Constitutional Law Commons^™

Federal Communications Commission - Fairness Doctrine - Requirement That A Fairness Doctrine Complaint Establish A Prima Facie Case Defining A Specific Issue, Doris Del Tosto Jan 1980

Consumer Product Safety: Preemption, The Commerce Clause And State Regulatory Authority, James L. Winokur, Jennifer Robbins Jan 1980

Constitutional Law - Due Process Clause - Where New Prosecution Is Initiated For Additional Criminal Activity Not Specified In An Original Indictment, Actual Vindictiveness Is The Proper Standard To Determine Whether Such Prosecutorial Conduct Is Constitutionally Permissible, Peter R. Kahana Jan 1980

The Pennsylvania Takeover Disclosure Law: A Statute Waiting To Be Invalidated, Ira P. Tiger Jan 1980

Constitutional Law - State Action - Participation By State Racing Officials In Racetrack's Decision To Terminate Private Stall Agreement Constitutes State Action, Helene M. Koller Jan 1980

Reassessing The First Amendment And The Public's Right To Know In Constitutional Adjudication, David M. O'Brien Jan 1980

Constitutional Law - Pennsylvania Constitution - Equal Protection - Pennsylvania's Sunday Trading Laws Violate The Equal Protection Provision Of Pennsylvania's Constitution, Stanley A. Smith Jan 1979

Constitutional Law - Contract Clause - Minnesota's Pension Plan Act Violates Contract Clause, Craig R. Shagin Jan 1979

Constitutional Law - Parole Revocation Hearings - Due Process Does Not Require That Federal Parolee Subsequently Convicted And Incarcerated For State Offense Be Given Immediate Parole Revocation Hearing, Charles F. Weyl Jan 1979

Federalism And A New Equal Protection, Henry Siedzikowski Jan 1979

Constitutional Law - Fifth Amendment - Declaration Of Property As A Historic Landmark Under State Law Is Not A Taking Which Requires Just Compensation Where The Landowner Is Guaranteed A Reasonable Return On His Investment, John J. Ford Jan 1979

Psychosurgery And The Involuntarily Confined, John P. Kopesky Jan 1979

The Covenant On Civil And Political Rights As The Law Of The Land, Alice A. Noble Jan 1979

Civil Rights - Employment Discrimination - Employer May Establish Voluntary Affirmative Action Program Within Area Of Discretion Granted By Title Vii, Penny Tannenbaum Jan 1979

Criminal Law, Various Editors Jan 1979

Constitutional Law - First Amendment - Release Of Toll Call Billing Records Disclosing Journalists' Confidential Sources Held Not Violate Of Freedom Of The Press And Not To Require Prior Judicial Review, Arthur B. Axelson Jan 1979

Federal Courts - 42 U.S.C. 1983 - Suing Municipalities Under 42 U.S.C. 1983: The Impact Of Monell V. Department Of Social Services, Howard M. Klein Jan 1979

Bringing Christian Schools Within The Scope Of The Unemployment Compensation Laws: Statutory And Free Exercise Issues, R. Leonard Davis Iii Jan 1979

The Irrelevance Of The Constitution: The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment And The Supreme Court, Philip B. Kurland Jan 1978

Constitutional Law - Corrections - Prisoners' Constitutional Right Of Access To Courts Imposes Duty On State To Provide Prison Law Libraries, Amanda M. Shaw Jan 1978

Administrative Law - Adminsitrative Procedure Act - Standing To Challenge Agency Action Requires A Showing That The Plaintiff Has Suffered Injury In Fact To A Protected Interest From The Face Of The Patricular Statutory Provision Allegedly Violated, Or When Protective Intent Is Clear From Its Legislative History, Kenneth A. Jacobsen Jan 1978

Criminal Procedure - Due Process Is Not Violated When Prosecutor Carries Out Threat To Bring Increased Charges After Defendant Refuses To Plead Guilty During Plea Bargaining Session, Catherine N. Jasons Jan 1978

Constitutional Law - Fourteenth Amendment - Statute Denying Illegitimates The Right To Inherit By Intestate Succession From Their Fathers Held To Be Invidious Discrimination In Violation Of The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Lisa S. Hunter Jan 1978

Constitutional Law - State Action - State's Statutory Delegation Of Governmental Power To Creditor And Expansion Of His Common Law Remedies Held Sufficient State Action To Subject Creditor's Action To Fourteenth Amendment, Peter John Michael Rohall Jan 1978

Constitutional Law - Free Press/Fair Trial - Pretrial Suppression Hearing May Be Closed In Order To Preserve Defendant's Right To A Fair Trial, Douglas Robison Jan 1978

Constitutional Law - Obscenity - 1977 Amendments To The Pennsylvania Obscenity Statute, John P. Kopesky Jan 1977

Constitutional Law - School Desegregation - Interdistrict Desegregation Order Is Within Discretion Of District Court When Based Upon Finding Of One Or More Interdistrict Constitutional Violation, James D. Hilly Jan 1977

An Example Of Judicial Legislation: The Third Circuit's Expansion Of Exemption 6 Of The Freedom Of Information Act To Include Union Authorization Cards, Martin J. Sobol Jan 1977

The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination In Bar Disciplinary Proceedings: What Ever Happened To Spevack, Miriam Brenaman Duff Jan 1977

Primary And Secondary Characteristics In Discrimination Cases, Richard Marshall Abrams Jan 1977