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The Response To Furman: Can Legislators Breathe Life Back Into Death, Carol Irvin, Howard E. Rose Jan 1974

The Response To Furman: Can Legislators Breathe Life Back Into Death, Carol Irvin, Howard E. Rose

Cleveland State Law Review

In the eighteen months since the Supreme Court of the United States struck down capital punishment in Furman v. Georgia twenty-three states have reinstated the death penalty. While the Supreme Court has not yet heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of these statutes, their validity will determine the fate of the forty-four persons currently awaiting execution in eight states. It is the purpose of this comment to consider the statutes reinstating capital punishment, in light of Furman.


Surviving Justice: Prisoners' Rights To Be Free From Physical Assault, Robert Plotkin Jan 1974

Surviving Justice: Prisoners' Rights To Be Free From Physical Assault, Robert Plotkin

Cleveland State Law Review

A sentence to prision invovles much more than simple incarceration and its attendant withdrawal of freedom of movement. Indeed, as recent developments indicate, a sentence to confinement in most penal institutions involves a life and death struggle to avoid at tacks, rapes, and brutality from fellow inmates as well as from correctional authorities. ... The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals recognized the problem in recommending a comprehensive model standard which would require correctional officials, the only state authority "in a position to protect inmates, to take protective measures on the inmates' behalf, and to compensate those …


Book Review: Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth, Bernard Robert Adams Jan 1974

Book Review: Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth, Bernard Robert Adams

Cleveland State Law Review

Review of Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth, Raoul Berger, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1974.


Sovereign Immunity - An Argument Pro, Robert F. Howarth Jr. Jan 1973

Sovereign Immunity - An Argument Pro, Robert F. Howarth Jr.

Cleveland State Law Review

The Ohio Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity vis-a-vis the United States Constitution, fourteenth amendment, will hereinafter be considered. Before delving into the constitutional realities, however, the substance of this narrow discussion should be placed in perspective with the multifarious civil actions arising out of the Kent State tragedy, May 4, 1970.


Sovereign Immunity - An Argument Con, Steven A. Sindell Jan 1973

Sovereign Immunity - An Argument Con, Steven A. Sindell

Cleveland State Law Review

Under the concept of sovereign or governmental immunity, a state may not be sued in tort without its consent. This doctrine, though the subject of repeated judicial challenges, is adhered to in a significant number of jurisdictions. It is the contention of this article that the reason for the rule no longer exists and that it should, therefore, be abolished as a controlling legal principle. Moreover, it is submitted that sovereign immunity violates the due process and equal protection.


Healy V. James: Official Campus Recognition For Student Groups, Jeffrey L. Terbeek Jan 1973

Healy V. James: Official Campus Recognition For Student Groups, Jeffrey L. Terbeek

Cleveland State Law Review

On June 26, 1972, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in the case of Healy v. James, a decision which will have great effect in the administrative review by a college or university official of a petition by a student group for recognition as a fullfledged campus organization. The Court declared that such a petition carries with it the associational rights of the group as protected by the first amendment, which can not be subjected to the prior restraint of denial without a constitutionally valid cause; placed the burden of proving such cause on the …


Argersinger V. Hamlin - Right To Counsel Expanded To Include Offenses Which May Result In Imprisonment, Oliver Claypool Jr. Jan 1973

Argersinger V. Hamlin - Right To Counsel Expanded To Include Offenses Which May Result In Imprisonment, Oliver Claypool Jr.

Cleveland State Law Review

On June 12, 1972, The United States Supreme Court held in Argersinger v. Hamlin, ... that absent a knowing and intelligent waiver, no person may be imprisoned for any offense, whether classified as petty, misdemeanor, or felony, unless he was represented by counsel at his trial. Although, all of the ramifications of this decision have not yet been felt, American Bar Association president, Robert W. Meserve has estimated that the decision will require the legal profession to provide representation in some additional two to four million cases per year for indigent defendants alone.


Constitutional Mandate Of Lex In Foro Loci Delicti, Maurice R. Franks Jan 1972

Constitutional Mandate Of Lex In Foro Loci Delicti, Maurice R. Franks

Cleveland State Law Review

It is the writer's hypothesis that a state is constitutionally required to apply its own law to a travel tort which has occurred within its territorial jurisdiction and which is sued upon in its courts. In other words, the interest analysis test - application of the law of the state having the strongest interest in a particular issue - may not be used in foro loci delicti (in the forum of the place of the tort).


