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Securitizing Audit Failure Risk: An Alternative To Caps On Damages, Lawrence A. Cunningham
Securitizing Audit Failure Risk: An Alternative To Caps On Damages, Lawrence A. Cunningham
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Empire Of Illness: Competence And Coercion In Health-Care Decision Making, Marsha Garrison
The Empire Of Illness: Competence And Coercion In Health-Care Decision Making, Marsha Garrison
William & Mary Law Review
The law's willingness to take account of factors that interfere with volition tends to vary in accordance with its underlying goals. The law of wills is dominated by the principle of freedom of testation; it has thus developed doctrines aimed at detecting coercive influences that interfere with the testator's free agency. The law of medical decision making, dominated by the analogous principle of patient autonomy, has not developed doctrines aimed at detecting coercive influences despite a large and growing body of evidence showing that disordered insight and major depression, two common medical conditions, often have a coercive, negative effect on …
Table Of Contents (V. 49, No. 3)
The Common Law Genius Of The Warren Court, David A. Strauss
The Common Law Genius Of The Warren Court, David A. Strauss
William & Mary Law Review
The Warren Court's most important decisions-on school segregation, reapportionment, free speech, and criminal procedure are firmly entrenched in the law. But the idea persists, even among those who are sympathetic to the results that the Warren Court reached, that what the Warren Court was doing was somehow not really law: that the Warren Court "made it up," and that the important Warren Court decisions cannot be justified by reference to conventional legal materials. It is true that the Warren Court's most important decisions cannot be easily justified on the basis of the text of the Constitution or the original understandings. …
Drawing Idea From Expression: Creating A Legal Space For Culturally Appropriated Literary Characters, Jacqueline Lai Chung
Drawing Idea From Expression: Creating A Legal Space For Culturally Appropriated Literary Characters, Jacqueline Lai Chung
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Betting On The Wrong Horse: The Detrimental Effect Of Noncompliance In The Internet Gambling Dispute On The General Agreement On Trade In Services (Gats), Kathryn B. Codd
Betting On The Wrong Horse: The Detrimental Effect Of Noncompliance In The Internet Gambling Dispute On The General Agreement On Trade In Services (Gats), Kathryn B. Codd
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Child Welfare's Paradox, Dorothy E. Roberts
Child Welfare's Paradox, Dorothy E. Roberts
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Estop In The Name Of Love: A Case For Constructive Marriage In Virginia, Andrew W. Scott
Estop In The Name Of Love: A Case For Constructive Marriage In Virginia, Andrew W. Scott
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bias On The Bench: Raising The Bar For U.S. Immigration Judges To Ensure Equality For Asylum Seekers, Lindsey R. Vaala
Bias On The Bench: Raising The Bar For U.S. Immigration Judges To Ensure Equality For Asylum Seekers, Lindsey R. Vaala
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Keep Out Of Myspace!: Protecting Students From Unconstitutional Suspensions And Expulsions, Christi Cassel
Keep Out Of Myspace!: Protecting Students From Unconstitutional Suspensions And Expulsions, Christi Cassel
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents (V. 49, No. 2)
The Curious Complications With Back-End Opt-Out Rights, Rhonda Wasserman
The Curious Complications With Back-End Opt-Out Rights, Rhonda Wasserman
William & Mary Law Review
In recent years, class members have been afforded delayed, or "back-end," opportunities to opt out of a class action once the terms of the settlement are disclosed. These back-end opt-out rights may afford only limited rights to sue outside the confines of the class action. For example, opt-out plaintiffs may be permitted to seek compensatory, but not punitive damages. Does the federal court that approved the settlement have authority to enjoin back-end opt-out plaintiffs from seeking relief in state court that exceeds the limits built into the back-end opt-out right?
Three sets of curious complications may arise if the federal …
The Preemployment Ethical Role Of Lawyers: Are Lawyers Really Fiduciaries?, Fred C. Zacharias
The Preemployment Ethical Role Of Lawyers: Are Lawyers Really Fiduciaries?, Fred C. Zacharias
William & Mary Law Review
This Article considers the nature and extent of lawyers' obligations to prospective clients. Most jurisdictions have rules forbidding certain kinds of representation, requiring that particular information be given clients in writing, and regulating fees. Professional code drafters, courts, and commentators, however, have never addressed the broader issue of the lawyer's role at the retainer stage of representation, including whether lawyers have responsibility for providing prospective clients with candid advice regarding the course they should pursue.
The issue is important to clients. A lawyer's action may determine whether a client obtains any representation, competent representation, or a lawyer well suited to …
The Price Of Misdemeanor Representation, Erica J. Hashimoto
The Price Of Misdemeanor Representation, Erica J. Hashimoto
William & Mary Law Review
Nobody disputes either the reality of excessive caseloads in indigent defense systems or their negative effects. More than forty years after Gideon v. Wainwright, however, few seem willing to accept that additional resources will not magically appear to solve the problem. Rather, concerned observers demand more funds while state and local legislators resist those entreaties in the face of political resistance and pressures to balance government budgets. Recognizing that indigent defense systems must operate in a world of limited resources, states should reduce the number of cases streaming into those systems by significantly curtailing the appointment of counsel in low-level …
Contributory Disparate Impacts In Employment Discrimination Law, Peter Siegelman
Contributory Disparate Impacts In Employment Discrimination Law, Peter Siegelman
William & Mary Law Review
An employer who adopts a facially neutral employment practice that disqualifies a larger proportion of protected-class applicants than others is liable under a disparate impact theory. Defendants can escape liability if they show that the practice is justified by business necessity. But demonstrating business necessity requires costly validation studies that themselves impose a significant burden on defendants-upwards of $100,000 according to some estimates. This Article argues that an employer should have a defense against disparate impact liability if it can show that protected-class applicants failed to make reasonable efforts to train or prepare for a job related test. That is, …
"You Fall Into Scylla In Seeking To Avoid Charybdis": The Second Circuit's Pragmatic Approach To Supervised Release For Sex Offenders, Frank E. Correll Jr.
