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Connecting to What Matters: Remembering Bo Burt

the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island. President Washington offered a vision of tolerance for religious difference not as an indulgence but

The Modification of Decrees in the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court

Boundary Disputes and the Specter of War The Court almost never modifies boundary-related decrees. Consider Rhode Island v. Massachusetts, a boundary

Forum: Time-In-Cell: A Practitioner’s Perspective

in most systems perform these tasks with weapons that are only as powerful as pepper spray. Rhode Island carefully monitors the staff’s use of pepper

Competing Exclusionary Rules in Multistate Investigations: Resolving Conflicts of State Search-and-Seizure Law

Island Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Briggs is illustrative of a multifactor approach. In Briggs, the court upheld the admissibility under Rhode

Ban the Address: Combating Employment Discrimination Against the Homeless

broad, substantive rights, Puerto Rico’s statute has not to date been rigorously enforced or effectively implemented. Rhode Island became the first

Forum: What It Takes to Write Statutes that Hold the Firearms Industry Accountable to Civil Justice

Private Enforcement of Minnesota Consu… See, e.g., Rhode Island, Act for the Inspection of Gunpowder, Manufactured Within this State (1776… See, e.g

Forum: Douglas and the Fate of Ex Parte Young

377 F.3d 64, 74 (1st Cir. 2004))), overruled on other grounds by Narragansett Indian Tribe v. Rhode Island, 449 F.3d 16 (1st Cir. 2006). One

The New Minimal Cities

Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. All of these cities, including the ones in California

Popular Sovereignty and the United States Constitution: Tensions in the Ackermanian Program

Rhode Island voters. This new “People’s Constitution” was meant to replace the politically illegitimate royal Charter of 1663 that continued to

Forum: Public Interests, Private Institutions? Public Policy Challenges to Tax-Free Universities

the University to be “freed and exempted from all taxes.” In 1897, the Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that the Brown’s tax exemption should be