Visitors' Refusal To Leave Premises, Joseph Gibson Jan 1972

Visitors' Refusal To Leave Premises, Joseph Gibson

Cleveland State Law Review

Many factors have been blamed for this new, brazen attitude of remaining on another's property. Some fault the Supreme Court's rulings in Brown v. Louisiana, where court conviction of sit-in demonstrators at a public library, was reversed by holding that the conviction was a violation of the fourteenth amendment rights, and Cox v. Louisiana' where the Court decided that a state statute which regulated picketing was improper because of the discretion which it gave to local officials. Others lay the blame on a more permissive society which is breeding contempt for the power structure. The most logical explanation is a …


Judicial Control Over Passport Policy, Leon Hurwitz Jan 1971

Judicial Control Over Passport Policy, Leon Hurwitz

Cleveland State Law Review

This paper is concerned with the judiciary's role in influencing both the procedure and substance of one particular aspect of foreign policy, namely, the passport policy of the State Department. That a decision regarding passports is a foreign policy decision has long been advanced by the President and Secretary of State. It is generally accepted that the issuance and regulation of passports is an integral part of the general conduct of American foreign relation


Pretrial Detention And The Eighth And Fourteenth Amendments, James Lowe Jan 1971

Pretrial Detention And The Eighth And Fourteenth Amendments, James Lowe

Cleveland State Law Review

It is in the intent of the writer of this paper to examine the conditions endured by indigent defendants through their pretrial detention in Cuyahoga County Jail with respect to the Constitutional prohibitions of "cruel and unusual" punishment and a denial of "equal protection of the laws." Cuyahoga County is better known as Cleveland, Ohio. Expediency requires that the important concept of the rights of indigent inmates as they relate to civil rights statutes, and particularly Title 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, not be considered here. It may be hoped, however, that the propositions and legal considerations put forth in this …


Corporal Punishment In Schools: An Infringement On Constitutional Freedoms, Thomas J. Baechle Jan 1971

Corporal Punishment In Schools: An Infringement On Constitutional Freedoms, Thomas J. Baechle

Cleveland State Law Review

The doctrine of in loco parentis and the right of the teacher to inflict corporal punishment has a long history of acceptance. The doctrine itself has survived for centuries with no serious challenges to its validity or acceptability. The doctrine states that a teacher stands in the place of the parent and has the right to discipline his students, including the right to inflict corporal punishment for reasonable cause and in a reasonable manner. The basis of the doctrine is an assumption of the delegation of parental authority and an assumption of the correctness of the teacher's actions. A direct …


Women And The Equal Protection Clause, Eric R. Gilbertson Jan 1971

Women And The Equal Protection Clause, Eric R. Gilbertson

Cleveland State Law Review

The stance of the law in this respect, as with other social trends, has generally reflected the current attitudes that dominate the society it governs. Yet, as late as 1969, we still had judges on the appellate level taking judicial notice of the female's lesser capacity for sexual arousal, the sexual behavior of "the vast majority of women in a civilized society," and the "normal" behavior of a married woman in the presence of her husband in their bedroom;' all in a puritanically paternalistic fashion. This, and other absurd judicial pronouncements may have been what prompted one controversial attorney to …


Freedom Of Expression In Secondary Schools, Ann Aldrich, Joanne V. Sommers Jan 1970

Freedom Of Expression In Secondary Schools, Ann Aldrich, Joanne V. Sommers

Cleveland State Law Review

Guzick v. Drebus, currently under consideration on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, raises important questions concerning the application of the First Amendment to secondary school students.


Free Speech On Private Property, Daniel A. Silver Jan 1970

Free Speech On Private Property, Daniel A. Silver

Cleveland State Law Review

In our system of constitutional law the First Amendment right of freedom of speech has always maintained a preferred position. The Supreme Court of the United States, on numerous occasions, has proclaimed freedom of speech to be one of our most fundamental rights. An evolving problem in the area of free speech is the question of what constitutes a proper forum for the expression of First Amendment rights. This paper examines the use of private property as a forum for expression.


