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How The Legal System, Along With Growing Public Dissatisfaction With The Status Quo, Ironically Aided In The Creation Of New Hollywood, Which Promoted Films Of Lawlessness, Disorder And Instability, Todd M. Morton
Todd M Morton
The period known as New Hollywood in American film was created by the American legal system coupled with a growing dissatisfaction with the status quo. A series of First Amendment cases along with the 1948 Paramount decision forced Hollywood to produce graphic and existential films that appealed to the disaffected youth generation and laid out in unprecedented style the problems that plagued the youths of the day.
Reflections On The Technicolor Right To Association In American Labor And Employment Law, Paul M. Secunda
Reflections On The Technicolor Right To Association In American Labor And Employment Law, Paul M. Secunda
Paul M. Secunda
It is time to rethink how the United States enforces the right of association in the workplace. The proliferation of political associational rights, intimate association rights, and expressive association rights in the constitutional sphere over the last thirty years has made the scope of this fundamental civil liberty confusing and hard to enforce. Outside of the constitutional framework, which generally applies only to public employees, low union density and the lack of common law associational claims have made private-sector employees' associational rights vulnerable. The unfortunate consequence may be that American workers currently enjoy less associational freedoms than almost any other …
Benefiting Society And Children Through Violent Media: As Evidenced By First Amendment Protection For Violent Video Games, Austin Nowakowski
Benefiting Society And Children Through Violent Media: As Evidenced By First Amendment Protection For Violent Video Games, Austin Nowakowski
Austin James Nowakowski
This article discusses the constitutional, psychological, and societal reasons for why the courts have never upheld any laws censoring violent video games.
Dangerous Bodies: Freak Shows, Expression, And Exploitation, Brigham A. Fordham
Dangerous Bodies: Freak Shows, Expression, And Exploitation, Brigham A. Fordham
Brigham A Fordham
The freak shows of the late 1800s and early 1900s, which traveled the nation exhibiting “human oddities” for profit, are regaining popularity as an underground form of entertainment. While some non-legal scholars have investigated the meaning of freak shows in American culture, little attention has been paid to the laws that regulate freak shows or the legal rights of freak show participants. This Article seeks to introduce legal discourse into the discussion of freak shows and, in the process, to comment on legal approaches to preventing discrimination against persons who are physically different. Drawing upon the theories and analysis of …
Of Metaphor, Metonymy, And Corporate Money: Rhetorical Choices In Supreme Court Decisions On Campaign Finance Regulation, Linda L. Berger
Of Metaphor, Metonymy, And Corporate Money: Rhetorical Choices In Supreme Court Decisions On Campaign Finance Regulation, Linda L. Berger
Linda L. Berger
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