Stories Collection

  1. INTRODUCTION On the afternoon of April 27, 1983, off the Virginia coast, Marine...
  2. I. INTRODUCTION "Restricting [indecent] criminal material on the Internet ...
  3. The law is meant to be a way in which people can live together in spite of their dif...
  4. INTRODUCTION The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits all l...
  5. The failure to enforce the Tax Laws against some to whom they apply, to the detrimen...
  6. INTRODUCTION Recent litigation brought against cigarette manufacturers,(1) sof...
  7. I. INTRODUCTION In the beginning, Nature was the law. And, the law had vision, ...
  8. INTRODUCTION For nearly forty-five years, courts have protected the marketable ...
  9. I. INTRODUCTION This Article is about changes in the role and the form of the t...
  10. INTRODUCTION In 1984, Congress amended section 707 of title 11, United States ...
  11. INTRODUCTION Governmental regulation of the uses of private land goes back as ...
  12. "[S]ome things invite understanding and others do not."(1) INTRODUCT...
  13. I. INTRODUCTION The ideal of neutrality is at the heart of modern First Amendme...
  14. I. INTRODUCTION On February 11, 1997, in Douglaston Manor, Inc. v. Bahrakis(1) ...
  15. INTRODUCTION As our nation approaches the turn of our third century, there has ...
  16. "That `all things flow' is the first vague generalization which the unsystemati...
  17. I. INTRODUCTION Justice William Brennan urged state courts to employ independe...
  18. Over two decades have passed since Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. called for state ...
  19. I. INTRODUCTION The independence of a state high court can be gauged by the f...
  20. Most of our understanding of judicial behavior stems from research on the federal co...
  21. INTRODUCTION Horizontal federalism, a theory of constitutional interpretation,...
  22. While the text of the national Constitution of 1787 did not provide specific authori...
  23. In Federalist No. 45, James Madison stated that "[t]he powers delegated by the ...
  24. As the 1996-1997 Term of the United States Supreme Court drew to a close, it became ...
  25. Born in Bangkok, Thailand to American missionaries, I grew up without television or ...
  26. As a Court of Appeals Judge, I have had many "hard" writings-writings that...
  27. "Nothing that lacks justice can be morally right."(1) INTRODUCTION...
  28. The renaissance in state constitutional law is nearly in full bloom. Lawyers are bec...
  29. INTRODUCTION Numerous state supreme courts have been asked to examine the ext...
  30. I. INTRODUCTION Our republic consists of a national government and fifty state...
  31. CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICS IN THE STATES: CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSIES AND HISTORICAL PAT...
