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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: First Amendment
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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R. George Wright, Electoral Lies and the Broader Problems of Strict Scrutiny
States often attempt to regulate political speech in the form of deliberate lies related to ballot initiatives, referenda, candidates, or their political positions. Some courts focus on the various harms of electoral lies, while others focus more on the risks … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law, First Amendment
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Jocelyn Ho, Bullied to Death: Cberbullying and Student Online Speech Rights
In the age of online social networking, photo and video sharing, blogs, text messaging, and other forms of communication technology, bullying among teenagers has reached a whole new level. It has transcended the traditional schoolyard context and crossed into cyberspace, … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, First Amendment
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Jordan E. Pratt, An Open and Shut Case: Why (and How) The Eleventh Circuit Should Restrain the Government’s Forum Closure Power
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1487 (2011)| | | |||| The Supreme Court has made it clear that when the government opens a nontraditional public forum, it retains the power to shut down the forum subsequently. But the Court has not … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Governments and Legislation, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized
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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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Shannon Weeks McCormack, Too Close to Home: Limiting the Organizations Subsidized by the Charitable Deduction to Those in Economic Need
63 Fla. L. Rev. 857 (2011)| | | ARTICLE :: The charitable deduction allows taxpayers to deduct amounts donated to organizations pursuing statutorily designated purposes from their otherwise taxable income. By lowering the after-tax cost of giving and encouraging taxpayers to … Continue reading
Posted in Estates & Trusts Law, First Amendment, Tax Law, Uncategorized
Tagged charaties, Charitable Donations, deduction, efficiency criteria, non-profit, organizations, Shannon Weeks McCormack, starting, subsidies, suggest, Tax Exemption, tax law, underfunded issues
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