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Radiation Injuries: Statute Of Limitations Inadequacies In Tort Cases, Samuel D. Estep, Thomas W. Van Dyke Mar 1964

Radiation Injuries: Statute Of Limitations Inadequacies In Tort Cases, Samuel D. Estep, Thomas W. Van Dyke

Michigan Law Review

Some injuries from overexposure to radiation may manifest themselves within existing statutory limitations periods, at least under some liberal ( or loose) judicial interpretations. Many injurious manifestations, however, will not arise for a great many years after exposure; it is the thesis of this article that some new legislative solutions must be adopted. Limiting the right to sue to the existing time periods as construed by many courts will be manifestly unfair to plaintiffs. A blanket, unconditional extension of the time period to as much as thirty years for all cases regardless of the local rule as to when the …


Conflict Of Laws-Torts-Application Of Whole Law, Including Choice-Of-Law Rules, Of State Of Negligent Act Under Federal Tort Claims Act, Byron Bronston S.Ed Nov 1962

Conflict Of Laws-Torts-Application Of Whole Law, Including Choice-Of-Law Rules, Of State Of Negligent Act Under Federal Tort Claims Act, Byron Bronston S.Ed

Michigan Law Review

Representatives of passengers killed in an airplane crash in Missouri, due in part to the alleged negligence of government personnel in failing to enforce certain regulations of the Civil Aeronautics Act at an American Airlines' overhaul depot in Oklahoma, sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b) (1958), section 410(a) of the Tort Claims Act of 1946, provides that the Government shall be liable for the tortious conduct of its employees, "under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be …


Conflict Of Laws - Contracts - Public Policy Jan 1932

Conflict Of Laws - Contracts - Public Policy

Michigan Law Review

The decedent, in Florida, became the grantee of Florida land by a deed which recited that it was made subject to a mortgage held by one Key, in the sum of $9,000, securing a note for that amount. The deed stipulated that "the grantee herein assumes and agrees to pay the above mortgage and notes." By Florida law the grantee was effectually bound by such a clause. Upon the death of the grantee, Key entered a claim against the estate in Pennsylvania. The lower court disallowed the claim on the basis of a Pennsylvania statute which held a grantee of …


Conflict Of Laws-Bills And Notes-Law Governing Vailidity Of Transfer Of Check By Indorsement May 1931

Conflict Of Laws-Bills And Notes-Law Governing Vailidity Of Transfer Of Check By Indorsement

Michigan Law Review

The president of a New York corporation indorsed in blank in the corporate name a check payable to the corporation. He then indorsed the check personally and mailed it to the Banque De Bruxelles, a foreign corporation located in Belgium. The bank in Belgium received it for collection and forwarded it for collection to its correspondent in Washington, D. C. The proceeds were received by the bank in Belgium and credited to the personal account of the president of the New York corporation as directed by him. Later, he withdrew the amount from the bank for his own use. Assignees …