Iowa Law Review articles from February 2009

Iowa Law Review archives from February 2009

Unofficial family law.
February 1, 2009... ABSTRACT: This Essay explores a type of legal pluralism found in secular societies, including the United States, in which minority groups adhere to unofficial religious law norms within a larger framework of state family law. Official and...

Court-system transparency.
February 1, 2009... ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, the federal courts became the world's most transparent court system by switching from paper to electronic filing, resolving daunting privacy problems, and posting their case files on the Internet. Now they are...

Patent disclosure.
February 1, 2009... ABSTRACT: Patent law is premised on the onward march of science and technology. Patent law encourages cumulative innovation, both by dangling the patent before the inventor as an incentive to invent in the first instance and by requiring him to...

In the zone: sex offenders and the ten-percent solutions.
February 1, 2009... ABSTRACT: At first glance, sex-offender residency restrictions appear plausible because they ostensibly place a convicted sex offender's residence out of reach of children. However, these regimes address less than ten percent of the very real...

A post-Granholm analysis of Iowa's regulatory framework for wine distribution.
February 1, 2009... ABSTRACT: Wine-distribution laws across the country have been in considerable flux since the Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Granholm v. Heald, which struck down New York and Michigan laws regulating the direct shipment of wine to consumers as...

The psychological-parent and de facto-parent doctrines: how should the Uniform Parentage Act define "parent"?
February 1, 2009... ABSTRACT: This Note analyzes the psychological-parent and de facto-parent doctrines. These court-created doctrines allow third parties to gain standing to petition a court for the visitation of children. Such third parties are not biologically...

What's it to you? The difficulty of valuing the benefits of climate-change mitigation and the need for a public-goods test under dormant commerce clause analysis.
February 1, 2009... ABSTRACT: In an effort to minimize its contribution to climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, California enacted California Senate Bill 1368. The bill prohibits utilities from purchasing electrical power from plants that emit more...

Backing bundled discounts after Brooke Group: analyzing the debate over the legality of above-cost bundled discounts.
February 1, 2009... ABSTRACT: Congress passed the Sherman Act in 1890 to restrain Standard Oil's monopolistic practices. The Act seeks to foster an appropriate level of competition while forbidding overly zealous competition, such as predatory pricing, that...