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Death By A Thousand Signatures: The Rise Of Restrictive Ballot Access Laws And The Decline Of Electoral Competition In The United States, Oliver Hall Jan 2005

Death By A Thousand Signatures: The Rise Of Restrictive Ballot Access Laws And The Decline Of Electoral Competition In The United States, Oliver Hall

Seattle University Law Review

This Article explores one instance of the countermajoritarian problem in American democracy: how to protect the rights of minor parties and independent candidates participating in an electoral system dominated by two major parties. In particular, this Article focuses on the effect of modern ballot access laws on candidates' rights, arguing that courts ought to treat these laws as a presumptively impermissible form of "collusion in restraint of democracy." Although the article borrows the language of antitrust law, this argument is rooted in core constitutional principles and rights guaranteed under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Nevertheless, the analogy to antitrust law …


Competing Values Or False Choices: Coming To Consensus On The Election Reform Debate In Washington State And The Country, Tova Andrea Wang Jan 2005

Competing Values Or False Choices: Coming To Consensus On The Election Reform Debate In Washington State And The Country, Tova Andrea Wang

Seattle University Law Review

This Article examines the problems revealed in Washington State's election system as a result of its staggeringly close gubernatorial election, and compares such problems to those encountered by other states in the 2004 election. It examines the challenge of fixing these problems through the prism of the ongoing debate over what values and goals are most important when making election administration decisions. The various values and goals of expanding voter access, increasing voter participation and election efficiency, preventing voter fraud, ensuring the count of every vote, and creating finality in the voting system are included in this examination. Throughout this …


Partisanship Redefined: Why Blanket Primaries Are Constitutional, Deidra A. Foster Jan 2005

Partisanship Redefined: Why Blanket Primaries Are Constitutional, Deidra A. Foster

Seattle University Law Review

In 2003, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rendered a decision that would pave the way for drastic changes in Washington State's election process. In Democratic Party of Washington v. Reed, the court held that Washington's nearly seventy-year-old blanket primary was unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court declined to review the case. The Ninth Circuit professed to be bound by California Democratic Party v. Jones, the Supreme Court case that ruled California's blanket primary unconstitutional just three years earlier, ignoring the argument that Washington's blanket primary differed materially from California's. What followed was a melee of voter disapproval and …


Mental Disorder And The Civil/Criminal Distinction, Grant H. Morris Sep 2004

Mental Disorder And The Civil/Criminal Distinction, Grant H. Morris

University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series

This essay, written as part of a symposium issue to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the University of San Diego Law School, discusses the evaporating distinction between sentence-serving convicts and mentally disordered nonconvicts who are involved in, or who were involved in, the criminal process–people we label as both bad and mad. By examining one Supreme Court case from each of the decades that follow the opening of the University of San Diego School of Law, the essay demonstrates how the promise that nonconvict mentally disordered persons would be treated equally with other civilly committed mental patients was made and …


The Concept Of Equality In Civil Procedure, William B. Rubenstein May 2002

The Concept Of Equality In Civil Procedure, William B. Rubenstein

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Power Of A Federal Appellate Court To Direct Entry Of Judgment As A Matter Of Law: Reflections On Weisgram V. Marley Co., Robert A. Ragazzo Apr 2001

The Power Of A Federal Appellate Court To Direct Entry Of Judgment As A Matter Of Law: Reflections On Weisgram V. Marley Co., Robert A. Ragazzo

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

Federal district court judges have several mechanisms for controlling civil jury functions. One mechanism is the entry of judgment as a matter of law. Federal appellate courts are able to reverse and direct entry of judgment as a matter of law. This article examines the appropriateness of such authority.


Of Courts And Closets: A Doctrinal And Empirical Analysis Of Lesbian And Gay Identity In The Courts, Todd Brower Jan 2001

Of Courts And Closets: A Doctrinal And Empirical Analysis Of Lesbian And Gay Identity In The Courts, Todd Brower

San Diego Law Review

The decision4 to acknowledge one's sexual orientation-to "come out'5 in common parlance-exposes gay people to a variety of responses from acceptance, to ridicule,6 to loss of contracts or other means to earn a living, to termination of employment or other benefits.8 Nevertheless, it is an essential step toward lesbian and gay persons' full and equal participation in American society. Legal rules can help or hinder this process; current doctrine, unfortunately, does both.


Bitch V. Whore: The Current Trend To Define The Requirements Of An Actionable Hostile Environment Claim In Verbal Sexual Harassment Cases, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 465 (2000), Jamie Lynn Cook Jan 2000

Bitch V. Whore: The Current Trend To Define The Requirements Of An Actionable Hostile Environment Claim In Verbal Sexual Harassment Cases, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 465 (2000), Jamie Lynn Cook

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ex Parte Civil Commitment, Family Care-Givers, And Schizophrenia: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Analysis, Éva Szeli Jan 2000

Ex Parte Civil Commitment, Family Care-Givers, And Schizophrenia: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Analysis, Éva Szeli

Seattle University Law Review

First, this Article will discuss schizophrenia and its impact on these individuals and their families. Family variables in the course of the disorder will be highlighted. Then, this Article will review the legal power afforded such families by ex parte provisions in civil commitment statutes using the involuntary examination portion of the Florida mental health code as a model. Finally, this Article will assess this system of civil commitment available to care-giving families in therapeutic jurisprudential terms, with recommendations for maximizing the therapeutic consequences and minimizing the antitherapeutic consequences of ex parte procedures.


