Re: the wine wars

2003-10-30 Thread Blumstein, James
I believe that a recent Sixth Circuit case struck down a discriminatory direct shipment law; a ban on direct shipment might be ok, but not a discriminatory law, which allows direct shipment by instaters but not out of staters I seem to recall that that was the rationale... JFB

Re: absentee ballots? and goose and gander constitutional politics

2003-09-16 Thread Blumstein, James
I have a question about the 9th Circuit panel decision... As I understand it, the constitutional infirmity relates to different rates of error in the votingmachines that some counties use. There is disproportionate project disenfranchisement based on county of residence. I do not want to

Re: Lawrence, Limon and SDP Review Stratification

2003-07-12 Thread Blumstein, James
Title: RE: Lawrence, Limon and SDP Review Stratification I think the application of Lawrence/Romer to disparate treatment of heterosexual statutory rape vs. homosexual statutory rape has to come to grips with Michael M. v. Superior Court (1981), which allowed for punishment of males