  32. I. INTRODUCTION The New Mexico Supreme Court has been called upon a number of ...
  33. I. INTRODUCTION The multilateral convention to create rules concerning intern...
  34. I. INTRODUCTION Let me begin by thanking Professor Borchers for inviting me to...
  35. INTRODUCTION The United States is a member of international organizations whos...
  36. I. INTRODUCTION A lawsuit is filed. It states a valid claim. It possesses a l...
  37. INTRODUCTION Courts have recently wrestled with the relationship between paten...
  38. I. INTRODUCTION The topic which I address differs somewhat from today's theme...
  39. I. INTRODUCTION The United States is engaged in negotiating a judgments-recog...
  40. INTRODUCTION Despite all of the attention given to personal jurisdiction in c...
  41. INTRODUCTION To have the virus that causes AIDS, or the gene that predicts Hu...
  42. I. INTRODUCTION As fragile living beings we walk the world at risk for injury....
  43. Routine encounters with health care advertisements have become standard realities of...
  44. I. INTRODUCTION New York State is now in the midst of a massive, complex effor...
  45. INTRODUCTION I. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF REPORTING AS A PUBLIC HEALTH...
  46. I. INTRODUCTION Corporate America is concerned about AIDS--and it should be.(1...
  47. I want to congratulate the editors of the Albany Law Review for scheduling this symp...
  48. I. INTRODUCTION As we consider what we have learned in the years of the HIV e...
  49. INTRODUCTION AIDS is unique, and those who have been exposed to AIDS have been...
  50. INTRODUCTION In recent years, the escalation of AIDS into a national crisis ha...
  51. INTRODUCTION Forecasting is always a risky business, particularly at the begi...
  52. A comparison with anti-Semitism comes to mind. After the traumas of the Holocaust mo...
  53. I. Introduction Since the enactment of the Federal Magistrates Act (Act)(1) in...
  54. Introduction In contemporary American culture the traditional nuclear family, ...
  55. I. INTRODUCTION In 1989 the United States Supreme Court decided Price Waterhou...
  56. I. Introduction The inadequacy of state and federal funds to meet developing ...
  57. The recent development of reliable scientific evidentiary methods has made it ...
  58. In the Name of Allah (God), Most Gracious, Most Merciful O mankind! rev...
  59. [W]hen I most want to be contemporary the Past keeps pushing in, and when I long for...
  60. Virtuous women, like young girls, are unconsenting, virginal, rapable. Unvirtuous wo...
  61. Introduction From its infancy, the Internal Revenue Code has contained an exc...
  62. I. Introduction Traditionally, the substantive use of learned treatises at tri...
  63. I. Introduction Many interactive computer services,(1) such as America Online ...
  64. Today, a law student seeking admission to the bar in the vast majority of American j...
  65. I. Introduction Let's start with a classic example transposed to a new settin...
  66. I. Introduction In many respects the Supreme Court's 1989 decision, City of R...
  67. "When the law immunizes official violations of substantive rules because the co...
  68. Success in these matters is as mathematicians would say, a function of the adv...
  69. Recourse to our state constitution as an independent source for recognizing an...
  70. I. Introduction The constitutional right to privacy remains one of the most c...
  71. The mere mention of Vermont conjures up images of a rocky and rugged state inhabited...
  72. Because the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution ...
  73. I. Introduction This Comment is a decision making profile of the Vermont Supre...
  74. Introductory Note and Retrospective Disillusionment with the political process...
  75. Introduction Over her nearly two decades on Connecticut's high court, former ...
  76. I. INTRODUCTION The territory, and later the state, that became known as Utah ...
  77. I. Introduction Is the Alaska Supreme Court "`a north star that could gui...
  78. I. Introduction In trying to describe how judges decide cases, the renowned S...
  79. Is a political party free to exclude groups and causes it does not want within its f...
  80. Commonwealth v. Berkowitz,(1) the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's 1994 ruling affirming...
  81. "The calculated killing of a human being by the State involves, by its very nat...
  82. On Tuesday, November 5, 1996 California voters amended their state constitution by a...
  83. I. Introduction In the competitive arena of the national market for consumer ...
  84. I. INTRODUCTION Over the last few years, a new issue in criminal procedure has...
  85. I. Introduction [A] free society is maintained when government is res...
  86. "No one can read the perpetuities cases ... without some sense of nausea....
  87. I. INTRODUCTION Touted by proponents as a "bold and fiscally responsible ...
  88. I. Introduction The United States has recognized the importance of biological ...
  89. I. Introduction [M]arriage should be regarded as indissoluble in itself, for the ...
  90. An escalating problem exists in the area of cross-border investment between the Unit...
  91. I. Introduction During the second semester of my first year of law school, my ...
  92. I. Introduction Imagine receiving a letter from the U.S. Attorney's office sa...
  93. I. The Ex Post Facto Prohibition as the Central Issue Under federal legislatio...
  94. I. Introduction In November 1994, the Republican Party took control of the Uni...
  95. Introduction(1) Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women betw...
  96. Perhaps no area of public legislation generates as much controversy, or attracts as ...
  97. That four great nations flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the h...
  98. I. INTRODUCTION Until very recently, violence against women was not thought of...
  99. INTRODUCTION The primary focus of this Article is on certain alleged claims of...
  100. It was a cold winter night in 1989 in a Central Australian Aboriginal communit...
  101. After hearing the insightful presentations of the panel participants, I am struck by...
  102. Shortly before this Albany Law Review Symposium, the New York Times reported the dea...
  103. The idea of a free market has been one of the most influential and successful in his...
  104. "The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never ...
