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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Has Bennis v. Michigan Made Asset Forfeiture Too Easy?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-05)This note examines the historical justifications of asset forfeiture as well as the justifications behind its more recent uses. The note begins by analyzing the rationale of precedents that have upheld asset forfeiture ... -
Have Kids, Might Travel: The Need for a New Roadmap in Illinois Relocation Cases
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2005-05)The issue of child custody relocation continues to be a source of controversy and contention nationwide, as state legislatures and courts have struggled to determine the difficult question of whether, and under what ... -
Heads Up!: The Baseball Facility Liability Act
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1998-07)This comment examines law regarding spectator injury at baseball games. The Baseball Facility Liability Act, which was enacted by the Illinois legislature to prevent spectators from recovering damages for injuries suffered ... -
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 ... -
Hedge-to-Arrive Contracts: Jurisdictional Issues Under the Commodity Exchange Act
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1998-07)This article addresses the conflicting judicial and administrative agency interpretations of a recent innovation in agricultural merchandising known as Hedge-to-Arrive ("HTA") contracts. This article examines the first ... -
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 ...
