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Spinning the Legislative Veto [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to comment on Judge Breyer\u27s proposal for a fast-track substitute to the legislative veto. Although the Supreme Court invalidated the legislative veto device in INS v.
Spann, Girardeau A
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Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Mexico

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
wiley   +1 more source

Aereo and Internet Television: A Call to Save the Dukes (A La Carte) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck. The most recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Copyright Act employed this “duck test” when determining that Aereo, an Internet content-streaming ...
Patel, Pooja
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Opinion of the Judges of the Supreme Court relative to the right of a Husband to Vote on his Wife’s Real Estate [Given March 30, 1878]. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1878
The Rhode Island State Supreme Court issued this opinion in response to the question of “Can a husband, under the State constitution, Article II, Section 1, be entitled to vote by virtue of any right or interest which he may have as husband in the real ...
Supreme Court, Rhode Island State
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

Epilogue: The Ever-Evolving Preliminary Legislative Procedure

open access: yesEuropean Papers
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2025 10(3), 889-913 | Article | (Table of Contents) 1. Introduction. – 2. Preliminary ruling instead of direct review: interpretation with(out) (limited) facts. – 3.
Michal Bobek
doaj   +1 more source

Random Chance or Loaded Dice: The Politics of Judicial Designation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
[Excerpt] “In the 1950s and 1960s, the southern states struggled to respond to the civil rights decisions being issued by the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the new civil rights laws being passed by Congress.
Peppers, Todd C.   +2 more
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