail medical clinics-a few hundred exist at the time of this publication-are typically located in national or regional chains of discount stores, pharmacies, and supermarkets. 1 News articles describing this new phenomenon in American health care tend to examine its viability as a business. The symposium for which this Essay was prepared is devoted to the "Massachusetts Health Plan," that state's pioneering effort (in the current political cycle) to achieve near-universal health insurance for its residents. Accordingly, this Essay situates the retail medical clinic movement in overall "health policy," …
Political Advocacy And Taxable Entities: Are They The Next "Loophole"?, Donald B. Tobin
Political Advocacy And Taxable Entities: Are They The Next "Loophole"?, Donald B. Tobin
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No abstract provided.
Political Campaigning By Churches And Charities: Hazardous For 501(C)(3)S, Dangerous For Democracy, Donald B. Tobin
Political Campaigning By Churches And Charities: Hazardous For 501(C)(3)S, Dangerous For Democracy, Donald B. Tobin
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Nonprofit section 501(c)(3) organizations are prohibited from participating or intervening in an election on behalf of a candidate for public office. Despite this prohibition, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations have become increasingly active in political campaigns. Many organizations are either ignoring the political campaign ban or are using "issue discussion" or "lobbying" as a means of promoting candidates and testing the limits of the prohibition. Current scholarship surrounding the political campaign ban argues that the ban is either unconstitutional or inappropriate as a matter of public policy. This article argues that the ban is both meritorious and constitutional. It argues that taxpayer …
Where Have All The Parties Gone? Fraenkel And Grofman On The Alternative Vote - Yet Again, Donald L. Horowitz
Where Have All The Parties Gone? Fraenkel And Grofman On The Alternative Vote - Yet Again, Donald L. Horowitz
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The alternative vote (AV) is a preferential electoral system that tends to reward political moderation and compromise. Fraenkel and Grofman have repeatedly attempted to show that AV is not conducive to inter-ethnic moderation in severely divided societies. In this response to their latest attempt,the author points out that neither political party coordination of the vote nor strategic voting plays any part in their analysis. In contrast, he explains how moderate parties of one ethnic group are able to induce their supporters to cast ballots for moderate parties supported by voters of another ethnic group. Prof. Horowitz also explains why the …
Truth Tales And Trial Films, Jessica Silbey
Truth Tales And Trial Films, Jessica Silbey
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Investigations into law and popular culture preoccupy themselves with understanding how law and popular cultural forms work together to challenge or sustain community structures, identity and power. It is inevitable at this point in our cultural history that law and popular culture are intertwined. There are too many television shows, films, popular novels and web-based entertainment to withdraw "the law" (whatever that is) from the domain of popular culture. This article takes as a given the intermixing of law and popular culture, embracing it as a new feature of our popular legal consciousness. I suggest that one result of this …
Presidential Powers Including Military Tribunals In The October 2005 Term, Erwin Chemerinsky
Presidential Powers Including Military Tribunals In The October 2005 Term, Erwin Chemerinsky
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Democracy And Distortion, Guy-Uriel Charles
Democracy And Distortion, Guy-Uriel Charles
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This Article contends that judicial supervision of excessive manipulation of electoral lines for partisan purposes - political gerrymandering - may be justified in a mature democracy. The Article responds to the debate among courts and commentators over whether political gerrymandering presents any constitutionally relevant harms and, further, whether courts may be able to resolve the structural issues presented by political gerrymandering claims. Drawing from political theory and political science, this Article develops a theory of institutional distortion and provides a justification for aggressive judicial review of questions of democratic governance. The Article does not argue that the United States Supreme …
Wrtl And Randall: The Roberts Court And The Unsettling Of Campaign Finance Law, Richard Briffault
Wrtl And Randall: The Roberts Court And The Unsettling Of Campaign Finance Law, Richard Briffault
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The first term of the Roberts Court was a potentially pivotal moment in campaign finance law. The Court both broke its pattern of deference to federal and state regulations that had marked the last half-dozen years and began to take a more critical approach to campaign finance restrictions. In Randall v. Sorrell, the Court struck down a Vermont law that sought to limit expenditures and to lower contributions in state and local elections. The expenditure restriction decision was no surprise, as it essentially reaffirmed the Court's rejection of expenditure limits in Buckley v. Valeo three decades ago. But the …
A System Of Wholesale Denial Of Rights, Michael E. Tigar
A System Of Wholesale Denial Of Rights, Michael E. Tigar
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No abstract provided.
Mandatory Constitutions, Paul D. Carrington
Regime Theory, Anu Bradford
Regime Theory, Anu Bradford
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Regime theory is an approach within international relations theory, a sub-discipline of political science, which seeks to explain the occurrence of co-operation among States by focusing on the role that regimes play in mitigating international anarchy and overcoming various collective action problems among States (International Relations, Principal Theories; State; see also Co-operation, International Law of). Different schools of thought within international relations have emerged, and various analytical approaches exist within the regime theory itself (see Sec. F.3 below). However, typically regime theory is associated with neoliberal institutionalism that builds on a premise that regimes are central in facilitating international co-operation …