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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Hearsay and the Right of Confrontation in American Trials by Jury
(2011)This Article discusses the origin and history of the hearsay doctrine, including the goals it seeks to achieve and the many exceptions to the rule against hearsay. It then discusses that when exceptions to hearsay are ... -
Help Me, Help You: What You Should Know Before You Ask for Help
(The Learning Curve (AALS Sec. on Acad. Support, Washington, D.C.), 2019-05)I got an email the other day from a student who was having some difficulty writing his arguments. The student wrote that he kept rewriting his arguments in response to my comments but that he still had not been able to get ... -
The Hidden Costs of Habeas Delay
(2012)Because habeas petitioners seek a court order for liberty rather than compensation, judges have a duty to decide habeas petitions promptly. But increasingly, the federal courts have fallen behind on their heavy habeas ... -
Honey Bees & Neonicotinoids: Why Pollinators Need More Protections
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2017-11)Honey bees are essential for the pollination of copious amounts of fruits, vegetables, and nuts. However due to several factors, including the use of highly toxic pesticides like neonicotinoids, honey bee populations are ... -
How Do You Rate Your Lawyer?: Lawyers’ Responses to Online Reviews of Their Services
(2014)With the proliferation of opportunities for consumers to review a variety of services on the Internet, it is probably only a matter of time until more clients review their attorneys’ services on the Internet. This raises ... -
How Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts Correlate with Taxable Properties
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2013-09)This article deals with Tax Increment Financing (TIF), which is a popular economic development tool. TIF borrows against future tax revenues to subsidize current development projects. In Illinois, this economic development ... -
If You Move, You Lose: The Interstate Medicaid Obligation to Special Needs Adopted Children
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2015-02)This Article presents the history of the adoption assistance programs of the United States and analyzes state Medicaid practice related to the federal statutory provisions that established the benefit and the Constitutional ... -
The Illinois Bail Reform Act of 2017: Roadmap to Reform, or Reform in Name Only?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2018-06)Of the approximately 443,000 individuals currently incarcerated in county jails who have yet to be convicted of any of their charges, seventy percent are indigent and cannot afford the bail amount set by the judge at their ... -
Illinois Lawyer Investigations of Current Client Concerns
(2015)When questions are raised by a current client regarding an attorney’s representation of the client, the questioned attorney should be able to seek counsel confidentially. Such a conferral will often benefit the attorney, ... -
Illinois Supreme Court Should Consider Reasonable Doubt Issue
(Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 2014-06-25)Last month, a state appellate court reversed the conviction of Mark Downs —a gang member serving 70 years for the murder of a 6-year-old boy — because the trial court attempted to answer a jury question about the definition ... -
Illinois’s Freedom of Information Act: More Access or More Hurdles?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2013-06)Although the 2009 amendments to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) were intended to increase government transparency, the amendments lack the necessary sanctions, neutral oversight, and incentives for compliance ... -
The Immigrant “Other”: Racialized Identity and the Devaluation of Immigrant Family Relations
(2014)This Article explores how current terminations of undocumented immigrants’ parental rights are reminiscent of historical practices that removed early immigrant and Native American children from their parents in an attempt ... -
Improving Judicial Settlement Conferences
(2006)Professors Molot, Fuller, Fiss, and Resnik, among others, have expressed concerns about the unbounded, unchecked, unbridled, and virtually unfettered judicial discretion of American trial court judges who preside over civil ...
