Constitutional Law Commons^™

Disparity In Police Procedures For Non-English Speaking Dwi Suspects: Constitutional Protections For Non-English Speaking Criminal Defendants Falling Second To Governmental Interests, Daniela Giordano

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Equal Protection And The Gifted And Talented Program, Deirdre Cicciaro

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Eighth Amendment’S Excessive Fines Clause And The Artist, James L. Lyons

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Not So Fast: I Have Been Deprived Of My Right To Counsel, Elias Arroyo

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

You Blew It: The Confrontation Clause & Breathalyzers As Testimonial Evidence, Stephanie Tuorto

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Putting The Cat Back In The Bag: Involuntary Confessions And Self-Incrimination, Joseph A. Iemma

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Self-Incrimination: Are Underlying Questions About A Pending Conviction On Appeal A Violation Of A Defendant's Fifth Amendment Privilege Against Self-Incrimination?, Macdonald R. Drane Iv

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Double Jeopardy: A Resentencing Game, Deirdre Cicciaro

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Justification For Police Intrusions, Corey Rashkover

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Interpreting Search Incident To Arrest In New York: Past, Present, And Future, Jacqueline Iaquinta

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Search And Seizures: Constitutionally Protected Or Discretionary Police Work?, Jaren Fernan

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Seize First, Search Later: The Hunt For Digital Evidence, Paige Bartholomew

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Cost To Carry: New York State’S Regulation On Firearm Registration, David D. Pelaez

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Defining The Line Between Constitutionally Protected Speech And True Threats: Can I Be Arrested For Being Annoying?, Allison E. Dolzani

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Neutral Discrimination – Selective Enforcement Of Religiously Neutral Laws And The First Amendment, Jeffrey Gautsche

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Retroactive Change In The Law To Punish A Defendant, George Schoenwaelder

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Supreme Court’S Heightened Retaliation Standard In Nassar: A Prudent Limitation Or A Misguided Restriction To Title Vii Claims?, Darren Stakey

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Gender Diversity And Same-Sex Marriage, Ian Farrell, Nancy Leong

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Opponents of same-sex marriage have recently adopted a curious new argument. The argument goes something like this. The Supreme Court has held that diversity is a compelling state interest in institutions of higher education. Opposite-sex marriage includes gender diversity, while same-sex marriage does not. Therefore, states may allow same-sex marriage while banning opposite-sex marriage — even if the ban triggers heightened scrutiny under equal protection or due process — because opposite-sex marriage furthers gender diversity, while same-sex marriage does not.

The gender diversity argument against same-sex marriage has made its way into a number of briefs during the recent increase …

November 9, 2014: How Destructive Is Capitalism?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ How Destructive Is Capitalism?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

November 6, 2014: An Election Of Anxiety, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “An Election of Anxiety“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Yugoslavian Constitutional Questions: Self-Determination And Secession Of Member Republics, Ben Bagwell

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Can International Law Provide Extra-Constitutional Protection For Excludable Aliens?, Louis B. Sohn

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Police, State Security Forces And Constitutionalism Of Human Rights In Zambia, Charles Mwalimu

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Immigration - Asylum - Deportation - Standards To Be Met By Illegal Aliens Applying For Withholding Of Deportation And Political Asylum, Mendoza Perez V. Ins, 902 F.2d 760 (9th Cir. 1990), Theodosia Gavatides

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

November 2, 2014: Today’S Papers, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Today’s Papers“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Procedural Rights At Sentencing, Carissa Byrne Hessick, F. Andrew Hessick

Notre Dame Law Review

In determining which constitutional procedural rights apply at sentencing, courts have distinguished between mandatory and discretionary sentencing systems. For mandatory systems—systems that limit sentencing factors and specify particular punishments based on particular facts—defendants enjoy important rights including the right to a jury, the right to proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the right to notice of potential sentencing aggravators, and the right not to be sentenced based on ex post facto laws. By contrast, for discretionary systems—systems that leave the determination of sentencing factors and how much punishment to impose based on particular facts to the judge’s discretion—defendants do not enjoy …

A House Divided: When State And Lower Federal Courts Disagree On Federal Constitutional Rights, Wayne A. Logan

Notre Dame Law Review

This Article provides the first in-depth examination of state-federal concurrent constitutional authority and does so by focusing on a context in which its consequences are most problematic: within individual states. While a handful of articles over the years have examined state court power vis-a-vis federal constitutional questions more generally, no systematic effort has been undertaken to examine intrastate, state-federal conflict on federal constitutional questions. This Article redresses this deficit, using as its doctrinal locus federal constitutional criminal procedure, with its unique impact on government power and individual liberty and privacy.

Perpetuities And The Genius Of A Free State, Joshua C. Tate

Vanderbilt Law Review

Legal history, like all history, is inevitably a speculative affair. No one can be sure what the editors of Justinian's Digest might have excised from long-lost works of classical Roman law; nor can one know for certain what went through the minds of certain justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in the mid-twentieth century when they formed and reformed their views on Roosevelt's New Deal. Of course, scholars can try to chip away at this uncertainty: great progress can be made through educated guesses and learned theories. But certainty about the past is reserved for those who lived in it. …

Due Process Disaggregation, Jason Parkin

Notre Dame Law Review

One-size-fits-all procedural safeguards are becoming increasingly suspect under the Due Process Clause. Although the precise requirements of due process vary from context to context, the Supreme Court has held that, within any particular context, the Due Process Clause merely requires one-size-fits-all procedures that are designed according to the needs of the average or typical person using the procedures. As the Court explained when announcing the modern approach to procedural due process in Mathews v. Eldridge, the due process calculus must be focused on “the generality of cases, not the rare exceptions.” A more granular approach to due process rules, the …

Parting The Chevron Sea: An Argument For Chevron's Greater Applicability To Cabinet Than Independent Agencies, Andrew T. Bond

Notre Dame Law Review

This Note argues that cabinet agencies are better suited to receive Chevron deference than independent agencies because voters should desire such policy decisions to be made by those closest to electoral accountability, rather than unelected Article III judges with life-tenure. In other words, the judiciary should accept the countermajoritarian difficulty as fundamentally true and review cabinet agency decisions in light of Chevron deference. Part I examines the revolutionary decision of Chevron and its aftermath. Central to Part I is an inquiry into whether Chevron should be applied on a case-by-case or across-the-board basis, and whether Chevron has usurped the judiciary’s …