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I. INTRODUCTION II. THE PAST AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE A. The Past: Working with Experts B. The Pulp Mills Evidence: Voluminous, Complex, Scientifi...
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U.S. Supreme Court NEWPORT v. FACT CONCERTS, INC., 453 U.S. 247 (1981) 453 U.S. 247
CITY OF NEWPORT ET AL. v. FACT CONCERTS, INC., ET AL. CERTIOR...
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When it comes to food mascots -- those iconic faces and names that we've heard so often over the years they are part of the fabric of our American life -- it can be difficult to discern the fact from the fiction.
I learned this recently when a friend commented that she was surprised when I printed in an article that Betty Crocker wasn't a real person. She never knew.
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Credit was once defined as "man's confidence in man.
But in fact, the definition of credit today is more like "man's confidence in himself."
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A popular myth in American constitutional law is that the "strict scrutiny" standard of review applied to enforce rights such as free speech and equal protection is strict in theory and fatal in fact. In recent years, however, this traditional understanding of strict scrutiny's inevitable deadliness has been challenged, most notably by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Rather than create insurmountable hurdles that indiscriminately invalidate laws, O'Connor argued, the fundamental purpose of strict scrutiny is to take relevant differences into account. This article contributes to this debate by offering a systematic empirical study of strict scrutiny in the federal courts. There is one area of law in which strict scrutiny has been widely recognized to be less than fatal in practice: free exe...
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IN THE SPRING OF 1935, at the depths of the Great Depression, Congress voted by a landslide to create Social Security--372 to 33 in the House and 77 t...
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Defending one's territory becomes the hidden theme as [Morgan Spurlock] continues to walk up to strangers and stick a microphone in their faces. And the greatest threat, in their notso-humble opinions, is the good ol' U.S. of A. Spurlock, who seems to hail from the left side of the political spectrum, isn't about to argue with that. But what's interesting is the sheer number of times someone says he loves the American people but hates the American government. Can that possibly be true? And, if so, is there a way we can build on it? Perhaps the chief value of the movie is the glimpse it provides of the way the Muslim world sees us. Compare that to Albert Brooks' Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, which only showed us how Brooks thought the Muslim world sees us. When he's not making ...