Statutory Anachronism as a Constitutional Doctrine

The "Presumption of Innocence" as Constitutional Doctrine

Databases, Doctrine, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure

Over the past twenty years there has been an explosion in the creation, availability, and use of criminal justice databases. Large scale database systems now routinely influence law enforcement decisions ranging from formal determinations to arrest or convict an individual to informal judgments to subject a person to secondary pre-flight screening or investigate possible gang membership. Eviden...

Medicaid assistance for elective abortions: the statutory and constitutional issues.

INTRODUCTION In Roe v. Wade,' the Supreme Court held that women have the right 2 to an abortion free from any state interference 3 during the first trimester of pregnancy, but that from the commencement of the second trimester, the state may impose such regulations as are reasonably related to maternal health. 4 The ramifications of this landmark decision5 are not yet completely clear. One issu...

Lifting as a KZ-Doctrine

Synopsis. In a cartesian closed category with an initial object and a dominance that classiies it, an intensional notion of approximation between maps |the path relation (c.f. link relation)| is deened. It is shown that if such a category admits strict/upper-closed factorisations then it preorder-enriches (as a cartesian closed category) with respect to the path relation. By imposing further ax...

The Squeal Rule: Statutory Resolution and Constitutional Implications-burdening the Minor's Right of Privacy

Since 1942 the United States Supreme Court has on several occasions considered individual rights related to sexual activity, and the extent to which the government permissibly may infringe these rights.' The individual's rights to make personal decisions regarding abortion and contraception free from governmental intrusion derive from a broader and more fundamental right of privacy 2 that the C...