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Double Jeopardy And Dual Sovereignty, James M. Feeley Nov 1959

Double Jeopardy And Dual Sovereignty, James M. Feeley

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This Comment has been prompted by two recent United States Supreme Court decisions, Bartkus v. Illinois, and Abbate v. United States. In the former decision Bartkus, the defendant, was tried in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on December 18, 1953, for the robbery of a federally insured savings and loan association of Cicero, Illinois, in violation of a federal statute. There was a jury trial and Bartkus was acquitted. Then on January 8, 1954, Bartkus was indicted by an Illinois grand jury charging a violation of a state robbery statute. This time Bartkus was convicted, …


Constitutional Law—Fourteenth Amendment—Religious Education—Validity Of Released Time Programs, Raymond H. Siderius May 1953

Constitutional Law—Fourteenth Amendment—Religious Education—Validity Of Released Time Programs, Raymond H. Siderius

Washington Law Review

In 1948 the Supreme Court (8-1) held invalid under the 14th Amendment a system adopted by the Illinois Board of Education which permitted students, on written request of their parents, to be released during regular school hours for religious instruction or devotion in the public school buildings. McCollum v. Board of Education 333 U.S. 203, 2 A.L.R. 2d 1338 (1948). Under these so-called "released time" plans, non-participating children remain in the classroom and continue some form of secular study. Since the majority opinion in the McCollum case relied in part upon the metaphorical "wall of separation between Church and State," …


Privileges And Immunities Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Lucile Lomen Jul 1943

Privileges And Immunities Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Lucile Lomen

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At the close of the Civil War, the federal government was faced with the serious problem of protecting the newly freed negro from restrictions which the state governments might see fit to impose upon him. The War had been won and the negro freed, but there was no power in the federal government which could insure his civil liberties against state action. The Bill of Rights formed a bulwark against invasion of personal rights by the federal government, but it had no application to other jurisdictions. It was to remedy this situation that the Fourteenth Amendment was proposed and adopted. …