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November 2014, Vol. 66, No. 6
Articles
Rafael I. Pardo, The Undue Hardship Thicket: On Access to Justice, Procedural Noncompliance, and Pollutive Litigation in Bankruptcy
Paul Rose, Shareholder Proposals in the Market for Corporate Influence
Lily Kahng, The Taxation of Intellectual Capital
Essay
Brannon P. Denning, One Toke over the (State) Line: Constitutional Limits on "Pot Tourism" Restrictions
Notes
Cole Barnett, Is Injury a Tortious Act?: Interpreting Florida's Long-Arm Statute
Aubrey Burris, Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Porned: Revenge Porn and the Need for a Federal Nonconsensual Pornography Statute
Category Archives: Civil Rights Law
Daniel J. DiMatteo, To Enforce a Privacy Right: The Sovereign Immunity Canon and the Privacy Act’s Civil Remedies Provision After Cooper
In 2005, a joint investigation between separate government agencies revealed that Stanmore Cooper, a pilot, failed to disclose to the Federal Aviation Administration that he was HIV positive. Cooper sued the agencies in the United States District Court for the Northern District … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tort Law
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Camilla Cohen, Goodyear Dunlop’s Failed Attempt to Refine the Scope of General Personal Jurisdiction
In first-year civil procedure, students spend a great deal of time parsing an “answer” to a deceptively simple question: When may a state exercise its adjudicatory authority over an out-of-state defendant? Since Pennoyer v. Neff, the United States Supreme Court has addressed the issue … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law
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Steven G. Calabresi & Abe Salander, Religion and the Equal Protection Clause: Why the Constitution Requires School Vouchers
Ask anyone whether the Constitution permits discrimination on the basis of religion, and the response will undoubtedly be no. Yet the modern Supreme Court has not recognized that the antidiscrimination command of the Fourteenth Amendment protects religion in the same … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Discrimination Law, Education Law
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Christian Turner, State Action Problems
The state action doctrine is a mess. Explanations for why federal courts sometimes treat the private actions of private parties as public actions subject to the Constitution, as the Supreme Court did in Shelley v. Kraemer, are either vastly over-inclusive … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law
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Janai S. Nelson, The First amendment, Equal Protection and Felon Disenfranchisement: A New Viewpoint
This Article engages the equality principles of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause to reconsider the constitutionality of one of the last and most entrenched barriers to universal suffrage—felon disenfranchisement. A deeply racialized problem, felon disenfranchisement is additionally … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, First Amendment
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Nancy Leong, The Open Road and the Traffic Stop: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the American Dream
American culture is steeped in the mythology of the open road. In our collective imagination, the road represents freedom, escape, friendship, romance, and above all, the possibility for a better life. But our shared dream of the open road comes … Continue reading
Posted in Administrative Law, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law
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