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The 2015 Federal Budget’s Medical Marijuana Provision: An “End to the Federal Ban on Marijuana” or Something Less Than That?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2015-07)In 2014, Congress began to face the nearly 20-year conflict between state medical marijuana laws and federal prohibition. It did so in a somewhat curious way, however--tacking on a rider to the 2015 federal budget to block ... -
Abortions of the Parental Prerogatives of Unwed Natural Fathers: Deterring Lost Paternity
(2000)A natural father's biological relationship with his child is often insufficient by itself to trigger the father's parental rights recognized within the "substantial protection" of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth ... -
Administrative Leave as an Adverse Action for Title VII Retaliation: New Principles for Liability Call for New Updates to Policy
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2017-04)The time has come for employers and their attorneys to recognize that placing an employee on paid administrative leave, pending an investigation (or otherwise), has become a riskier proposition under Title VII of the Civil ... -
Adoption Notices to Genetic Fathers: No to Scarlet Letters, Yes to Good Faith Cooperation
(2005)American courts and legislatures have struggled to define the participation rights of genetic fathers in governmental adoption schemes for infants born to unwed mothers as a result of consensual sexual intercourse. Federal ... -
Affirmative Action After Grutter and Gratz
(2004)This article will examine the state of race-conscious admissions program at institutions of higher education after Grutter and Gratz. Part one first briefly reviews the Court's affirmative action jurisprudence prior to ... -
Afterthought Crimes and the Felony Murder Rule in Illinois
(Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 2013-07-22)Last month, the Mississippi Supreme Court held that a defendant who decided to commit a robbery after killing his victim could be convicted of capital murder on the basis of a “felony-murder” theory. In other words, in ... -
The Age of Impunity: Using the Duty to Extradite or Prosecute and Universal Jurisdiction to End Impunity for Acts of Terrorism Once and For All
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2011-11)Impunity remains one of the greatest challenges facing international peace and security today. This article seeks to lay out possible changes to current international law that are necessary to combat impunity, particularly ... -
Agricultural Zoning: Impacts and Future Directions
(2002)Farmland preservation has become a growing societal concern over the past two decades and is now a common component of any serious discussion of environmental land-use controls. All levels of government have perceived ... -
American General Jurisdiction Trial Courts: New Visions, New Guidelines
(2006)Today, American trial courts are trying less and managing more private civil cases. They are also losing many private claims to other dispute resolvers. The traditional role of the trial judge as a neutral, detached, and ... -
American State Constitutional Equalities
(2010)Many American state constitutions contain equality provisions. Some simply promote Equal Protection in ways comparable to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal constitution. Others are worded quite differently, ... -
Amor Y Esperanza: A Latina Lesbian Becomes a Law Professor
(Journal of Legal Education, 2017)Writing about my presence in the legal academy is about identifying the act of resistance in simply being myself as a Latina lesbian who was trying to develop as a feminist legal theorist when I thought ... -
Another Tile in the “Jurisdictional Mosaic” of Lawyer Regulation: Modifying Admission by Motion Rules to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century Lawyer
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2018-04)Can practicing law on a less than "full-time" basis hinder a lawyer's future mobility? The answer depends on which jurisdiction you ask. A parent who is considering a reduced hours schedule for family reasons or a recent ... -
An Argument in Support of Tax-Free Per-Cap Distribution Payments Derived from Native American Nations Gaming Sources
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2016-09)Gaming activities play important social, cultural, and economic roles for many Native American tribes. During the 1970s and 1980s, gaming activities spread throughout the country, and became more accessible to nonnative ... -
Arming the Pregnancy Police: More Outlandish Concoctions?
(1992)Emotions abound when encountering a newborn with disabilities which will inevitably lead to an early death or to a less than whole and healthy life. It is especially painful when such disabilities were preventable. Anger ... -
"Attempted Threat" Crimes and Oduwole
(Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 2013-04-23)Last month, an appellate court reversed the conviction of Olutosin Oduwole — a former Southern Illinois University student and aspiring rap artist — for an “attempt to make a terroristic threat” (People v. Oduwole, __ ... -
The Authority of Illinois Lawyers to Settle Their Clients' Civil Claims: On Principles Not Quite Settled
(2000)The Illinois laws guiding lawyer civil claim settlement authority are not well settled and should be reexamined to provide lawyers with clear standards when they agree to a settlement on behalf of their clients. A comprehensive ... -
Automatic Elections
(2014)The idea that the right mix of conditions will spark workers to engage in mass collective action is a theme sometimes invoked by labor movement writers, activists, and reformers. It is also an assumption found — and ... -
Avoiding a Lawyers’ Race to the Foreclosure Bottom: Some Advice to Lawyers for Lenders and Borrowers on Their Roles in Foreclosure Litigation
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2012-06)Lawyers for lenders and borrowers are joining their clients in questionable actions in foreclosure litigation as a massive number of borrower defaults have led to a flood of lawsuits. This article describes some of the ... -
Back to Basics: Habeas Corpus Procedures and Long-Term Executive Detention
(2009)The lesson from the Hamdi plurality and the Court in Boumediene is not that all hearsay is admissible in an executive-detention habeas action, but rather that the district courts should exercise their discretion in determining ... -
Bagram, Boumediene, and Limited Government
(2010)The United States’ prison at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan is the latest front in the battle over the extraterritorial reach of the Constitution. Habeas litigation on behalf of Bagram detainees has begun establishing how ...
