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1991

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Full-Text Articles in State and Local Government Law

Section 1983, Martin A. Schwartz, George Pratt, Leon Friedman Jan 1991

Section 1983, Martin A. Schwartz, George Pratt, Leon Friedman

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Home Rule, Majority Rule, And Dillon's Rule, Richard Briffault Jan 1991

Home Rule, Majority Rule, And Dillon's Rule, Richard Briffault

Faculty Scholarship

Clayton Gillette's In Partial Praise of Dillon's Rule, or, Can Public Choice Theory Justify Local Government Law? is an ambitious attempt to breathe new life into an old local government law chestnut through the analytical tools of modern political economy. Gillette asserts that because the Rule permits state judges to invalidate local legislation that results from "one-sided lobbying," Dillon's Rule increases the allocational efficiency of local decision making and reduces the deadweight losses attendant on special interest pursuit of rent-seeking ordinances. According to Gillette, Dillon's Rule checks the danger of special interest abuse of local politics by constraining local …


Who Should Live-Or Die? Who Should Decide?, Yale Kamisar Jan 1991

Who Should Live-Or Die? Who Should Decide?, Yale Kamisar

Articles

TRIAL asked Professor Kamisar questions on legal and ethical issues surrounding the right to die, a subject attracting increasing interest across the country and around the world.