Professionalism And Advocacy At Trial – Real Jurors Speak In Detail About The Performance Of Their Advocates,
2012
Barry University
Professionalism And Advocacy At Trial – Real Jurors Speak In Detail About The Performance Of Their Advocates, Mitchell J. Frank, Osvaldo F. Morera
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Ideological Divide: Conflict And The Supreme Court's Certiorari Decision
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2012
Washburn University School of Law
The Ideological Divide: Conflict And The Supreme Court's Certiorari Decision , Emily Grant, Scott A. Hendrickson, Michael S. Lynch
Cleveland State Law Review
This Article bridges a gap in existing literature by evaluating, from an empirical perspective, the impact of conflict among the lower courts on the Supreme Court’s decision to grant or deny a petition for a writ of certiorari. Specifically, this Article looks at the political ideology of the lower courts involved in a split of authority on federal law and compares those positions to the political ideology of the Supreme Court itself. This Article concludes that the ideological content of lower court opinions in a conflict case impacts the Supreme Court’s certiorari decisions in a statistically significant way, and thus …
An Explicit Policy Lever For Patent Scope,
2012
Lewis and Clark Law School
An Explicit Policy Lever For Patent Scope, Anna B. Laakmann
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
Since its inception in 1982, the Federal Circuit has declined to take an overt role in setting patent policy. Dan Burk and Mark Lemley have observed that the court instead implicitly engineers patent policy through selective application of its patentability rules, which operate as "policy levers." Recent decisions on the patentability of diagnostic and therapeutic methods illustrate a significant problem with this approach. By maintaining a façade of adjudicative rule formalism while tacitly manipulating its rules to approximate policy goals, the court perpetuates empirical uncertainty about the patent law's practical effects. This Article proposes that the Federal Circuit use the …
The Tangled Thicket Of Health Care Reform: The Judicial System In Action,
2012
University of Michigan Law School
The Tangled Thicket Of Health Care Reform: The Judicial System In Action, Gene Magidenko
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Caveat
On March 23, 2010, after a lengthy political debate on health care reform, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law. A week later, he signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which amended certain provisions of PPACA. But far from ending the intense national debate on the issue, these enactments opened a new front of battle in the federal courts that will almost certainly make its way to the United States Supreme Court. Much of this litigation focuses on § 1501 of PPACA, which contains the controversial individual mandate requiring …
No Justice In Utah's Justice Courts: Constitutional Issues, Systemic Problems, And The Failure To Protect Defendants In Utah's Infamous Local Courts,
2012
University of Idaho College of Law
No Justice In Utah's Justice Courts: Constitutional Issues, Systemic Problems, And The Failure To Protect Defendants In Utah's Infamous Local Courts, Samuel P. Newton
Articles
No abstract provided.
Chief Justice Roberts And The Changing Conservative Legal Movement,
2012
The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
Chief Justice Roberts And The Changing Conservative Legal Movement, Joel Alicea
Scholarly Articles
At the sprightly age of 57 and less than seven years into his term as chief justice, John Roberts looks like a man whom time has left behind. The reaction among legal conservatives to the Roberts opinion in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (the healthcare case) has been brutal. Many have accused the chief justice of exchanging the black robes of the jurist for the trappings of the politician. The chief justice is said to have “blinked” and “failed [his] most basic responsibility.” Noted originalist scholar Mike Rappaport strongly implied that Roberts is “both a knave and a …
No Justice In Utah's Justice Courts: Constitutional Issues, Systemic Problems, And The Failure To Protect Defendants In Utah's Infamous Local Courts,
2012
SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
No Justice In Utah's Justice Courts: Constitutional Issues, Systemic Problems, And The Failure To Protect Defendants In Utah's Infamous Local Courts, Samuel P. Newton, Teresa L. Welch, Neal G. Hamilton
Utah OnLaw: The Utah Law Review Online Supplement
Utah’s justice of the peace courts look and feel exactly like district courts, yet they lack the benefits and protections afforded to citizens charged with more serious offenses. Utah should strongly consider abolishing its justice courts in order to integrate them into a statewide system of justice that would “keep the peace” for all of the state’s citizens. If Utah does not abolish its justice courts, then it should implement the procedures and reforms outlined in this Article. Utah continues to have an opportunity to provide meaningful, and constitutional, justice administered at its local level. Once these reforms were implemented, …
Best Outcomes For Indian Children,
2012
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families & Ho-Chunk Nation
Best Outcomes For Indian Children, Loa L. Porter, Patina Park Zink, Angela R. Gebhardt, Mark Ells, Michelle Graef
Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications
The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and the Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center are collaborating with Wisconsin's tribes and county child welfare agencies to improve outcomes for Indian children by systemically implementing the Wisconsin Indian Child Welfare Act (WICWA).This groundbreaking coUaboration wiU increase practitioners' understanding ofthe requirements of WICWA and the need for those requirements, enhance communication and coordination between all stakeholders responsible for the welfare of Indian children in Wisconsin; it is designed to effect the systemic integration of the philosophical underpinnings of WICWA.
In December 2009, Governor James Doyle signed the Wisconsin Indian Child Welfare Act, signaling …
Changing The Narrative Of Child Welfare,
2012
University of the District of Columbia
Changing The Narrative Of Child Welfare, Matthew I. Fraidin
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
My Internship At The Champaign State’S Attorney’S Office,
2012
Parkland College
My Internship At The Champaign State’S Attorney’S Office, Rebecca Davis
Independent Honors Projects
A summary of my experiences during my service honors project as an intern in the Champaign County State's Attorney's Office.
