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Empire Law Review
VOLUME 4 - SPRING 2009
• A "Growing" Concern: Have California's Efforts to Legalize and Regulate Medical Marijuana Been Successful? by Tanya Scott
• California Supreme Court Strips Governor of the Right to Prevent Lifer's Parole by Rene Casilli
• Curing Discrimination: May Doctors Refuse to Treat Lesbian Patients? by Christina Mortensen and Karin Stoeckenius
• It's Not Easy Being Green: The Absolute Pollution Exclusion and the Changing Climate of Doing Business in California Post-MacKinnon by Jane Gaskell and Victoria Lancaster
• The Notification Requirement of the Fair Credit Reporting Act in Insurance Underwriting: Clarifying the Willfulness Standard in Civil Actions by Maggie Brothers and Phil Hatfield
• One Free Assault: Castaneda v. Olsher Affirms the Prior Similar Incidents Test As the Measure of a Landlord's Liability for Gang Violence on the Premises by Darin Bartow and Benjamin Karpilow
VOLUME 3 - SPRING 2008
• Brendlin v. California: Expansion of Fourth Amendment Standing or the End of a Legal Fiction? by Caitlin Casey and Richard Koman
• I Can't Promise I'll Try, but I'll Try to Try: Current Changes in California's Water Planning Policies for Large-Scale Land Developments by Kathleen Mullins Henderson and Maureen Reilly
• Between Voluntary Incentives and Manmade Burdens, Who Is to Bear the Risk? The Economics of Climate Change by Marie Artesse and Patrice Doyle
• Hernandez v. The City Of Hanford: Abandoning the Fiction that Zoning Ordinances Cannot Have a Direct Impact on Economic Competition by Julia Donoho, AIA and Dana Furby
• Leocal v. Ashcroft: When Immigration Meets Criminal Law by Julie Cyphers and Paul Lozada
• The Power of Habeas Corpus to Challenge Detentions at Guantanamo Bay: Revisiting the Landmark Decision of Rasul v. Bush While Awaiting a Ruling in Boumediene v. Bush by Barbara Beatie and Bob Swanson
• Race-Based Decision Making - Narrowly Tailored or Narrow Minded? Breaking Open Our Definition of Diversity by Rachel Elliott and Natalie Soter
VOLUME 2 - SPRING 2007
• California's Natural Law Jurisprudence: 1849 to 1936 by Rex Grady
• Can We Buy Out of Parentage? by Angelina Potter, George Ross and Sarah Baker
• The Commerce Clause Still Delivers Wine to Consumers: The Role of Costco v. Hoen in the Battle Between States, Retailers and Consumers Over the Shipment of Alcoholic Beverages by Jennifer Hendrickson
• Is Our Property Safe? The Effect of Kelo v. City of New London, Connecticut on Eminent Domain in California by Lorraine Cleff and Lezlie Kagel
VOLUME 1 - SPRING 2006
• Burkett v. Capovilla and the Interpretation of Revocable Inter Vivos Trusts by James Loughborough, Carmen Sinigiani and Brett Stein
• Granholm v. Heald: Are the Grapes Really Free? by Alicia H. Cronbach and James V. Sansone
• How Much Confusion Is Fair? KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc. by Danelle Jacobs and Johann Hall
• Is the Sentencing Reform Act Fair to Criminal Defendants, and Are the Rulings in Apprendi, Blakely and Booker the Answer? by Wallace Francis and Jennifer Willits
• Revitalization of the Confrontation Clause. Crawford v. Washington by Nancy Cooke, Andrew Scannell and Donald Winkle
• Who Gets Voted Off the Island When Survivorship Is Ambiguous? by Bradford J. DeMeo