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From the monthly archives:

August 2008

A Woman in the White House

August 29, 2008

John McCain today announced that his vice-presidential running mate will be Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska.  The announcement of Palin, a 44-year-old supermom of 5, avid hunter, and former beauty queen, has rekindled the age-old political battle between sex and race. 

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A School that Allows Guns

August 29, 2008

Here's an interesting article about a small Texas school district that has voted to allow concealed-carry by teachers in the local school.  Small town, not much crime, but the nearest law enforcement is 17 miles away.

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Professor Paul Finkelman is Scholar-in-Residence at Akron Law Sept. 2-5

August 27, 2008

Albany Law School Professor Paul Finkelman will visit The University of Akron School of Law Sept. 2-5 as part of the Scholar-in-Residence program. On Sept. 4 Finkelman will present a public lecture titled "Regulating the African Slave Trade: Lessons on Social Change, Social Policy, and Legislation." The lecture, which is free and open to the [...]

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The Supreme Court at the Tipping Point – Presidential Power

August 26, 2008

     The greatest challenge that the next Supreme Court will face is to determine the extent of Presidential power and the degree to which the President is answerable to Congress and bound by law. This question will come before the Court in a number of different contexts.

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Grandma Got Run Over by a … Prius?

August 25, 2008

(With apologies to Dr. Elmo.)
News last week that the California State Senate
"approved a bill requiring all hybrids and electric vehicles to have a minimum sound level."
Well, not exactly.  Actually, the California Senate passed a bill that
"directs the California Energy Commission to set up a committee to study the issue and report back in one year [...]

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Court says states may require more air pollution monitoring than USEPA – but dissent says this disrupts the regulatory scheme

August 22, 2008

It looks like a classic battle between treehuggers and industrial polluters, between liberals and conservatives, between Democrats and Republicans. As we will see, however, the truth is more complicated.

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Gun Rights Spreading Like Wild Fire?

August 20, 2008

(Sorry.)  We are going to have a lot to talk about in my Firearms Regulation class at Akron Law this fall.  Since the U.S. Supreme Court's momentous decision in D.C. v. Heller in June, more and more gun rights issues are in the news.  Two interesting articles yesterday talk about concealed carry rights in the [...]

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The Supreme Court at the Tipping Point – Freedom of Religion

August 18, 2008

     The focus of one of the starkest ideological divisions on the Supreme Court and an area of law that may undergo dramatic change as a result of the 2008 presidential election is the interpretation of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment.

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"Drill for Oil on American Soil"

August 17, 2008

I saw the above slogan on a bumper-sticker this weekend, and my first thought was "Why?".  Setting aside the partisan stances on this issue (It's possible — both presidential candidates, for example, have said that they oppose drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), what is this issue about?  Who benefits (in legal terms, we [...]

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Interesting Report on Voter Registration Issues in Upcoming Election

August 12, 2008

See Wall Street Journal article here.  Here are a couple of representative quotations:
Republicans are moving to examine surges in voter registrations in some states. A Republican lawyers group held a national training session on election law over the weekend that included campaign attorneys for Sen. John McCain and other Republican leaders. One session discussed how [...]

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The Supreme Court at the Tipping Point: Freedom of Expression

August 12, 2008

     In 1927 in the case of Whitney v. California Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that the First Amendment protects "freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think." Freedom of thought is absolute, but freedom of speech is not an absolute right because in some situations speech can cause harm, as Justice [...]

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Who shouldn't be allowed to carry a concealed handgun?

August 11, 2008

A friend of mine was just denied when he tried to renew his Ohio license to carry a concealed handgun.  The letter from the Summit County Sheriff's Office identified the reason for denial as the presence on his record of two minor misdemeanor marijuana possession convictions from 1996 and 1997, when my friend was 19 [...]

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