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Uniformity In The Federal Courts: A Proposal For Increasing The Use Of En Banc Appellate Review, Michael Ashley Stein Apr 1993

Uniformity In The Federal Courts: A Proposal For Increasing The Use Of En Banc Appellate Review, Michael Ashley Stein

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Identifying, Protecting And Preserving Individual Rights: Traditional Federal Court Functions, Roger J. Miner '56 Jan 1993

Identifying, Protecting And Preserving Individual Rights: Traditional Federal Court Functions, Roger J. Miner '56

Constitutional Law

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Chase Court And Fundamental Rights: A Watershed In American Constitutionalism, The , Robert J. Kaczorowski Jan 1993

Chase Court And Fundamental Rights: A Watershed In American Constitutionalism, The , Robert J. Kaczorowski

Faculty Scholarship

Three weeks before he died in May 1873, the frail and ailing Salmon P. Chase joined three of his brethren in dissent in one of the most important cases ever decided by the United States Supreme Court, the Slaughter-House Cases.1 This decision was a watershed in United States constitutional history for several reasons. Doctrinally, it represented a rejection of the virtually unanimous decisions of the lower federal courts upholding the constitutionality of revolutionary federal civil rights laws enacted in the aftermath of the Civil War. Institutionally, it was an example of extraordinary judicial activism in overriding the legislative will of …


Ignorance And Procedural Law Reform: A Call For A Moratorium, Stephen B. Burbank Jan 1993

Ignorance And Procedural Law Reform: A Call For A Moratorium, Stephen B. Burbank

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