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Abandoning The Status Quo: Towards Uniform Application Of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Gregory Catangay
Abandoning The Status Quo: Towards Uniform Application Of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Gregory Catangay
Gregory Catangay
The accompanying Article identifies and analyzes the causes of unequal application of the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) program and argues for a federal takeover of the program. The Article highlights the current immigration crisis and the plight of unaccompanied minors seeking a better life in the United States. These minors may be eligible for permanent legal status in the United States through the SIJS program. Although SIJS is a federal remedy, variations in state law and interpretation of SIJS requirements exclude eligible minors.
In order to be eligible for the SIJS program, a state trial court must find that …
Buying Voice: Financial Rewards For Whistleblowing Lawyers, Nancy J. Moore, Kathleen Clark
Buying Voice: Financial Rewards For Whistleblowing Lawyers, Nancy J. Moore, Kathleen Clark
Nancy J Moore
“Buying Voice: Financial Incentives for Whistleblowing Lawyers”
Kathleen Clark and Nancy J. Moore
Abstract
The federal government relies increasingly on whistleblowers to ferret out fraud, and has awarded whistleblowers over $4 billion under the False Claims Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform and Consumer Protection Act. May lawyers ethically seek whistleblower rewards under these federal statutes? A handful of lawyers have tried to do so as FCA qui tam relators. They have not yet succeeded, but several court decisions suggest that they might be able to do so under confidentiality exceptions to state ethics law, which several courts have …
Everything Is Presumed In Texas, Benjamin Walther
Everything Is Presumed In Texas, Benjamin Walther
Benjamin Walther
As this Article will reveal, the Fifth Circuit has traditionally been loath to apply the presumption against preemption in most cases. Texas courts, on the other hand, have consistently employed a particularly strong application of the presumption to all types of preemption cases. This inconsistency between these two jurisdictions creates an incentive for forum shopping. Generally, the courts rely on a defendant’s ability to remove a case to the federal courts to counteract the plaintiff’s exclusive power to decide the forum. This ability, however, is not available to a defendant within the context of preemption cases. As such, there is …
Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. V. Bartlett: A Need For “Explicit” Congressional Action And State Tort Law Reform, Kara A. Ritter
Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. V. Bartlett: A Need For “Explicit” Congressional Action And State Tort Law Reform, Kara A. Ritter
Kara A Ritter
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Deciding Who Decides: Searching For A Deference Standard When Agencies Preempt State Law, John R. Ablan
Deciding Who Decides: Searching For A Deference Standard When Agencies Preempt State Law, John R. Ablan
John R Ablan
When a federal agency determines that the statute that it administers or regulations it has promulgated preempt state law, how much deference must a federal court give to that determination? In Wyeth v. Levine, the Supreme Court expressly declined to decide what standard of deference courts should apply when an agency makes a preemption determination pursuant to a specific congressional delegation to do so. Under this circumstance, this Article counsels against applying any single deference standard to an agency’s entire determination. Instead, it observes that preemption determinations are a complex inquiry involving questions of federal law, state law, and …
Textualism And Obstacle Preemption, John D. Ohlendorf
Textualism And Obstacle Preemption, John D. Ohlendorf
John D Ohlendorf
Commentators, both on the bench and in the academy, have perceived an inconsistency between the Supreme Court’s trend, in recent decades, towards an increasingly formalist approach to statutory interpretation and the Court’s continued willingness to find state laws preempted as “obstacles to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress,” — so-called “obstacle preemption.” This Article argues that by giving the meaning contextually implied in a statutory text ordinary, operative legal force, we can justify most of the current scope of obstacle preemption based solely on theoretical moves textualism already is committed to making.
The Article …
Preventive Force, Going A Step Further, Harry Borowski Esq
Preventive Force, Going A Step Further, Harry Borowski Esq
harry borowski
The 9/11 attacks and the 2003 Iraq War have led statesmen and scholars to reconsider their positions with regards to self-defense. Rogue states and terrorist organizations armed with sophisticated weapons present challenges that were unforeseen until now. In order to meet these threats some states have resorted to use anticipatory self-defense among which we can find the hotly debated notions of preemption and prevention.
This article raises the question of whether the notion of preventive force is starting to become an accepted means of anticipatory self-defense against threats originating from rogue states or terrorist organizations. This article claims that we …
Secondary Liability For Securities Fraud: Gatekeepers In State Court, Jennifer J. Johnson
Secondary Liability For Securities Fraud: Gatekeepers In State Court, Jennifer J. Johnson
Jennifer J Johnson
This paper discusses gatekeeper liability under state securities laws for professionals and other secondary participants in securities transactions. The recent economic meltdown exposed numerous Ponzi schemes from Madoff to Medical Capital that were no longer able to masquerade as profitable enterprises. When promoters of fraudulent ventures are unable to provide restitution to their victims, plaintiffs seek out other sources of repayment including professionals and other secondary participants in the transactions that precipitated their losses. Although most scholars agree that professionals can perform an important role in deterring securities fraud, scholarly opinions vary widely on the appropriate liability regime, if any, …