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Hazelwood School District V. Kuhlmeier: How Useful Is Public Forum Analysis In Evaluating Restrictions On Student Expression In The Public Schools, 22 J. Marshall L. Rev. 403 (1988), Mark N. Bonaguro

UIC Law Review

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The Ninth Amendment's Role In The Evolution Of Fundamental Rights Jurisprudence, Geoffrey G. Slaughter

Indiana Law Journal

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Franchise Litigation In Texas: Analyzing Claims And Defenses Symposium - Business Tort Litigation., John G. Lewis

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Criminal Law - Mail Fraud - Mail Fraud Statute Restricted To The Protection Of Property Rights And Doesn Not Extend To The Protection Of The Intangible Right To Honest And Impartial State Government Case Note., Keith S. Hampton

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Texas Civil Procedure - Evidence Of Net Worth - Net Worth Is Discoverable And Admissible Into Evidence For The Purpose Of Assessing Punitive Damages Recent Development., Mark A. Lindow

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Precedent And Legal Authority: A Critical History, Charles W. Collier

UF Law Faculty Publications

In this Article, Professor Charles Collier traces out a general theory of precedential authority through historical sources. The Article focuses on three particularly influential views of precedent: Wambaugh's concept of dictum, Oliphant's concept of stare decisis, and Goodhart's concept of ratio decidendi. These views illustrate an underlying tension between two distinct doctrines of precedential authority. The first doctrine, derived from humanistic thought, restricts-legal authority as narrowly as possible to the express terms of an original text. The second doctrine draws on the broad, generalizing tendencies of the empirical sciences and their corresponding conceptions of scientific authority. The two doctrines coexist …

A Linguistic Analysis Of The Meanings Of "Search" In The Fourth Amendment: A Search For Common Sense, Clark D. Cunningham

Faculty Publications By Year

This article offers a new technique for analyzing and evaluating competing interpretations of a legal text and applies that technique to one of the most debated questions of modern constitutional interpretation: the meaning of "searches" in the first clause of the fourth amendment. This Technique is called the "common sense" approach because it begins with a semantic analysis of the text in terms of the sense that the key words have in everyday speech. Such analysis reveals a complex of interlocked concepts that underlies the ability of speakers to recognize meaningful uses of these words. The common sense approach then …

Rethinking The Judicial Reception Of Legislative Facts, Ann Woolhandler

Vanderbilt Law Review

In a recent article, Professor Peggy Davis called for reforms in judicial reception of legislative facts. Her suggestions, which follow an empirical analysis of the use of psychological parent theories in child custody disputes, echo similar proposals by Professor Kenneth Karst in 1960s and by Professors Arthur Miller and Jerome Barron in 1975 for judicial reception of legislative facts in constitutional cases.As originally defined by Kenneth Culp Davis, legislative facts are facts that "inform[] a court's legislative judgment on questions of law and policy." They contrast with adjudicative facts, which are facts about "what the parties did, what the circumstances …

Workable Antitrust Law: The Statutory Approach To Antitrust, Thomas C. Arthur

Faculty Articles

This Article will demonstrate the superiority of the statutory approach for producing more stable and consistent antitrust law. Part I details the development of the constitutional approach to antitrust, demonstrating how the rise of the pragmatic and instrumentalist view of law led to the displacement of the original statutory approach to antitrust. Part II illustrates that the constitutional approach fundamentally cannot produce workable antitrust law. It summarizes both the doctrinal disarray that continues to plague each major area of antitrust law and the irreconcilable policy prescriptions of the contending antitrust "schools." Part III presents an alternative, statutory approach to antitrust …

Privatization Of Prisons: An Analysis Of The State Action Requirement Of The Fourteenth Amendment And 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Ira Robbins

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Introduction: The privatization of prisons raises important issues with respect to liability in suits brought by inmates. If a private company operates the prison, the state likely will be directly involved in some aspects of prison life, such as using force when necessary or making quasi-judicial decisions, but it may not be directly involved in the day-to-day operation of the institution. This dichotomy of involvement may lead to con- fusion over responsibility and accountability when a violation of rights is alleged to have occurred. When a private party, as opposed to a government employee, is charged with abridging rights guaranteed …

Securities - Arbitration - Predispute Arbitration Agreements Enforceable Against Investors Filing Claims Under Section 10(B) Of The Securities Exchange Act Of 1934 Symposium - Business Tort Litigation - Case Note., A. Robert Lamb Jr.

