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Protecting The Living And The Dead: How Missouri Can Enact A Constitutional Funeral-Protest Statute, Madison Marcolla
Protecting The Living And The Dead: How Missouri Can Enact A Constitutional Funeral-Protest Statute, Madison Marcolla
Missouri Law Review
This Note will analyze the constitutionality of Missouri's funeral-protest statutes under the First Amendment. This Note argues that, with certain changes, Missouri's funeral-protest statutes should pass constitutional muster. In Part II, this Note analyzes the facts and holding of Phelps-Roper v. Koster. Next, in Part III, this Note explores the legal background of the First Amendment, time, place, and manner restrictions, and how other courts have decided cases involving funeral-protest laws. Part IV examines the court's rationale in Phelps-Roper v. Koster. Lastly, Part V explains where the district court erred and how Missouri's funeral-protest statutes can be changed to become …
State Drug Testing Requirements For Welfare Recipients: Are Missouri And Florida's New Laws Constitutional, Abby E. Schaberg
State Drug Testing Requirements For Welfare Recipients: Are Missouri And Florida's New Laws Constitutional, Abby E. Schaberg
Missouri Law Review
This Summary examines the framework set up by the Supreme Court for analyzing the constitutionality of drug testing on welfare recipients. It discusses the states' implementation of such programs, and specifically analyzes laws recently passed by Florida and Missouri that authorize drug-testing requirements on welfare recipients. The likely outcome of challenges to these laws appears to be dependent, at least in part, on whether the law provides for suspicionless drug testing or calls for drug testing based on some reasonable suspicion of drug use.