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Regionalism, The Supreme Court, And Effective Governance: Healing Problems That Know No Bounds, Nick J. Sciullo

Nick J. Sciullo

By actively endorsing remedies that favor a city-suburb divide, the Supreme Court has failed to allow regional development. The Supreme Court's federalism jurisprudence is unresponsive to the myriad issues pervading society. Ultimately, individuals must take action, through a process formulated in this article, to change the way in which governments and the courts respond to the needs of populations.

A battery of cases including Brown v. Board of Education and its progeny, Missouri v. Jenkins and Milliken v. Bradley, reached the Supreme Court during the tumultuous 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. A vast array of environmental laws and housing regulations also …

La Corte Costituzionale, L’Illecito Ed Il Governo Della Colpa, Mauro Bussani, Marta Infantino

Mauro Bussani

Under Italian law, the (only) court competent to solve constitutional questions – the Constitutional Court – is often required to verify the constitutionality of tort law rules. Focusing on the Constitutional Court’s pronouncements about the notion of fault in tort liability, the paper aims to investigate how the Court performs its role in a field where judicial review is seldom aimed to the scant legislative tort law rules, and most of the times targets the way in which ordinary courts, including the Court of Cassation (i.e. the Supreme Court in civil matters), apply tort law rules, and set the fault …

The Uses Of History In The Supreme Court's Takings Clause Jurisprudence, Jonathan R. Lahn

Jonathan R Lahn

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