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The Buck Stops Here: Illinois Criminalizes Support For International Terrorism, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 871 (1997), Victoria Meyerov

UIC Law Review

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Doma: An Unconstitutional Establishment Of Fundamentalist Christianity, James M. Donovan

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

According to the text of the Act, DOMA's purposes are "to define and protect the institution of marriage," where marriage is defined to exclude same-sex partners. To be constitutionally valid under the Establishment Clause, this notion that heterosexual marriages require "protection" from gay and lesbian persons must spring from a secular and not religious source. This Article posits that DOMA has crossed this forbidden line between the secular and the religious. DOMA, motivated and supported by fundamentalist Christian ideology, and lacking any genuine secular goals or justifications, betrays the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The Architecture Of The Establishment Clause, John H. Garvey

Scholarly Articles

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The Real Reason For Religious Freedom, John H. Garvey

Scholarly Articles

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The Association Of American Law Schools, Section On Mass Communications Law 1997 Annual Conference Panel: Sex, Violence, Children & The Media: Legal, Historical &Empirical; Perspectives, Lili Levi

Articles

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Reinvigorating Autonomy: Freedom And Responsibility In The Supreme Court's First Amendment Jurisprudence, Christina E. Wells

Faculty Publications

Part I of this Article explores the conception of autonomy that scholars have generally attributed to the Court and discusses problems with that conception. Part II sets forth an alternative, Kantian conception of autonomy and discusses its implications for a system of laws regulating free expression. Part III analyzes the Court's free speech jurisprudence and its autonomy rationale. It specifically examines both the Court's distinction between content-based and content-neutral regulations of speech and its approach to low-value speech, demonstrating that they reflect a Kantian notion of autonomy. Finally, Part IV discusses the implications of Kantian autonomy for hate speech regulation, …

Where Do We Draw The Line Between Harassment And Free Speech?: An Analysis Of Hunter Harassment Law, Katherine Hessler

Animal Law Review

Ms. Hessler examines the constitutionality of the federal hunter harassment statute and concludes that protests of hunting events should be protected under the First Amendment.

Policing Hatred: Police Bias Units And The Construction Of Hate Crime, Jeannine Bell

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Much of the scholarly debate about hate crime laws focuses on a discussion of their constitutionality under the First Amendment. Part of a larger empirical study of police methods of investigating hate crimes, this Note attempts to shift thinking in this area beyond the existing debate over the constitutionality of hate crime legislation to a discussion of how low-level criminal justice personnel, such as the police, enforce hate crime laws. This Note argues that, since hate crimes are an area in which police have great discretion in enforcing the law, their understanding of the First Amendment and how it relates …

Constitutional Gravity: A Unitary Theory Of Alternative Dispute Resolution And Public Civil Justice, Carl H. Esbeck

Faculty Publications

It is often said that America's founding was an experiment in government. Certainly few features of the American constitutional settlement left more to future chance--and were more of a break with existing European patterns--than the Establishment Clause set out in the First Amendment. The new Republic sought to rely on transcendent principles to justify its unpre-cedented advancements in human liberty. Concurrently, the Founders reject ed any official or fixed formulation of these principles, for no public credo was to be established by law. So it is more than just a little ironic that the nation's most cherished human rights depend …

Petition For Writ Of Certiorari, Northeast Ohio Coalition For The Homeless, Et Al., V. City Of Cleveland, 522 U.S. 931 (1997), Kevin F. O'Neill, David Goldberger, Raymond V. Vasvari, Joan M. Englund

Law Faculty Briefs and Court Documents

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Suppressed History Or Distorted History? A Review Of Rosenfeld's The American Aurora, Arthur R. Landever

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

A book review of Richard N Rosenfeld, American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It, Macmillan, 1997.

The First Amendment In The Supreme Court: The Future Lies Ahead, Joel Gora

Faculty Scholarship

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Post-Verdict Interviews: The Key To Understanding The Decision Behind The Verdict, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 507 (1997), Christine J. Iversen

UIC Law Review

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Section 1983 In The Second Circuit, Honorable George C. Pratt

Touro Law Review

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Second Department Tillman V. Distribution Systems Of America

Touro Law Review

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Fourth Department Time Square Books, Inc., V. City Of Rochester

Touro Law Review

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The Communications Decency Act: Aborting The First Amendment?, Sheryl L. Herndon L. Herndon

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

On February 8, 1996, President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law and explained that the legislation would "stimulate investment, promote competition, [and] provide open access for all citizens to the Information Superhighway." However, contrary to the goal of "opening wide the door to the Information Age," provisions of the Act violate the Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech by imposing far-reaching new federal criminal liabilities on Americans who exercise their free speech rights on the Internet. In particular, a little-noticed provision of the Act, which expands an 1873 law banning abortion-related speech by criminalizing Internet …

Spending Limits And The Squandering Of Candidates' Time, Vincent A. Blasi

Faculty Scholarship

Today I begin with a narrow agenda, a single idea, but an extravagant ambition. My narrow agenda is that I wish to address only the topic of campaign spending limits, and only the issue of their constitutionality in the face of First Amendment objections. The policy questions regarding whether spending limits are equitable, efficacious, and/or enforceable are deeply difficult and interesting but beyond my ken on this occasion.

My single idea is that spending limits are best justified on the ground that they protect candidates for office from having to devote an inordinate amount of their time to the task …

Children's Rights Vs. Adult Free Speech: Can They Be Reconciled, Loftus Becker

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Good Catholics Should Be Rawlsian Liberals, Leslie C. Griffin

Scholarly Works

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Free Speech & The Internet: The Inevitable Move Toward Government Regulation, James J. Black

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

The explosive growth in the number of people communicating from computers around the world via the Internet ("Net") has led to the proliferation of another type of speech, namely, scholarly articles on virtually every aspect of the Net and its many influences on life in America. One topic that has received a great deal of attention is the extent to which laws applicable within the geographical territory of the United States may be applied to the freewheeling world of Cyberspace, which knows virtually no geographical limitations. Many commentators in the United States have followed one of two streams of argument: …

The Improbability Of Religion Clause Theory, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Faculty Scholarship

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On Balancing Scales, Kaleidoscopes, And The Blurred Limits Of Academic Freedom, Harry F. Tepker Jr., Joseph Harroz Jr.

Oklahoma Law Review

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Employment Law: Acevedo V. City Of Muskogee -- Creating A New Doctrine For Judging The Value Of Public Employee Speech Rights--Sound Policy Or Doctrinal Mutiny?, Timothy Wilson

Oklahoma Law Review

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Constitutional Law: Board Of County Commissioners V. Umbehr And O'Hare Truck Service V. City Of Northlake--The Extension Of First Amendment Protection To Independent Contractors--The Garbage Man Can Now Talk Trash!, Brent C. Eckersley

Oklahoma Law Review

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The Christian Coalition And The End Game, Norman R. Gulley

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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The First Amendment In The Supreme Court: The Future Lies Ahead, Dean Joel M. Gora

Touro Law Review

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Section 1983 Litigation, Martin A. Schwartz

Touro Law Review

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The Red Lion Of Cable, And Beyond?-Turner Broadcasting V. Fcc, Laurence H. Winer

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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Does The Subject Matter? Viewpoint-Neutrality And Freedom Of Speech, Wojciech Sadurski

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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