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Constitutional Privilege To Republish Defamation, Leslie Levin

Faculty Articles and Papers

Underlying the development of the law of defamation is a tension between two broad societal interests: protecting the reputation of individuals and safeguarding the free flow of discussion and information. The common law heavily favored the protection of reputation, offering only limited concessions to the competing interest. In recent years, however, the Supreme Court has refashioned the law of defamation to conform to a first amendment mandate that "debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open." In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and subsequent cases, the Court established that public officials and public figures may not recover …

Nixon V. Administrator Of General Services, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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The Interception Of Communications Without A Court Order: Title Iii, Consent, And The Expectation Of Privacy, Clifford S. Fishman

Scholarly Articles

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Runyon V. Mccrary, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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New York's Right Of Privacy – The Need For Change, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

In 1890 Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis wrote a famous article on the right to privacy. Concerned especially with newspaper publications about private and family matters, they urged that courts recognize an explicit right to privacy from unreasonable publicity. According to Warren and Brandeis, certain already recognized rights did in fact protect a person's wish to keep his private thoughts private, though these 1ights were founded on some more traditional legal theories. For example, the privilege of a writer of a letter to bar anyone's publication of the letter had been articulated in decisions as a property right, even when …

Warrantless Search Of A College Dormitory, Ronald J. Bacigal

Law Faculty Publications

Student Conduct is as much a part of the collegiate experience as intellectual pursuit, and regulation of student conduct has been a concern of university officials for as long as there have been students and universities. Until the 1960s the courts had few occasions to concern themselves with the regulation of student conduct; and, university officials were free to take any action short of action that was arbitrary and capricious. University officials were deemed to stand in loco parentis and thus could make and enforce any regulation for the physical training, moral enrichment, and betterment of their pupils that a …

Political Surveillance And The Fourth Amendment, Alan Meisel

Articles

The United States District Court case has left the scope of the warrant protection of the fourth amendment considerably clearer and broader. The door left ajar in Katz has been firmly fastened shut by the Court leaving only the traditional exceptions to the warrant requirement, which are based upon practical necessity, and the still unconfronted question of the power of the executive to conduct warrantless surveillances of foreign agents in national security cases." It is also clear that courts are no less competent to evaluate the appropriateness of a search and seizure in an internal security case than in a …

On Privacy: Constitutional Protection For Personal Liberty, Susan Herman, L. Simonson

Faculty Scholarship

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Criminal Law--Laws Which Prohibit Consenting Adults From Participating In Homosexual Activities In Private, 23 S.C. L. Rev. 816 (1971), Gerald E. Berendt

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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The Development Of The Theory Of The Right To Privacy In France, Wencelas J. Wagner

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Lacking legislative enactments on the right to privacy, French courts had to tackle the problems of privacy from case to case, in the common law way; but judicial decisions did not establish any general principles. While American and English judgments are elaborate and lay down legal theories, French decisions are extremely short, failing in some instances to give a clear picture of the facts, omitting the discussion of various aspects of the problem and abstaining from developing solid theoretical bases for their holdings. It is well known that French judgments are written in the form of a recitation which has …

The Private Lives Of Public Employees, Robert M. O'Neil

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Consent Problem In Wiretapping & Eavesdropping: Surreptitious Monitoring With The Consent Of A Participant In A Conversation, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

The extent to which American society should permit wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping has been considered by judges, legislators and scholars for many years, although this consideration has yet to result in legal rules that respond rationally and consistently to the conflicting demands of privacy and effective law enforcement. Constitutional analysis has, until very recently, relied on concepts like "physical invasion of a constitutionally protected area," producing distinctions with little relation to underlying social values; statutory restrictions on wiretapping have been much more severe than those imposed on eavesdropping, though the latter, particularly in light of the rapidly developing technology, poses …

Wiretapping And Bugging: Striking A Balance Between Privacy And Law Enforcement, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

The conflict between individual privacy and the needs of law enforcement occurs at a number of points in our system of criminal justice. It is not unique to wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping, but the competing claims in that area do have their own special character. They are qualitatively different from those in regard to, say, confessions. The kinds of crimes and criminals affected are different, as are the relevant assertions about individual freedom.

Law enforcement officials, almost to a man, consider wiretapping and eavesdropping valuable weapons in the fight against crime. They are most helpful in regard to consensual crimes …

Privileged Communications, Joseph O'Meara

Journal Articles

This article evaluates dicta from Wills v. National Life & Accident Co.regarding an implied waiver for privileged communications between a patient and his physician. It looks at the historical background of privileged communications and the writings of several legal scholars to determine whether for life insurance policies that require one to be "of sound health" there is an implied waiver of privileged communications. The author concluded that based on the rules of construction courts should follow the dicta because it is sound and reasonable policy.

The Right Of Privacy At Common Law, Henry M. Bates

Articles

It is quite evident that the question as to whether there is a right of privacy at common law must be met by the courts in most of our states in the not distant future, unless indeed the right is created or declared by the legislatures.