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Some Mistakes Are Greater Than Others: Why A Categorical Exclusion Is A Proper Response To A Police Officer's Mistake Of Law During A Traffic Stop, Daniel J. Gilbert Dec 2014

Some Mistakes Are Greater Than Others: Why A Categorical Exclusion Is A Proper Response To A Police Officer's Mistake Of Law During A Traffic Stop, Daniel J. Gilbert

Seton Hall Circuit Review

No abstract provided.


To Yoder Or Not To Yoder? How The Spending Clause Holding In National Federation Of Independent Business V. Sebelius Can Be Used To Challenge The No Child Left Behind Act, Christopher Roma Dec 2014

To Yoder Or Not To Yoder? How The Spending Clause Holding In National Federation Of Independent Business V. Sebelius Can Be Used To Challenge The No Child Left Behind Act, Christopher Roma

Pace Law Review

States such as California, Texas, Montana, Nebraska and Pennsylvania all have either declined to apply for waivers out of the testing, accountability, and penalty schemes of No Child Left Behind; or, have had their applications rejected by the Department of Education. This Article argues that these states would have a legitimate challenge to NCLB as unconstitutionally coercive based on the precedent of Sebelius. As discussed more in the sections that follow, not only is NCLB and Title I the largest federal funding program behind Medicaid, it also shares many of the characteristics that the opinions in Sebelius found to be …


December 6, 2014: The Death Of Meaning In Law And Life, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2014

December 6, 2014: The Death Of Meaning In Law And Life, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Death of Meaning in Law and Life“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Federal Appeals Court Spares Mentally Ill Man From Execution -- For Now, Lauren Carasik Dec 2014

Federal Appeals Court Spares Mentally Ill Man From Execution -- For Now, Lauren Carasik

Media Presence

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The Conservative-Libertarian Turn In First Amendment Jurisprudence, Steven J. Heyman Dec 2014

The Conservative-Libertarian Turn In First Amendment Jurisprudence, Steven J. Heyman

All Faculty Scholarship

Conservative constitutional jurisprudence in the United States has an important libertarian dimension. In recent years, a conservative majority of the Supreme Court has strengthened the constitutional protections for property rights, recognized an individual right to own firearms, imposed limits on the welfare state and the powers of the federal government, cut back on affirmative action, and held that closely held corporations have a right to religious liberty that permits them to deny contraceptive coverage to their female employees. This libertarian streak also can be seen in decisions on freedom of speech and association. In several leading cases, conservative judges have …


Respecting Legislators And Rejecting Baselines: Rebalancing Casey, Paul C. Quast Dec 2014

Respecting Legislators And Rejecting Baselines: Rebalancing Casey, Paul C. Quast

Notre Dame Law Review

Part I of this Note describes the background cases leading to the Supreme Court’s decision in Casey and the resulting undue burden standard. This Part also explains the limited circumstances in which the undue burden standard gives more definitive guidelines for judicial decisionmaking. Part II works through several federal district and appellate court cases to identify some of the underlying baseline presumptions and normative value judgments influencing judicial decisions in this area of the law. These baselines are often dispositive in determining whether a restriction on abortion is due or undue, cutting against the goodwill attempts by legislatures to make …


The Rule Of Law As A Law Of Law, Steven G. Calabresi, Gary Lawson Dec 2014

The Rule Of Law As A Law Of Law, Steven G. Calabresi, Gary Lawson

Notre Dame Law Review

Justice Scalia is famous for his strong rule orientation, best articulated in his 1989 article, The Rule of Law as a Law of Rules. In this Article, we explore the extent to which that rule orientation in the context of constitutional interpretation is consistent with the Constitution’s original meaning. We conclude that it is far less consistent with the Constitution than is generally recognized. The use of standards rather than rules is prescribed not only by a few provisions in the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment but also by key aspects of the 1788 constitutional text. The executive …


Seeking Common Ground In The Abortion Regulation Debate, Jessica Arden Ettinger Dec 2014

Seeking Common Ground In The Abortion Regulation Debate, Jessica Arden Ettinger

Notre Dame Law Review

This Note argues that requiring abortion clinics to adhere to the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers is unconstitutional, at least in the context of those clinics that provide only medication abortion, because it unduly burdens a woman’s right to choose whether to obtain an abortion. Although there may be a rational basis to require abortion clinics offering surgical abortion procedures to meet surgical facility standards, no such basis attends the imposition of those requirements on clinics that provide nonsurgical services. Given the number of clinics that continue to close in the face of this new regulatory legislation—which significantly reduces …


