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Case Digest, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

1. ADMIRALTY

"CONTACTS" TEST BASED ON 99 PERCENT AMERICAN OWNERSHIP OF A FOREIGN CORPORATION WILL NOT BE APPLIED TO CIRCUMVENT THE RECIPROCITY PROVISION OF THE PUBLIC VESSELS ACT

SEARCH OF A U.S. VESSEL ON THE HIGH SEAS PURSUANT TO STATUTE AUTHORIZING SAFETY INSPECTIONS BY THE U.S. COAST GUARD MAY NOT BE ASSISTED BY AGENTS OF OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES

LAND-BASED TORT PRINCIPLES OF NEGLIGENCE APPLY TO LIABILITY OF VESSELS FOR INJURIES TO LONGSHOREMEN RATHER THAN PRINCIPLES OF UNSEAWORTHINESS OR VIOLATION OF NONDELEGABLE DUTY

2. ALIEN'S RIGHTS

INTERRUPTION OF AN ALIEN'S PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTOR STATUS OF AN ALIEN …

The Problems Of Yesteryear -- Commerce And Due Process, Robert L. Stern

Vanderbilt Law Review

Less than fifteen years ago, there were constitutional problems important enough to stir the country, to threaten the sanctity of the Supreme Court. These were the culmination of at least three decades of judicial controversy, in which the pressure of events brought criticism of the Court's decisions, both in noteworthy dissenting opinions and outside, to a new height. Fifteen years later, there still are difficult and important constitutional problems, and there still is criticism of the Supreme Court's decisions--though on a relatively minor scale. But the issues which rocked more than the legal world in the 1930's and in the …