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BMW of North America v. Gore: A Misplaced Guide for Punitive Damage Awards
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-11)This casenote examines the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in BMW v. Gore, in which the Court struck down a jury award of punitive damages as being unreasonably large in violation of substantive due process. This Note ... -
Smith v. Fair Employment and Housing Commission: Religious Freedom and Anti-discrimination Laws Square Off in the Landlord/Tenant Setting
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-11)This casenote examines the California Supreme Court decision of Smith v. Fair Employment and Housing Commission and determines that the analysis applied by the court was improper and not in conformance with precedential ... -
Toward Fairness in Compensation of Management and Labor: Compensation Ratios, A Proposal for Disclosure
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-11)This article will discuss the general history of executive compensation and the concept of "excessive compensation" as it has developed in corporate America. The article advocates a change in current SEC disclosure ... -
The Trust Doctrine in Federal Indian Law: A Look at Its Development and How Its Analysis Under Social Contract Theory Might Expand Its Scope
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-11)This article explores the continuing legal relationship between American Indians and the federal government of the United States. Namely, the battle over controlling internal tribal affairs. The history of that relationship ... -
Defamation in an Age of Political Correctness: Should a False Public Statement that a Person is Gay be Defamatory?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-11)This article reviews the important public policy decision that individuals should be free to protect their reputations from false and derogatory remarks. Most notably, the article explores the issues of whether a public ... -
The Quicksands of The Poor Law: Poor Relief Legislation in a Growing Nation, 1790-1820
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-11)This article reviews the development of poor relief laws from 1790 to 1820. The scope of the article will survey the laws affecting the poor people developed by the states as they joined the union and by the federal ... -
Vol. 18, no. 3, Summer 1998: Table of Contents
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Executive Privilege or Punishment? The Need to Define Legitimate Invocations and Conflict Resolution Techniques
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-07)This comment describes justifications for the doctrine of executive privilege and then examines various arguments against its legitimacy and use. This comment then reflects on several historical invocations of the privilege ... -
The Right to Representation by Counsel in University Disciplinary Proceedings: A Denial of Due Process of Law
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-07)This comment argues that university students who face suspension or expulsion for disciplinary reasons, as opposed to academic dismissal, are entitled to have retained legal counsel represent them as an element of procedural ... -
The Wisconsin Bear Arms Amendment and the Case Against an Absolute Prohibition on Carrying Concealed Weapons
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-07)In November 1998, the voters of Wisconsin established a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The Wisconsin Legislature framed and sent to the voters a broadly worded constitutional amendment that created an individual ... -
The Law School Compensation Systems at Three Top Quartile Law Schools: Factors Correlating with Law Professors' Salaries and Suggestions
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-07)This article is a study of the factors which may impact the salary levels of law professors. The authors employ various methods of statistical analysis to determine what association, if any, a variety of factors have to ... -
Preserving Farmland, Creating Farms, and Feeding Communities: Opportunities to Link Farmland Protection and Community Food Security
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-07)This essay was prepared for the Northern Illinois University College of Law's eighth annual symposium on land use entitled Building Cooperation Across Communities. The essay initially identifies three premises, specifically, ... -
Vol. 19, no. 3, Summer 1999: Table of Contents
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Credit or Debit? Unauthorized Use and Consumer Liability Under Federal Consumer Protection Legislation
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-12)Although debit cards may closely resemble credit cards in appearance, consumer liability for unauthorized use is not similar and the payment transaction initiated through use is very different. In response to the increasing ... -
The Swift Rail Act: Will Sleepless Citizens be able to Quiet Train Whistles, and at What Cost?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-12)Frustrated by the noise caused by train whistles, many Illinois municipalities have passed ordinances that ban trains from blowing their whistles at local crossings. Despite these local ordinances, however, railroads ... -
Repeal of Baseball's Longstanding Antitrust Exemption: Did Congress Strike Out Again?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-12)In 1922, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that baseball was not interstate commerce and was thus not subject to the restrictions of antitrust laws. Since that time, numerous courts refused to hear cases attacking ... -
Lawyers, First Principles, and Contemporary Challenges: Explorations
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-12)The preparation of this Collection chanced to be stimulated by a current Illinois bar admission controversy which has reminded observers of my own bar admission controversy of the 1950s. My April 15, 1999 talk at Northern ... -
An Essay on Teaching Professional Responsibility
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-12)There is, I argue, need for a new approach to teaching law students how to become professionally responsible lawyers. The core problem in teaching the professional responsibility course is that it is a course in lawyer's ...
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