Judge Posner, Judge Wilkinson, And Judicial Critique Of Constitutional Theory, Marc O. Degirolami, Kevin C. Walsh Dec 2014

Judge Posner, Judge Wilkinson, And Judicial Critique Of Constitutional Theory, Marc O. Degirolami, Kevin C. Walsh

Notre Dame Law Review

Judge Richard Posner’s well-known view is that constitutional theory is useless. And Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III has lambasted constitutional theory for the way in which its “cosmic” aspirations threaten democratic self-governance. Many other judges hold similar views. And yet both Posner and Wilkinson—in the popular press, in law review articles, and in books—have advocated what appear to be their own theories of how to judge in constitutional cases. Judicial pragmatism for Posner and judicial restraint for Wilkinson seem to be substitutes for originalism, living constitutionalism, political process theory, and so on. But both Posner and Wilkinson also deny that …


Against Coherence In Statutory Interpretation, John David Ohlendorf Dec 2014

Against Coherence In Statutory Interpretation, John David Ohlendorf

Notre Dame Law Review

A long tradition in legal theory views the judicial role as centrally including the duty to make the entire body of law “speak with one voice.” This coherence ideal permeates much of the law of statutory interpretation, but one body of doctrine that it has particularly influenced is the set of standards that federal courts use to determine when a newly enacted statute overrides preexisting legal rules. Determining whether Congress implicitly intends to preempt state law, repeal previous legislation, or displace federal common law is an increasingly important part of the “ordinary diet of the law.” And although, this Article …


Courts Cap The "Trade": Regulation Of Competitive Markets When Courts Overturn State And Federal Cap-And-Trade Regulation, Steven Ferrey Dec 2014

Courts Cap The "Trade": Regulation Of Competitive Markets When Courts Overturn State And Federal Cap-And-Trade Regulation, Steven Ferrey

West Virginia Law Review

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Stuck Between A Lump Of Coal And A Hard Place: The Mine Safety And Health Administration's Struggle With Due Process And America's Coal Industry, Patrick R. Baker Dec 2014

Stuck Between A Lump Of Coal And A Hard Place: The Mine Safety And Health Administration's Struggle With Due Process And America's Coal Industry, Patrick R. Baker

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Intellectual Origins Of (Modern) Substantive Due Process, The, Joshua D. Hawley Dec 2014

Intellectual Origins Of (Modern) Substantive Due Process, The, Joshua D. Hawley

Faculty Publications

Almost fifty years after the Supreme Court revived the doctrine, substantive due process remains a puzzle. Detractors insist it is nothing more than judicial policy making. Defenders say it accords with the deepest values of the Constitution. But on all sides, the present scholarly debate suffers from an impoverished understanding of modern substantive due process's intellectual history, which has led to an impoverished understanding of the doctrine's core normative content. It is time for a revisionist turn. This Article supplies that turn by excavating the intellectual origins of modern substantive due process and relating that history to the doctrine's development. …


Dynamic Surveillance: Evolving Procedures In Metadata And Foreign Content Collection After Snowden, Peter Margulies Dec 2014

Dynamic Surveillance: Evolving Procedures In Metadata And Foreign Content Collection After Snowden, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Passive Takings: The State's Affirmative Duty To Protect Property, Christopher Serkin Dec 2014

Passive Takings: The State's Affirmative Duty To Protect Property, Christopher Serkin

Michigan Law Review

The purpose of the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause is to protect property owners from the most significant costs of legal transitions. Paradigmatically, a regulatory taking involves a government action that interferes with expectations about the content of property rights. Legal change has therefore always been central to regulatory takings claims. This Article argues that it does not need to be and that governments can violate the Takings Clause by failing to act in the face of a changing world. This argument represents much more than a minor refinement of takings law because recognizing governmental liability for failing to act means …


A Tale Of Two (And Possibly Three) Atkins: Intellectual Disability And Capital Punishment Twelve Years After The Supreme Court's Creation Of A Categorical Bar, John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Paul Marcus, Emily C. Paavola Dec 2014

A Tale Of Two (And Possibly Three) Atkins: Intellectual Disability And Capital Punishment Twelve Years After The Supreme Court's Creation Of A Categorical Bar, John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Paul Marcus, Emily C. Paavola

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This article examines empirically the capital cases decided by the lower courts since the United States Supreme Court created the categorical ban against the execution of persons with intellectual disability twelve years ago in the Atkins decision.


