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Volume 2, Issue 1 (1991)

The Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal ceased publication in 2002.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Dedication

Dedication to Attorney General Richard H. Thornburgh
George H. W. Bush

Articles

Vicarious Liability for Punitive Damages: The Effort to Constitutionalize "Tort Reform"
Philip H. Corboy

Prenatal Drug Exposure: The Constitutional Implications of Three Governmental Approaches
George Bundy Smith and Gloria M. Dabiri

The Preamble in Constitutional Interpretation
Dan Himmelfarb

First & Fifth Amendments - Abortion - Regulations Which Prohibit Title X Projects From Engaging in Abortion Counseling, Referral, and Activities Advocating Abortion as a Method of Family Planning Are Not Violative of the First or Fifth Amendments - Rust v. Sullivan, 111 S. Ct. 1759 (1991).
Susan C. Brodbeck

Crossfire

"Son of Sam" Law v. A Wiseguy's Freedom of Speech
Thomas F. Doherty and Sharon A. Lepping

Comments

Copyright and Patent Clause of the Constitution: Does Congress Have the Authority to Abrogate State Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunity After Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co.?
Kenneth S. Weitzman

Replacing Confusion with Compromise: The Supreme Court's New Standard for Dissolving Desegregation Decrees in Board of Education v. Dowell
Jonathan A. David

Casenotes

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Rule 11 Sanctions - The Objective Standard of Rule 11 Applies to Represented Parties Who File Pleadings, Motions or Other Papers in Federal Court - Business Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic Communications Enterprises, 111 S. Ct. 922 (1991).
John J. Cummings

Eighth Amendment - Cruel and Unusual Punishment - Sentence of Life Imprisonment Without Parole for the Crime of Possessing More Than 650 Grams of Cocaine Is Not Cruel and Unusual in Violation of the Eighth Amendment - Harmelin v. Michigan, 111 S. Ct. 2680 (1991).
Lisa Ann Tatulli

Article III - Case and Controversy Clause - In Determining an Environmental Organization's Standing to Challenge Government Actions Under the Land Withdrawal Review Program, the Use of Lands in the Vicinity of Lands Adversely Affected by Order of the Bureau of Land Management Does Not Constitute Direct Injury - Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation, 110 S. Ct. 3177 (1990).
V. Maria Cristiano

Surveys

Fifth & Fourteenth Amendments - Due Process Clause - The Harmless-Error Rule Applies to Cases Involving the Coerced Confession of a Criminal Defendant - Arizona v. Fulminante, 111 S. Ct. 1246 (1991).
Robert M. Runeborg

First Amendment - Freedom of Expression - Requiring Professional Dancers to Wear Pasties and G-Strings Pursuant to a State Statute Proscribing Public Indecency Does Not Violate the First Amendment - Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 111 S. Ct. 2456 (1991).
Courtney A. Schael

The Constitution of the United States

The Constitution of the United States 1787