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Reflections On Standing: Challenges To Searches And Seizures In A High Technology World, José F. Anderson Apr 2006

Reflections On Standing: Challenges To Searches And Seizures In A High Technology World, José F. Anderson

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Among the profound issues that surround constitutional criminal procedure is the obscure often overlooked issue of who has standing to challenge an illegal search, seizure or confession. Privacy interests are often overlooked because without a legal status that allows a person to complain in court, there is no way to challenge whether one is constitutionally protected from personal invasions. Standing is that procedural barrier often imposed to prevent a person in a case from objecting to improper police conduct because of his or her relationship of ownership, proximity, location, or interest in an item searched or a thing seized. Although …


Essay: Referring To Foreign Law In Constitutional Interpretation: An Episode In The Culture Wars, Mark Tushnet Jan 2006

Essay: Referring To Foreign Law In Constitutional Interpretation: An Episode In The Culture Wars, Mark Tushnet

University of Baltimore Law Review

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Comments: Immigrants, Health Care, And The Constitution: Medicaid Cuts In Maryland Suggest That Legal Immigrants Do Not Deserve The Equal Protection Of The Law, Tricia A. Bozek Jan 2006

Comments: Immigrants, Health Care, And The Constitution: Medicaid Cuts In Maryland Suggest That Legal Immigrants Do Not Deserve The Equal Protection Of The Law, Tricia A. Bozek

University of Baltimore Law Review

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Comments: A Poisoned Arrow In His Quiver: Why Forbidding An Entire Branch Of Government From Communicating With A Reporter Violates The First Amendment, Joseph S. Johnston Jan 2006

Comments: A Poisoned Arrow In His Quiver: Why Forbidding An Entire Branch Of Government From Communicating With A Reporter Violates The First Amendment, Joseph S. Johnston

University of Baltimore Law Review

"[There exists] a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials."

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."


Lecture: Second Founding: The Story Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Garrett Epps Jan 2006

Lecture: Second Founding: The Story Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Garrett Epps

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The story of the Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment is a lost story of American history, covered over by Southern inspiring myth making and an unwillingness to grapple with the central role of slavery in American history. Americans can take new inspiration from that story and use it as an example of how our popular democracy can be perfected. Even today, nearly a century and a half after the Second Founders did their work, their words and example move before us as a people, a cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night.