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Enforcement Of Federal Private Rights Against States After Alden V. Maine: The Importance Of Hutto V. Finney And Compensation Via Civil Contempt Proceedings, Gordon G. Young Apr 2000

Enforcement Of Federal Private Rights Against States After Alden V. Maine: The Importance Of Hutto V. Finney And Compensation Via Civil Contempt Proceedings, Gordon G. Young

Faculty Scholarship

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The Case For Including Marks V. United States In The Canon Of Constitutional Law, Maxwell L. Stearns Jan 2000

The Case For Including Marks V. United States In The Canon Of Constitutional Law, Maxwell L. Stearns

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In this essay, I would like to suggest adding a single case, with appropriate commentary, to the canon of constitutional law, as presented in introductory casebooks. Specifically, I suggest including Marks v. United States, as a principal case, or in the form of a detailed summary, immediately before or after the first major plurality decision. I should note that the case is rather short – nine pages in the U.S. Reports – and that it nominally involves obscenity doctrine. I would suggest, counterintuitively perhaps, that the case is more fruitfully presented toward the beginning of an introductory course in constitutional …


Naked Land Transfers And American Constitutional Development, Mark A. Graber Jan 2000

Naked Land Transfers And American Constitutional Development, Mark A. Graber

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The constitutional prohibition on naked land transfers, laws granting to B property that belonged to A, played a far greater role in American constitutional development than is generally realized. The Marshall and Taney Courts heard numerous cases in which government officials were accused of expropriating private property, typically by legislative oversight rather than by deliberate intent. When resolving these cases, antebellum justices relied heavily on “certain great principles of justice” rather than on specific constitutional provisions. Supreme Court majorities on several occasions probably exercised the judicial power to declare federal laws unconstitutional. More frequently, Marshall and Taney Court decisions in …


Municipalities' Suits Against Gun Manufacturers - Legal Folly, Lawrence S. Greenwald, Cynthia A. Shay Jan 2000

Municipalities' Suits Against Gun Manufacturers - Legal Folly, Lawrence S. Greenwald, Cynthia A. Shay

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Enforcement Of Federal Private Rights Against States After Alden V. Maine: The Importance Of Hutto V. Finney And Compensation Via Civil Contempt Proceedings, Gordon G. Young Jan 2000

Enforcement Of Federal Private Rights Against States After Alden V. Maine: The Importance Of Hutto V. Finney And Compensation Via Civil Contempt Proceedings, Gordon G. Young

Maryland Law Review

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Forgotten Federalism: The Takings Clause And Local Land Use Decisions, Melvyn R. Durchslag Jan 2000

Forgotten Federalism: The Takings Clause And Local Land Use Decisions, Melvyn R. Durchslag

Maryland Law Review

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National Endowment For The Arts V. Finley: Sinking Deeper Into The Abyss Of The Supreme Court's Unintelligible Modern Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine, Harold B. Walther Jan 2000

National Endowment For The Arts V. Finley: Sinking Deeper Into The Abyss Of The Supreme Court's Unintelligible Modern Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine, Harold B. Walther

Maryland Law Review

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