  105. I. INTRODUCTION The central theme of this Article, "Sex, Culture, and Rig...
  106. I. INTRODUCTION During the twentieth century, four times as many civilians hav...
  107. TORT A private or civil wrong or injury, . . . for which the court will provide ...
  108. INTRODUCTION Conventional wisdom has it that the success, or failure, of the ad ...
  109. Thank you, Professor Halewood. As the beneficiary, I am pleased that introductions a...
  110. "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story a...
  111. The language of international law is changing. Violence against persons and force am...
  112. I. INTRODUCTION The United States has the opportunity to make a positive, def...
  113. Nowhere else in Africa has so much violence killed so many people on so many o...
  114. I. INTRODUCTION To the extent that violence against women and sexual minoritie...
  115. I. INTRODUCTION There can be no more dramatic evidence of the progress and ev...
  116. In 1875, the North-West Mounted Police decided to construct a fort at the junction o...
  117. Poliomyelitis was the most feared of diseases in the first half of the twentieth cen...
  118. Remembering Chinook Country: Told and Untold Stories of Our Past. 359 pp., illus., p...
  119. The House with the Light On by Eleanor King Byers. 221 pp., illus., paper. Avai...
  120. Letters Home: The Wartime Correspondence and Diary of John Edwin Gardiner, RCAF, (19...
  121. The Speediest Land Traveller: A History of Alberta Auto Racing by Richard McDon...
  122. "The Golden Horn of Plenty pours a wealth of factories and industries into the ...
  123. The University Act was passed in 1906, and the first classes held in a schoolroom in...
  124. The western provinces voted in favour of prohibition in 1915, to become effective on...
  125. Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants, The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP by Wi...
  126. Historical Society of Alberta December 11, 2004 to March 1, 2005 Voyageur ($100...
  127. "Edmonton's Horn of More than a Plenty" Edmonton profited by the 1912...
  128. "The World's Greatest Problem. What is the Answer?" In 1919 a meeting...
  129. In October 1918, returning soldiers brought the worldwide flu epidemic to Alberta. W...
  130. On July 13, 2004, Premier Ralph Klein announced that Alberta was the only debt-free ...
  131. "The Protest of the West" Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier and Justice ...
  132. "Red Deer will bear watching" With tongue in cheek, C.F. Forrester sh...
  133. Marquis wheat was developed in a laboratory by Charles Saunders in 1904. A few sampl...
  134. "Nailing the Colours" History was made in the province when the Unite...
  135. By 1933, the West was in the depths of the Great Depression. The plight of the farme...
  136. We Are Included: The MEtis People of Canada Realize Rielis Vision by John W. Fr...
  137. Frank Oliver and Prime Minister Laurier sing with happiness as Alberta is denied con...
  138. When this cartoon appeared in the Edmonton Journal, March 18, 1911, negotiations wer...
  139. "The New Signalman" On Aug. 21, 1935, the day before the provincial e...
  140. More Legends of the Elders, by John W. and Virginia Friesen. Calgary: Detselig Enter...
  141. When Ralph Klein became premier he promised to downsize the government and balance t...
  142. A world-class conference was held in Lethbridge to promote the use of irrigation. It...
  143. "A Steer's Nightmare" The first Calgary Stampede in 1912 was a huge s...
  144. "Bob St. Henry Romps Aloft at Exhibition Grounds Today" Perhaps the n...
  145. Alberta's liquor laws, which had remained relatively unchanged since Prohibition, al...
  146. Alberta's first Olympics were held in February, bringing athletes from all over the ...
  147. The completion of a railway from Edmonton to Athabasca was heralded as an historical...
  148. "A United Empire" The Edmonton Journal depicted unity with Britain an...
  149. The Social Credit party was virtually wiped out at the polls in Alberta when the Con...
  150. "But dear, we can't afford one." The introduction of television to Ed...
  151. On Oct. 28, 1980, federal Energy Minister Marc Lalond introduced the National Energy...
  152. Long before the capital was chosen, Frank Oliver, editor of the Edmonton Bulletin an...
  153. Political cartoons have been with us ever since the days of Leonardo de Vinci when a...
  154. "The Old Medicine Man and the New Cure-All" On July 24, just weeks be...
