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The Immorality Of Textualism, Andrei Marmor

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Highlights Of Legislative Accomplishments Of 2005, California Senate Office Of Research

California Senate

"Highlights of Legislative Accomplishments of 2005" summarizes significant measures passed by the Legislature this year. The document is arranged by policy area and includes actions taken by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2005 the governor signed 729 measures and vetoed 232. Of those signed into law, most will take effect on January 1, 2006.

Documenting Discrimination In Voting: Judicial Findings Under Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act Since 1982, Ellen D. Katz, Margaret Aisenbrey, Anna Baldwin, Emma Cheuse, Anna Weisbrodt

Other Publications

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of one of the most remarkable and consequential pieces of congressional legislation ever enacted. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ("the VRA") targeted massive disfranchisement of African-American citizens in numerous Southern states. It imposed measures drastic in scope and extraordinary in effect. The VRA eliminated the use of literacy tests and other "devices" that Southern jurisdictions had long employed to prevent black residents from registering and voting. The VRA imposed on these jurisdictions onerous obligations to prove to federal officials that proposed changes to their electoral system would not discriminate against minority voters. Resistance …

What Is To Be Done? Legislators Look At Redevelopment Reforms, Senate Local Government Committee, Senate Transportation & Housing Committee, Assembly Housing & Community Development Committee, Assembly Local Government Committee, Assembly Judiciary Committee

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.

Development Of New Basel Capital Accords: Hearing Before The S. Comm. On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs, 109th Cong., Nov. 10, 2005 (Statement Of Professor Daniel K. Tarullo, Geo. U. L. Center), Daniel K. Tarullo

Testimony Before Congress

No abstract provided.

Revenue And Taxation Legislative Summary 2005, Assembly Committee On Revenue And Taxation

California Assembly

MEMBERS:
Honorable Johan Klehs, Chair
Honorable Mimi Walters, Vice Chair
Honorable Joe Canciamilla
Honorable Judy Chu
Honorable Chuck DeVore
Honorable Dave Jones
Honorable Sally Lieber

STAFF:
Kimberly Bott, Chief Consultant
Sabrina Landreth, Principal Consultant
Christine Hiersche, Committee Secretary

2005 Bill Summary, Assembly Committee On Public Safety

California Assembly

MEMBERS:
Mark Lena, Chair
Jay La Suer, Vice Chair
Rebecca Cohn
Mervyn M. Dymally
Jackie Goldberg
Todd Spitzer
Vacancy

COMMITTEE STAFF
Gregory Pagan, Chief Counsel
Kathleen Ragan, Counsel
Heather Hopkins, Counsel
Steven Meinrath, Counsel
Kimberly Horiuchi, Counsel

Sue Highland, Committee Secretary
Toni J. Nakashima, Committee Secretary

F05rs Sgb No. 1 (Election Code Campaigning), Staples

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend several portions of the Student Government Election Code concerning campaigning

F05rs Sgb No. 2 (Election Code), S. Moore

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend several portions of the Student Government Election Code concerning expenditures

Fo5rs Sgb No. 5 (Ag Ball), Dubois, Rome

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate two thousand dollars ($2000) to the Agricultural Student Association of Louisiana State University agricultural and mechanical college to help defray the cost of hosting the annual College of Agriculture Ball to be held december 2, 2005

F05rs Sgb No. 6 (Reconsideration Bill), Bergeron

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend Chapters 4 and 6 of the Student Senate Rules of Order relative to reconsideration of legislative instruments; to provide for instances in which legislation can be reconsidered; to provide for reconsideration in the order of business

F05rs Sgb No. 10 (Pi Sigma), Landry

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate seven hundred seventy-four dollars ($774) to the Beta Xi chapter of Pi Sigma Epsilon: the only national professional fraternity in marketing, sales management, and selling to defray the cost of sending 7 students to the 2005 Pi Sigma Epsilon regional conference October 28, 2005- October 30, 2005 in Nashville Tennessee.

F05rs Sgb No. 13 (C4-H), Bergeron

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate one thousand four hundred and four dollars ($1,404.00) to Collegiate 4-H at Louisiana State University for the purpose of defraying the cost of travel, registration and lodging for the Southern Regional Collegiate 4-H Conference in Stillwater, Oklahoma

F05rs Sgr No. 3 (Cccc), Bergeron, Dupre, Hays, Labeuf

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To publicly oppose and denounce the Campus-Community Coalition for Change (CCCC)’s initiative to ban drink specials in Baton Rouge and to declare that Student Government will work to ensure that students are properly represented on the various boards and committees that encompass the CCCC.

