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The Colonel's Finest Campaign: Robert R. Mccormick And Near V. Minnesota, Eric B. Easton Sep 2007

The Colonel's Finest Campaign: Robert R. Mccormick And Near V. Minnesota, Eric B. Easton

Eric B Easton

This paper documents the collaboration between The Chicago Tribune’s Robert McCormick and attorney Weymouth Kirkland to mobilize the press to carry Near v. Minnesota to the Supreme Court. In an earlier paper, I demonstrated how the press acts as “strategic litigator” to shape the legal environment in which reporters and editors practice their craft. The collaboration discussed in this article established the precedent for monitoring litigation that implicates First Amendment values and deciding whether, when, and how to intervene.


Defending Truth: Legal And Psychological Aspects Of Holocaust Denial, Kenneth Lasson Aug 2007

Defending Truth: Legal And Psychological Aspects Of Holocaust Denial, Kenneth Lasson

Kenneth Lasson

Today that form of historical revisionism popularly called “Holocaust denial” abounds worldwide in all its full foul flourish – disseminated not only on Arab streets but in American university newspapers, not only in books, articles, and speeches but in mosques and over the Internet. Can we reject spurious revisionism, or punish purposeful expressions of hatred, and still pay homage to the liberty of thought ennobled by the First Amendment? Are some conflicts between freedom of expression and civility as insoluble as they are inevitable? Can history ever be proven as Truth? This article attempts to answer those questions. Part I …


Only A Name? Trademark Royalties, Nexus And Taxing That Which Enriches, 22 Akron Tax J. 1 , Sheldon H. Laskin May 2007

Only A Name? Trademark Royalties, Nexus And Taxing That Which Enriches, 22 Akron Tax J. 1 , Sheldon H. Laskin

Sheldon H. Laskin

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“Love Don’T Live Here Anymore”: Economic Incentives For A More Equitable Model Of Urban Redevelopment , Michele Alexandre Apr 2007

“Love Don’T Live Here Anymore”: Economic Incentives For A More Equitable Model Of Urban Redevelopment , Michele Alexandre

Michele Alexandre

John Rawls once stated that “the basic [social] structure is just throughout when the advantages of the more fortunate promote the well-being of the least fortunate, that is, when a decrease in their advantages would make the least fortunate even worse off than they are. The basic structure is perfectly just when the prospects of the least fortunate are as great as they can be.” This statement can be applied to the urban renewal context. While the definition of urban renewal changed during the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, the effects of urban renewal have been the same for …