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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 Sale-of-Control Premium-Bribe: Recoupment in Advance: A Case Study
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1988-11)The illegal sale of corporate control has continued unabated over the decades. As early as 1969 Father Bayne uncovered an esoteric variant on the bald bribery into corporate control. This would be controleur, instead of ... -
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 ... -
San Diego Gas & Electric: A Regulation Gone Too Far?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1981-11)This note analyzes the dissenting view of the Court that the mere imposition of a zoning regulation can affect a permanent or temporary taking of property for which compensation must be paid under the fifth and fourteenth ... -
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 ... -
Sanctuary Cities and Counties for the Unborn: The Use of Resolutions and Ordinances to Restrict Abortion Access
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2021-05-01)Santa Rosa County in Florida is the first county in Florida to be designated as a pro-life sanctuary. Florida joins other states--including Illinois, New Mexico, Texas, North Carolina, and Utah--in passing resolutions and ... -
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 ... -
The Scope of Attorney Advertising in Illinois
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1991-07)Attorneys have long been allowed to advertise their services, with restrictions. With the extension of constitutional protection to commercial free speech, the professions were given access to marketing techniques which ... -
The Scope of the Public Duty/Special Duty Doctrine in Illinois: Municipal Liability for Failure to Provide Police Protection
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1990-05)This comment examines the development of the public duty doctrine and its special duty exception. It focuses on Illinois' treatment of the special duty exception and its application in cases involving an alleged failure ... -
A Search for Accountability: Judicial Discipline Under the Judicial Article of the 1970 Illinois Constitution
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1988-07)This Article addresses the authority of the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board and the Illinois Courts Commission created by the 1970 Illinois Constitution. The Article focuses on the limitations placed on the authority of ... -
Secret Surveillance Scores: Pay No Attention to What’s Behind the Curtain
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-11)This Comment discusses the potential and actual misuse of consumers’ secret surveillance scores in e-commerce, employment, and housing situations, as evidenced in a 2019 FTC complaint. The calculation and use of these ... -
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 ... -
Sentencing Reform in the States: Some Sobering Lessons from the 1970's
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1981-11)An analysis of the sentencing reform movement of the 1970's which attacked parole board discretion in favor of determinate sentencing systems. Professor Zimring criticizes the outcomes of that reform and presents some ... -
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 ... -
Server vs. Driver Liability: A Suggested Change to Reduce Drinking and Driving
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1987-05)This article explores the two major approaches to liquor server liability currently being used in the various jurisdictions across the country. The article assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the alternative approaches ... -
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 ...