  155. "Why Ten Million Men are Under Arms" This cartoon of Adolf Hitler in ...
  156. "Soup Line" On May 19, 1976 during the high oil prices, the governmen...
  157. Bob Edwards in the Calgary Eye Opener, Sept. 23, 1905, shows the Alberta cabinet mee...
  158. In the spring, CJCA in Edmonton became the first station in Alberta to air a radio b...
  159. After World War One, grain prices fell from $1.55 a bushel in 1920 to 56 cents in 19...
  160. "Make Way for the Stampeders" Canada's Grey Cup was never the same af...
  161. In 1973 Syncrude Canada began to build a refinery to extract oil from the Athabasca ...
  162. Shortly after the turn of the century, immigrants began flocking into Alberta, boost...
  163. With the completion of the of the railway to Edson, the winter of 1910-11 was spent ...
  164. On April 19, 1916, the Alberta legislature passed an Act extending the vote to women...
  165. "Catching Up" Postwar reconstruction was a major concern after 1945. ...
  166. James Gladstone became the first Indian appointed to the Senate of Canada. A member ...
  167. "No Change on the Horizon" The first Alberta government was beset by ...
  168. "J'Ever See Such Luck?" Merchants cheered with the discovery of oil a...
  169. "Kaiserism in Alberta" During the latter years of World War One, the ...
  170. "Another Welcome Shower" Strangely, cartoonists appear to have been s...
  171. Death, Danger and Disaster in the Crowsnest Pass Mines, 1902-28 by Karen Buckle...
  172. Harm's Way: Disasters in Western Canada edited by Anthony Rasporich and Max Foran. C...
  173. Three Rivers Beckoned: Life & Times with Calgary Mayor Jack Leslie by Jean Lesli...
  174. The building of the railways was essential to the development of the Canadian West. ...
  175. Persecution was a significant factor in bringing both the members of the Church of J...
  176. Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century edited by Bradford J. Rennie. Regina: Cana...
  177. The first gold bricks ever brought out of the upper Peace River country passed throu...
  178. On the Way: The Military History of Lethbridge, Alberta (1914-1945) and the Untold S...
  179. In spite of the work of the squad of plain clothes men working for the city in conne...
  180. In the mid 1920s, my father, John Sorensen, came from Denmark, first to the United S...
  181. Saskatchewan First Nations: Lives Past and Present, edited by Christian Thompson. Re...
  182. The Buffalo Bill Historical Center has asked that credit be given to those who donat...
  183. People of the Plains, by Amelia M. Paget. Regina: Great Plains Research Center, 78 p...
  184. Naming Edmonton: From Ada to Zoie, compiled by Historic Sites Committee, Edmonton Hi...
  185. The Tallpecs of Alberta & Saskatchewan, by Harry Palmer. Calgary: Art of Harry P...
  186. Castles to Forts: A True History of Edmonton by Phillip R. Coutu. Edmonton: Thunderw...
  187. Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers, and Unabashed Grafters: A Bob Edwards Chres...
  188. The Mayor has decided to have the town by-laws enforced in future, with a view to ma...
  189. The Society wishes to acknowledge and thank the following persons and organizations ...
  190. The Mounties March West, 327 pp. and Mountain Men, 222 pp. both by Tony Holliha...
  191. With the onset of the Depression in 1929, once plentiful jobs and personal choice in...
  192. The Fur and Robe Trade in Blackfoot Country, 1831 to 1880: National Fur Trade Sympos...
  193. The reported discovery of gold near Chief Mountain has excited considerable interest...
  194. Pete Knight, The Cowboy King by Darryl Knight. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises, 1...
  195. The Banff Indian Days was a major celebration in the mountain townsite from the turn...
  196. In December of 1906, nearly 500 men from the Alberta Railway & Irrigation Compan...
  197. One of Calgary's longest serving and best loved newspaper columnists discovered her ...
  198. A Prisoner of War Diary: The Ray Heard Memoirs, 1939-45, by Raymond Heard. Red Deer:...
  199. The Al Azhar Mounted Patrol 50th Anniversary, compiled by Munroe Nimma. 78 pp., illu...