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California V. Deep Sea Research: Leashing In The Eleventh Amendment To Keep Sinking Shipwreck Claims Afloat, Paul Neil

Pepperdine Law Review

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Constitutional Barriers To Smooth Sailing: 14 U.S.C. § 89(A) And The Fourth Amendment, Megan Jaye Kight

Indiana Law Journal

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Books Received, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Quaderni Di Scienze Criminali: The Penal Protection of Works of Art. Edited by the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences. Siracusa, Italy: The International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, 1983. Pp. 447.

Japanese Business Law and the Legal System. By Elliott J. Hahn. Westport, Connecticut and London, England: Quorum Books, 1984. Pp. vii, 168. $35.00.

The Exchange Rate System: Lessons of the Past and Options for the Future. Edited by Ellas H. Wright. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1984. Pp. vii, 55. $7.50.

The International Maritime Organization. Edited by Samie Mandrabody. London: Croom Helm Ltd., 1984. …

Admiralty - Constitutional Law - Effect Of State Regulation Of Marine Insurance On Uniformity Of Maritime Law, Charles G. Williamson, Jr. S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner's houseboat, used to transport passengers commercially on a lake between Texas and Oklahoma, was insured against fire and other loss by respondent. Following destruction of the boat by fire, respondent denied liability because of breaches of policy warranties against assignment, pledging, transferring, and use for hire. The petitioner's action was brought in the state court and removed to a federal court because of diversity of citizenship. Texas statutes provide that breaches of policy provisions by the insured are no defense unless the breach contributes to the loss, and that provisions in policies against pledging are invalid. Petitioner contended that …

Note And Comment, George E. Longstaff, George L. Clark, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

Constitutionality of the LA Follette Amendment to the Internal Revenue Law of 1921 - The United States Senate on November 5, 1921, inserted in the Revenue Act, then before the Senate, a provision that taxpayers in their income tax returns must specify what state and municipal bonds they hold, or else be subject to a penalty of five per cent. That provision was dropped out in conference, but it will come up again, and it is well to look at its constitutionality under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting unreasonable searches.