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Book Review, Elaine W. Shoben
Book Review, Elaine W. Shoben
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The Burden of Brown by Raymond Wolters is a long book with a very short message: integration is bad, but desegregation is not. The distinction between the two is crucial to Wolters's analysis. Desegregation is the prohibition of officially sanctioned separation of the races. Integration, on the other hand, is the compelled mixing of the races for the sake of mixing. The "burden" of Brown v. Board of Education, according to Wolters, is that the Supreme Court has blurred this distinction and erroneously requires integration instead of merely prohibiting segregation. Wolters's thesis is that Brown had two prongs: one …
Government–Owned Media: The Government As Speaker And Censor, Linda L. Berger
Government–Owned Media: The Government As Speaker And Censor, Linda L. Berger
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When government operates a communications medium, it may either promote first amendment values, by ensuring a diverse marketplace of ideas, or hinder them, by censoring the information and ideas it conveys. This Note proposes a synthesis of government speech and government forum analyses which would provide first amendment limitations on government-operated media while still allowing government to exercise editorial discretion.
The Wrong's Of Victim's Rights, Lynne Henderson
Review Essay On Affirmative Action, Leslie C. Griffin
Review Essay On Affirmative Action, Leslie C. Griffin
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The Putative Marriage Doctrine, Christopher L. Blakesley
The Putative Marriage Doctrine, Christopher L. Blakesley
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The classic putative marriage doctrine is substantive, ameliorative or corrective; it is designed to allow all the civil effects -- rights, privileges, and benefits -- which obtain in a legal marriage to flow to parties to a null marriage who had a good faith belief that their "marriage" was legal and valid. Most jurisdictions in the United States have developed equitable analogues to the putative spouse doctrine that provide all or part of the relief afforded by the classic doctrine.
If a marriage is declared to be null or void, that declaration is retroactive to the day that the null …
Note, Developments Under The Freedom Of Information Act—1984, Mary Lafrance
Note, Developments Under The Freedom Of Information Act—1984, Mary Lafrance
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The eighteenth year of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) witnessed a continuation of the trend toward restricting public access to government information. This article discusses the developments under the FOIA in 1984, including legislative developments, administrative developments, and judicial developments.