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Sanctioning Insurance Carriers for Bad-faith Litigation Practices: a Proposal to Change the “Named Party” Rule
It was three days before Christmas in 1996. Earnest and Eleanor Brown, a retired couple from Shinnston, West Virginia, were driving on the freeway. The retired couple had twenty-two children, seventeen of whom were adopted, many of them with special … Continue reading
Asylum and Oral Argument: The Judiciary in Immigration and the Second Circuit Non-argument Calendar
Saidou Dia, a native of the Republic of Guinea, and Marwan Youssef Albathani, a Lebanese national, have likely never met. Both men were born in their native countries in the 1970s, both men were politically active in their native countries, and the lives … Continue reading
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Tagged Erick Rivero, Issue 4, Volume 34, Volume 34 Issue 4
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The Constitutional Rights of Non-custodial Parents
The legal treatment of non-custodial parents has become a lightning rod in modern family law. The topic is obviously important. Every year in this country, about one million children see their parents divorce. In addition, roughly a third of all … Continue reading
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Tagged David D. Meyer, Issue 4, Volume 34, Volume 34 Issue 4
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The State Action Doctrine and the Principle of Democratic Choice
The state action doctrine is somewhat of a mystery to law students, legal scholars, lawyers, and judges. It is a key component of the Fourteenth Amendment—a threshold requirement that must be satisfied before triggering protection of our fundamental rights—but the … Continue reading
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Tagged Issue 4, Volume 34, Volume 34 Issue 4, Wilson R. Huhn
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Judicial Ethics, the Appearance of Impropriety, and the Proposed New ABA Judicial Code
In any presentation on legal ethics, it is common for the speaker to argue that we need more ethics. As the Duchess of Windsor (and others) once said, one can never be too thin or too rich. So also, many … Continue reading
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Tagged Issue 4, Ronald D. Rotunda, Volume 34, Volume 34 Issue 4
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“Play in the Joints Between the Religion Clauses” and Other Supreme Court Catachreses
Even when the U.S. Supreme Court reaches the right result in a matter involving church-state relations, the Justices too often do so for the wrong reasons. Cutter v. Wilkinson is illustrative. Decided during the Court’s last term, Cutter reversed a … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl H. Esbeck, Issue 4, Volume 34, Volume 34 Issue 4
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Moralizing in Public
Chief Justice Earl Warren once remarked: “In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.” There is, in other words, a foundation of ethical values for the law. In performing our legal duties, we are also satisfying our ethical … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita L. Allen, Issue 4, Volume 34, Volume 34 Issue 4
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Henry Lord Brougham and Zeal
In a recent article, Professors Fred Zacharias and Bruce Green undertook to “reconceptualize” advocacy ethics. In the course of that article, they rejected the ethic of zeal, and stated erroneously that Henry Lord Brougham had himself repudiated his famous statement … Continue reading
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Tagged Issue 4, Monroe H. Freedman, Volume 34, Volume 34 Issue 4
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