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Unlimited Branch Banking In Texas: The Next Step In Deregulation Comment., Mark A. Giltner

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Admissibility Of Subsequent Remedial Measures As Evidence In Texas., Wendy Hunkele

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Chief Justice Nemetz's Judicial Record: Judicial Decision-Making And Judicial Values, David S. Cohen

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Much of Chief Justice Nemetz's life has been devoted to the public good and public service - to the betterment of society through law. Through his judgments and through his contribution to the administration of justice in British Columbia and Canada, he has brought the law closer to every one of us. Few of us can appreciate the degree of sacrifice and dedication to the public good which a life of judging requires. For all these reasons, and out of respect for the dedication of the judiciary, lawyers rarely discuss “judicial values" and particularly the values of a specific judge; …

The Dialogue Of The Heart And Head, Lynne Henderson

Scholarly Works

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Jurisprudence And Gender, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

What is a human being? Legal theorists must, perforce, answer this question: jurisprudence, after all, is about human beings. The task has not proven to be divisive. In fact, virtually all modern American legal theorists, like most modern moral and political philosophers, either explicitly or implicitly embrace what I will call the "separation thesis" about what it means to be a human being: a "human being," whatever else he is, is physically separate from all other human beings. I am one human being and you are another, and that distinction between you and me is central to the meaning of …

Comment On Fikentscher's Paper -- Modes Of Thought In Law And Justice -- A Preliminary Report On A Study In Legal Anthropology, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Taking The Framers Seriously, William Michael Treanor

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article reviews Taking the Constitution Seriously by Walter Berns (1987).

This review focuses on three of the key historical points that Walter Berns makes: his arguments that the Declaration of Independence is a Lockean document; that the Constitution encapsulates the political philosophy of the Declaration; and that the framers viewed the commercialization of society as a salutary development and were unambivalent champions of the right to property. Examination of these issues suggests that the ideological universe of the framers was far more complex than Berns indicates. While the revolutionary era witnessed a new concern with individual rights and a …

Procedural And Substantive Problems In Complex Litigation Arising From Disasters, Jack B. Weinstein

Touro Law Review

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Making Sense Of Modern Jurisprudence: The Paradox Of Positivism And The Challenge For Natural Law, Philip E. Soper

Articles

Karl Llewellyn once said, referring to Roscoe Pound's work m jurisprudence, that it was difficult to tell on what level the writing proceeded: sometimes it seemed to be little more than bedtime stones for a tired bar; at other tunes it appeared to be on the level of the after-dinner speech or a thought provoking essay, neither of which were quite the "considered and buttressed scholarly discussion" that one expected to find. Llewellyn's complaint serves as a warning, though a somewhat ambiguous one, to those who give lectures on jurisprudence.

On the one hand, I do not plan to present …

Arbitration And Litigation Of Public Customers' Claims Against Broker-Dealers After Mcmahon Symposium - Business Tort Litigation., Joseph L. Hoon Jr.

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Common Callings And The Enforcement Of Postemployment Covenants In Texas Symposium - Business Tort Litigation., William H. White

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Products Liability: An Argument For Product Line Liability In Texas Symposium - Business Tort Litigation., Charles E. Cantu, David S. Goldberg

St. Mary's Law Journal

In today’s fast-paced business world, buyouts, takeovers, mergers, and other acquisitions are common occurrences. As a consequence of this corporate turnover, the consumer plaintiff injured while using a defective product may find the search for the proper defendant is futile, simply because the product is now marketed by a different legal entity. Generally, the consumer has no recourse against the manufacturer of the particular product which caused the injury if that manufacturer has since dissolved. This apparent unfairness, coupled with an increase in litigation of this nature over the last decade, has led to the judicial recognition of an exception …

The Road Less Traveled: State Court Resolution Of Patent, Trademark, Or Copyright Disputes Symposium - Business Tort Litigation., Ted D. Lee, Ann Livingston

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Torts - Municipal Liability - Exemplary Damages Available Against Municipality Performing Proprietary Function If Willful Or Malicious Conduct Directly Attributable To City Official(S) Symposium - Business Tort Litigation - Case Note., Jeffery V. Strahan

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Consumer Protection - Deceptive Trade Practices - Breach Of Implied Warranty Requiring Goods Or Property To Be Modified Or Repaired In Good And Workmanlike Manner Actionable Under Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act Symposium - Business Tort Litigation - Case Note, N/A N/A

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Terminating The Guardianship: A New Role For State Courts., M. P. Duncan Iii

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Warrantless Arrest Jurisdiction In Texas: An Analysis And A Proposal., Gerald S. Reamey, J. Daniel Harkins

St. Mary's Law Journal

Within the State of Texas, there exist a great number of “peace officers” who are granted a wide range of power and authority. This includes the power to make warrantless arrests and searches pursuant to those arrests. Significant ambiguity exists regarding a peace officer’s jurisdiction. The confusion is largely due to imprecise statutory language and varying judicial interpretations. Article 998 of Texas Revised Civil Statutes, for example, bestowed on city police officers the same powers, authority, and jurisdiction as city marshals. The statute, though, neglected to define the extent of that jurisdiction, or even what “jurisdiction” meant in that context. …

Settlement Of Disputes Within The Iea Oil Emergency Sharing System., Richard F. Scott

St. Mary's Law Journal

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The Third Justice System: The New Juvenile-Criminal System Of Determinate Sentencing For The Youthful Violent Offender In Texas., Robert O. Dawson

St. Mary's Law Journal

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