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Volume 29, Number 1 ARTICLES Hopwood, Bakke and the Future of the Diversity Justification Tolerating No Margin for Error: The Admissibility of Statements by Alien Minors in Deportation Proceedings Neighbors Beware: The Constitutionality of State Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws Avoiding Abstention: The Younger Exceptions COMMENT Taxpayers Get a Sigh of Relief: Congress Corrects Mistaken Interpretation of the Grantor Trust Rules by the IRS in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 CASENOTES Delegations in Danger: The Texas Supreme Court Reinvigorates the Nondelegation Doctrine by Holding That the Official Cotton Growers' Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation Violated the Separation of Powers Clause in the Texas Constitution: Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, Inc. v. Lewellen, 952 S.W.2d 454 (Tex. 1997) Reformation of the Legal Sufficiency Standard for Expert Testimony: Expert Testimony Must Be Reliable and Epidemiological Evidence Must Show Double the Risk: Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc. v. Havner, 40 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 846 (July 9, 1997) Volume 29, Number 2 FIFTH CIRCUIT SURVEY Administrative Law Admiralty Law Antitrust Law Banking Law Bankruptcy Law Civil Procedure Civil Rights Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Employee Benefits Environmental Law Evidence Federal Taxation Intellectual Property Labor and Employment Law Robin W. Coopwood Volume 29, Number 3 ARTICLES Building a Better Mousetrap - A New Approach to Trying Mass Tort Cases Ethical Campaigning for the Judiciary COMMENT Let Them Eat Beef: The Constitutionality of the Texas False Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act CASENOTES Attorney Compelled to Produce Kidnapper's Maps to Location of Baby's Body: Attorney-Client Privilege Yields to Policy Interests Embodied in State Ethical Rules of Confidentiality: Henderson v. State, No. 72,157, slip op., 1997 WL 742333 (Tex. Crim. App. Dec. 3, 1997) (en banc) Retreating from Batson: The Equal Protection Clause Does Not Require That Race-Neutral Reasons for Peremptory Challenges Be Objectively Verifiable: Yarborough v. State, 947 S.W.2d 892 (Tex. Crim. App. 1997) Volume 29, Number 4 SPEECH Resurrecting Federalism under the New Tenth and Fourteenth Amendments ARTICLES Down the Block but Outside Jurisdiction: Personal Jurisdiction in a Modern World The Hobgoblin Doctrine: Identifying Foolish Consistency in the Law COMMENTS Testing the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994, 18 U.S.C. 3591-98 (1994): United States v. Jones, 132 F.3d 232 (5th Cir. 1998) An Analysis of Texas Capital Sentencing Procedure: Is Texas Denying Its Capital Defendants Due Process by Keeping Jurors Uninformed of Parole Eligibility Lawyers Do It for Free: An Examination of Mandatory Pro Bono |