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"Home Rule" Vs. "Dillon's Rule" For Washington Cities, Hugh Spitzer

Seattle University Law Review

This Article focuses on the tension between the late-nineteenth century “Dillon’s Rule” limiting city powers, and the “home rule” approach that gained traction in the early and mid-twentieth century. Washington’s constitution allows cities to exercise all the police powers possessed by the state government, so long as local regulations do not conflict with general laws. The constitution also vests charter cities with control over their form of government. But all city powers are subject to “general laws” adopted by the legislature. Further, judicial rulings on city powers to provide public services have fluctuated, ranging from decisions citing the “Dillon’s Rule” …

Book Review: Basic Community Laws. Eds. Bernard Rudden & Derrick Wyatt. Clarendon Press. Oxford, 1980., Bernhard Schloh

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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An International Legal Obligation To Assist In Energy Development Arises From The Charter Of Economic Rights And Duties Of States, Vicki A. Breman

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Under The Proposed Federal Criminal Codes: Senate Bill 1630 And House Bill 1647, William A. Gillon

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Legislation - Foreign Relations - International Trade Reauthorization For The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Doug Wessinger

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

The Evian Agreements On Algeria And The Lancaster Agreements On Zimbabwe: A Comparative Analysis, O. N. Musamirapamwe

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Exhibits To Accompany Testimony & Statement Of Dean Hill Rivkin Before The Senate Judiciary Committee (21 April 2015), Dean H. Rivkin

College of Law Faculty Scholarship

Exhibits to accompany testimony and statement-of-record of Professor Dean Hill Rivkin (The University of Tennessee College of Law), as submitted on April 21, 2015, before a hearing convened by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary: “Improving Accountability and Oversight of Juvenile Justice Grants.”

Residual Impact: Resentencing Implications Of Johnson's Potential Ruling On Acca's Constitutionality, Leah Litman

Articles

In January 2015, the Supreme Court directed the parties to brief and argue an additional question in Johnson v. United States: “Whether the residual clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii), is unconstitutionally vague.” The order represents an unusual move because the defendant had not raised the vagueness issue and the Court issued the order after it had already heard argument on the question raised in the petition for certiorari. Commentators therefore view the order as a signal that the Court will likely invalidate the residual clause. This decision will have been several years …

Victor Can Keep His Little Secret Unless Victoria's Secret Is Actually Harmed, Shafeek Seddiq

Touro Law Review

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Is Zahn Gone? The Effect Of 28 U.S.C. § 1367 On The "No Aggregation Doctrine", Joseph J. Shannon

Touro Law Review

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Book Review: A Perspective On Labour Law. Ole Hasselbalch, Alan C. Neal, & Anders Victorin. Stockholm, London, New York: Transnational Publishers, 1984., J. Ralph Beaird

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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The Arduous Virtue Of Fidelity: Originalism, Scalia, Tribe, And Nerve, Ronald Dworkin

Fordham Law Review

    Proper constitutional interpretation takes both text and past practice as its object: Lawyers and judges faced with a contemporary constitutional issue must try to construct a coherent, principled, and persuasive interpretation of the text of particular clauses, the structure of the Constitution as a whole, and our history under the Constitution—an interpretation that both unifies these distinct sources, so far as this is possible, and directs future adjudication. They must seek, that is, constitutional integrity. So fidelity to the Constitution's text does not exhaust constitutional interpretation, and on some occasions overall constitutional integrity might require a result that could …

Making The Peg Fit The Hole: A Superior Solution To The Inherant Problems Of Incorporated Definitions, Lindsey P. Gustafson

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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The New State Sovereignty Movement, Austin L. Raynor

Indiana Law Journal

In the past decade, states across the country have enacted a flood of legislation to resist perceived federal encroachments on their sovereignty. These opposition statutes assume a variety of forms: some, for instance, merely prohibit state officers from assisting in the enforcement of federal law, while others purport to nullify particular federal regulations. In the fields of controlled substances, immigration, and healthcare, among others, state acts of protest have stimulated the national debate and influenced legal obligations in important ways.

