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Contingent Constitutionality, Legislative Facts, And Campaign Finance Law, Michael T. Morley

Florida State University Law Review

Many of the Supreme Court’s important holdings concerning campaign finance law are not pure matters of constitutional interpretation. Rather, they are “contingent” constitutional determinations: the Court’s conclusions rest in substantial part on legislative facts about the world that the Court finds, intuits, or assumes to be true. While earlier commentators have recognized the need to improve legislative factfinding by the Supreme Court, other aspects of its treatment of legislative facts—particularly in the realm of campaign finance—require reform as well.

Stare decisis purportedly insulates the Court’s purely legal holdings and interpretations from future challenge. Factually contingent constitutional rulings should, in contrast, …

Free Trade And Environmental Protection In An Integrated Market: A Survey Of The Case Law Of The United States Supreme Court And The European Court Of Justice, Damien Geradin

Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

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Village Of Arlington Heights V. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., 97 S. Ct. 555 (1977), Karen K. Kinkennon

Florida State University Law Review

Zoning- DISCRIMINATORY INTENT MUST BE PROVED BEFORE COURTS MAY REACH FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION ISSUES.

Nixon's Legacy To The Supreme Court: A Statistical Analysis Of Judicial Behavior, S. Sidney Ulmer, John A. Stookey

Florida State University Law Review

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Minor Supreme Court Justices: Their Characteristics And Importance, David N. Atkinson

Florida State University Law Review

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Is A 4-3 Decision Of The United States Supreme Court The "Supreme Law Of The Land"?, Thomas M. Burke

Florida State University Law Review

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