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Gambling with Terrorism and U.S. Military Readiness: Time to Ban Video Gambling Devices on U.S. Military Bases and Facilities?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2003-11)This article examines the effect that video gambling devices (VGDs) on US military bases have on military readiness in the 21st century's "Age of Terrorism. " The harmful effects of gambling on military personnel outweigh ... -
Generalizing from Facts in Predicting Court Cases
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1989-05)This Commentary illustrates how case outcomes and damages can be predicted through the use of simple averaging procedures. The process involves an estimation of probabilities of victory and damages likely to be awarded for ... -
George Anastaplo: An Autobiographical Bibliography (1947-2001)
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2000-07)Includes public papers, books, other publications, talks and papers, and selected letters to editors. -
Getting Ready to Settle: The Exclusion of Settled Defendants and Ready v. United/Goedecke Services, Inc.'s Impact upon Statutory Interpretation in Illinois
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2010-07)In Ready v. United/Goedecke Services, Inc., the Illinois Supreme Court held that settled defendants are not to be considered when apportioning liability between parties to a suit. In so holding, the court manipulated several ... -
The Gig Economy: An Annotated Bibliography
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-07)Companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Airbnb, and others have become established within society, to the point that Uber has become a regularly used verb. While the consumer benefits of these companies has been immediate, ... -
Gig-Dependence: Finding the Real Independent Contractors of Platform Work
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-07)Platforms such as Uber and TaskRabbit avoid employment obligations by categorizing their workers as “independent contractors.” Declining to follow overtime, antidiscrimination, and other workplace mandates, these platforms ... -
Global Innovation Law
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-11)This Article is about opening up a debate on global innovation law. The Article argues that a new hybrid area of transglobal law has emerged in the past decade due to the rise of various disruptive and technological ... -
God, Man, and Law: Of Rights and Responsibilities
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2001-11)This comment examines the evolving construction, modifications and improvements made to the "wall of separation between church and state." Initially, the comment presents an analysis of the unifying religious themes of ... -
Gone Fishing: Angling for an Answer to Asian Carp Migration After the Seventh Circuit’s Refusal to Allow Hydrological Separation
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2015-09)Asian carp are the latest addition to an extensive list of invasive species that pollutes American waterways. But unlike other prominent invasive species, Asian carp were intentionally brought into the United States to ... -
Governments “Erasing History” and the Importance of Free Speech
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-11)Nationwide protests against police brutality and structural racism have led to a renewed push for governments to take down or alter Confederate monuments and symbols. Advocates for these changes argue that they will make ... -
Greater Employment Equalities in the New South Through New Constitutional Guarantees
(2009)Most American state constitutions contain equal protection clauses. The words in these clauses often follow the words in the equal protection clause of the federal constitution. Not surprisingly perhaps, many state courts ... -
Griswold v. Connecticut and the Unenumerated Right of Prvacy
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1994-11)In 1965, the United States Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right of privacy in marital sexual matters in Griswold v. Connecticut. In the thirty years since the decision, privacy rights have been extended to some ... -
Guantánamo in the Supreme Court: Welcome Back, Welcome Back, Welcome Back
(Northern Illinois University College of Law, 2008-03)Boumediene v. Bush is the latest of the Guantánamo detainee cases to make it to our nation’s highest court, and it will be the third time that the Justices take a metaphorical tour of Guantánamo in order to sort out some ... -
Guantánamo in the Supreme Court: Welcome Back, Welcome Back, Welcome Back
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Guiding Civil Case Settlement Conferences and Their Aftermath: The Need to Amend Illinois Supreme Court Rule 218
(2004)Written civil procedure laws on pretrial conferences in civil actions in Illinois trial courts historically have spoken chiefly to trial preparation. More recently, such laws have recognized explicitly case management and ... -
The Guilt of the "Innocent Construction Rule" in Illinois Defamation Law
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1981-05)This article traces the origin of the peculiar Illinois "Innocent Construction Rule" in defamation law. The author concludes that the Illinois "Innocent Construction Rule" was unfortunately resurrected in John v. Tribune. ... -
Habeas, Informational Asymmetries, and the War on Terror
(2011)Although most American lawyers and legal scholars are primarily familiar with habeas corpus in the context of federal review of state convictions, habeas petitions have been used to challenge detention by the executive ... -
Harmful Error: Arizona v. Fulminante and the Expansion of the Harmless-Error Rule
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1992-05)In Arizona v. Fulminante, the United States Supreme Court held that coerced confessions that are erroneously admitted at trial are now subject to the harmless-error rule. The Court's holding is a radical departure from ... -
Harper & Row, Publishers v. Nation Enterprises - Rewriting the Fair Use Criteria?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1986-05)An examination of the Supreme Court's first detailed discussion of the doctrine offair use in copyright law as embodied in the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. Particular attention is given to the Court's innovative analysis ... -
Harper v. Poway Unified School District: The Wrong Path to the Right Outcome?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2007-07)A case note looking at the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District, where a high school student wished to wear a t-shirt to school that was derogatory towards homosexual students and was met with discipline by ...