Plurality decisions on the Supreme Court represent extreme dissensus. In those cases, no clear majority is formed for any one controlling rationale for the final disposition. Such decisions are important to understand both because they result in the erosion of the Court's credibility and...

This article is the sixth annual review of the decisions of the Arizona Supreme Court, covering the period from August 1, 2002, to July 31, 2003. Extensive substantive treatment of all of the decisions is provided in this annual review by student-authored works. Preceding the analytical...

This article is the second annual review of the decisions of the Arizona Supreme Court, covering the period from July 1, 1998, to July 31, 1999. An annual review provides a current picture of the full scope of the court's work - the subject matter of the cases it decides, the sources of law used...

What is it about the nude female body that inspires irrationality, fear, and pandemonium, or at least inspires judges to write bad decisions? This Article offers an analysis of the Supreme Court's nude dancing cases from a perspective that is surprising within First Amendment discourse. This...

The ban on women between the ages of 10 and 50 years entering Sabarimala temple has been something of a sleeper scandal. For decades there has been a low-level disagreement within Kerala regarding the ban's parameters and validity, but the issue received relatively little traction in the public...

The U.S. Supreme Court's October 2007 Term had a substantial and notable criminal docket. There were very significant Second, Sixth and Eighth Amendment decisions, as well as important rulings relating to basic habeas corpus principles and Federal statutes. This article provides a selected...

This article summarizes the arguments made against the juvenile death penalty in a U.S. Supreme Court amici curiae brief in Domingues v. State, 961 P.2d 1279 (Nev. 1998), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 963 (1999), and rebuts some of the State's propositions made in its response. It argues that United...

This essay, which is aimed primarily but not exclusively at audiences in the field of philosophy, originated in a lecture prepared for a series on quot;Natural Moral Law and Contemporary Societyquot; at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. Using the Supreme Court's...