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 ...

Several federal district courts have enacted rules that seek to preempt attorneys from interfering with the discovery process through improper "witness-coaching" by prohibiting an attorney from engaging in off-the-record ...

In order to revisit the application of conflict of interest principles to legal services practice, this article employs a survey of legal services providers. In addition to setting a context for discussion by determining ...

Over the last thirty years local governments have increasingly relied on development exactions as a funding source for land use development. Faced with shrinking budgets and the need to provide services attendant to growth, ...

This article explains the United States Supreme Court holding that police, upon a suspect's equivocal reference to their Fifth Amendment right to the presence of counsel during interrogation, are no longer required to ...

The resolution of bankruptcy litigation involving individuals under the governmental student loan programs and family farmers under Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code provides an intriguing insight into congressional policy. ...

This article focuses new attention oi the United States Supreme Court decision in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., the seminal defamation case in which the Court sets out the current test for determining whether a defamation ...

This note examines the United States Supreme Court decision holding that litigators may not discriminate on the basis of gender during the process of selecting jurors in that it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the ...

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 ...

This article critiques, from a communication and law perspective, a proposal to add another element to the already complex calculus of constitutional libel law. The element--a subjective state of mind hurdle closely akin ...