"You Fall Into Scylla In Seeking To Avoid Charybdis": The Second Circuit's Pragmatic Approach To Supervised Release For Sex Offenders, Frank E. Correll Jr.
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Unfulfilled Expectations: An Empirical Analysis Of Why Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers Rarely Win, Richard E. Moberly
Unfulfilled Expectations: An Empirical Analysis Of Why Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers Rarely Win, Richard E. Moberly
William & Mary Law Review
Scholars praise the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002 as one of the most protective anti-retaliation provisions in the world. Yet, during its first three years, only 3.6% of Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblowers won relief through the initial administrative process that adjudicates such claims, and only 6.5% of whistleblowers won appeals through the process. This Article reports the results of an empirical study of all Department of Labor Sarbanes-Oxley determinations during this time, consisting of over 700 separate decisions from administrative investigations and hearings. The results of this detailed analysis demonstrate that administrative decision makers strictly construed, and in …
The Mythic 43 Million Americans With Disabilities, Ruth Colker
The Mythic 43 Million Americans With Disabilities, Ruth Colker
William & Mary Law Review
Although Congress stated in its first statutory finding that it intended the Americans with DisabilitiesA ct (ADA) to protect at least 43 million Americans from disability discrimination, the Supreme Court has interpreted this statute so that it covers no more than 13.5 million Americans. More importantly, this Article demonstrates through the use of Census Bureau data that the ADA's employment discrimination provisions have been eviscerated to the point that the ADA protects virtually no Americans who are both disabled and able to work. This Article places that problem in the larger context of the Court undermining Congress's efforts to protect …
Sentencing Acquitted Conduct To The Post-Booker Dustbin, James J. Bilsborrow
Sentencing Acquitted Conduct To The Post-Booker Dustbin, James J. Bilsborrow
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Looking Forward While Looking Back: Using Debtors' Post-Petition Financial Changes To Find Bankruptcy Abuse After Bapcpa, Justin H. Rucki
Looking Forward While Looking Back: Using Debtors' Post-Petition Financial Changes To Find Bankruptcy Abuse After Bapcpa, Justin H. Rucki
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents And Masthead (V. 49, No. 1)
Table Of Contents And Masthead (V. 49, No. 1)
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The New Massachusetts Health Law: Preemption And Experimentation, Edward A. Zelinsky
The New Massachusetts Health Law: Preemption And Experimentation, Edward A. Zelinsky
William & Mary Law Review
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) preempts major features of the new Massachusetts health law. Although regrettable, this conclusion is mandated by ERISA's statutory terminology and the controlling case law. Other states, in fashioning their health care policies, are looking at elements of the new Massachusetts law. Just as ERISA preempts the individual and business contribution mandates of the Massachusetts statute, ERISA will preempt any similar provisions adopted by other states.
Because state experimentation with health care is particularly desirable today, Congress should, at a minimum, amend ERISA to validate the new Massachusetts health law. More comprehensively, …
Contractual Expansion Of The Scope Of Patent Infringement Through Field-Of-Use Licensing, Mark R. Patterson
Contractual Expansion Of The Scope Of Patent Infringement Through Field-Of-Use Licensing, Mark R. Patterson
William & Mary Law Review
Patentees sometimes employ field-of-use licenses, under which they grant the right to use their inventions, but only in specified ways. Field-of-use licensing is often procompetitive, because the ability to provide different licensing terms for different users can encourage broader licensing of inventions. But in recent cases, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and several district courts have upheld field-of-use licenses that prohibited activities that would otherwise have been permitted by patent law, such as the repair and resale of patented products. By treating any violation of a license agreement as patent infringement, and by upholding license provisions that …
Discrimination And Outrage: The Migration From Civil Rights To Tort Law, Martha Chamallas
Discrimination And Outrage: The Migration From Civil Rights To Tort Law, Martha Chamallas
William & Mary Law Review
It is not always appreciated that proven discrimination on the basis of race or sex may not amount to a tort and that even persistent racial or sexual harassment may not be enough to qualify for tort recovery. This Article explores the question of whether discriminatory and harassing conduct in the workplace is or should be considered outrageous conduct, actionable under the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress. In recent years, courts have taken radically different approaches to the issue, from holding that such claims are preempted to treating the infliction tort as a reinforcement of civil rights principles. …
Rolling Over Borrowers: Preventing Excessive Refinancing And Other Necessary Changes In The Payday Loan Industry, Richard J. Thomas
Rolling Over Borrowers: Preventing Excessive Refinancing And Other Necessary Changes In The Payday Loan Industry, Richard J. Thomas
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents (V. 48, No. 6)
Tying Conspiracies, Christopher R. Leslie
Tying Conspiracies, Christopher R. Leslie
William & Mary Law Review
Antitrust law has long condemned tying arrangements when they are imposed by a single dominant firm. However, tying jurisprudence does not recognize that tie-ins can also occur as the result of a conspiracy among competitors. Consequently, antitrust doctrine fails to appreciate the unique anticompetitive dangers of concerted tying arrangements. After providing real-world examples of tying conspiracies, Professor Leslie explains how concerted tying arrangements present a far greater threat to competitive markets than traditional, unilaterally imposed tying arrangements. Because tying jurisprudence evolved without considering the existence or effects of concerted tie-ins, the current test for evaluating the legality of tying arrangements …