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The Rule Of Reason, Herbert Hovenkamp

Florida Law Review

Antitrust’s rule of reason was born out of a thirty-year Supreme Court debate concerning the legality of multi-firm restraints on competition. By the late 1920s the basic contours of the rule for restraints among competitors was roughly established. Antitrust policy toward vertical restraints remained much more unstable, however, largely because their effects were so poorly understood.

This Article provides a litigation field guide for antitrust claims under the rule of reason—or more precisely, for situations when application of the rule of reason is likely. At the time pleadings are drafted and even up to the point of summary judgment, the …

Why Congress Matters: The Collective Congress In The Structural Constitution, Neomi Rao

Florida Law Review

Congress currently operates in the shadow of the administrative state. This Article provides a modern reconsideration of why Congress still matters by examining the “collective Congress” within the text, structure, and history of the Constitution. Like the unitary executive, the collective Congress is a structural feature of the Constitution’s separation of powers. With deep roots in political theory, the Framers created a representative and collective legislature that would provide a legitimate mechanism for bringing together the nation’s diverse interests to most effectively pursue the common good. To fully realize the benefits of collective lawmaking, the Constitution insists on the double …

Sweet Child O’ Mine: Adult Adoption & Same-Sex Marriage In The Post-Obergefell Era, Robert Keefe

Florida Law Review

Gay and lesbian partners used adult adoption to create family relationships and to ensure inheritance and property rights in the decades before the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Same-sex partners who chose adult adoption as an alternative to marriage before the Obergefell decision must now dissolve the adoption in order to exercise their constitutional right to marry due to state incest laws prohibiting marriages between parents and their adopted children. It is difficult, however, to dissolve an adoption, and anecdotal evidence indicates that some judges have refused to dissolve adoptions between same sex partners. …

Rescuing The Rescuer: Reforming How Florida’S Workers’ Compensation Law Treats Mental Injury Of First Responders, Travis J. Foels

Florida Law Review

The 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida was the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since the September 11 attacks in 2001. With a final death toll of forty-nine people, and fifty-three others wounded, the attack sent shockwaves throughout the city, state, and nation. People sent condolences to the families of those affected, prayers for those taken, and praise to first responders and health care professionals for their hard work and service. What many fail to consider, however, is the lasting effect such a horrific and traumatic event can have on the first responders whose job it is …

Picking And Choosing Text: Lessons For Statutory Interpretation From The Philosophy Of Language, Victoria Nourse

Florida Law Review

Textualists claim that they follow statutory text. This Article argues that, in practice, textualists often create meaning rather than find it. Deploying the analytics of linguistic philosophy, this Article takes a deep dive into textualist methodology. The philosophy of language reveals what legal scholarship has left submerged: The very choice of text can put the thumb on the scales of any interpretation. When one pulls a term out of a statute and isolates it from the rest of the text (what I call “isolationist” method), this decontextualization offers the opportunity for adding and subtracting meaning from the statute by “pragmatic …

By Any Other Name: Rational Basis Inquiry And The Federal Government’S Fiduciary Duty Of Care, Gary Lawson, Guy I. Seidman

Florida Law Review

Under modern law, federal legislation is subject to “rational basis review” under the doctrinal rubric of “substantive due process.” That construction of the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process of Law Clause is notoriously difficult to justify as a matter of original constitutional meaning. Something functionally very similar to substantive due process, however, is easily justifiable as a matter of original constitutional meaning once one understands that the Constitution, for interpretative purposes, is best seen as a kind of fiduciary instrument. Fiduciary instruments operate against a background of legal norms that notably include a duty of care on the part of agents. …

The Possibility Of Illiberal Constitutionalism?, Mark Tushnet

Florida Law Review

This Essay examines the possibility of an illiberal constitutionalism in which some citizens have “second-class” status – protected against arbitrary government action but with restricted rights. Drawing on scholarship dealing with “dual states” and federalism, the Essay argues that illiberal constitutionalism is possible conceptually but may be quite difficult to sustain over time in the face of the openness of even illiberal polities to demographic and similar changes.

Investing In The Ill: The Need To Curb Third-Party Payment Of Qualified Health Plan Premiums, Brad M. Beall

Florida Law Review

Hospitals and physicians have begun encouraging their high-cost patients to switch from Medicare or Medicaid to government-subsidized Qualified Health Plans by offering to pay their insurance premiums. Providers make these third-party payments because insurance payouts are much higher under Qualified Health Plans than under Medicare or Medicaid. However, this practice is not always in the best interests of patients, issuers, and the health-care Marketplace. This Note delineates the regulatory responses to this issue, as well as the various advantages and disadvantages that stem from the practice in different contexts. This Note argues that a federal criminal statute is needed to …

“Revenge Porn” Reform: A View From The Front Lines, Mary Anne Franks

Florida Law Review

The legal and social landscape of “revenge porn” has changed dramatically in the last few years. Before 2013, only three states criminalized the unauthorized disclosure of sexually explicit images of adults and few people had ever heard the term “revenge porn.” As of July 2017, thirty-eight states and Washington, D.C. had criminalized the conduct; federal criminal legislation on the issue had been introduced in Congress; Google, Facebook, and Twitter had banned nonconsensual pornography from their platforms; and the term “revenge porn” had been added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. I have had the privilege of playing a role in many …

Too Big And Unable To Fail, Stephen J. Lubben, Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr.

