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State RICO Survey
G. Robert Blakey
The Rico Act was designed to go after the Mob bosses. The top Dons that kept there hands clean of any dirty business yet profited from it were for a long time untouchable by law enforcement. However, under RICO, not only is the person who commits the crime but those that are in partnership with the criminal and have knowledge of the crime can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity."
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State and Campus: State Regulation of Religiously Affiliated Higher Education
Tex Dutile and Edward McGlynn Gaffney Jr.
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"A" Level Law
Geoffrey Bennett, Brian Hogan, and Peter Seago
This book has been designed to meet the needs of the growing numbers of law students at "A" Level. Coverage is tailored to the syllabus requirements of the Oxford and the Joint Matriculation Examining Boards; its clear comprehensive exposition of the law will be of use to all "A" Level students. 521 pp.
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Fundamentals of Ethics
John M. Finnis
Are we entitled to be confident that our moral judgements can be objective? Can they express insights into aspects of reality, rather than mere feelings, tastes, desires, decisions, upbringing, or conventions? Why must we consider some of our choices to be free, and how do our free choices matter? How far should our moral judgements be based on assessments of expected consequences? Can utilitarianism, and other consequentialist or proportionalist theories, be anything more than the rationalization of positions taken on other grounds?
The main theme of this book is the challenge to ethics from philosophical scepticism and from contemporary forms of consequentialism. But in seeking to meet this challenge, the book develops a sustained philosophical argument about many of the central questions of ethics. It reviews classical positions, and challenges some long-influential interpretations of those positions. It also reviews and participates in some recent developments and controversies in Anglo-American ethical theory.
The activity of ethical theorizing itself is shown to be a matter of free and intelligent decision, in pursuit of intelligible good; it thus provides a test-case for any ethical theory.
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Early Childhood Intervention and Juvenile Delinquency
Tex Dutile, Cleon H. Foust, and D. Robert Webster
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Der Gleichheitssatz im modernen Verfassungsstaat
Donald P. Kommers
Book Chapter
Donald P. Kommers, Der Gleichheitssatz: Neuere Entwicklungen im Verfassungsrecht der USA und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, in Der Gleichheitssatz im modernen Verfassungsstaat 31 (Christoph Link ed., 1982)
Symposium on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Gerhard Leibholz
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The plot to kill the President
G. Robert Blakey
Individuals are walking the streets of American today who should be and eventually may be indicted for the unrequited murder of President John F. Kennedy. The President was not the victim of a nut gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, alone, but of an organized crime conspiracy. This is the sensational scenario of the book that qualifies as the definitive account of the most consequential assassination in twentieth-century America. This book is more than the fruit of the two-year $5-million dollar Congressional investigation that Robert Blakey directed as as Chief Counsel with Richard Billings. It contains also the authors further inquires and their uninhibited personal insight, free of Committee restraints. What Robert Blakey and Richard Billings' book discloses are the detailed facts supporting this fascinating thesis.
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Sanctions Imposable for Violations of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Kenneth F. Ripple, Carol Mooney, and Robert E. Rodes Jr.
This 1981 Federal Judicial Center paper surveys the current state of the law with respect to sanctions for violations of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as reported in both the case law and the secondary literature. The focus is on litigation behavior that results in the imposition of sanctions and the factors considered important by federal courts in determining which sanctions to apply.
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Sanctions Imposable for Violations of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Kenneth F. Ripple, Robert E. Rodes Jr, Carol Mooney, and Robert E. Rodes
This 1981 Federal Judicial Center paper surveys the current state of the law with respect to sanctions for violations of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as reported in both the case law and the secondary literature. The focus is on litigation behavior that results in the imposition of sanctions and the factors considered important by federal courts in determining which sanctions to apply.
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Natural Law and Natural Rights
John M. Finnis
First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other readers a thorough grounding in the central issues of legal, moral, and political philosophy from Finnis's distinctive perspective. This new edition includes a substantial postscript by the author, in which he responds to thirty years of discussion, criticism and further work in the field to develop and refine the original theory. The book closely integrates the philosophy of law with ethics, social theory and political philosophy. The author develops a sustained and substantive argument; it is not a review of other people's arguments but makes frequent illustrative and critical reference to classical, modern, and contemporary writers in ethics, social and political theory, and jurisprudence. The preliminary First Part reviews a century of analytical jurisprudence to illustrate the dependence of every descriptive social science upon evaluations by the theorist. A fully critical basis for such evaluations is a theory of natural law. Standard contemporary objections to natural law theory are reviewed and shown to rest on serious misunderstandings. The Second Part develops in ten carefully structured chapters an account of: basic human goods and basic requirements of practical reasonableness, community and 'the common good'; justice; the logical structure of rights-talk; the bases of human rights, their specification and their limits; authority, and the formation of authoritative rules by non-authoritative persons and procedures; law, the Rule of Law, and the derivation of laws from the principles of practical reasonableness; the complex relation between legal and moral obligation; and the practical and theoretical problems created by unjust laws
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Derechos Humanos y Relaciones Internacionales
Donald P. Kommers
Book Chapter
Donald P. Kommers, La Universalidad y Proteccion de los Derechos Humanos, in Derechos Humanos y Relaciones Internacionales 71 (Walter Sánchez ed., 1979)
LThe idea of human rights guides our time. In our world today there is greater awareness and sensitivity towards the aspirations of men and women, everywhere, to improve their lives and realize their potential as human beings. As a result, the international community has taken initiatives, even if they are still imperfect, to protect people's rights. This essay briefly underlines the universality of certain human rights and discusses national and global strategies for the universal protection of these principles.
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