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Firmage, Edwin B. | Free exercise of religion in nineteenth century America: the Mormon cases | The Mormon cases present a fascinating study of diversity and conformity in the United States in the nineteenth century. From their beginning the Mormons were a gathered people. Almost immedi- ately, from their origins in New York, the Mormons challenged the legal systems in the nation and the state... | Law; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Nineteenth century; Polygamy; Theocracy | 1989 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Lane lecture: Law and beyond law: a new humanity | The Cold War is finally over, Soviet Communism has collapsed along with the Soviet-sponsored regimes in Eastern Europe. This event will likely record in history as one of the five happenings in this century having shattering importance. | Cold war; Peace; Nuclear weapons; International law | 1992 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Violence and the gospel: the teachings of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Book of Mormon | A United Nations study estimates that the direct effects of an all-out nuclear exchange-the initial blasts, the consequent radiation, and the ensuing fires-would kill 1.1 billion people.1 Beyond those direct effects, indirect, radiation-related effects would create an unprecedented pandemic that wo... | Warfare; War; Deliverance | 1986 |
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Flynn, John J. | Reaganomics and antitrust enforcement: a jurisprudential critique | There are few judges, psychoanalysts or economists today who do not begin a consideration of their typical problems with some formula designed to cause all moral problems to disappear and to produce an issue purified for the procedure of positive empirical science. But the ideals have generally reti... | Ethics; Morality; Antitrust Law | 1983 |
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Flynn, John J. | Standard Oil and Microsoft - intriguing parallels or limping analogies? | The computer industry and the law of antitrust have been preoccupied with the struggle between the federal and several state governments and Microsoft for most of the past decade. Microsoft's use of its domination over the personal computer (PC) industry by virtue of its control of the operating sy... | | 2002 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Fact-finding in the resolution of international disputes: from the Hague Peace Conference to the United Nations | Here is the law, as Zeus established it for human beings; as for fish, and wild animals, and the flying birds, they feed on each other, since there is no idea of justice among them; but to men he gave justice, and she in the end is proved the best thing they have. The enduring quest of the peacema... | Politics; Mediation; International politics | 1971 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Religion & the law: the Mormon experience in the nineteenth century | The Mormon cases present a fascinating study of diversity and conformity in the nineteenth century United States. From their beginning the Mormons were a gathered people. Almost immediately, from the time of the origin in New York, the Mormons challenged national and state legal systems to protect... | Law; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Nineteenth century; Polygamy; Theocracy | 1990 |
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Francis, Leslie | Evanescence of living wills | Ordinary wills dispose of property after death. Living wills direct medical treatment at the end of life, before death has come but when competence is lost. The analogy explicit in naming living wills after ordinary wills emphasizes that both speak after their maker no longer can express voice, abou... | Power of attorney; Competence; Autonomy | 1988 |
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Flynn, John J. | Constitutional difficulties of Utah's executive branch and the need for reform | Utah's constitution of 1896 has been aptly described as a "horse and buggy" constitution. Like most of her sister states, Utah adopted a constitution designed to accommodate a society accustomed to the nineteenth century pace of a horse and buggy at the very time that the industrial revolution was l... | Utah, Constitution; Executive branch | 1966 |
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Flynn, John J. | Antitrust policy and health care reform | Among the economic and political challenges facing the United States today, none is more significant - yet difficult to resolve - than the complex puzzle of how to reform the delivery of health care services. A consensus appears to have been reached that reform should extend health care coverage to ... | | 1994 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Arms control in the 70's | ... and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isa. 2:4.) The vision of a time of peace-a time in which man's genius and his physical resources would be devoted entirel... | | 1971 |
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Flynn, John J. | Social, political and economic consequences of corporate size | Congress has often expressed its concern for fostering the long term values of small business as the cornerstone of a viable political, social and economic system guaranteeing fundamental human freedom, maximizing economic opportunity and well-being, and providing political stability in the world's... | Small business; Freedom; Congress | 1976 |
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Francis, Leslie | Artificial and transplanted organs: movable parts and the unmoving law | In the seventeenth century, John Locke asked whether we would end up with the same person if we replaced bodily parts one by one. He concluded t h a t the person would remain the same, despite continued replacement of material parts, because the identity of a human being consists of continued partic... | Organ replacement; Artificial organs; Liability | 1984 |
