Digital Realty, Legislative History, and Textualism After Scalia

The Court After Scalia

Standardization of Digital Legislative Documents

The paper describes a research in progress analyzing legislative documents handled in the Finnish parliament and government, and studying means for developing standards for the documents. The current document management status in the Finnish parliament and government as well as problems in the management are described. The paper discusses the special features of legislative documents and shows ...

The Immorality of Textualism

The legislative and litigation history of special education.

Between the mid 1960s and 1975, state legislatures, the federal courts, and the U.S. Congress spelled out strong educational rights for children with disabilities. Forty-five state legislatures passed laws mandating, encouraging, and/or funding special education programs. Federal courts, interpreting the equal protection and due process guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constit...

Social Security Amendments of 1958: A Summary and Legislative History

* Commissioner of Social Security. SI G N I F I C A N T a n d far reaching changes i n the programs of oldage, survivors, a n d disability insurance, public assistance, a n d m a t e r nal a n d c h i l d h e a l t h a n d welfare were made by Publ ic L a w 85-840, signed by Pres ident E i s e n h o w e r o n August 28, 1958. Increases i n benefits under the old-age, survivors , a n d disabilit...