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Sustainability: It’s Happening at Creighton University
(2009)
Single-stream recycling | A dumpster just for recyclables | Course study is being developed around sustainability | Several hybrid vehicles | Partnership with OPPD to develop a large solar collection site | Bicycling on ...
Interpreting Federal Statutes of Limitations
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Determining whether the limitations provision of a federal statute bars a cause of action is not always a simple chronological calculation. Where a plaintiffs action might otherwise be barred as untimely, ...
Antipaternalism Principle in the First Amendment, The
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|The First Amendment expresses the idea that government should not be able to tell citizens what to speak, hear, write, or read. Yet this simple idea is riddled with exceptions so common they are barely ...
Like a Good Neighbor: The United States Supreme Court Ignored Malicious Conduct and Precedent to Ratchet Down Punitive Damages in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
INTRODUCTION|Before 1990, the United States Supreme Court abstained from ruling on the dimensions of substantive and procedural due process limitations for punitive damages awards. However, the landscape changed in 1996 ...
Right Decision for the Wrong Reason: The Supreme Court Correctly Invalidates the Texas Homosexual Sodomy Statute, but Rather Than Finding an Equal Protection Violation in Lawrence v. Texas, the Court Incorrectly and Unnecessarily Overrules Bowers v. Hardwick, The
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|In 1986, in Bowers v. Hardwick, the Supreme Court of the United States considered the constitutionality of a Georgia anti-sodomy statute as it applied to homosexuals. The Supreme Court in Bowers refused ...
Doe v. Pulaski County Special School District: The Eighth Circuit Jeopardizes an Individual's Protected Speech by Adhering to the Incorrect Standard in Distinguishing a True Threat from Protected Speech
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
INTRODUCTION|When the United States Supreme Court added true threats to the list of communications the First Amendment does not protect in Watts v. United States, it failed to announce any type of test courts should use ...
Glover v. Standard Federal Bank: The Eighth Circuit Proper Deference to Regulatory Interpretation and Upholds the Principles of Rule 23 in Denying Class Certification of a RESPA Claim
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
INTRODUCTION|In 1974, Congress passed the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ("RESPA"). Specifically, RESPA disallows certain types of fees in mortgage loan transactions; in particular what the statute refers to as ...
Singleton v. Norris: The Eighth Circuit Maneuvered around the Constitution by Forcibly Medicating Insane Prisoners to Create an Artificial Competence for Purposes of Execution
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
INTRODUCTION|The argument against involuntary medication stems from the belief that defendants have certain constitutional rights even while imprisoned and especially while awaiting execution. These constitutional rights ...
Two Concepts of Liberty Valance: John Ford, Isaiah Berlin, and Tragic Choice on the Frontier
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
INTRODUCTION|1962 was a good year for movies. In fact, two years ago a theater in Los Angeles held a retrospective of 1962 films called "The Greatest Year in Motion Picture History." That year saw Ingmar Bergman release ...
Tribute to Dean Lawrence Raful
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Sometimes you get lucky. We deans talk and not every relationship between predecessor and successor dean is a happy one. I'm lucky; mine is a happy one. I had the great fortune of succeeding Larry Raful ...