Parochial school seeks equal protection from state athletic association.
Christian Heritage Academy v. Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit 483 F.3d 1025 April 9, 2007 In Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association v. Brentwood Academy (2007), the U.S. Supreme Court held that an anti-recruiting rule enforced...

Measure 54: An easy yes.
Byline: The Register-Guard Even though Measure 54 would lower the legal age to 18 from 21, it isn't remotely controversial. That's because the legislatively referred change to Oregon's Constitution deals with voting, not drinking. So banish any fleeting association with the current national debate over the appropriate...

Constitutional law. 3d ed.
9780735573390 Constitutional law. 3d ed. Ed. by Neil C. Blond. Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2007 471 pages $28.95 Paperback Blond's law guides KF4550 Part of a series of law school...

Higher batting averages or safety?
Deaths and serious injuries related to the use of non-wood bats have been an issue in recent years. On April 2, 1999, Andrew Sanchez, a pitcher for California State University, Northridge, was struck by a line drive off an aluminum bat and suffered serious head injuries (Sanchez v. Hillerich...

The constitution and economic regulation; objective theory and critical commentary.
9781412807746 The constitution and economic regulation; objective theory and critical commentary. Conant, Michael. Transaction Publishers 2008 308 pages $59.95 Hardcover KF1600 Conant (emeritus, Walter A. Haas School of Business, U. of...

Question: who can vote?
This year's rollercoaster primary elections and the pending national election, with an anticipated record voter turnout, provide the perfect backdrop for an examination of the questions: Who can vote? And, Who will vote? We can examine this question through the NCSS themes of (II) Time, Continuity, and Change; (VII)...

Appellate court overturns Pacifica developer's award of damages.
An award of $665,000 in damages and legal expenses to a developer in Pacifica has been thrown out by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The unanimous three-judge panel determined that a questionable condition of project approval that the city eventually repealed did not constitute a violation of...

Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes.
Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes. By Gerald N. Magliocca. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 186 pp. In recent years, we have seen a boomlet of interest in Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian era, with a variety of new biographies...

Judge defies govt. Muslim charity convictions cut.
Byline: Lee Hammel BOSTON - Asserting that the courts are not a tool of executive policy, U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV yesterday overturned a number of the convictions of a Shrewsbury man and two former Worcester residents charged with defrauding the government to get undeserved...

Editors' comments.
The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s in the United States, spearheaded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spread to other segments of American society. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under the law and due process to all citizens was applied to other "minority"...