F05rs Sgb No. 15 (Roo), Breaux, Melancon

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend Rule 1.3 of the LSU Student Senate Rules of Order relative to the additional duties of the Speaker of the Senate; to provide an orientation program for elected and appointed first-term senators

F05rs Sgb No. 12 (Mbaa Flores Houston), Hagenberg

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate two thousand one hundred seventy- one dollars and eighty-three cents ($2171.83) to the Master of Business Administration Association (MBAA) to defray the cost of sending forty (40) students to the Flores MBA E. J. Ourso College of Business Career Fair in Houston, TX on November 18, 2005.

F05rs Sgr No. 6 (Flag), Cohen, Virgadamo, J. Moore, Dupre

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To discourage the use of the purple and gold Confederate Navy Jack on the LSU campus and discuss its negative impact on the University

Short Term Time Off Options For Federal Employees, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Charts and Summaries of State, U.S., and Foreign Laws and Regulations

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Federal Department Of Justice Investigation Of California State Mental Hospitals, Senate Select Committee On Developmental Disabilities And Mental Health

California Senate

Today we are going to be talking about the investigations in our state hospital system by the United States Department of Justice. In both their reviews of the children's and adult programs at Metropolitan State Hospital in Southern Califomia, as well as the more recent review in Napa State Hospital, the Department of Justice found significant and substantial deficiencies in virtually every aspect of patient care. Sadly, this is not the first time such concerns have been raised. And sadly and alarmingly, since the issuance of these reports, problems have continued, including suicides and homicide.

Additionally, as noted in the …

Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute To H.R. 2795, The "Patent Act Of 2005": Hearing Before The Subcomm. On Courts, The Internet, And Intellectual Property Of The H. Comm. On The Judiciary, 109th Cong., Sept. 15, 2005 (Statement Of Professor John R. Thomas, Geo. U. L. Center), John R. Thomas

Testimony Before Congress

No abstract provided.

Legislatively Revising Kelo V. City Of New London: Eminent Domain, Federalism, And Congressional Powers, Bernard W. Bell

Rutgers Law School (Newark) Faculty Papers

This paper explores Congress’ power to limit state and local authorities’ use of eminent domain to further economic revitalization. More particularly, it examines whether Congress can constrain the discretion to invoke eminent domain which state and local officials appear entitled to under the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kelo v. City of New London, — U.S. —, 125 S.Ct. 2655 (2005). The question involves and exploration and assessment of the Supreme Court’s recent jurisprudence regarding federalism and judicial supremacy.

In providing that private property may not be taken for “public use” without just compensation, the Fifth Amendment implicitly precludes government …

Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: States And The Esa, Pam Inmann, Tom Norton

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

1 page.

Contains references.

Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program, Bob Muth, Tom Pitts, Dan Luecke

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

58 pages (includes illustrations and maps).

Contains references.

Agenda: Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

The Center sponsored its third annual field tour for staff members of the United States Congress, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the Colorado state legislature.

Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Reauthorizing The Esa, Mark Squillace

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

1 page.

Contains one reference.

Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Introduction, Mark Squillace

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

5 pages.

Contains references.

7th Annual Open Government Summit: Access To Public Records Act & Open Meetings Act, 2005, Department Of Attorney General, State Of Rhode Island

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

Alien Gang Removal Act Of 2005: Hearing Before The H. Comm. On The Judiciary, 109th Cong., June 28, 2005 (Statement Of David D. Cole, Prof. Of Law, Geo. U. L. Center), David Cole

Testimony Before Congress

No abstract provided.

The Judge As A Fly On The Wall: Interpretive Lessons From The Positive Political Theory Of Legislation, Daniel B. Rodriguez, Cheryl Boudreau, Arthur Lupia, Mathew Mccubbins

University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series

In the modern debate over statutory interpretation, scholars frequently talk past one another, arguing for one or another interpretive approach on the basis of competing, and frequently undertheorized, conceptions of legislative supremacy and political theory. For example, so-called new textualists insist that the plain meaning approach is compelled by the U.S. Constitution and rule of law values; by contrast, theorists counseling a more dynamic approach often reject the premise of legislative supremacy that is supposed by the textualist view. A key element missing, therefore, from the modern statutory interpretation debate is a conspicuous articulation of the positive and empirical premises …

Judicial Citation To Legislative History: Contextual Theory And Empirical Analysis, Michael B. Abramowicz, Emerson H. Tiller

Public Law and Legal Theory Papers

Judge Leventhal famously described the invocation of legislative history as "the equivalent of entering a crowded cocktail party and looking over the heads of the guests for one's friends." The volume of legislative history is so great and varied, some contend, that judges cite it selectively to advance their policy agendas. In this article, we employ positive political and contextual theories of judicial behavior to examine how judges use legislative history. We consider whether opinion-writing judges, as Judge Leventhal might suggest, cite legislative history from legislators who share the same political-ideological perspective as the opinion-writing judge? Or do judges make …