Getting Away with Murder (Most of the Time): Civil War Era Homicide Cases in Boone County, Missouri

Cost as a Sentencing Factor: Missouri’s Experiment

“Cost as a Sentencing Factor”: A Response

Canines on Campus: Companion Animals at Postsecondary Educational Institutions

Taking in Strays: A Critique of the Stray Comment Doctrine in Employment Discrimination Law

Notes & Law Summaries

Pulling the Taxpayer’s Sword from the Stone: The Appropriation Requirement of Missouri’s Hancock Amendment

Chinese Assault Rifles, Giant Pandas, and Perpetual Litigation: The “Rights Without Remedies” Dead-End of the FSIA

Protecting the Living and the Dead: How Missouri Can Enact a Constitutional Funeral-Protest Statute

State Drug Testing Requirements for Welfare Recipients: Are Missouri and Florida’s New Laws Constitutional?

Echoes from the Past: How the Federal Circuit Continues to Struggle with Patentable Subject Matter Post-Bilski

Foreward: Jim Devine’s “Show Me Spirit”

Introduction: Curt Flood and the Show Me Spirit

Curt Flood and a Triumph of the Show Me Spirit

Grand Theft Auto Loans: Repossession and Demographic Realities in Title Lending

Judging Parents, Judging Place: Poverty, Rurality, and Termination of Parental Rights

Taking in Strays: A Critique of the Stray Comment Doctrine in Employment Discrimination Law

Comment

Defending the Historic Preservation Tax Credit

Notes & Law Summaries

Trapped: Missouri Legislature Seeks to Close Workers’ Compensation Loophole with Some Co-Employees Still Inside

Monetary Damages Under the Lanham Act: Eighth Circuit Holds Actual Confusion is Not a Prerequisite

Not So Special After All: How Mayo Granted the Treasury Unfettered Rule-Making Discretion

Missouri’s Foggy Fog Line Law

Mavericks, Moderates, or Drifters? Supreme Court Voting Alignments, 1838-2009

Leveraging Tribal Sovereignty for Economic Opportunity: A Strategic Negotiations Perspective

Apples and Oranges: Securities Market Losses Should Be Treated Differently for Major White-Collar Criminal Sentencing Under the Federal Guidelines

Developing the Duffy Defect: Identifying Which Government Workers Are Constitutionally Required to Be Appointed

Notes & Law Summaries

Life Without Parole, or a Juvenile Death Sentence?

Sticks and Stones: IIED and Speech After Snyder v. Phelps

Do I Own This Car? The Supreme Court Creates a Standard for BAPCPA Car Ownership

Picking Fights in Missouri: Baldwin’s Non-Rule Embraces the Minority Approach to Internet Libel Jurisdiction

The Cost of a Tax Agenda: The Passage of Proposition A and Its Effects on Kansas City and St. Louis City

Symposium: Evolving the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and its Patent Law Jurisprudence

Notes

Distinguishing Judges: An Empirical Ranking of Judicial Quality in the United States Courts of Appeals

Can the Tolling of Statutes of Limitations Based on the Defendant’s Absence from the State Ever Be Consistent with the Commerce Clause?

Anti-Bribery Legislation in the United States and United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis of Scope and Sentencing

Rethinking IOLTA

Notes & Law Summaries

Attorney Duty to Search Case.net for Juror Nondisclosure: Missouri Supreme Court Rule 69.025

Missouri Revised Statutes Section 490.715: A Toothless Attempt to Limit the Recovery of Medical Expense Write-Offs

Qualifying for the Title VII Religious Organization Exemption: Federal Circuits Split over Proper Test

The Invisible Refugee: Examining the Board of Immigration Appeals’ “Social Visibility” Doctrine

Keeping PACE: Federal Mortgage Lenders Halt Local Clean Energy Programs

On the Contemporary Meaning of Korematsu: “Liberty Lies in the Hearts of Men and Women”

EEOC Reinforces Broad Interpretation of ADAAA Disability Qualification: But What Does “Substantially Limits” Mean?

Stimulating School Reform: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Shifting Federal Role in Education

A Read-the-Bill Rule for Congress

Notes

Walking Out on the Check: How Missouri Abandoned Its Public Defenders and Left the Poor to Foot the Bill

When Efficiency Arguments Fail: The Counter-Intuitive Effects of Amended Rule 78.07(c)

In a Class of Their Own: The Eighth Circuit Upholds a Credit Card Agreement’s Class Action Waiver and Mandatory Arbitration Clause

Giving a Voice to the Inanimate: The Right of a Corporation to Political Free Speech

Swimming Against the Tide: The Eighth Circuit Holds That Fleeing a Police Officer in a Motor Vehicle Is Not a Crime of Violence

Strip Searches of Students: Addressing the Undressing of Children in Schools and Redressing the Fourth Amendment Violations

Constitutional Interpretation Through a Global Lens

Strict in Theory, But Accommodating in Fact?

Notes & Law Summaries

Cut and Run? Tuition Reimbursement and the 1997 IDEA Amendments

Death of the Challenge to Lethal Injection? Missouri’s Protocol Deemed Constitutional Yet Again

The Employees’ Decade: Recent Developments Under the MHRA and the Employers’ Potential Rebound

Are You My Mother? Missouri Denies Custodial Rights to Same-Sex Parent

One Prong, Two Prong, Many Prongs: A Look into the Economic Substance Doctrine

Symposium: Broke and Broken: Can We Fix Our State Indigent Defense System?

Notes

Pretext in Peril

Responses

Pretext Without Context

Anti-Discrimination Law in Peril?

Discrimination Redefined

Articles

An Economics Perspective on the Exclusionary Rule and Deterrence

Contract Law, Party Sophistication and the New Formalism

Notes

Mental Retardation as a Bar to the Death Penalty: Who Bears the Burden of Proof?

Corporations Beware: The Eighth Circuit Announces New Criteria for Parent Corporation Liability and Constructive Notice of Harassment

“Money for Nothing and Your [Expenses] for Free” – Federal Circuit Split on Vehicle Ownership Expense in BAPCPA Means Testing

Staking a Claim on the Building Blocks of Life: Human Genetic Material Within the United States Patent System

Fundamental, but Not Fundamental Enough: Missouri’s Balancing Test in the Area of Parental Rights

Ordinary Creativity in Patent Law: The Artist Within the Scientist

The Context of Ideology: Law, Politics, and Empirical Legal Scholarship

The Myth of the Level Playing Field: Knowledge, Affect, and Repetition in Public Debate

Notes

The Demise of Arbitration Agreements in Long-Term Care Contracts

The Plaintiffs’ Bar Cannot Enforce the Laws: Individual Reliance Issues Prevent Consumer Protection Classes in the Eighth Circuit

A Call to Police the Margins: The Eighth Circuit’s Expansion of Miranda’s Public-Safety Exception

Letting the Dead Bury the Dead: Missouri’s Right of Sepulcher Addresses the Modern Decedent’s Wishes

Missouri’s Section 287.865.5 Proof of Claim Filing Requirement: Are Injured Employees Getting a Fair Shake?