Vol. 60 No. 4, June 1997

Index

• The "Scarlet Letter laws" of the 1990s: a response to critics.
• Adequate provocation, individual responsibility, and the deconstruction of free will.
• The nondischargeability of divorce-based debts in bankruptcy: a legislative response to the hardened heart.
• Some overall observations about the 1996 New York State Environmental Bond Act and a closer look at Title 5 and its approach to the "brownfields" dilemma.
• Perpetuities perpetuated: Symphony Space, Inc. v. Pergola Properties, Inc.
• New York's freedom from information law: disclosure of public costs of a New York senator's "public interest" mailings.
• Prewarrant thermal imaging as a Fourth Amendment violation: a Supreme Court question in the making.
• The same uniform, a different team: copycat's suit up for competition.
• Protecting New York's children: an argument for the creation of a rebuttable presumption against awarding a spouse abuser custody of a child.
• The real "Contract with America": the original intent of the Tenth Amendment and the Commerce Clause.
• Can the feds put deadbeat parents in jail? A look at the constitutionality of the Child Support Recovery Act.
• The evolving conflict between employment discrimination laws and immunity under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Article VII of the FCN Treaty between the United States and Japan - the Papaila case.
• They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.