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An Originalist Defense Of Plyler V. Doe, Steven G. Calabresi, Lena M. Barsky Mar 2017

An Originalist Defense Of Plyler V. Doe, Steven G. Calabresi, Lena M. Barsky

BYU Law Review

This Article offers a defense of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Plyler v. Doe based on the original public meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment when it was enacted in 1868. We argue that at that time, the Fourteenth Amendment granted certain rights, such as life, liberty, and possession of personal property, to immigrants under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses, but did not grant them the privileges and immunities of citizenship (e.g. all civil rights and the political right to vote). We also argue that public education is a right of all persons protected by the Due Process and …


Boundary Dispute: The Presumption Against Extraterritoriality As Judicial Nondelegation, Luke Bell Mar 2017

Boundary Dispute: The Presumption Against Extraterritoriality As Judicial Nondelegation, Luke Bell

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Courts And Foreign Affairs At The Founding, Kevin Arlyck Feb 2017

The Courts And Foreign Affairs At The Founding, Kevin Arlyck

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Wonky Walden: The Dizzying New Personal Jurisdiction Rule, Adam Balinski Mar 2016

Wonky Walden: The Dizzying New Personal Jurisdiction Rule, Adam Balinski

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constraining Charming Betsy: Textual Ambiguity As A Predicate To Applying The Charming Betsy Doctrine, Andrew H. Bean Dec 2015

Constraining Charming Betsy: Textual Ambiguity As A Predicate To Applying The Charming Betsy Doctrine, Andrew H. Bean

BYU Law Review

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Forced Marriage At The Cambodian Crossroads: Eccc Can Develop A New Crime Against Humanity, Cameron Christensen Dec 2015

Forced Marriage At The Cambodian Crossroads: Eccc Can Develop A New Crime Against Humanity, Cameron Christensen

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Scout’S Honor: The Boy Scouts, Judicial Ethics, And The Appearance Of Partiality, Daniel Ortner Nov 2015

Scout’S Honor: The Boy Scouts, Judicial Ethics, And The Appearance Of Partiality, Daniel Ortner

BYU Law Review

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An Incurable Malaise: Commonwealth V. Australian Capital Territory And Baskin V. Bogan As Symptoms Of Early-Onset Dystopia, Neville Rochow Apr 2015

An Incurable Malaise: Commonwealth V. Australian Capital Territory And Baskin V. Bogan As Symptoms Of Early-Onset Dystopia, Neville Rochow

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mormonism, Originalism, And Utah’S Open Courts Clause, Jarom R. Jones Apr 2015

Mormonism, Originalism, And Utah’S Open Courts Clause, Jarom R. Jones

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Commandments, Crosses, & Prayers: The Roberts Court’S Approach To Public Religion, Zachary D. Smith Apr 2015

Commandments, Crosses, & Prayers: The Roberts Court’S Approach To Public Religion, Zachary D. Smith

BYU Law Review

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Standing In For The State: Defending Ballot Initiatives In Federal Court Challenges, Joshua J. Bishop Feb 2015

Standing In For The State: Defending Ballot Initiatives In Federal Court Challenges, Joshua J. Bishop

BYU Law Review

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Patent Claim Interpretation Review: Deference Or Correction Driven?, Christopher A. Cotropia Nov 2014

Patent Claim Interpretation Review: Deference Or Correction Driven?, Christopher A. Cotropia

BYU Law Review

This Article examines the Federal Circuit’s review of claim constructions by lower tribunals to determine whether the Federal Circuit defers to lower court constructions or is making its own, independent determination as to the “correct” construction and ultimate result in the case.

The data collected from 2010 to 2013 indicates that the Federal Circuit affirms about 75% of lower court claim interpretations. While this finding is itself surprising, even more surprising is that these reviews do not appear to be driven by deference. Instead, the Federal Circuit is less likely to correct constructions that resulted in a patentee loss below, …


The Heck Conundrum: Why Federal Courts Should Not Overextend The Heck V. Humphrey Preclusion Doctrine, Lyndon Bradshaw Apr 2014

The Heck Conundrum: Why Federal Courts Should Not Overextend The Heck V. Humphrey Preclusion Doctrine, Lyndon Bradshaw

BYU Law Review

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Jury Nullification As A Tool To Balance The Demands Of Law And Justice, Aaron Mcknight Jan 2014

Jury Nullification As A Tool To Balance The Demands Of Law And Justice, Aaron Mcknight

