Washburn Law Journal
Editor's Note
Volume 49, No. 3 (Spring 2010)
Volume Forty-Nine, Issue Three is dedicated to the discussion of an important and pressing topic in the modern American legal system-U.S.-Tribal relations. The Washburn Law Journal's staff and editors are grateful for the opportunity to participate in this ongoing dialogue by publishing selected articles from the "Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure" Symposium hosted by the Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). Professor Angelique EagleWoman discusses this Symposium and the articles in further detail in her Introduction (following).
Expanding the scope of the legal issues covered by issue three, the student contributions tackle several different areas of law. First, Andrew Payne in his Note, Twitigation: Old Rules in a New World, examines the applicability and adequacy of the current e-discovery rules of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to the acquisition of social-networking information in a Web 2.0 world. In Kansas Property Tax Appeals: An Adversarial System Without Adversaries, Gage Rohlf calls for increased participation by counties in the tax appeals process, as well as greater transparency, to facilitate a fairer and more effective tax appeals system and defense of the tax base. In his Comment, "You Made Me Promises, Promises"-Determining the Existence of Promises of Leniency During Custodial Interrogation and the Proper Standard of Review, Aaron Good advocates for the use of an "objective, reasonable person" test to determine the existence of promises of leniency in police officer interrogations and argues that the Kansas Supreme Court should have used a de novo standard of review in its recent decision, State v. Sharp. And finally, Chantz Martin in his Comment, The Clean Water Act Suffers a Crushing Blow: The U.S. Supreme Court Clears the Way for the Mining Industry to Pollute U.S. Waters, argues that the United States Supreme Court inappropriately expanded the "2002 fill rule" beyond the coal mining context for which it was intended and, therefore, weakened the Clean Water Act's protections of our nation's waters in Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council.
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