Setting Us Up For Disaster: The Supreme Court's Decision In Terry V. Ohio,
2012
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Setting Us Up For Disaster: The Supreme Court's Decision In Terry V. Ohio, Thomas B. Mcaffee
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
The Worst Supreme Court Case Ever? Identifying, Assessing, And Exploring Low Moments Of The High Court,
2012
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
The Worst Supreme Court Case Ever? Identifying, Assessing, And Exploring Low Moments Of The High Court, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Introductory Note To The International Court Of Justice: Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic Of Guinea V. Democratic Republic Of The Congo) Compensation Owed By The Democratic Republic Of The Congo To The Republic Of Guinea,
2012
University of Richmond
Introductory Note To The International Court Of Justice: Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic Of Guinea V. Democratic Republic Of The Congo) Compensation Owed By The Democratic Republic Of The Congo To The Republic Of Guinea, Chiara Giorgetti
Law Faculty Publications
On June 12, 2012, the International Court of Justice ("ICJ" or the "Court") ordered the Republic of the Congo ("DRC") to pay the Republic of Guinea ("Guinea") U.S. $95,000 in compensation for material and non-material injury to Guinea's national Ahmadou Sadio Diallo. The Judgment is notable for several reasons. First, the mere fact that the Court fixed an amount of compensation owned to Guinea is relevant, as this is only the second time in the history of the Court that such a measure was adopted. Second, in reaching its decision, the Court relied heavily on decisions of other international courts …
Confrontation And Forensic Laboratory Reports, Round Four,
2012
University of Michigan Law School
Confrontation And Forensic Laboratory Reports, Round Four, Richard D. Friedman
Articles
Crawford v. Washington radically transformed the doctrine governing the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution. Before Crawford, a prosecutor could introduce against an accused evidence of a hearsay statement, even one made in contemplation that it would be used in prosecution, so long as the statement fit within a "firmly rooted" hearsay exception or the court otherwise determined that the statement was sufficiently reliable to warrant admissibility. Crawford recognized that the Clause is a procedural guarantee, governing the manner in which prosecution witnesses give their testimony. Therefore, a prosecutor may not introduce a statement that is testimonial …
Significant Entanglements: A Framework For The Civil Consequences Of Criminal Convictions,
2012
Columbia Law School
Significant Entanglements: A Framework For The Civil Consequences Of Criminal Convictions, Colleen F. Shanahan
Faculty Scholarship
A significant and growing portion of the U.S. population is or has recently been in prison. Nearly all of these individuals will face significant obstacles as they struggle to reintegrate into society. A key source of these obstacles is the complex, sometimes unknown, and often harmful collection of civil consequences that flow from a criminal conviction. As the number and severity of these consequences have grown, courts, policymakers, and scholars have struggled with how to identify and understand them, how to communicate them to defendants and the public, and how to treat them in the criminal and civil processes. The …
Courthouse Iconography And Chayesian Judical Practice,
2012
Columbia Law School
Courthouse Iconography And Chayesian Judical Practice, William H. Simon
Faculty Scholarship
Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis emphasize in Representing Justice that the traditional iconography of courthouses is incongruent with the current practices of the institutions that inhabit them. The key elements of traditional iconography – the blindfolded, scale-balancing Justitia and the courtroom configured for the trial – connote adjudication. Yet, the fraction of judicial work that involves deciding cases on the merits or conducting trials has decreased dramatically. Most judicial work today is basically managerial.
We could reduce this incongruity, on the one hand, by reviving the practical adjudicatory focus of the past or, on the other, by revising the iconography …
Justifying Diversity In The Federal Judiciary,
2012
University of Richmond
Justifying Diversity In The Federal Judiciary, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
This Essay thus scrutinizes Obama’s judicial selection effort, which confirms many ideas that Scherer espouses while showing how political deficiencies in the modern selection process erode diversity and legitimacy, and perhaps Scherer’s provocative solution. This response ultimately discusses some promising measures beyond Scherer’s recommendation that could enhance diversity and legitimacy in light of the threat that politicization poses
Unlikely To Succeed: How The Second Circuit's Adherence To The Serious Questions Standard For The Granting Of Preliminary Injunctions Contradicts Supreme Court Precedent And Turns And Extraordinary Remedy Into An Ordinary One,
2012
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Unlikely To Succeed: How The Second Circuit's Adherence To The Serious Questions Standard For The Granting Of Preliminary Injunctions Contradicts Supreme Court Precedent And Turns And Extraordinary Remedy Into An Ordinary One, Jacob S. Crawford
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Achieving Fundamental Fairness For Oklahoma's Juveniles: The Role For Competency In Juvenile Proceedings,
2012
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Achieving Fundamental Fairness For Oklahoma's Juveniles: The Role For Competency In Juvenile Proceedings, Mary Sue Backus
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Cruises, Class Actions, And The Court,
2012
Harvard Law School
Cruises, Class Actions, And The Court, David Korn, David Rosenberg
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Caveat
As the Carnival Triumph debacle splashed across the national consciousness, lawyers shook their heads. Sensationalist news coverage exposed common knowledge in the legal community: cruise passengers have little recourse against carriers, and, as a result, they often bear the brunt of serious physical and financial injuries. Cruise lines, escaping legal accountability for their negligence, sail off undeterred from neglecting passenger safety on future voyages. While its previous decisions helped entrench this problem, a recently argued case presents the Supreme Court with another opportunity to address it.
