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Safe Haven, Adoption and Birth Record Laws: Where are the Daddies?
(2007)An earlier version of this paper was presented by Professor Parness at the Third Annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law under the title, "Safe Haven Laws: Where Are the Daddies?", at Capital University Law School on ... -
Safeguarding Judicial Integrity by Making the Executive Branch’s Unfettered Amicus Gateway Transparent: An Argument for the Supreme Court to Exercise its Inherent Authority to Make Public the President’s Tax and Investment Records
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2017-11)When the executive branch submits an amicus brief to the federal appellate courts, and most importantly, to the Supreme Court, it has the strength of being considered under a standard of “the best interest of the United ... -
The Same Side of Two Coins: The Peculiar Phenomenon of Bet-Hedging in Campaign Finance
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2006-05)This paper addresses the propensity of large donors to make financial contributions to competing candidates or party organizations during the same election cycle--for example, giving money to both Bush and Kerry during the ... -
Sanctioning Legal Organizations Under the New Federal Civil Rule 11: Radical Changes Loosen More Unforeseeable Forces
(1994)Prompted by their perception that significant civil litigation misconduct involving frivolous papers was occurring in federal trial courts, the federal judicial rulemakers first effected a major overhaul of Rule 11 of the ... -
Schiro v. Farley: If at First You Don't Succeed, Trial and Trial Again; The Demise of the Double Jeopardy Clause Within the Context of Capital Punishment
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1995-11)This note examines the United States Supreme Court decision allowing a trial judge in the sentencing phase to use as an aggravating circumstance to impose the death penalty, an element of which the jury was silent in the ... -
Schools, Worship, and the First Amendment
(2015)This five-part article examines the use of public school space for worship, arguing that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong in its First Amendment analysis related to the Free Speech Clause, the Establishment ... -
Secured Transactions History: The Northern Struggle to Defeat the Judgment Lien in the Pre-Chattel Mortgage Act Era
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2000-05)Reformers recently have attacked the priority accorded the Anglo-American nonpossessory secured transaction both under bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy law. These reformers believe that the law should reserve some of the ... -
Seeking Equality in Wages for Employees with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-11)This Comment discusses the little-known exception to the minimum wage within the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be paid at a rate below the federal ... -
Self-Exclusion and the Compulsive Gambler: The House Shouldn't Always Win
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2006-11)This Comment examines the law revolving around a compulsive gambler's ability to exclude himself from a casino. While the current state of the law in many jurisdictions properly allows a person to place himself on a ... -
Serious Discussions Needed on Police Tactics and False Confessions
(Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 2013-12-26)It’s a phenomenon that detectives, prosecutors, jurors and even defense lawyers typically have trouble believing: Sometimes suspects will confess to serious crimes even when they are completely innocent. “I certainly ... -
Settlement Ethics and Lawyering in ADR Proceedings: A Proposal to Revise Rule 4.1
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-12)At the close of the twentieth century, we are witnessing very significant changes in the litigation of civil disputes in our society. Much of the change has to do with a more expansive view by lawyers and judges of the ... -
Sexual Favoritism: A Cause of Action Under a "Sex-Plus" Theory
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2009-11)This Comment avers that sexual favoritism is a form of "sex-plus" discrimination. Traditionally, sexual favoritism has been argued as being a form of sexual harassment. Therefore, in order to be successful in a claim for ... -
"Shaming" Probation Penalties and the Sexual Offender: A Dangerous Combination
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2002-11)Sexual offenders are one of the larger problems in the criminal justice system today, particularly with regard to recidivism rates, which are extremely high among sexual offenders. Due to these problems, judges are ... -
Should an Illinois Tenant Get the Benefit of the Landlord's Insurance?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1996-11)This article examines whether a landlord's insurance coverage should extend to cover his or her tenant's personal property from loss or damage caused by the tenant's negligence. Although the courts are divided on whether ... -
Should It Take A Thief?: Rethinking the Admission of Illegally Obtained Evidence in Civil Cases
(2003)This article explores excluding evidence in civil cases. Part I introduces the article’s premise that civil courts should rethink the admission of illegally obtained evidence in civil cases. The article asserts that the ... -
Should the Government be Allowed to Engage in Racial, Sexual, or Other Acts of Discrimination?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2001-11)Arkansas law provides scholarship funds to students who meet specified academic criteria. This article examines the constitutional implications of making direct monetary payments to non-secular schools. It analyzes this ... -
Shuttered: An Examination of How the 2013 Chicago Public School Closings are Denying Special Education Students the Right to an Appropriate Public Education
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2014-09)Recently, the Chicago Public School system faced financial crisis as it struggled to balance severe budget cuts against overwhelming pension obligations. CPS responded to the crisis by immediately closing forty-nine ... -
Sign Regulation After Ladue: Examining the Evolving Limits of First Amendment Protection
(1995)This article examines the law of sign and billboard regulations, with particular attention to the dual concerns noted by the U.S. Supreme Court in City of Ladue v. Gilleo of restricting "too much" speech and restricting ... -
Similar Interpretations, Different Conclusions: The Criminalization of Hate Speech in the West
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-05)The United States is unique internationally in that hate speech is not considered a criminal offense. Drawing from a sample of Western countries and their respective statutes, the analysis will look at different nations’ ... -
Single-Gender Education: Is it Beneficial to Society?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1994-11)This speech, delivered before the Presbyterian Men of the First and Providence Churches at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, states the case for single-gender education, arguing that it is not only beneficial, but ...
