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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 ...
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 ...
Larry Raful
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
INTRODUCTION|In 1988, Father Michael Morrison asked Lawrence Raful, Associate Dean and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, to come to Creighton University Law School to become its ...
Larry Raful
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|I first met Larry Raful at a Creighton University alumni event here in Des Moines. He struck me as a person who truly enjoyed events such as that and a person who was not merely "going through the motions." ...
Our Saint, Larry
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|I am certain that Larry Raful was not named by his parents after St. Lawrence the martyr, but this good saint would be pleased to share that name. Saint Lawrence was a deacon in charge of giving help to ...
Larry Raful
(Creighton University School of Law, 2004)
INTRODUCTION|I first met Larry Raful, then Dean Raful, when I started law school at Creighton in 1992. He welcomed me into his law school to fill my brain with case law, legal theory, and Socratic Method. He welcomed me ...
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 ...