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Full-Text Articles in Constitutional Law

United States V. Garner: From Speeding Ticket To Drug Bust- Highlighting The Necessity Of An Alternative Approach To Analyzing Traffic Stop Extensions, Rocco Beltrami Dec 2021

United States V. Garner: From Speeding Ticket To Drug Bust- Highlighting The Necessity Of An Alternative Approach To Analyzing Traffic Stop Extensions, Rocco Beltrami

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Protecting The Throne: The Third Circuit's Decision To Preserve Sovereign Immunity In Gentile V. Sec, Ryan Brady, John Reid Dec 2021

Protecting The Throne: The Third Circuit's Decision To Preserve Sovereign Immunity In Gentile V. Sec, Ryan Brady, John Reid

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Separation, Supremacy, And The Unconstitutional Rational Basis Test, Joseph S. Diedrich Jul 2021

Separation, Supremacy, And The Unconstitutional Rational Basis Test, Joseph S. Diedrich

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Common Law Baselines And Current Free Speech Doctrine, Erica Goldberg Jul 2021

Common Law Baselines And Current Free Speech Doctrine, Erica Goldberg

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


2-4-6-8 Who Do We Appreciate? The Third Circuit Scores A Touchdown For Student-Athlete Free Speech Rights, Nicolas Burnosky May 2021

2-4-6-8 Who Do We Appreciate? The Third Circuit Scores A Touchdown For Student-Athlete Free Speech Rights, Nicolas Burnosky

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Green: The Legal Land Use Controls Involved With Golf Course Closures, Michael Schmidt May 2021

Beyond The Green: The Legal Land Use Controls Involved With Golf Course Closures, Michael Schmidt

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.


Striking The Balance Of Fairness And Inclusion: The Future Of Women's Sports After The Supreme Court's Landmark Decision In Bostock V. Clayton County,Ga, Jacqualyn Gillen May 2021

Striking The Balance Of Fairness And Inclusion: The Future Of Women's Sports After The Supreme Court's Landmark Decision In Bostock V. Clayton County,Ga, Jacqualyn Gillen

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.


Getting Away With Murder: How California State Law Determined Recovery In First Roundup Cancer Case Johnson V. Monsato Co., Eliza L. Quattlebaum May 2021

Getting Away With Murder: How California State Law Determined Recovery In First Roundup Cancer Case Johnson V. Monsato Co., Eliza L. Quattlebaum

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.


Zoning For Public Health: Why A National Land Use Scheme Is Essential To Sustainable Food Production, Victor J. Absil May 2021

Zoning For Public Health: Why A National Land Use Scheme Is Essential To Sustainable Food Production, Victor J. Absil

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.


Unmuted: Solutions To Safeguard Constitutional Rights In Virtual Courtrooms And How Technology Can Expand Access To Quality Counsel And Transparency In The Criminal Justice System, Matthew Bender Apr 2021

Unmuted: Solutions To Safeguard Constitutional Rights In Virtual Courtrooms And How Technology Can Expand Access To Quality Counsel And Transparency In The Criminal Justice System, Matthew Bender

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Unfriending Tinker : The Third Circuit Holds Schools Cannot Regulate Off-Campus Social Media Speech, Amanda N. Harding Apr 2021

Unfriending Tinker : The Third Circuit Holds Schools Cannot Regulate Off-Campus Social Media Speech, Amanda N. Harding

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Can I Have Some Privacy?: A Look Into The Unfortunate Truth Of Pregnancy Tests Throughout Sports And The Negative Impact On Female Athletes, Hannah Rogers Feb 2021

Can I Have Some Privacy?: A Look Into The Unfortunate Truth Of Pregnancy Tests Throughout Sports And The Negative Impact On Female Athletes, Hannah Rogers

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.


The District Of Columbia Circuit Finds Article Iii Standing Based On The Risk Of Future Identity Theft In In Re U.S. Office Of Personnel Management Data Security Breach Litigation, Briana L. Borgolini Feb 2021

The District Of Columbia Circuit Finds Article Iii Standing Based On The Risk Of Future Identity Theft In In Re U.S. Office Of Personnel Management Data Security Breach Litigation, Briana L. Borgolini

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


On The Straight And Narrowly Tailored: The Third Circuit Walks A Fine Line Between The Judiciary And Politics In Adams V. Governor Of Delaware, Connor Defilippis, Zachary R. Epstein Dec 2020

On The Straight And Narrowly Tailored: The Third Circuit Walks A Fine Line Between The Judiciary And Politics In Adams V. Governor Of Delaware, Connor Defilippis, Zachary R. Epstein

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Third Circuit Halts Interstate Pipeline Construction In Penneast Pipeline: States And Environmentalists Find An Ally In Sovereign Immunity, Fiona Steele Dec 2020

Third Circuit Halts Interstate Pipeline Construction In Penneast Pipeline: States And Environmentalists Find An Ally In Sovereign Immunity, Fiona Steele

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Supreme Court Journalism: From Law To Spectacle?, Barry Sullivan, Cristina Carmody Tilley Mar 2020

Supreme Court Journalism: From Law To Spectacle?, Barry Sullivan, Cristina Carmody Tilley

Faculty Publications

Few people outside certain specialized sectors of the press and the legal profession have any particular reason to read the increasingly voluminous opinions through which the Justices of the Supreme Court explain their interpretations of the Constitution and laws. Most of what the public knows about the Supreme Court necessarily comes from the press. That fact raises questions of considerable importance to the functioning of our constitutional democracy: How, for example, does the press describe the work of the Supreme Court? And has the way in which the press describes the work of the Court changed over the past several …


A Political Interpretation Of Vagueness Doctrine, Brenner M. Fissell, Guyora Binder Nov 2019

