Foundation Expenses and Compensation: Interim Report 2005

Examines the 10,000 largest foundations and identifies characteristics and operating styles that affect levels of expenses and compensation, including foundation type, size, staffing, scope of activity, and direct charitable activities

A How-To Guide to Sentence Review

In this article, the author discusses the de-funding of the Montana Defender Project, under which most indigent defendant sentence review work was previously conducted and which now falls on the shoulders of public defenders. The article offers forth procedures and principles used by former Defender Project interns as a guide for those who have little or no experience in indigent defendant sentencing review

Stare Decisis in Montana

Stare Decisis in Montan

Restoring Private to Privacy

Restoring Private to Privac

Restoring Private to Privacy

Restoring Private to Privac

What Spending Clause? (Or the President\u27s Paramour): An Examination of the Views of Hamilton, Madison, and Story on Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution

This article tests three interpretations of the General Welfare Clause that persisted prior to the U.S. v. Butler decision against the text of the Constitution and discusses historical conditions that add to the understanding of that clause of the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, the author examines: the strong Hamiltonian interpretation, the Madison interpretation, and the weak Hamiltonian or Story interpretation. The author concludes that in the course of testing each hypothesis, a surprising conclusion was reached: all interpretations failed to survive

Look Again at Stare Decisis in Montana

The author responds to a critical review of his law review article, Stare Decisis in Montana, 65 Mont. L. Rev. 41 (2004)