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"Reasonably predictable": the reluctance to embrace judicial discretion for substantial assistance departures.
November 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION
In United States v. Booker, the Supreme Court held that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines ("the Guidelines") are no longer mandatory. (1) Even so, in its remedial opinion, the Booker Court instructed sentencing courts to...
Medicinal marijuana and palliative care: carving a liberty interest out of the Glucksberg framework.
November 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION
On August 15, 2002, Butte County deputy sheriffs and federal agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA") arrived at Diane Monson's house with a search warrant and discovered six cannabis plants. (1) The deputies...
Subtle but pervasive: discrimination against mothers and pregnant women in the workplace.
November 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION
Laurie Anne Freeman, a world-renowned expert on information technology and Japanese politics and a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received extremely positive...
The death penalty and the debate over the U.S. Supreme Court's citation of foreign and international law.
November 1, 2006... BACKGROUND
Is it appropriate to use foreign and international law to interpret the United States Constitution? Should the United States Supreme Court be permitted to cite foreign and international law in interpreting the U.S. Constitution?...
"Special" delivery: where do national security letters fit into the Fourth Amendment?
November 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION
In the summer of 2005, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") visited George Christian, a digital services manager for over three-dozen Connecticut libraries (1) and presented him with a "National Security...