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Francis, Leslie | Some animals are more equal than others | It is a welcome development when academic Philosophy; starts to concern itself with practical issues, in such a way as to influence people's lives. Recently this has happened with one moral issue in particular-but unfortunately it is the wrong issue, and people's actions have been influenced in the ... | Animal liberation; Rights | 1978 |
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Flynn, John J. | University and human values: introspection | It is reported that Socrates, the patron saint of law professors and many other teachers, was convicted and sentenced to death by the people of Athens on a three-count indictment: for refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state, for introducing other and new divinities, and for "corrupti... | | 1984 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Seeing the stranger as enemy: coming out | In March 1996 the Utah state legislature banned gay / straight student support groups in all Utah public high schools. This act, along with the rhetoric of several legislators attacking gay and lesbian students, precipitated a rally of some 2,000 people at Salt Lake City's Wallace F. Bennett federal... | Utah; Legislature; Gay/straight alliance; Public high school; Protest marches | 1997 |
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Flynn, John J. | Antitrust and the newspapers a comment on S. 1312 | The American newspaper industry, often called "The Fourth Estate," apparently believes it has fallen on hard times. The aristocrats of the Fourth Estate, the daily newspapers, came to the Ninetieth Congress seeking a boon: relaxation of the rigors of antitrust policy as applied to mergers and joint ... | Publishers; Circulation; Revenues | 1968 |
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Firmage, Edwin B.; Mangrum, Collin | Removal of the president: resignation and the procedural law and impeachment | The aborted proceeding to impeach Richard Nixon has stimulated debate about the appropriateness of the impeachment process as a check upon the arbitrary use of presidential power. Impeachment has been criticized as a cumbersome, agonizingly slow, and unjustifiably expensive way for Congress to expre... | Richard Nixon pardon; Presidential misconduct; Political punishments | 1975-01 |
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Flynn, John J. | Distributive justice: some institutional implication of Rawls' Theory of Justice | Distributive justice combines Philosophy;, economics, and jurisprudence in an attempt to establish the fundamental theory by which wealth and resources are allocated among the members of a society. The need for a rationally based distributive system to allocate resources in an organized society aris... | Justice, theory; Philosophy;, Law; Jurisprudence; Economics | 1975 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Ernst Freund: pioneer of administrative law | Ernst Freund was born in New York City on January 30, 1864, during a visit of his family to the United States from their native Germany. Much of his education took place in Germany, a fact that significantly influenced his views on administrative law. He studied successively at Dresden, Frankfort, B... | Memoriam; Biography | 1962 |
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Flynn, John J. | Survey of injunctive relief under state and federal antitrust laws | Relatively little has been written about equitable relief under state and federal antitrust laws.1 Equity power in antitrust enforcement means much more than the mere power to restrain a defendant from doing an act for which the plaintiff has no "remedy at law," to order a defendant to remove a nuis... | Statute; Directive | 1967 |
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Flynn, John J. | In memorium: Lionel H. Frankel | We have gathered together to celebrate the life and mourn the death of Lionel Frankel-husband, father, brother, teacher, colleague, and friend. We celebrate his life because he brought us uncommon gifts of decency, sensitivity, humanity, and compassion. We mourn his death because we will miss his pr... | Memorial essay; Memorial Service | 2002 |
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Flynn, John J. | Antitrust allegory | Justice SPENCER delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a treble damage action under the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., the only antitrust case of any kind filed in the federal courts in the past two years.1 We take note of the fact that the Attorney General announced a year ago that ni... | John Sherman Widget Co.; Adam Smith Widgets, Inc.; Sherman Act | 1987 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Law of presidential impeachment | This Article will focus upon four influences that together determine the law of presidential impeachment: English law; the Constitutional Convention and state ratifying conventions; American impeachment experience; and public policy considerations. It is the public policy considerations upon which ... | Wrongdoing; Executive branch | 1973 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Vladivostok and beyond: SALT I and the propects for SALT II | The tortuously constricted boundaries within which the Vladivostok agreement can be considered as an advance toward the goal of arms reduction and stability remind us once again that technology unconstrained by law inexorably limits that arena within which we enjoy the capacity to control our own f... | Arms control; SALT I; SALT II; Atomic negotiations | 1975 |
