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Recent Case Comments, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

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Accounting--Return To Be Allowed Utilities on Deferred Tax Reserves Instituted in Connection with Accelerated Depreciation Methods

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Conflict of Laws--Torts--Repudiation of Place of Injury Rule

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Constitutional Law--Due Process--Juvenile Court Proceeding a Bar to Subsequent Criminal Trial for the Same Act

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Family Law--Divorce--Insanity as a Defense to Action--for Divorce on the Ground of Cruelty

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Labor Law--Unemployment Compensation-Status of Laid-Off Worker Under No--Strike Clause

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Real Property--Future Interests--Valuation of Possibility of Reverter

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Taxation--Federal Income Tax--Deductibility of Contingent Witness Fees

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Torts--Warranty--Relation of Foreseeability of Risk to the Implied Warranty of a Cigarette Manufacturer

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Some Developments In Conflict Of Laws, Elliott E. Cheatham

Vanderbilt Law Review

The economy and the social systems of our country are national in character. From Maine to California, and now on to Hawaii and Alaska, goods and people move freely. The legal systems, in contrast, make a checkerboard, with each of the fifty states having its own laws and courts. In the international area, there is a distant parallel. South and west of the iron curtain there is increasing movement of goods and people across national frontiers, but the nations continue to cherish their legal differences. It is the responsibility of conflict of laws to deal with the interaction of the …

Conflict Of Laws -- 1962 Tennessee Survey, Elliott E. Cheatham

Vanderbilt Law Review

Two cases involved Tennessee decrees of custody of children which altered the rights of custody prescribed by earlier decrees in other states. In both cases the court of appeals held the foreign decrees were not conclusive on the Tennessee courts because of change of circumstances since they were rendered. One of the foreign decrees was not conclusive, it is believed, for the further reason that in the out-of-state proceeding the custody of the children was not litigated and was evidently based on the consent of the parents. At this term the Supreme Court of the United States held such a …

Recent Case Comments, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Conflict of Laws--Workmen's Compensation--Forum's Use of Foreign State's Tort Law for Recovery Against Third Party Does Not Require Forum's Use of Foreign State's Election Provision in Workmen's Compensation Suit

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Constitutional Law--Advertising-Statute Restricting Size,Number, and Location of Gasoline Price Signs Is Unconstitutional

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Evidence-Attorney--Client Privilege--Applicability When a Corporation Is the Client

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Evidence--Attorney-Client Privilege-Doctor's Report to Attorney on Condition of Client Is Within Privilege

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Federal Jurisdiction--In Federal Question Action Federal Court Is Competent To Exercise In Personam Jurisdiction Over Corporation if It Has Sufficient Contacts With United States

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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure--Counterclaim Not Compulsory in First Suit …