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Wage Theft: Pilfering Paychecks, One Lunch at a Time
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2017-11)The United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, is charged with enforcing the payment of minimum wage and overtime to employees. A common problem occurs when an employee performs work during their unpaid ... -
War & [Emotional] Peace: Death in Iraq and the Need to Constitutionalize Speech-Based lIED Claims Beyond Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2008-11)The protracted and ongoing war in Iraq has spawned several lawsuits in the United States based upon the tort theory of intentional infliction of emotional distress. This article focuses in depth on one of those recent ... -
Watching the Watchmen: The People’s Attempt to Hold On-Duty Law Enforcement Officers Accountable for Misconduct and the Illinois Law that Stands in Their Way
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2012-04)In the days when police brutality and public official corruption pump through the veins of society as a fermenting virus, a critical analysis of a controversial law curtailing efforts to intensify public awareness of ... -
What is the Monetary Value of Slave Labor?: Restitution Based on a Traditional Fair Market Valuation Basis May Not Fully Compensate Human Labor Trafficking Victims
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2011-06)Human trafficking is an abomination that decimates the lives of the trafficked, fracturing families, and is an act exploiting human labor as a renewable resource. Post-conviction proceedings primarily focus on the disposition ... -
What the Hell[er]? The Fine Print Standard of Review Under Heller
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2009-07)This casenote introduces the reader to District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the United States Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, unconnected to militia duty, to keep and bear ... -
What Will It Take? Examining the Use of Preliminary Hearing Testimony Where Victims are Unavailable Due to Mental Illness Stemming from Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2018-11)A particular problem exists that domestic violence and sexual assault victims face when bringing their abusers to court. This is whether the use of preliminary hearing testimony can be utilized where a victim is unavailable ... -
What’s Really at Steak: How Conflicts of Interest Within the FDA and USDA Fail to Protect Consumers
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2016-07)Chipotle shut down all of its restaurants nationwide in response to the ongoing food poisoning outbreaks. The deadly pathogen e. coli sickened people from the East coast to the West, and cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands ... -
When Rain Falls, Insurance Companies Should Listen: Determining “Weather” an Insurance Policy’s Exclusion or Inclusion of Property in the Open Refers to Property Simply Left Outside or Property Exposed to the Elements
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2013-02)This Article explores the meaning of "in the open" in the context of insurance policy interpretation. This issue, which has been addressed by several state and federal courts, has existed for over forty years. This Article ... -
Where There's a "Will," There Should Be a Way: Why In re Salvino Unjustifiably Restricts the Application of § 523(a)(6) to Exclude Willful and Malicious Breaches of Contract
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2009-05)In accordance with the Bankruptcy Code's policy of limiting the privilege of discharge to "honest but unfortunate" debtors, the Code provides that certain types of debts shall be excepted from discharge as a matter of law. ... -
Where to Pray? Religious Zoning and the First Amendment
(1987)Despite emerging recognition that the normal rules do not apply when zoning affects first amendment activities, the Supreme Court has not yet definitively addressed zoning restrictions that affect the exercise of religion. ... -
While the Government Fiddled Around, the Big Easy Drowned: How the Posse Comitatus Act Became the Government's Alibi for the Hurricane Katrina Disaster
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2008-11)This article analyzes how the government's blame of the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) for its late response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster was misplaced. In Part II, the author discusses the history of the Posse Comitatus ... -
“Whoa”-ing Equine Clones’ Registration: Establishing Procompetitive Benefits to Counter the Anticompetitive Argument Against American Quarter Horse Association’s Ban on Clones
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2014-07)This Note examines Abraham and Veneklasen Joint Venture v. American Quarter Horse Association, in which a United States district court ruled that the American Quarter Horse Association’s rule banning clones of registered ... -
Wi-Fi Signals Capable of Conversion: The Case for Comprehensive Conversion in Illinois
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2008-05)This comment asserts that unauthorized use of another's wireless internet signal is tantamount to conversion and therefore should enjoy the same remedies as any action for conversion. Through first explaining the technology ... -
Witness Protections in Illinois Civil Actions
(2012)This article examines the laws guiding witnesses at depositions, hearings, and trials in civil actions in Illinois circuit courts. Such laws encompass norms for judicial limits ahead of any scheduled depositions or ... -
The Worst of Both Worlds: The Wild West of the “Legal” Marijuana Industry
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2015-07)As states have legalized marijuana, they have created a booming industry that operates in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Abuse Act. Like the tobacco and alcohol industries, this new legal marijuana industry ... -
Wrestling With the Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine: How Puskar v. Krco Further Complicated the Heavily Litigated History of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2015-09)The ecclesiastical abstention doctrine is a long-held constitutional principle that prohibits a court from resolving a dispute that is inherently religious in nature. The ecclesiastical abstention doctrine’s practical ... -
Wrongful Convictions and Their Causes: An Annotated Bibliography
(2017)This Annotated Bibliography directs attorneys to relevant, select legal periodical articles written from 2010 to 2016 on wrongful convictions and their causes. The authors focus on five major causes that lead to wrongful ... -
XM Lawsuit: Threats to the Incentive Model of Copyright Genesis and the Obsolescence of the AHRA in a Digital Age of Hybrid Technology
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2007-11)This article examines Atlantic Records Corp. v. XM Satellite Radio Inc. The current litigation offers a prime example of various ways in which the United States Copyright Act is unable to pace current technological trends ... -
'Yo, Prof!' is Not the Proper Way to Address Me: Using a Status Email Assignment in First-Year Legal Writing to Address Issues with Student Correspondence
(AALS Section on Academic Support, 2016)As academic success professionals,we are used to focusing on student issues with legal analysis and understanding complex legal concepts. However, often our students need help with the more mundane. One such mundane issue ...
