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F06rs Sgb No. 33 (Phi Sigma Pi), Rome, Robertson

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To allocate $4,320 to the Phi Sigma Pi Honor Fraternity of LSU to h elp defray the costs of attending the Phi Sigma Pi National Convention in Washington, D.C.

F06rs Sgb No. 29 (Pad Conference), Lynch

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To allocate $3,842 to the Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity (PAD) of LSU to help defray the costs of attending the 2006 Pre-Law Conference in Washington, D.C.

F06rs Sgb No. 34 (2 Week Notice), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend Chapter 1 of the LSU A&M Student Government Senate Rules of Order to require a two week notice of resignation for legislative staff

F06rs Sgb No. 39 (Bell Tower), Hattaway

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate $29,985.00 from the Student Government Surplus account to repair the carillon system in Memorial Tower.

F06rs Sgb No. 38 (Brecht Conference), Hodge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate funds of the Student Senate Contingency to help with costs associated with a grad student attending a conference.

F06rs Sgr No. 15 (Union Expansion), Hodge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request the administration of the LSU Union to look for alternative sources of funding besides student fees to fund the projected shortfall in the union expansion project.

F06rs Sgr No. 12 (Ethics Com.), Breaux

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To request the creation of the Temporary Ethics Revision Committee

F06rs Sgb No. 42 (Amend Rules Of Order), Hattaway

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the Senate Rules of Order to provide for an orientation for First-term Senators prior to final passage of the SG Budget and Nominations for staff; provide for a retreat and related matters

F06rs Sgr No. 18 (Student Tickets), Hodge, Esfeller

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To voice opposition to the Athletic Department’s decision to re-sell student tickets to the general public and affirm support for no decrease in the ticket allocation to the student or organizational student sections in the future.

F06rs Sgr No. 2 (Freshman Res. Requirement), Hodge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To re-affirm student opposition to and urge the administration to reject any freshman residency requirement.

F06rs Sgb No. 35 (Excused Absences), Esfeller

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend Article II, Section 1 & 2 of the Student Government Bylaws to define excused absences

F06rs Sgr No. 3 (Cristina Hnatyshyn), Dubois, Mizell, Robertson

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

to express the sincere and heartfelt condolences of the College of Agriculture of the Louisiana State University to the family of animal, dairy and poultry sciences freshman Cristina Hnatyshyn upon her death.

F06rs Sgr No. 13 (Gameday Parking), Esfeller

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request the Department of Residential Life to continue the West Nicholson Apartments Game Day Parking Project

F06rs Sgr No. 4 (Provost Selection), Lynch

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request the Chancellor to place two additional students, one graduate and one undergraduate, on the Provost selection panel.

F06rs Sgr No. 6 (Stadium), Hodge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request the LSU Athletic Department to revise the policy on identification necessary for students to be admitted to Tiger Stadium.

F06rs Sgr No. 8 (Domestic Partner), Hodge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request that chancellor Sean O’Keefe and President William Jenkins implement a campus-wide, and system-wide policy, respectively, recognizing domestic partners for purposes of insurance and benefits.

F06rs Sgr No. 7 (Textbooks), Athmann

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To promote the ongoing investigation by the United States Congress on the rising cost of textbooks

F06rs Sgr No. 10 (Shc), Hattaway

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request the Student Health Center to research and develop a plan of action to include dental services, online appointment scheduling, a full optical clinic and an acute care clinic/extended hours.

F06rs Sgr No. 14 (Student Conduct), Alsfeld

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request the Chancellor to appoint two additional students to the Committee on Student Conduct; to choose from a more diverse group of student representatives; to hold at least two public forums per year.

F06rs Sgr No. 11 (Sec), Hodge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To thank the Student Government of the University of South Carolina for hosting the 2006 Southeastern Conference of Student Governments.

Motions 2006 Volume 42 Number 2, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association

Newspaper, Motions (1987-2019)

No abstract provided.

Forward: Symposium On Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Bankruptcy Reform, Michelle A. Cecil

Faculty Publications

In 2003, over 1.6 million consumers filed for bankruptcy protection, surpassing the previous record of 1.5 million bankruptcy filings set just one year earlier. In an effort to reverse the spiraling upward trend of consumer bankruptcies, and to prevent abusive debtors from using the bankruptcy system to avoid paying their debts, in April, 2005, Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of passing the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA). Widely heralded as the most sweeping bankruptcy reform legislation in over a quarter of a century, BAPCPA was designed in large part to force debtors with the ability …

Bankruptcy Reform: What's Tax Got To Do With It?, Michelle A. Cecil

Faculty Publications

The article takes a two-pronged approach to the issue. First, it argues that all post-petition appreciation should be taxed to the debtor rather than to the debtor's bankruptcy estate because the debtor enjoys the benefits of the asset's appreciation in value and because, from a tax perspective, the results will be identical irrespective of whether the debtor or the bankruptcy estate is taxed on the asset's post-petition appreciation. Second, the article proposes that the gain accruing before the termination of the bankruptcy proceeding be treated as discharge of indebtedness income so that the debtor can defer recognition of the gain …

Constitutional Referendum In The United States Of America, William B. Fisch

Faculty Publications

The United States of America, as a federation of now 50 states each with its own constitution and legal system still enjoying a large degree of governmental autonomy within the national legal framework, presents a strikingly mixed picture regarding the use of direct democracy--the submission of proposed governmental action to a popular vote--in law- and constitution-making processes. At the national level, direct democracy has never been used for either type of enactment. At the state and local level, however, its use dates back to colonial times and has been increasing gradually (though still not universal) ever since. Since the mid-19th …

Commandeering And Its Alternatives: A Federalism Perspective, Neil S. Siegel

Vanderbilt Law Review

This inquiry argues that current Tenth Amendment jurisprudence causes net harm to federalism values under certain circumstances. Specifically, New York v. United States and Printz v. United States protect state autonomy to some extent by requiring the federal government to internalize more of the costs of federal regulation before engaging in regulation. But anticommandeering doctrine harms state autonomy in situations where the presence of the rule triggers more preemption going forward. Preemption generally causes a greater compromise of federalism values than does commandeering by eroding state regulatory control.

While it is a context-sensitive empirical question whether specific applications of the …

Brazil's Ip Opportunism Threatens U.S. Private Property Rights, Lawrence A. Kogan

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Can The President Be Torturer In Chief?., Harold Hongju Koh

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: War, Terrorism and Torture: Limits on Presidential Power in the 21st Century. Convened by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington, prominent legal scholars, human rights advocates and government lawyers gathered in Bloomington on October 7, 2005.

The Statutory Commander In Chief, Neil Kinkopf

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: War, Terrorism and Torture: Limits on Presidential Power in the 21st Century. Convened by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington, prominent legal scholars, human rights advocates and government lawyers gathered in Bloomington on October 7, 2005.

Lost Constitutional Moorings: Recovering The War Power, Louis Fisher

Indiana Law Journal

For the past half century, Presidents have claimed constitutional authority to take the country from a state of peace to a state of war against another nation. That was precisely the power that the Framers denied to the President and vested exclusively in Congress. That allocation of power was understood by all three branches until President Harry Truman went to war against North Korea in 1950. He never came to Congress for authority before he acted or at any time thereafter. Similar false claims of authority have been made by Presidents since that time. These constitutional violations have been assisted …

Finding Effective Constraints On Executive Power: Interrogation, Detention, And Torture, Deborah N. Pearlstein

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: War, Terrorism and Torture: Limits on Presidential Power in the 21st Century. Convened by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington, prominent legal scholars, human rights advocates and government lawyers gathered in Bloomington on October 7, 2005.