A Political Interpretation Of Vagueness Doctrine, Brenner M. Fissell, Guyora Binder

Faculty Publications

The “void-for-vagueness” doctrine requires the specific definition of criminal offenses. In this Article, though, we claim it does more: it largely restricts criminalization decisions to legislatures, which are unlikely to criminalize conduct they see as both harmless and widespread. Thus, rather than constitutionalizing the harm principle and thereby assuming a judicial obligation to define harm, the Supreme Court has used the vagueness doctrine to constrain majorities to make their own assessments of harmfulness. While American law has no explicit requirements that criminal liability be created by legislation or conditioned on harm, the vagueness doctrine achieves those ends indirectly


Federalism And The Right To Decide Who Decides, Andrew B. Ayers Dec 2018

Federalism And The Right To Decide Who Decides, Andrew B. Ayers

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Betting Against Paspa: Why The Federal Restrictions On Sports Gambling Are Unconstitutional And How They Hurt The States, Christopher Polisano Aug 2018

Betting Against Paspa: Why The Federal Restrictions On Sports Gambling Are Unconstitutional And How They Hurt The States, Christopher Polisano

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.


Unusual: The Death Penalty For Inadvertent Killing, Brenner M. Fissell, Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg Jul 2018

Unusual: The Death Penalty For Inadvertent Killing, Brenner M. Fissell, Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg

Faculty Publications

Can a burglar who frightens the occupant of a house, causing a fatal heart attack, be executed? More generally, does the Eighth Amendment permit capital punishment of one who causes death inadvertently? This scenario is possible in the significant minority of American jurisdictions that permit capital punishment for felony murder without requiring a mental state of intent to kill or reckless indifference to human life. Thus far, Eighth Amendment death penalty jurisprudence has required a culpable mental state of recklessness for execution of accomplices in a fatal felony, but has not yet addressed the culpability required for execution of the …


The Utility Of Rational Basis Review, Nicholas Walter Jun 2018

The Utility Of Rational Basis Review, Nicholas Walter

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Speak Your Mind And Ride The Pine: Examining The Constitutionality Of University-Imposed Social Media Bans On Student-Athletes, John Ryan Behrmann Apr 2018

Speak Your Mind And Ride The Pine: Examining The Constitutionality Of University-Imposed Social Media Bans On Student-Athletes, John Ryan Behrmann

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.


Fifty Years Of Foia In Operation, 1967-2017, Tuan N. Samahon Jan 2018

Fifty Years Of Foia In Operation, 1967-2017, Tuan N. Samahon

Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.


Ncaa V. N.J.: New Jersey Rolls The Dice On A Tenth Amendment Challenge To The Professional And Amateur Sports Protection Act, Joshua M. Peles Jan 2015

Ncaa V. N.J.: New Jersey Rolls The Dice On A Tenth Amendment Challenge To The Professional And Amateur Sports Protection Act, Joshua M. Peles

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.


The Constitution And The Individual Right To Possess Firearms: A Different Take, David W. Wise Sep 2014

The Constitution And The Individual Right To Possess Firearms: A Different Take, David W. Wise

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The Fifth Circuit Buries Intrastate Economic Protectionism In St. Joseph Abbey V. Castille, Antonios Roustopoulos Apr 2014

The Fifth Circuit Buries Intrastate Economic Protectionism In St. Joseph Abbey V. Castille, Antonios Roustopoulos

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The Liberty Of The Church: Source, Scope And Scandal, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Oct 2013

The Liberty Of The Church: Source, Scope And Scandal, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This article was presented at a conference, and is part of a symposium, on "The Freedom of the Church in the Modern Era." The article argues that the liberty of the Church, libertas Ecclesiae, is not a mere metaphor, pace the views of some other contributions to the conference and symposium and of the mentality mostly prevailing over the last five hundred years. The argument is that the Church and her directly God-given rights are ontologically irreducible in a way that the rights of, say, the state of California or even of the United States are not. Based on a …


Resisting The Grand Coalition In Favor Of The Status Quo By Giving Full Scope To The Libertas Ecclesiae, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Sep 2013

Resisting The Grand Coalition In Favor Of The Status Quo By Giving Full Scope To The Libertas Ecclesiae, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This paper argues that questions about "religious freedom" must be subordinated to the fundamental principle of the liberty of the Church, libertas Ecclesiae. The First Amendment's agnosticism with respect to the liberty of the Church is not ultimately normative. Catholics and others who merely seek religious "accommodation," as with the HHS mandate, for example, are agents of a status quo that illegitimately has comfortable self-preservation as its highest value. It is Catholic doctrine that "creation was for the sake of the Church," not for the sake of, say, religious freedom. The paper argues that the contingent constitution of …


“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Jul 2013

“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

John Locke understood human happiness to amount to the removal of "uneasiness." This paper argues that,to the extent that the United States is a nation dedicated to "the pursuit of happiness" understood as the removal of "uneasiness," same-sex unions or marriages should be given legal recognition. While Locke defended a variation on traditional marriage on the grounds of progenitiveness and care for dependent offspring, his more foundational commitment to the importance of the removal of uneasiness precludes, on pain of inconsistency, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. This paper argues, furthermore, that conservatives and neo-conservatives who celebrate this nation's being …


The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Jan 2013

The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This article is an invited response to James Davison Hunter’s much-discussed book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). Hunter, a sociologist at UVA and a believing Protestant, claims that law’s capacity to contribute to social change is “mostly illusory” and that Christians, therefore, should practice “faithful presence” in the public square rather than seek to influence law directly. My response is that it is, in fact, law’s stunning ability to alter and limit available choices that makes it an object of deservedly fierce contest. The wild …