How Wartime Detention Ends, Deborah N. Pearlstein Dec 2014

How Wartime Detention Ends, Deborah N. Pearlstein

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Sharing Stupid $H*T With Friends And Followers: The First Amendment Rights Of College Athletes To Use Social Media, Meg Penrose Dec 2014

Sharing Stupid $H*T With Friends And Followers: The First Amendment Rights Of College Athletes To Use Social Media, Meg Penrose

Faculty Scholarship

This paper takes a closer look at the First Amendment rights of college athletes to access social media while simultaneously participating in intercollegiate athletics. The question posed is quite simple: can a coach or athletic department at a public university legally restrict a student-athlete's use of social media? If so, does the First Amendment provide any restraints on the type or length of restrictions that can be imposed? Thus far, neither question has been presented to a court for resolution. However, the answers are vital, as college coaches and athletic directors seek to regulate their athletes in a constitutional manner.


The Limits Of Enumeration, Richard A. Primus Dec 2014

The Limits Of Enumeration, Richard A. Primus

Articles

According to a well-known principle of constitutional interpretation here identified as the “internal-limits canon,” the powers of Congress must always be construed as authorizing less legislation than a general police power would. This Article argues that the internallimits canon is unsound. Whether the powers of Congress would in practice authorize any legislation that a police power would authorize is a matter of contingency: it depends on the relationship between the powers and the social world at a given time. There is no reason why, at a given time, the powers cannot turn out to authorize any legislation that a police …


November 30, 2014: More Reasons The Democratic Party Coalition Collapsed, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2014

November 30, 2014: More Reasons The Democratic Party Coalition Collapsed, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “More Reasons the Democratic Party Coalition Collapsed“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 26, 2014: Pope Tells Haggard Europe That It Is In Need Of Cultural Renewal, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2014

November 26, 2014: Pope Tells Haggard Europe That It Is In Need Of Cultural Renewal, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Pope Tells Haggard Europe that it is in Need of Cultural Renewal“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Ferguson — What Now?, Timothy Zick Nov 2014

Ferguson — What Now?, Timothy Zick

Popular Media

No abstract provided.


European Court Of Human Rights - Extradition - Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment, Soering Case, 161 Eur. Ct. H.R. (Ser. A) (1989), David L. Gappa Nov 2014

European Court Of Human Rights - Extradition - Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment, Soering Case, 161 Eur. Ct. H.R. (Ser. A) (1989), David L. Gappa

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The Potential For United States Adoption Of The Genocide Convention And The Convention Against Torture, David Stewart Nov 2014

The Potential For United States Adoption Of The Genocide Convention And The Convention Against Torture, David Stewart

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The Politics Of Ratification: The Potential For United States Adoption And Enforcement Of The Convention Against Torture, The Covenants On Civil And Political Rights And Economic, Social And Cultural Rights, Winston P. Nagan Nov 2014

The Politics Of Ratification: The Potential For United States Adoption And Enforcement Of The Convention Against Torture, The Covenants On Civil And Political Rights And Economic, Social And Cultural Rights, Winston P. Nagan

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Panel I-- General Discussion, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law Nov 2014

Panel I-- General Discussion, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


United States Ratification Of The United Nations Covenants, Richard B. Lillich Nov 2014

United States Ratification Of The United Nations Covenants, Richard B. Lillich

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The Process For United States Ratification Of Human Rights Instruments, Craig H. Baab Nov 2014

The Process For United States Ratification Of Human Rights Instruments, Craig H. Baab

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


United States Attitudes Toward Ratification Of Human Rights Instruments, Louis B. Sohn Nov 2014

United States Attitudes Toward Ratification Of Human Rights Instruments, Louis B. Sohn

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Raped By The System: A Comparison Of Prison Rape In The United States And South Africa, Alexandra Ashmont Nov 2014

Raped By The System: A Comparison Of Prison Rape In The United States And South Africa, Alexandra Ashmont

Pace International Law Review

The main objective of this article is to create overall awareness and to give people a real sense of the events that go on every day inside prison walls. The article is meant to show people that the way they think about prison and prison rape specifically is severely jaded. What happens behind prison bars should certainly not stay behind prison bars. The stories within this article are unlike any prison rape stories people have heard before. They are harsh, inhumane, and deeply disturbing. The only way to incite change is to open people’s eyes to the true conditions within …