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Distorting Extortion: How Bribery And Extortion Became One And The Same Under The Hobbs Act, Sigourney Haylock Jan 2017

Distorting Extortion: How Bribery And Extortion Became One And The Same Under The Hobbs Act, Sigourney Haylock

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


Returning To Roe: The Renewed Promise Of Whole Woman's Health, Cristina Salcedo Jan 2017

Returning To Roe: The Renewed Promise Of Whole Woman's Health, Cristina Salcedo

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


Making Room For Juvenile Justice: The Supreme Court's Decision In Montgomery V. Louisiana, Chelsea S. Gumaer Jan 2017

Making Room For Juvenile Justice: The Supreme Court's Decision In Montgomery V. Louisiana, Chelsea S. Gumaer

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Nothing Left To Tax Or Cut, The Gate To Chapter 9 Is Shut: The Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, Bianca Ko Jan 2017

Nothing Left To Tax Or Cut, The Gate To Chapter 9 Is Shut: The Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, Bianca Ko

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


Spokeo Misspeaks, Lauren E. Willis Jan 2017

Spokeo Misspeaks, Lauren E. Willis

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

Most commentators have critiqued the Supreme Court’s opinion in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins for failing to answer the question presented. But in important ways, the Spokeo opinion does not merely fail to speak—it affirmatively misspeaks. This essay suggests that underlying the Justices’ inability to see how standing law ought to apply to the facts in Spokeo is a failure to appreciate the power that consumer reports have over individuals’ life prospects today. Worse, the Justices’ unawareness of their own ignorance leads them to afford Congress little deference in identifying injuries occurring in our new information society. Their meta-ignorance also induces …


Ensuring The Constitution Remains Color Blind Vs. Turning A Blind Eye To Justice: Equal Protection And Affirmative Action In University Admissions, Attashin Safari Jan 2017

Ensuring The Constitution Remains Color Blind Vs. Turning A Blind Eye To Justice: Equal Protection And Affirmative Action In University Admissions, Attashin Safari

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of California's Mandatory Child Vaccination Law: California Courts Should Not Depart From Established Precedent, Stephanie Awanyai Jan 2017

In Defense Of California's Mandatory Child Vaccination Law: California Courts Should Not Depart From Established Precedent, Stephanie Awanyai

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

In the wake of the 2015 measles outbreak in California, California Senate Bill 277 (S.B. 277) was enacted. S.B. 277 repeals the personal belief exemption to California’s immunization requirement for children in public and private educational or child care facilities in the State. While S.B. 277 was enacted to prevent the spread of contagious diseases through mandatory vaccinations of school-aged children, there are objections to this approach. Parents who oppose S.B. 277 contend that S.B. 277 violates their federal and state constitutional rights to make medical decisions on behalf of their child, and infringes on their child’s fundamental state interest …