Political Rights Of Government Employees, Donald H. Buckley Jan 1970

Political Rights Of Government Employees, Donald H. Buckley

Cleveland State Law Review

There are nearly three million federal employees, of whom 50.8 percent are professional, technical or administrative personnel. These federal employees and those individuals employed by a state or local agency whose principal employment is in connection with an activity which is financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States or a federal agency are subject to the United States Civil Service Commission rules regulating political activity. Under Civil Service rules, individuals may be removed from their employment for doing what every other American may consider a constitutionally protected right; namely, participating actively in …


Freedom Of Speech Of The Public School Teacher, Edward M. Graham Jan 1970

Freedom Of Speech Of The Public School Teacher, Edward M. Graham

Cleveland State Law Review

Courts, until recent years, when deciding whether teachers surrender their right of free speech by accepting employment in the public schools, have almost universally held that the rights of teachers as individuals are subordinate to the rights of school boards as public employers. In applying the principle of stare decisis, courts had continuously relied upon cases reasoned along the lines of early American decisions in which the courts considered the exemplar responsibility of the teacher as the only material issue. Because of this judicial outlook, teachers have had great difficulty defending against dismissal or other disciplinary action by their employing …


Journalistic Media And Fair Trial, William M. Ware, Gerard D. Dimarco Jan 1969

Journalistic Media And Fair Trial, William M. Ware, Gerard D. Dimarco

Cleveland State Law Review

The rights of an accused to a fair trial, and freedom of the press, both are fundamental rights guaranteed by the Federal Constitution. Yet these constitutional guarantees, in collision, present one of the most critical current conflicts in the administration of criminal justice. The problem involves what is presently called "prejudicial news reporting" -news which is prejudicial to the right of the defendant to a fair trial. This paper will try to analyze this conflict, hoping to reach some conclusions which will ultimately aid in the administration of justice without abridging the rights of any parties involved.


Book Review, James B. Boskey Jan 1969

Book Review, James B. Boskey

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Paul A. Freund, On Law and Justice, Harvard Univ. Press, 1968


Police Warning In Drunk Driver Tests, Richard Galex Jan 1969

Police Warning In Drunk Driver Tests, Richard Galex

Cleveland State Law Review

Recently, the Supreme Court specifically declined to consider the applicability of Miranda to motor vehicle cases in general. The various state courts are now being called upon to decide the extent of its application and, in particular, whether the Miranda mandate controls in misdemeanor proceedings. This article examines the present status of Miranda in relation to drinking driver traffic offenses as interpreted by the various courts, and the necessity of extending the rule to these offenses.


Draft Card Burning, Robert M. Phillips Jan 1969

Draft Card Burning, Robert M. Phillips

Cleveland State Law Review

It has long been recognized by the courts that not only written and spoken words," but certain acts and conduct will likewise be considered a form of speech protected under the First Amendment. However, it has been difficult for the courts to determine exactly what type of conduct or action is acceptable and thus protected as "symbolic" speech,and those which are objectionable in that they contravene public policy. This exact difficulty arose in two of the present cases. The Miller Court found that it could not determine whether willful burning of a draft card was speech; nevertheless it was punishable. …


Constitutional Rights In Juvenile Court, Joseph L. Rubin Jan 1967

Constitutional Rights In Juvenile Court, Joseph L. Rubin

Cleveland State Law Review

On June 20, 1966, the United States Supreme Court noted that it had probable jurisdiction in the case of In Re Gault. Ten months and three weeks later, the Supreme Court reached a landmark decision on judicial handling of juvenile delinquency matters. On May 15, 1967, the court handed down a ruling that many of the constitutional procedural protections previously observed only in adult trials are also applicable to children in juvenile court proceedings. This decision portends a major change in the manner in which most of the nation's three thousand juvenile courts have been functioning. The significance of this …


Book Review, Howard L. Oleck Jan 1966

Book Review, Howard L. Oleck

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Equal Justice Under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life, Foundation of the Federal Bar Association, 1965


Book Review, C. Richard Andrews Jan 1960

Book Review, C. Richard Andrews

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing C. Herman Pritchett, The American Constitution, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959


The President's Use Of Troops To Enforce Federal Law, George H. Faust Jan 1958

The President's Use Of Troops To Enforce Federal Law, George H. Faust

Cleveland State Law Review

The political genius of man has failed to solve one ancient and basic problem of politics. Briefly stated, it is as follows: What shall be the proper division of authority among governments? How much authority shall be given to a central government and how much shall be left to local or state governments?


Congressional Control Of U. S. Supreme Court Jurisdiction, George H. Faust Jan 1958

Congressional Control Of U. S. Supreme Court Jurisdiction, George H. Faust

Cleveland State Law Review

Senate Bill No. 2646 proposed in the Congress is unprecedented in scope. If it is enacted the Supreme Court will be reduced to a virtual nullity. Displeasure with recent decisions of the Court has engendered an attack upon its status which strikes at its vitals. This article is an analysis of the bill and the types of cases over which the Supreme Court would no longer have appellate jurisdiction.