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Initiatives At A Glance, University Of The Pacific, Mcgeorge School Of Law

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Proposition 14: The California Stem Cell Research, Treatments, And Cures Initiative Of 2020, Hannah Fortin, Soraya Ghasemiyeh

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Proposition 16: Allowing Affirmative Action In Public Contracting, Employment, And Education, Leanne Bolano, Arvinder Kaur

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Proposition 19: The Home Protection For Seniors, Severely Disabled, Families, And Victims Of Wildfire And Natural Disasters Act, Nicolette Jolicoeur, Eric Hoffman

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Proposition 24: Protecting California Consumers By Expanding Protections, Ensuring Governmental Oversight, And Safeguarding The Law From Special Interests, Thomas A. Gerhart, Ari Steinberg

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Proposition 18: Primary Voting For 17-Year-Olds Amendment Allows 17-Year-Olds To Vote In Primary Elections, Yevgeniy P. Pislar, Rachel Puleo

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Proposition 20: Reducing Crime And Keeping California Safe Act Of 2018, Irene Meyers, Nicole Rossetta

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Proposition 21: Rental Affordability Act, Jacob Gavin, Michael Mendez

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Proposition 23: Protect The Lives Of Dialysis Patients Act (2020), Steven Weiss, Alex Cabaluna, Quentin Barbosa

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Taking Back The Beach, Lora Naismith

Student Scholarship

The numerous effects of anthropogenic climate change, including sea-level rise, continue to make global changes to our environment. With greenhouse gas emissions come warmer temperatures, melting glaciers, and a higher sealevel. In an attempt to address the rising sea, communities have the option to protect the shoreline, alter structures to be able to remain in the area, or abandon the area as the sea rises. The Texas coast alone is home to roughly 6.5 million people and provides jobs to nearly 2.5 million of those people. As the sea continues to rise, the Texas coast is subject to more severe …

Proposition 15: The California Schools And Local Communities Act Of 2020, Mo Roeckl-Navarzio, Alexander Lee

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Proposition 17: Voting Rights Restoration For Persons On Parole (2020), Steven Weiss, Alex Cabaluna, Quentin Barbosa

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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Maryland's Legislative Appointment Process: Keep It And Reform It, Tyler Yeargain

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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Democracy And The Fourth Seat: Kagan’S Jurisprudence,Stevens’S Legacy, Lauren Dimartino

University of Colorado Law Review Forum

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The Province Of (Substantive) Legitimate Expectation In Nigeria's Tax Administration: A Law And Policy Evaluation, Okanga Ogbu Okanga

LLM Theses

The interplay between tax administration and legitimate expectation has been the subject of debate and scholarship in many jurisdictions. Questions around how much discretion tax authorities should be allowed and whether courts should uphold the (substantive) legitimate expectations of taxpayers – by implication, bind the tax authority – when the tax authority reverses itself on a guidance, promise, position, etc. feature prominently in this conundrum. In Nigeria, the disposition of both the tax authority and the court appears to lean towards outright dismissal of legitimate expectation. Put differently, it seems that the tax authority does not consider itself bound by …

Seeking (Some) Climate Justice In State Tort Law, Karen C. Sokol

Washington Law Review

Over the last decade, an increasing number of path-breaking cases have been filed throughout the world, seeking to hold fossil fuel industry companies and governments accountable for their actions and inactions that have contributed to the climate crisis. This Article focuses on an important subset of those cases—namely, the recent surge of cases brought by states, cities, and counties all over the United States alleging that the largest fossil fuel industry actors, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron, are liable in state tort law for harms caused by climate change.

The Article begins with a synthesis of the history of …

License To Offend: How The Nlra Shields Perpetrators Of Discrimination In The Workplace, Molly Gibbons

Washington Law Review

Congress established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) to enforce the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act) and ensure fair labor practices in workplaces across the United States. The NLRA protects employees from discipline while engaging in union activity. Under the NLRA, employers and unions must collectively bargain in good faith. Either party may only walk away from the table when another party’s conduct makes good faith bargaining impossible. However, the NLRB’s determination of what conduct constitutes bad faith bargaining and protected union speech is inconsistent with federal anti- discrimination laws. This discrepancy means employers …

Recent Developments: Pettiford V. Next Generation Trust Services, Craig Snyder

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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Foreword, Richelle Joy Gernan

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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Driver’S License Suspensions For Nonpayments: A Discriminatory And Counterproductive Policy, Melissa Toback Levin

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

Driver’s license suspensions for nonpayments of traffic debt disproportionately harm people of color and are legally untenable. Across the country, at least seven million people have had their driver’s license suspended for traffic debt—nonpayments of traffic tickets and nonappearances in traffic court. As this article demonstrates, traffic debt suspensions force people to make an impossible choice: stop driving—and lose access to work, childcare, healthcare, food, and other basic necessities— or keep driving, and risk criminal charges, more unaffordable fines and fees, and even incarceration. License-for-payment laws ultimately create conditions that parallel modern-day debtor’s prisons and are vulnerable to several legal …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 61 Number 3, Fall 2020 [Print Issue V.61:2], Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

16 - THE GIFT Is sacrifice, given willingly and with love, what makes us human? Leslie Griffy.

20 - NOT A MOMENT, BUT A MOVEMENT From protests in Benson in 1969 to a multi-decade movement called Unity, students of color have consistently pushed SCU to progress. Matt Morgan.

28 - ON BEING BETTER Discover the ways we can better support each other, particularly as white people seek to become allies to people of color. Lauren Loftus.

32 - THE SACRIFICIAL TWEET Social media missteps are costly, perhaps now more than ever. Just what are we willing to give up to …

The Strict Scrutiny Of Black And Blaqueer Life, T. Anansi Wilson

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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The Standing Of Article Iii Standing For Data Breach Litigants: Proposing A Judicial And A Legislative Solution, Devin Urness

Vanderbilt Law Review

Data breaches are not going away. Yet victims still face uncertainty when deciding whether and where to file cases against companies or other institutions that may have mishandled their information. This is especially true if the victims have not yet experienced a financial harm, like identity theft, as a result of a data breach. Much of the uncertainty revolves around the standing doctrine and the Supreme Court’s guidance (or lack thereof) on what constitutes a substantial risk of harm sufficient to establish an injury in fact. Federal circuit courts have come to divergent results in data breach cases based on …

Warranty, Product Liability And Transaction Structure: The Problem Of Amazon, Aaron D. Twerski, Edward J. Janger

Faculty Scholarship

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Criminalizing Match-Fixing As America Legalized Sports Gambling, Jodi Balsam

Faculty Scholarship

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Exclusionary Zoning, School Segregation, And Housing Segregation: An Investigation Into A Modern Desegregation Case And Solutions To Housing Segregation, Sara Zeimer

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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High-Performance Brain Training For Law Students Final Report, Rodney O. Fong

Faculty White Papers

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University Of Baltimore Law Forum, Volume 51, Issue 1 (Fall 2020)

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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Recent Developments: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company V. Shilling, Markisha Dobson

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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Recent Developments: Peterson V. State, Meaghan Farnham

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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