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Supreme Court Oral Argument Video: A Review Of Media Effects Research And Suggestions For Study, Edward L. Carter Dec 2012

Supreme Court Oral Argument Video: A Review Of Media Effects Research And Suggestions For Study, Edward L. Carter

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Failure To Communicate, Erwin Chemerinsky Dec 2012

A Failure To Communicate, Erwin Chemerinsky

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Justices And News Judgment: The Supreme Court As News Editor, Amy Gajda Dec 2012

The Justices And News Judgment: The Supreme Court As News Editor, Amy Gajda

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


U.S. Supreme Court Justices And Press Access, Ronnell Andersen Jones Dec 2012

U.S. Supreme Court Justices And Press Access, Ronnell Andersen Jones

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Not A Free Press Court?, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky Dec 2012

Not A Free Press Court?, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cameras At The Supreme Court: A Rhetorical Analysis, Lisa T. Mcelroy Dec 2012

Cameras At The Supreme Court: A Rhetorical Analysis, Lisa T. Mcelroy

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Monster In The Courtroom, Sonja R. West Dec 2012

The Monster In The Courtroom, Sonja R. West

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Moving Beyond Cameras In The Courtroom: Technology, The Media, And The Supreme Court, Mary-Rose Papandrea Dec 2012

Moving Beyond Cameras In The Courtroom: Technology, The Media, And The Supreme Court, Mary-Rose Papandrea

BYU Law Review

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Cameras In The Courtroom In The Twenty-First Century: The U.S. Supreme Court Learning From Abroad?, Kyu Ho Youm Dec 2012

Cameras In The Courtroom In The Twenty-First Century: The U.S. Supreme Court Learning From Abroad?, Kyu Ho Youm

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Originalism And Loving V. Virginia, Steven G. Calabresi, Andrea Matthews Dec 2012

Originalism And Loving V. Virginia, Steven G. Calabresi, Andrea Matthews

BYU Law Review

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Repudiating The Narrow Rule In Capital Sentencing, Scott W. Howe Dec 2012

Repudiating The Narrow Rule In Capital Sentencing, Scott W. Howe

BYU Law Review

This Article proposes a modest reform of Eighth Amendment law governing capital sentencing to spur major reform in the understanding of the function of the doctrine. The Article urges the Supreme Court to renounce a largely empty mandate known as the “narrowing” rule and the rhetoric of equality that has accompanied it. By doing so, the Court could speak more truthfully about the important but more limited function that its capital-sentencing doctrine actually pursues, which is to ensure that no person receives the death penalty who does not deserve it. The Court could also speak more candidly than it has …


Implicit Balancing In The Adjudication Of Criminal Law, Aaron Arnson Sep 2012

Implicit Balancing In The Adjudication Of Criminal Law, Aaron Arnson

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mohamed V. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.: The Ninth Circuit Sends The Totten Bar Flying Away On The Jeppesen Airplane, Michael Q. Cannon May 2012

Mohamed V. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.: The Ninth Circuit Sends The Totten Bar Flying Away On The Jeppesen Airplane, Michael Q. Cannon

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Judicial Takings In Vandevere V. Lloyd, Cory S. Clements May 2012

Judicial Takings In Vandevere V. Lloyd, Cory S. Clements

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Marriage, Fundamental Premises, And The California, Connecticut, And Iowa Supreme Courts, Monte Neil Stewart, Jacob D. Briggs, Julie Slater Mar 2012

Marriage, Fundamental Premises, And The California, Connecticut, And Iowa Supreme Courts, Monte Neil Stewart, Jacob D. Briggs, Julie Slater

BYU Law Review

The highest courts in California, Connecticut, and Iowa recently held that the constitutional norm of equality requires the redefinition of marriage from “the union of a man and a woman” to “the union of any two persons.” The argument leading to that holding, like all arguments, proceeds from premises that the argument does not prove but that serve as the starting point for reasoning. Those premises range from the nature of contemporary American marriage to the equivalence of the pre- and post-redefinition marriage institutions, to the social costs, if any, resulting from redefinition, and to marriage’s relationship with other social …


Preventing Divisiveness: The Ninth Circuit Upholds The 1954 Pledge Amendment In Newdow V. Rio Linda Union School District, Devin Snow Sep 2011

Preventing Divisiveness: The Ninth Circuit Upholds The 1954 Pledge Amendment In Newdow V. Rio Linda Union School District, Devin Snow

BYU Law Review

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