Federal Circuit's Forgotten Lessons: Annealing New Forms Of Intellectual Property Through Consolidated Appellate Jurisdiction, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 581 (1999), Chris J. Katopis Jan 1999

Federal Circuit's Forgotten Lessons: Annealing New Forms Of Intellectual Property Through Consolidated Appellate Jurisdiction, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 581 (1999), Chris J. Katopis

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Budweiser Or Budweiser, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1251 (1999), Jitka Smith Jan 1999

Budweiser Or Budweiser, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1251 (1999), Jitka Smith

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Is The Excessive Fines Clause Excessively Kind To Money Launderers, Drug Dealers, And Tax Evaders, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 243 (1999), Ann Jennings Maron Jan 1999

Is The Excessive Fines Clause Excessively Kind To Money Launderers, Drug Dealers, And Tax Evaders, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 243 (1999), Ann Jennings Maron

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Boggs V. Boggs: Creating Real-Life Cinderellas, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 271 (1999), Heather J. Rose Jan 1999

Boggs V. Boggs: Creating Real-Life Cinderellas, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 271 (1999), Heather J. Rose

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Judge Versus Jury On The Scales Of Justice: 35 U.S.C. 112, 6 Equivalents In The Balance, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 833 (1999), Robert N. Young Jan 1999

Judge Versus Jury On The Scales Of Justice: 35 U.S.C. 112, 6 Equivalents In The Balance, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 833 (1999), Robert N. Young

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Hard Cases From Easy Cases Grow: In Defense Of The Fact-And Law-Intensive Administrative Law Case, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 87 (1998-1999), James C. May Jan 1998

Hard Cases From Easy Cases Grow: In Defense Of The Fact-And Law-Intensive Administrative Law Case, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 87 (1998-1999), James C. May

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ex Post Facto Laws: Supreme Court New York County People V. Griffin (Decided December 5, 1996 Jan 1997

Ex Post Facto Laws: Supreme Court New York County People V. Griffin (Decided December 5, 1996

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Obligations Of Hiv-Infected Health Professionals To Inform Patients Of Their Serological Status: Evolving Theories Of Liability, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 317 (1994), Theodore R. Leblang Jan 1995

Obligations Of Hiv-Infected Health Professionals To Inform Patients Of Their Serological Status: Evolving Theories Of Liability, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 317 (1994), Theodore R. Leblang

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Overview Of The Role Of Precedent In The Legal System Of The United States, Ana Elena Fierro Jan 1995

Overview Of The Role Of Precedent In The Legal System Of The United States, Ana Elena Fierro

LLM Theses and Essays

Traditionally, legal systems have been classified as either Common Law or Civil Law; scholars distinguish these systems based on their origins, as well their attitudes towards stare decisis. Common law considers precedent as a source of binding rules, while civil law does not. However, some scholars consider the methods for legal reasoning to be almost the same in every legal system. These scholars maintain that regardless of the source of law in a particular country, once a judge determines that the facts of one case are similar to those regulated by a certain rule, the judge will apply that particular …


A Survey Of Article Iii Procedural Issues Considered At The Federal Circuit During Its First Decade, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 25 (1993), Jerry R. Selinger Jan 1993

A Survey Of Article Iii Procedural Issues Considered At The Federal Circuit During Its First Decade, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 25 (1993), Jerry R. Selinger

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Trial By Jury Jan 1992

Trial By Jury

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Edmonson V. Leesville Concrete Co.: Will The Peremptory Challenge Survive Its Battle With The Equal Protection Clause, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 37 (1991), Steven M. Puiszis Jan 1991

Edmonson V. Leesville Concrete Co.: Will The Peremptory Challenge Survive Its Battle With The Equal Protection Clause, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 37 (1991), Steven M. Puiszis

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Affirmative Action, Douglas Scherer, John Dunne Jan 1991

Affirmative Action, Douglas Scherer, John Dunne

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The First Amendment, Burt Neuborne Jan 1991

The First Amendment, Burt Neuborne

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equal Protection Jan 1991

Equal Protection

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Home Rule Jan 1991

Home Rule

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Separation Of Powers Jan 1991

Separation Of Powers

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Right-To-Die, Bruce Morton Jan 1991

Right-To-Die, Bruce Morton

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Validity Of New York State Ethics Commission Rule 932.2 Barring Public Officers From Holding Political Party Office, William Josephson, Beverly Jean Ross Jan 1991

Validity Of New York State Ethics Commission Rule 932.2 Barring Public Officers From Holding Political Party Office, William Josephson, Beverly Jean Ross

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Edmonson V. Leesville Concrete Company, Inc.: Can The "No State Action" Shibboleth Legitimize The Racist Use Of Peremptory Challenges In Civil Actions, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 271 (1990), David Park Jan 1990

Edmonson V. Leesville Concrete Company, Inc.: Can The "No State Action" Shibboleth Legitimize The Racist Use Of Peremptory Challenges In Civil Actions, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 271 (1990), David Park

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Noseworthy Doctrine: A Threepart Rule For Its Application, Steven D. Jannace Jan 1990

The Noseworthy Doctrine: A Threepart Rule For Its Application, Steven D. Jannace

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.