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Jan. 2013, Vol. 65, No. 1
Articles
David Haddock, Tonja Jacobi, & Matthew Sag, League Structure &Stadium Rent Seeking— the Role of Antitrust Revisited
Steven J. Cleveland, Resurrecting Deference to the Securities and Exchange Commission: Mark Cuban Trading on Inside information
Janai S. Nelson, The First Amendment, Equal Protection and Felon Disenfranchisement: A New Viewpoint
Sergio J. Campos, Erie as a Choice of Enforcement Defaults
Hanah Metchis Volokh, Constitutional Authority Statements in Congress
Sapna Kumar, The Accidental Agency?
Christian Turner, State Action Problems
Category Archives: Federal Courts
Sapna Kumar, The Accidental Agency?
This Article presents a new model for examining the role of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) with regard to patent law, positing that the Federal Circuit behaves like an agency and serves as the de … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Courts, Patent Law
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Meghan J. Ryan, The Missing Jury: The Neglected Role of Juries in Eighth Amendment Punishments Clause Determinations
A recent study of death penalty cases has revealed that judges, who are ordinarily thought of as the guardians of criminal defendants‘ constitutional rights, often impose harsher punishments than jurors. This may be unsettling in its own right, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts
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Jacy Owens, A Progressive Response: Judicial Delegation of Authority to Federal Probation Officers
Federal probation officers supervise millions of offenders who must each comply with a multitude of probation conditions. These officers need enough flexibility to deal with the evolving needs of each offender, without having to clog the court system with repeated … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, Governments and Legislation, Judicial Systems
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Kathryn A. Kimball, Losing our Soul: Judicial Discretion in Sentencing Child Pornography Offenders
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1515 (2011)| | | | Child pornography offenders capitalize on the vulnerability of children and find pleasure in their victims’ humiliation. In United States v. Irey, the defendant sadistically raped, sodomized, and tortured more than fifty … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, Governments and Legislation, Judicial Systems, Jurisprudence
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Scott A. Moss, The Overhyped Path from Tinker to Morse: How the Student Speech Cases Show the Limits of Supreme Court Decisions-for The Law and for the Litigants
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1407 (2011)| | | | Each of the Supreme Court’s high school student speech cases reflected the social angst of its era. In 1965′s Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, three Iowa teens broke … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Education Law, Federal Courts, First Amendment, Uncategorized
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Jonathan Witmer-Rich, Interrogation and the Roberts Court
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1189 (2011)| | | ARTICLE :: Through 2010, the Roberts Court decided five cases involving the rules for police interrogation under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments: Kansas v. Ventris; Montejo v. Louisiana; Florida v. Powell; Maryland … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, Judicial Systems, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized
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