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You Are Living In A Gold Rush, Richard Delgado
You Are Living In A Gold Rush, Richard Delgado
Richard Delgado
This article argues that our times, characterized as they are by dreams of vast wealth, environmental destruction, and growing social inequality, resemble nothing so much as earlier get-rich-quick periods like the Gilded Age and the California gold rush. I put forward a number of parallels between those earlier periods and now and suggest that the current fever is likely to end soon. This will come as a relief to those of you who, like me, deplore the regressive social policies, bellicose foreign relations, and coarsening of public taste that we have been living through—even if some of our more libertarian …
Moral Turpitude, Julia Simon-Kerr
Moral Turpitude, Julia Simon-Kerr
Julia Simon-Kerr
This Article gives the first account of the moral turpitude standard, tracing its history from the early American law of defamation to evidence law, where it has been used for witness impeachment, and then to legal areas as diverse as voting rights, juror disqualification, professional licensing, and immigration law, where it is used as a collateral sanctioning mechanism. "Moral turpitude" was formalized as a legal standard by common law courts seeking a manageable test for slander per se. As the standard spread and was appropriated for use in other fields, it functioned as a standard that purported to judge character …