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Protecting The Least Of These: A New Approach To Child Pornography Pandering Provisions, Stephen T. Fairchild Oct 2007

Protecting The Least Of These: A New Approach To Child Pornography Pandering Provisions, Stephen T. Fairchild

Duke Law Journal

The pandering of child pornography - selling, distributing, or conveying the impression that one possesses sexually graphic images of children for sale or distribution - facilitates actual harm to children, such as molestation. Yet legislative attempts to curb pandering inevitably implicate concerns about panderers' First Amendment rights. This Note argues that in balancing the vulnerability of children against the power of the First Amendment, the law must shift to focus more on the subject of this grievous harm - children. This approach will appropriately extend protection to a subset of the population that is least able to protect itself.


Family Law Armageddon: The Story Of Morgan V. Foretich, Leslie J. Harris Jan 2007

Family Law Armageddon: The Story Of Morgan V. Foretich, Leslie J. Harris

Leslie J. Harris

This book chapter tells the story of the contempt case brought against Elizabeth Morgan, a Washington, D.C., doctor imprisoned for her failure to produce her daughter for extended visitation with the ex-husband she accused of sexual abuse. The chapter sets the stage for the proceeding in terms of the shift in custody law in the mid-eighties from the maternal presumption to a preference for shared parenting and the discovery of and almost immediate backlash against allegations of childhood sexual abuse. It also details Morgan's parents' flight with the child to New Zealand and provides an update of what has happened …


Myspace, But Whose Responsibility - Liability Of Social-Networking Websites When Offline Sexual Assault Of Minors Follows Online Interaction, Elizabeth P. Stedman Jan 2007

Myspace, But Whose Responsibility - Liability Of Social-Networking Websites When Offline Sexual Assault Of Minors Follows Online Interaction, Elizabeth P. Stedman

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

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The Mcmartin Preschool Abuse Trial, Douglas O. Linder Jan 2007

The Mcmartin Preschool Abuse Trial, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial, the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history, should serve as a cautionary tale. When it was all over, the government had spent seven years and $15 million dollars investigating and prosecuting a case that led to no convictions. More seriously, the McMartin case left in its wake hundreds of emotionally damaged children, as well as ruined careers for members of the McMartin staff. No one paid a bigger price than Ray Buckey, one of the principal defendants in the case, who spent five years in jail awaiting trial for a crime (most …


Note Of The Year: A Modicum Of Recovery: How Child Sex Tourism Constitutes Slavery Under The Alien Tort Claims Act, Kyle Cutts Jan 2007

Note Of The Year: A Modicum Of Recovery: How Child Sex Tourism Constitutes Slavery Under The Alien Tort Claims Act, Kyle Cutts

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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