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Retaining A Constitutional Right To Terminate A Pregnancy By Reinterpreting Pregnancy As An Implied Contract, Esra Coskun-Crabtree
Retaining A Constitutional Right To Terminate A Pregnancy By Reinterpreting Pregnancy As An Implied Contract, Esra Coskun-Crabtree
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Comment considers the question of abortion as a fundamental right by reframing pregnancy as a ground for implied contract. The recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022) rejected the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause as a basis for asserting a fundamental right to abortion. However, other constitutional limits on state power may provide different avenues to such an assertion. Specifically, the Contracts Clause of Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the states from impairing the freedom to contract. This Comment argues that the key issue in the abortion …
Roche V. Worldwide Media, Inc.: Evaluating Where Minimum Contacts Meets Cyberspace, Ryan Thomas
Roche V. Worldwide Media, Inc.: Evaluating Where Minimum Contacts Meets Cyberspace, Ryan Thomas
Golden Gate University Law Review
In Roche v. Worldwide Media, Inc., the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia discussed the issue of personal jurisdiction in the context of cyberspace. The court determined that Worldwide Media's web site was passive and that asserting personal jurisdiction based solely on the maintenance of a web site, without more, would violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Roche decision reaffirmed the Eastern District of Virginia's position on personal jurisdiction in the context of cyberspace. Specifically, this decision applies the logic of the "sliding scale" test borrowed from the United States District Court …
Criminal Procedure - United States V. Nordby, Adriano Hrvatin
Criminal Procedure - United States V. Nordby, Adriano Hrvatin
Golden Gate University Law Review
The Nordby court held that a finding of drug quantity under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) by the district court at sentencing pursuant to a preponderance of the evidence violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the notice and jury-trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment when drug quantity was used to increase the prescribed statutory maximum penalty. In requiring that drug quantity be submitted to the jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the Ninth Circuit overruled nearly fifteen years of its own precedent.
Expanding The Jurisdictional Reach For Intentional Torts: Implications For Cyber Contacts, Christopher Allen Kroblin
Expanding The Jurisdictional Reach For Intentional Torts: Implications For Cyber Contacts, Christopher Allen Kroblin
Golden Gate University Law Review
Originally, the foundation of jurisdictional jurisprudence in the United States rested on the premise that no state could exercise jurisdiction over a person outside its territorial borders. With the advent of modern industrial society, solely territorial based notions of sovereignty and jurisdiction became strained and unworkable. The concept that a state has control over everything within its borders and nothing beyond began to erode. As a result, during the twentieth century, the courts began to shift their focus from a territorial concept of jurisdiction to a notice-based concept. State courts exercised jurisdictional powers beyond their geographical territory so long as …
Robinson At Large In The Fifty States: A Continuation Of The State Bills Of Rights Debate In The Search And Seizure Context, Perry A. Schaffer, Richard D. Harmon, Terry J. Helbush
Robinson At Large In The Fifty States: A Continuation Of The State Bills Of Rights Debate In The Search And Seizure Context, Perry A. Schaffer, Richard D. Harmon, Terry J. Helbush
Golden Gate University Law Review
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