This article offers a brief comparative look at American and British jurisprudential pending selection reforms, and argues that American states could improve their appointive systems by incorporating modern personnel recruitment and hiring practices. To restore public confidence in the courts, people must believe that judges exercise legitimate authority, undistorted by personal or partisan pre...

The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, also called Proposition 71 [5], was a ballot initiative proposed by California voters in 2004 to allocate three billion dollars of state funds for stem cell research over ten years. Endorsed by California scientists and patient-advocates, Prop 71 passed on 2 November 2004, amending the state constitution to make stem cell research a constitutiona...

The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, also called Proposition 71 [5], was a ballot initiative proposed by California voters in 2004 to allocate three billion dollars of state funds for stem cell research over ten years. Endorsed by California scientists and patient-advocates, Prop 71 passed on 2 November 2004, amending the state constitution to make stem cell research a constitutiona...

Critics of Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have asserted that Virginia lacked standing to even raise the issue. Such criticism is inconsistent with foundational understandings of the role of states in providing a check on federal power and with the modern standing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, especially as reflected in the C...

The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, also called Proposition 71 [5], was a ballot initiative proposed by California voters in 2004 to allocate three billion dollars of state funds for stem cell research over ten years. Endorsed by California scientists and patient-advocates, Prop 71 passed on 2 November 2004, amending the state constitution to make stem cell research a constitutiona...

The gloss criticizes the judgment of Constitutional Tribunal February 24, 2021 (SK 39/19) which stated that Art. 1a § 1 point 3 Act 12 January 1991 on local taxes and duties, understood in way connection land, building or non-building structure with conduct economic activity is determined solely by possession entrepreneur other entity conducting activity, inconsistent 64 sec. 31 84 Constitution...

Under section 84 of the Sheriff and Civil Process Act, before a judgment creditor can garnishee money debtor that is under control or custody public officer, consent Attorney General must be sought obtained. The legality this position law vis-vis constitutional provisions subject everybody to judicial powers court has been controversy. Plethora authorities in regard not settled This article exa...

Many of our states continue to make broadly worded inquiries on bar application forms as to the mental health of the applicants. Constitutional attacks on the propriety of such inquiries have been unsuccessful. Since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, however, the courts have ruled against the legality of nonspecific inquiries into issues that are not relevant to the ap...

In Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), the US Supreme Court held in a five-to-four decision that the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act [5] passed by the US Congress was constitutional. Although the Court previously ruled in Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) that a Nebraska law that prohibited partial-birth abortions [6] was unconstitutional, Gonzales reversed this decision. Gonzales created the precedent th...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 304 I. COMMUNICATION AND CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION .............. 309 A. Basic Constitutional Communication .......................................... 311 1. Framers and Judges ............................................................... 312 2. Text......... .........................