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St. Mary's University School of Law Law Library Progress Report 2005 - 2012
No full textA summary of major activities and changes at the Sarita Kenedy East Law Library from 2005 to 2012
11-0519 EVANSTON INSURANCE CO. v. LEGACY OF LIFE, INC.
No full text11-0519 Evanston Insurance Co. v. Legacy of Life Inc. certified questions from the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals For appellant: Marc J. Wojciechowski, Spring For appellee: John C. Cave and Miguel Villarreal Jr., San Antonio In this insurance-covera
2012: CLE: Practice Tips: A View from the Bench and 24 Years in the Trenches
No full textLarry Noll, Judge 408th District Court and Adjunct Professor, St. Mary’s University School of Law
Pointers and suggestions for trials, management of practice, and dealing with clients from a practioner’s standpoint and from a judge’s perspective
A Judicial and Economic Analysis of Attorney's Fees in Trust Litigation and the Resulting Inequitable Treatment of Trust Beneficiaries
No full textThe Mentally Disordered Criminal Defendant at the Supreme Court: A Decade in Review
No full textThe cases discussed in this Article concern three general topics: the culpability of juvenile offenders; mental states and the criminal process, including the presentation of mental disorder evidence, competency to stand trial, and competency to be executed; and the preventive detention of convicted sex offenders. Part I examines two cases that adopted categorical exclusions from certain kinds of punishment—the death penalty and life without parole—for juvenile offenders, based on the diminished culpability of juveniles as compared to adult offenders. Both of these cases built on a third recent case, which categorically excluded people with mental retardation from the death penalty. In all three of these cases, the Court overrelied on the results of psychological studies to justify its legal conclusions. Part II discusses three cases involving questions about mental states. The Court misunderstood the relevant psychology in two of these cases. In one case, the misunderstanding led the Court to uphold a state law prohibiting criminal defendants from presenting mental illness evidence to raise reasonable doubt about mens rea. In the second case, the Court adopted a nearly limitless test for determining when the government may administer involuntary antipsychotic medications for the purpose of rendering a criminal defendant competent to stand trial. The Court demonstrated a more complete understanding of the relevant psychology in the third case, recognizing that delusional beliefs can preclude a convicted prisoner’s understanding of the state’s reasons for carrying out a death sentence. Part III considers two cases involving the question whether the preventive detention of convicted sex offenders is really civil commitment, as states have claimed, or is instead criminal punishment, as its critics have claimed. Among the issues raised in these cases are the legal primacy of diagnoses recognized by psychiatrists and the moral justification for the civil commitment of people who are dangerous because of a mental disorder
Tools for Reducing and Managing Link Rot in LibGuides
No full textWhile creating content in LibGuides in quite easy, link maintenance is troublesome, and the built-in link checker offers only a partial solution. The authors describe a method of using PURLs and a third-party link checker to effectively manage links within LibGuides