Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Law

Section 2(B) Advertising Rights On Government Property: Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, A New Can Of Worms And The Liberty Two-Step?, Elaine Craig Jan 2010

Section 2(B) Advertising Rights On Government Property: Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, A New Can Of Worms And The Liberty Two-Step?, Elaine Craig

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

The Court’s recent decision in Vancouver Transportation is problematic for two reasons. First, the majority adopts an analytical framework for determining whether a claim triggers the positive rights/Baier analysis that essentially means that policies that restrict expressive rights based on groups rather than content will be very unlikely to fall within the scope of section 2(b). A better approach would be to characterize section 2(b) cases based on the nature of the claim rather than the nature of the restriction and to only apply the positive rights Baier/Dunmore criteria where the claim is for the government’s ear or the government’s …


On Justifying Enforced Requirements: A Reply To Baier, David B. Lyons Apr 1975

On Justifying Enforced Requirements: A Reply To Baier, David B. Lyons

Faculty Scholarship

There are limits to the possible subjects of justification. Typically, it concerns human behavior and things that human intervention can affect. Failing special circumstances, it makes no sense to speak of justifying the weather. There may be other limits to the class of possible subjects for justification; for example, it is sometimes said that a thing cannot be justified unless it has been indicted, though it is not clear how this claim should be taken. For there simply may be no point in bothering to justify something that is not suspect in some way, and the relevant condition can generally …