ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Introductions and FAQs > Law, Courts, and Constitutions

Tobacco Medicaid Litigation: Snuffing Out the Rule of Law
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Robert A. Levy
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

An article blasting the post-facto anti-tobacco laws which are destroying the rule of law.

Future of Breast Implant Litigation May Be a Bust for Trial Lawyers
Source: The National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Amy Ridenour
Country: United States

Trial lawyers hoping to profit from future implant case awards and settlements took a major hit recently when a panel of four expert, neutral scientists appointed by the federal judge handling 9,000 implant cases reached this conclusion: available scientific evidence does not link breast implants with immune disorders. (9/99)

The initiative process: a caveat
Source: ISIL
Author: Jim Peron
Country: United States

"Libertarians currently seem to be involved with a new political fad: initiatives ... [But the] initiative process is nothing more than direct democracy, and the only difference between direct democracy and a dictatorship is the number of feet on your throat." To minimize oppression, citizens should be able to veto laws by direct vote, but not to introduce new ones. (1992)

Extortion lawsuits: the games of Callem, Cheatem & Howe
Source: Nevada Policy Research Institute
Author: Judy Cresanta
Country: United States

Cresanta examines how the era of regulation through litigation has only just begun. Examples include the tobacco industry, Microsoft, and the federal lawsuit against American Airlines. (7/1/99)

The Conservative and Libertarian Pre-Law Reading List
Source: The Federalist Society
Author: Michael DeBow and Roger Clegg
Country: United States

This Web site offers an annotated reading list designed to give beginning students of the American legal system a basic understanding of the fundamentals of that system. It also exists to help foster an appreciation of the role the legal system has played in America's achievement of levels of freedom and material abundance beyond anything the world had previously seen.

Curbing federal power over states
Source: American Legislative Exchange Council
Author: Raymond N. Haynes
Country: United States

California state Senator Raymond Haynes champions the cause of "states' rights" by suggesting that "divided sovereignty is by far the best, and maybe the only defense we have against the potential for federal oppression." (2/14/00)

State class action crisis continues with Microsoft
Source: CFIF
Country: United States

"The nation is currently engulfed in a huge state class action crisis, which continues to get worse. Following in the wake of the millions of dollars "earned" by lawyers in the tobacco cases, lawyers are lining up in front of courthouses to file consumer class action cases against Microsoft." (04/01)

When juries use their power to 'send a message'
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

Juries are increasingly using their power to demand societal changes. In cases against tobacco companies, HMOs and gun makers, huge damage awards have brought about far-reaching changes -- for both good and evil. (08/21/01)

Thurgood Marshall’s libertarian moment
Source: LewRockwell.com
Author: Myles Kantor
Country: United States

For a brief moment while at the NAACP, Thurgood Marshall refused to pretend that the right to protest overruled the right to private property. Unfortunately, that didn't last. (9/21/00)

An annual helping of tales from a litigious society
Source: Reason
Author: Walter Olson
Country: United States

"How were we governed, regulated, policed, lawyered, and judged in 2000? Sadly, much the same as in 1999. Here are some of last year’s month-by-month 'highlights.'" (03/01)

The Emperor's same old clothes
Source: Lost Horizons
Author: Peter E. Hendrickson
Country: United States

"Every day a million offenses of government lawlessness are visited upon us and our neighbors because, like the Emperor's court, we are each persuaded by the conmen to believe -- or behave as though we believe -- an obvious and corrupt lie."

The Prevention of Illegal Acts Act
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Steve Maikoski
Country: United States

"Mr. Maikoski, a citizen, introduced the following bill, which was presented to Committee on the Judiciary.To amend the laws of the United States to prevent illegal acts and all other violations of law by making law breaking illegal." (03/21/02)

Greater reporting boosts crime statistics
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

Greater reporting of crime to the FBI has masked a continuing decline in crime rates. (07/20/01)

Mandatory sentences revisited
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"Even anti-crime hawks are beginning to express unease over mandatory minimum prison sentences for non-violent crimes. They say the sentences are too harsh in some cases. Under such laws, judges are required to impose fixed, substantial terms for certain crimes." (08/09/01)

'Justice' system?
Source: anti-state.com
Author: Diane Rhodes
Country: United States
E-mail: modern_antigone@yahoo.com

"So long as justice is provided by the state, for the state (and not the victims), by coerced monopoly, it will never be just. Self-ownership and property rights will continue to be flouted, perpetrators will not have to make amends for their actions, and victims will have to foot the bill." (09/04/2001)

A fossilized system
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Paul Hein
Country: United States

"Surely the legal system has better things to do than huff and puff about what people do for a good time." (02/10/02)

2001 Supreme Court docket summary
Source: CFIF
Country: United States

"The 2001 Term of the U.S. Supreme Court is now in full swing and the Center is pleased to once again host Tom Goldstein's 2001 Supreme Court Docket Summary. Please check our site often as the summary is updated regularly and will include a variety of information about the Court, including both statistics on the Term and a continually updated list of the Court's docket." (10/19/01)

Ten commandments of justice
Source: Strike the Root
Author: John Martin
Country: United States

"[M]ost of the Ten Commandments don't correspond to justice in a courtroom. The first four address worshipping the Lord, not man's treatment of his fellows ... So what about something suitable for our government to keep in mind? It would be really great for any court to have a just set of rules to ensure that it gives every individual a fair shake." (05/25/02)

Q & A with law professor David Bernstein
Source: Cato Institute
Country: United States

Cato's "Ask a Scholar" series gets answers to a wide range of questions from author and GMU law professor David Bernstein.

Briefing on legal issues surrounding America's war on terrorism
Source: The Federalist Society
Country: United States

"Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson and a panel of experts, including Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, briefed the Federalist Society during its National Lawyers Convention on the legal issues surrounding America's War on Terrorism." (11/17/01)

Put up or shut up
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Paul Hein
Country: United States

"[U]se our power to establish new courts, with free-lance judges. Isn't anyone concerned over the fact that in every case between the United States and any individual or corporation, the judge is a paid employee of one of the parties to the lawsuit?" (04/29/02)

The law and justice
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Paul Hein
Country: United States

"It’s little wonder, therefore, that anarchy is looking better and better to more and more people. We have all become Dred Scotts, working for others, under compulsion, because the organization that the Founders created to protect our rights cannot, by its very nature, do so." (05/14/02)

To recommend changes in this directory, e-mail isil@isil.org.

	Search WWW Search ISIL