Florida Law Review

Financial regulation after the Dodd-Frank Act has produced a blizzard of acronyms, many of which revolve around the “too big to fail” (TBTF) problem. OLA, OLF, SPOE, and TLAC are new regulatory tools that seek to build a new regime for resolving failures of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). The explicit goal of this new regime is to enable a SIFI to fail, just like United Airlines or Blockbuster Video, without requiring a government bailout. This Article expresses significant doubts about the new regime’s ability to work as advertised. The “single point of entry” (SPOE) resolution strategy, which focuses all …

Stranded Behind Bars: The Failure Of Retributive Justice (Research Materials), Holy Cross Libraries

Library Resources for Campus Events

A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "Stranded Behind Bars: The Failure of Retributive Justice," a lecture by Erin Kelly, professor of philosophy at Tufts University and author of “The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility” (Harvard University Press, 2018), who explains how retributive justice exaggerates the moral meaning of criminal guilt, normalizes excessive punishment, and distracts from shared responsibility for social injustice.

The lecture was sponsored by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, and was held at the College of the Holy Cross …

October 9, 2019: Yom Kippur And The Shootings, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Yom Kippur and the Shootings“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Hazing Laws In Louisiana: Criminal Penalty Masquerading Under The Guise Of Punitive Damages, Brittney Esie

Journal of Civil Law Studies

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Journal of Civil Law Studies

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From La Beauce To Le Bayou: A Transsystemic Voyage, Rosalie Jukier

Journal of Civil Law Studies

This paper is an adaptation of the Tucker Lecture that I delivered in October of 2017. Its title depicts two iconic places, one in the Canadian province of Quebec, from where I hail, and the other in Louisiana, the locale of my audience. La Beauce, an enchanting part of Quebec, stretches along the Chaudière River and is located about thirty minutes south of Quebec City. Le Bayou refers to the low-lying wetlands found primarily in the southern part of Louisiana, a defining feature of this part of the United States.

In this paper, I attempt to guide an allegorical voyage …

French Jurisdictional Complexity On The Fringe— Acadia 1667-1710, Jacques Vanderlinden

Journal of Civil Law Studies

During the second half of the 17th century of French formally institutionalized colonial power in Acadia, the province was in an interesting state of jurisdictional complexity insofar as French colonists were concerned. While native Amerindians, mostly Malecites and Micmawqs, carried their precolonial political order and jurisdictional organisation without almost any interference of the colonial power, imported normative systems derived from feudalism, the Catholic Church, French colonial order, French provincial customs and family organisation were juxtaposed and interacted, each of them were a well-known part of the Western legal tradition. Yet—and this is the most interesting—the state power, which was prevalent …

The Impact Of European Private Law Upon The Mixed Legal Systems Of Cyprus, Nicholas Mouttotos

Journal of Civil Law Studies

This article attempts to examine the impact of European private law upon the legal system of Cyprus taking into account its mixed elements and whether these elements have contributed towards a smooth reception of EU law. While Nikitas Hatzimihail argued in 2013 that it may still be too early to assess the impact of European Union (EU) law upon the legal system of Cyprus, the financial crisis and its effects render such an assessment possible. Building upon Hatzimihail’s work in his effort at understanding a “unique” legal system by using comparative law theory to understand the doctrinal development and elaboration …

Louisiana Civil Code - Code Civil De Louisiane Book Iii, Titles 23–24 - Livre Iii, Titres 23–24, Center Of Civil Law Studies

Journal of Civil Law Studies

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Star Financial Services, Inc. V. Cardtronics Usa, Inc., Nancy A. Maurice

Journal of Civil Law Studies

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Complete V.12 No.1

Journal of Civil Law Studies

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Rural America's Drinking Water Crisis, Madison Condon

Shorter Faculty Works

While Flint, Michigan, rightfully captures headlines, another water crisis affecting millions of Americans continues to go largely unnoticed. All across rural America, small community water systems are failing to protect public health due to a perfect storm of forces. Poor regulation of agricultural waste and other pollutants, shrinking populations, and aging infrastructure all contribute to the increasing incidents of water quality violations dotting the rural landscape. There are nearly 60 thousand community water systems in the United States and 93 percent of them serve populations of fewer than 10,000 people—67 percent serve populations of fewer than 500 people. In 2015, …

Developing The Civil Law Of Incorporeal Things, Ricardo Bethencourt, Aniceto Masferrer

Journal of Civil Law Studies

This article offers the legal profession a method to effectuate on behalf of authors, designers, or inventors who are residents of Louisiana (or for Louisiana transactions) the rights recognized by federal law on intellectual property (IP) and unfair competition by activating the civil law on incorporeal things. Additionally, it offers a way to enhance the civil law practitioners’ stock of solutions with the regular notions of property, contracts, and torts in IP and unfair competition law for fascinating results. Also, it enables civil law academia to teach IP and unfair competition law through regular courses such as property, contracts, and …

A “Spoonful Of Sugar” Won’T Make This Go Down: Analyzing The Enforceability Of Automatic Carpet Cleaning Clauses In Nebraska (Comment), Sarah A. Wetzel

Nebraska Law Bulletin (Selected Issues)

Nebraska’s case law on security deposits is sparse, leaving its security deposit statute relatively untouched, and ripe for interpretation. Nebraska should follow the lead of Iowa and Ohio courts to find that such provisions are unenforceable because they reduce the landlord’s burden of providing an itemization of damages that justifies the money withheld. And, while freedom of contract should generally be supported, as seen in Indiana, landlords should not be able to contractually demand that tenants return a dwelling unit in the same or better condition as when they took possession.

Nebraska’s landlord-tenant statutes should ultimately be interpreted to bar …

Israeli Supreme Court Project Presents- Interpreting Israel's Nationality Law, Cardozo Israeli Supreme Court Project

Cardozo News 2019

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Recent Case Decisions

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Empowered: Bringing Energy Efficiency Into Low-Income Homes, Elizabeth Beatty, Abbey Hawthorne

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Wyoming, John R. Chadd

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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West Virginia, Andrew Graham

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Virginia, Zachary H. Barrett

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Utah, Jim Tartaglia

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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