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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 ... -
Walking the Edge of Death: An Annotated Bibliography on Juveniles, the Mentally Ill, the Mentally Retarded and the Death Penalty
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2001-05)The death penalty is not so monolithic as it seems at first glance. A storm of debate has centered around the application of this, the harshest criminal penalty of all, to the mentally ill, mentally retarded, and juveniles. ... -
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 ... -
The Warsaw Convention: A Cat With Nine Lives Walks the Plank One More Time
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2002-05)This comment advocates elimination of the liability limits imposed under the Warsaw Convention in the event of an aviation accident. The comment first examines the history of the Warsaw Convention. Next, the comment looks ... -
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 ... -
The Wedding Bells Heard Around the World: Years From Now, Will We Wonder Why We Worried About Same-Sex Marriage?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2004-07)This article is a historical, international, and timely examination of issues commonly raised by the marriage of same-sex couples in anticipation of the impending changes in this area of the law in the United States. Through ... -
What Constitutes an Invalid "Blanket Consent" Within the Purview of Illinois' Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2002-07)Illinois' Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act, 740 Ill. Comp. Stat. 110/1 (2000), prohibits "blanket consent" to the disclosure of mental health and developmental disabilities treatment records. ... -
What Could American Indian Law Possibly Have to Do with the Issue of Gay-Marriage Recognition?: Definitional Jurisprudence, Equal Protection and Full Faith and Credit
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2004-07)American Indian law and gay-marriage recognition would not, at first glance, seem to be fields of study related to one another. Professor Laurence, however, finds three places where the two fields conjoin. First is what ... -
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 Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander: Toward Recognition of Men's Reproductive Rights
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1994-11)Over the past few decades, gender equality has slowly made its way into many areas of family law where women were once the favored sex. Despite the trend toward treating men and women equally, women continue to have the ... -
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 Lawyers Were Serial Killers: Nineteenth Century Visions of Good Moral Character
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2001-11)This article provides a historical look at the meaning of the phrase "good moral character" in the context of the fitness of an individual for the practice of law. Going back to the 1700s, the author traces the origins of ... -
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 ... -
Who Owns the Family Farm? The Struggle to Determine the Property Rights of Farm Wives
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1994-07)This article reviews the historical transition of the legal status of farm wives, analyzes current laws affecting the respective ownership rights of husbands and wives to family farm assets, and discusses current federal ... -
“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 ...
