Paul Mark Sandler, partner/litigation chair of Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler, of Baltimore, has joined the board of directors of the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland for a three-year term. Sandler's trial practice includes representing defendants in criminal cases and plaintiffs in civil lawsuits, including personal injury lawsuits, as well as unusual constitutional law cases. Jonathan S. Beiser, an attorney in the Rockville office of Ashcraft & Gerel, recently joined the board of directors for Kids' Chance of Maryland, a tax-exempt organization that provides scholarships to children of Maryland workers who have been catastrophically or fatally injured during the course of their employment. Beisler is also co-chair of the Workers' Compensation Section of the Montgomery County Bar ...
Traditional First Amendment categorizations of speech content, entrenched as constitutional precedent through many cases and decades, fail to reflect the three fundamental philosophical categories of speech content: , historical interpretations, and viewpoints. In particular, courts ignore or grossly mishandle questions of what First Amendment protection to give . This constitutional mistreatment of -a considerable fraction of all speech content-suggests that structural infirmities may exist within the First Amendment's purportedly stable core. In this essay, we identify 's unique, knowable attributes not shared by the two other kinds of legally relevant speech. We then advance a novel argument: some instances of false ...
Introduction II. The Developmental Tradition In Constitutional Law A. The Foundational Cases: Meyer, Pierce, Barnette, Prince, Brown, And The Emerging Constitutional Interest In The Political Socialization Of Children B. Defending Footnote Eleven C. III. Developmental Perspectives On Citizenship A. Internalization Of The Caregiving Relationship B. Good-Enough Caregiving C. Caregiving And Societal Regression IV. Constitutional Family Law In The Developmental Tradition A. General Principles B. Rights In The Caregiving Relationship C. Political Socialization And The Safeguards Of Federalism V. Conclusion
[...] although this Essay focuses on privacy costs, Part IV briefly discusses what a broader understanding of these costs might mean for both constitutional jurisprudence and wise policy around disclosure in election law. 147 Classic disclosure cases allowing the NAACP to withhold the names of its members explicitly rely on protection of the individual members' rights, and allow the organizations to assert those personal rights on their behalf.148 A corporation, a political action committee, or a tax-exempt social welfare organization each has a legal identity that brings with it certain election-related rights - arguably more rights than ever after Citizens United v. FEC49 But these entities do not have individual privacy rights like natural persons do.150 Corporations cannot bring to...
Understanding the limits on universal jurisdiction under the Define and Punish Clause requires exploring its particularly obscure "Piracies and Felonies" provision.6 This inquiry also has important ramifications for the scope of the more often used "Offenses" power. Because maritime matters were so central to the life of the early Republic, almost all discussions of universal jurisdiction from the Founding Era until the twentieth century involved matters on the "high seas," and thus primarily implicate those powers. Because the requirement that the conduct be universally cognizable under international law is a constitutional limitation in ATS cases, it suggests that courts should be surer of conduct's universal jurisdiction status than perhaps would be necessary if the limitation was ...
While studying political science, P.K. Runkles-Pearson became so fascinated by the cases she came across in her constitutional law class that she decided to change her career focus from journalism to law. I wanted to take things that were complicated and make them simple," Runkles-Pearson said. "Many people can describe complex things in a complicated way. Simplifying something without stripping it of its real meaning is difficult, and that's what I spend a lot of my time as a lawyer doing.
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