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Capital Punishment And The Right To Life: Some Reflections On The Human Right As Absolute, Peter J. Riga
Capital Punishment And The Right To Life: Some Reflections On The Human Right As Absolute, Peter J. Riga
Seattle University Law Review
The right to life of the person and its various applications in different political situations is one of the most debated subjects of our day. This question is important today for a number of reasons: the widespread demand for abortion, the drive for the right to die, and the challenge to capital punishment. The debate seems at times to be confused: those opposing all forms of war and capital punishment seem to approve of abortion; while others vehemently opposed to abortion, approve of war and capital punishment. But this inconsistency disappears once an absolute view of man's right to life …
Editor's Foreword, Seattle University Law Review
Editor's Foreword, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
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Acquisition Of Energy Resources Under The Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning And Conservation Act: A Look At The Future, James O. Luce, Janet W. Mclennan
Acquisition Of Energy Resources Under The Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning And Conservation Act: A Look At The Future, James O. Luce, Janet W. Mclennan
Seattle University Law Review
This article addresses the impact of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act, focusing on two issues: (1) proposed administrative procedures, and (2) the BPA purchase authority. Purchase authority permits the BPA to purchase additional electric energy beyond the hydroelectric and thermal power it already markets. Purchase authority was at the heart of the debate over the regional power legislation. The administrative procedures the agency may adopt will establish the framework for many of the BPA's majority policy decision. Discussion of these issues necessarily involves an analysis of how the legislation will affect the BPA's actions.
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
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Washington's Product Liability Act, Philip A. Talmadge
Washington's Product Liability Act, Philip A. Talmadge
Seattle University Law Review
The Washington Legislature in its 1981 session enacted Senate bill 3158,1 the Tort and Product Liability Reform Act, a comprehensive change in product liability and tort law in the State of Washington. This change, perhaps the most sweeping legislative involvement in Washington tort law in this century, was accomplished after many years of extremely bitter political conflict over product liability and tort reform; Senate bill 3158, however, passed the legislature with little of the acrimony previ- ously associated with the issue. This article explores the involve- ment of the legislature in product liability and tort reform his- torically, reviews the …
Judging The Judges: A Case Study In Judicial Responsibility, Maximilian J.B. Welker, Jr.
Judging The Judges: A Case Study In Judicial Responsibility, Maximilian J.B. Welker, Jr.
Seattle University Law Review
Scholarly and professional perceptions of the role of the judiciary, and hence of the responsibility of judges, have undergone radical change since the early 1900's, and judicial opinions have both reflected and been influenced by those perceptions. At the turn of the century, conceptual abstraction and logical consistency held sway. Formalism, however, gave way to Legal Realism in the 1920's and 30's. Of the many important contributions that Realism made to the way we think about law, the most fundamental was its recognition that formal rules do not mechanically govern the resolution of legal disputes. Under this conception, the dominant …
Pacific Northwest Indian Treaty Fishing Rights, Thomas C. Galligan, Jr., Michael T. Reynvaan
Pacific Northwest Indian Treaty Fishing Rights, Thomas C. Galligan, Jr., Michael T. Reynvaan
Seattle University Law Review
This Comment analyzes and discusses this ongoing controversy, focusing on the treaty Indians' history, the background of the treaty negotiations and signings, the principles of construction governing the interpretation of Indian treaties, and the relevant legal precedents. It attempts to construct a coherent approach to the Washington fishing rights controversy emphasizing that the Washington Indians' paramount purpose in these treaties was maintaining the right to fish. Two lower court cases that successfully took account of the Indians' purpose and meaningfully effectuated that purpose in relation to twentieth century developments are Judge Boldt's decision in United States v. Washington (Boldt) and …
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
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State Prisoners, Federal Courts, And Playing By The Rules: An Analysis Of The Aldisert Committee's Recommended Procedures For Handling Prisoner Civil Rights Cases, Gay Gellhorn
Seattle University Law Review
The Comment first will recapitulate the full range of procedural initiatives proposed by the Aldisert Committee for adoption as local court rules. Then it will analyze the Committee's recommendations relating to pleading forms and screening the complaints before service of process, the critical stage at which courts dispose of most prisoner complaints. Although concluding that important aspects of the recommended procedures are fundamentally inconsistent with federal statutes and rules, this Comment acknowledges the valid concerns generating the Committee's proposals, and then suggests alternative judicial actions responsive to the phenomenon of state prisoner civil rights com- plaints in federal courts.
Editor's Page, Seattle University Law Review
Editor's Page, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
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