Migratory Alimony: A Constitutional Dilemma in the Exercise of In Personam Jurisdiction

Obstacles to obtaining binding determinations of domicile often block the personal jurisdiction required for alimony adjudication. A way out of the impasse, Professor Ritz argues, is offered by the mechanism of removing cases to federal courts under the constitutional grant of federal jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship

Electric dipole moment constraints on minimal electroweak baryogenesis

We study the simplest generic extension of the Standard Model which allows for conventional electroweak baryogenesis, through the addition of dimension six operators in the Higgs sector. At least one such operator is required to be CP-odd, and we study the constraints on such a minimal setup, and related scenarios with minimal flavor violation, from the null results of searches for electric dipole moments (EDMs), utilizing the full set of two-loop contributions to the EDMs. The results indicate that the current bounds are stringent, particularly that of the recently updated neutron EDM, but fall short of ruling out these scenarios. The next generation of EDM experiments should be sufficiently sensitive to provide a conclusive test.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures; v2: comments added and minor corrections to the results, published versio

Federal Youth Corrections Act: The Continuing Charade

No one will ever know, at least with any certainty, whether more harm than good has been done by the Federal Youth Corrections Act. The Act was enacted by Congress in 1950 upon the recommendation of a committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. The youth offenders who have benefited under YCA are those who have committed the most serious crimes, such as murder, robbery, and rape, and those with the longest records of serious criminal conduct. Because of the YCA, some of these dangerous offenders have received less severe sentences, and some have been released on parole earlier than would have been the case under regular adult sentencing

New York Life Insurance Company v. Dunlevy Revisited: The Power of a Court to Exercise Jurisdiction for the Wrong Reason

Judgments can be divided into two classes: those that are valid and those that are void. Furthermore, according to Section 5 of the Restatement of Judgments: A judgment is void unless the State in which it is rendered has jurisdiction to subject to its control the parties or the property or status sought to be affected. The bases of jurisdiction, it is to be noted, are stated in the alternative - the parties or the property or the status. It is difficult to see how, in any realistic sense, a court can control property or status, without also having control over at least one of the parties, for some person must act to bring the property or status under a court\u27s control. It, therefore, would be more accurate to say that a judgment is void unless the state, that is, a court has subjected the parties, or at least one party and the property, or at least one party and the status to its control