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Housingdiscrimination.Com?: The Ninth Circuit (Mostly) Puts Out The Welcome Mat For Fair Housing Act Suits Against Roommate-Matching Websites, Diane J. Klein, Charles Doskow
Housingdiscrimination.Com?: The Ninth Circuit (Mostly) Puts Out The Welcome Mat For Fair Housing Act Suits Against Roommate-Matching Websites, Diane J. Klein, Charles Doskow
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Article illuminates the bases of the Ninth Circuit's decision in Fair Housing Council v. Roommates.com and clarifies the issues on remand.
An Integrative Alternative For America's Privacy Torts, Robert M. Connallon
An Integrative Alternative For America's Privacy Torts, Robert M. Connallon
Golden Gate University Law Review
Rugg and Smith encapsulate a transition between two approaches to tort protection of privacy. Rugg reflects the unitary-tort theory, which recognizes a single tort and seeks only to determine if the plaintiff's interest in privacy has been breached by the defendant's behavior. Smith reflects the multiple-tort approach that recognizes four torts, encompassing four ways in which privacy is breached, that have in common only an interference with a loosely defined understanding of privacy. This understanding of the privacy tort was lifted from the Restatement (Second) of Torts (1977), which adopted a construct first proffered by Dean William Prosser in a …
Immigration Law, Kathryn L. Anderson
Immigration Law, Kathryn L. Anderson
Golden Gate University Law Review
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Nonrecourse Financing And Tax Shelter Abuse: The Crane Doctrine Before And After The At Risk Provisions, Michael Gurwitz
Nonrecourse Financing And Tax Shelter Abuse: The Crane Doctrine Before And After The At Risk Provisions, Michael Gurwitz
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Comment will examine the history of nonrecourse financing and tax shelters from the fabled Crane holding to the new reality of the ARP. This will be done by dividing the Comment into four parts. Part I will discuss the period preceding the passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1976, focusing on the Crane doctrine and subsequent attempts by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to define and limit the use of nonrecourse debt. Part II will highlight the factors that contributed to the growing abuse of tax shelters. Part III, in general terms, will examine the statutory scheme of …