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Brief Of Feminists For Life Of America, Professional Women's Network, Birthright, Inc., Legal Action For Women, As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents And Cross Petitioners - Planned Parenthood Of Southeastern Pennsylvania V. Casey, 112 S. Ct. 2791 (1992), David F. Forte, Keith A. Fournier, Christine Smith Torre, Theodore H. Amshoff, Mary Dice Grenen Apr 1992

Brief Of Feminists For Life Of America, Professional Women's Network, Birthright, Inc., Legal Action For Women, As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents And Cross Petitioners - Planned Parenthood Of Southeastern Pennsylvania V. Casey, 112 S. Ct. 2791 (1992), David F. Forte, Keith A. Fournier, Christine Smith Torre, Theodore H. Amshoff, Mary Dice Grenen

Law Faculty Briefs and Court Documents

Amici, representing women from all walks of life, are compelled by experience and conviction to advocate strongly that this Court reverse the vulnerable position of women caused by the lack of information given to women contemplating abortion. Amici respectfully urged this Court to affirm the ruling of the Court below, supporting the efforts of the women citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to cause that government to exercise its police power to protect their health and safety by compelling the dissemination of the information necessary to make a fully informed decision.


American Constitutional Conventions: The Judicially Unenforceable Rules That Combine With Judicial Doctrine And Public Opinion To Regulate Political Behavior, James G. Wilson Jan 1992

American Constitutional Conventions: The Judicially Unenforceable Rules That Combine With Judicial Doctrine And Public Opinion To Regulate Political Behavior, James G. Wilson

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

The concept of nonjusticiability, reflected primarily through the “political question” and the “standing” doctrines, fails to give the Supreme Court (and the rest of us) adequate guidance on how to resolve many constitutional disputes, such as impeachment procedures and standards, congressional expulsions, the scope of federal court jurisdiction, and the use of force abroad. These two doctrines put the Supreme Court on the horns of a false dichotomy. The Court tends to withdraw completely from an issue and from enforcing a textual passage, such as the Republican Guarantee Clause, whenever it makes a determination of nonjusticiability. Conversely, once the Court …


Transcending Conventional Supremacy: A Reconstruction Of The Supremacy Clause, S. Candice Hoke Jan 1992

Transcending Conventional Supremacy: A Reconstruction Of The Supremacy Clause, S. Candice Hoke

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Perhaps because the predominant strands of contemporary Supremacy Clause jurisprudence originate in two of the most venerable cases in the Court's history, the Court and academics alike have sidestepped some of their problematic pronouncements. In Part I, this Article questions the legacy of McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden, finding their Supremacy Clause principles unacceptably nationalistic and hence unfaithful to the balance of the Constitution. While their centralizing tendencies may have been understandable during the nation's infancy, their raison d'être has evaporated; the pendulum of state versus national regulatory power on matters other than individual liberties has swung too …