This Article provides the first comprehensive overview of this nascent state sovereignty movement. It categorizes opposition enactments according to the …

Federalism And Family Status, Courtney G. Joslin

Indiana Law Journal

The myth of family law’s inherent localism is sticky. In the past, it was common to hear sweeping claims about the exclusively local nature of all family matters. In response to persuasive critiques, a narrower iteration of family law localism emerged. The new, refined version acknowledges the existence of some federal family law but contends that certain “core” family law matters—specifically, family status determinations—are inherently local. I call this family status localism. Proponents of family status localism rely on history, asserting that the federal government has always deferred to state family status determinations. Family status localism made its most recent …

Silent Similarity, Jessica D. Litman

Articles

From 1909 to 1930, U.S. courts grappled with claims by authors of prose works claiming that works in a new art form—silent movies—had infringed their copyrights. These cases laid the groundwork for much of modern copyright law, from their broad expansion of the reproduction right, to their puzzled grappling with the question how to compare works in dissimilar media, to their confusion over what sort of evidence should be relevant to show copyrightability, copying and infringement. Some of those cases—in particular, Nichols v. Universal Pictures—are canonical today. They are not, however, well-understood. In particular, the problem at the heart of …

Process Costs And Police Discretion, Charlie Gerstein, J. J. Prescott

Articles

Cities across the country are debating police discretion. Much of this debate centers on “public order” offenses. These minor offenses are unusual in that the actual sentence violators receive when convicted — usually time already served in detention — is beside the point. Rather, public order offenses are enforced prior to any conviction by subjecting accused individuals to arrest, detention, and other legal process. These “process costs” are significant; they distort plea bargaining to the point that the substantive law behind the bargained-for conviction is largely irrelevant. But the ongoing debate about police discretion has ignored the centrality of these …

The Falcon Cannot Hear The Falconer: How California's Initiative Process Is Creating An Untenable Constitution, Rudy Klapper

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

Californians have always cherished the idea that ultimate political power lies in the people, an idea best represented by the state’s hugely influential initiative process. Today, however, that initiative power threatens to spiral out of control, thanks in large part to the California Supreme Court’s inability to construe appropriate limits on it. This has created an unbalanced government where the rights of minorities are easily circumscribed and the financial and political infrastructure of the state is in danger of buckling under the combined weight of dozens of initiatives. This Article argues that the judiciary’s haphazard interpretation of various rules and …

S15rs Sgb No. 1 (Amend Bylaws), Gore, Andrew Mullet

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Student Government Bylaws

S15rs Sgb No. 3 (Amend Budget), Faircloth

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

to amend the Student Government budget.

S15rs Sgb No. 4 (Amend Budget), Faircloth

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

to amend the Student Government budget.

S15rs Sgb No. 2 (Amend Rules Of Order), Adam Grashoff

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Senate Rules of Order

S15rs Sgb No. 5 (Amend Election Code), Zerkus

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the Student Government Election Code

S15rs Sgfb No. 3 (Leadership Grad Students), Dunn

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To Allocate a maximum of one thousand nine hundred eighteen dollars and twenty cents ($1,918.20) from the Student Government Contingency account to fund three (3) education leadership, research, and counseling graduate students to attend the American College Professionals Association (ACPA) College Students Educators International Conference in Tampa, Florida from March 3^rd – 8^th 2015 as representatives of Louisiana State University (LSU).

S15rs Sgfb No. 2 (Going Global), Phagan

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate a maximum of three thousand three hundred dollars and zero cents ($3,030.50) from the Student Government Senate Contingency Account to fund the Career Services Going Global Program at Louisiana State University (LSU).

S15rs Sgfb No. 1 (Engineering Students), Triche

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To Allocate a maximum of eight hundred eighty dollars and zero cents ($880.00) from the Student Government Contingency account to fund Seven engineering students to attend the 2015 SAE Aero Design Series in Lakeland, Florida from March 13^th – 15^th as representatives of Louisiana State University (LSU)

S15rs Sgfb No. 4 (Senate Clickers), Andrew Mullet

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate a maximum of four hundred twenty dollars and zero cents ($420.00) from the Student Government Surplus Account for the purchase of fifteen (15) Turning Technologies ResponseCard RF devices for the Student Senate

S15rs Sgb No. 6 (Amend Bylaws), Boudreaux, Triche

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend the Student Government Bylaws

S15rs Sgfb No. 5 (Kryptonite Club), Phagan

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate a maximum of two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars ($2,780.00) from the LSU Student Government contingency account to fund fifteen students from Kryptonite to attend Florida Dance Masters Dance Competition in Coral Springs, Florida from April 24^th-26^th as representatives of Louisiana State University (LSU)

S15rs Sgfb No. 7 (Food Science Club), Hauth

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To Allocate a maximum of five hundred and sixty dollars and zero cents ($560.00) from the Student Government Contingency Account to fund the Food Science Club to compete in the Southeast area College Bowl Competition at The University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida from March 27-29 as representatives of Louisiana State University (LSU).