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...law??s requirement that immigrants carry required papers at all times is an unnecessary inconvenience—one that seems designed as a trap that will simply make it easier to arrest a greater number of immigrants. After all, is it really reasonable to expect an entire immigrant population to carry around a host of bureaucratic documents during every daily activity? Also, the bill does not provide nearly enough protection of the right to privacy, which, while not explicitly included in the Constitution, has nevertheless been upheld by the Supreme Court. Finally, allowing citizens to sue their cities...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Reasonable Suspicion? | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...order to accommodate the new courses, the original lineup of 1L classes—including civil procedure, criminal law, and property law??lost one hour a week of lecture time per class, Vice-Dean for Academic Programming Andrew L. Kaufman ’51 said...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Updates Course Offerings | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

Debate over the law??s cost, however, has yet to fade, despite the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s conclusion that it is fiscally responsible. In advancing their allegation that Democrats will add to the deficit, Republicans insist that the bill will cost Americans far more than the CBO report suggests. This claim is largely unfounded; in fact, the CBO regularly errs toward conservative estimates about cost savings because it fails to account for savings from intangible factors, such as better technology and systemic improvement. Considering these additional components, Harvard economist David Cutler estimates that...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: How ’Bout Them Dems | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

When laws are referenced by Clint Eastwood movie lines, it’s probably a good idea to reconsider the policy. In the United States, “Castle Doctrine”, or “Make my Day Law??, gives liberal scope for homeowners to use violence against burglars as seen fit. Meanwhile, in Britain, where it’s legal to kill a burglar if you have to, but not if you want to, Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge has just overturned the sentence of Munir Hussein, who chased a burglar down the street and gave...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Stolen Lives | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...placed [separate races] on separate continents,” in order to demonstrate that He did “not intend for [them] to mix.” In Naim v. Naim (1955), the Virginia Supreme Court similarly argued that there is a clear “natural law?? which renders interracial marriage a “corruption,” since God had clearly rendered different races with “different natures.” The Warren Court, however, rendered all of these concerns baseless, since marriage cannot be defined by the superficial characteristics of those...

Author: By Avishai D. Don | Title: Indecent Proposal | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

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