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Municipal Industrial Development Bonds, Alfred E. Abbey
Municipal Industrial Development Bonds, Alfred E. Abbey
Vanderbilt Law Review
Several years ago a national business magazine carried an article styled "You Gotta Have A Golf Course."' The article outlined the efforts of a small town to attract new industry and the awkward realization by the city fathers that they were losing out to the competition because their community lacked such a recreational facility. After this finding, several public spirited citizens raised the necessary funds and constructed a nine-hole course. These efforts were soon rewarded when a large industrial concern located a new manufacturing plant in their city. Industrial development bonds are essentially intended to serve the same purpose as …
Recent Developments Concerning Constitutional Limitations On State Defamation Laws, Samuel G. Mcnamara
Recent Developments Concerning Constitutional Limitations On State Defamation Laws, Samuel G. Mcnamara
Vanderbilt Law Review
Two recent cases, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan A and Garrison v. Louisiana, have over-turned many aspects of state laws regarding the defamation of public officials. The importance of these two cases is due not only to the problems they have solved, but also to the potential confusion which they have created. The primary purpose of this discussion is to point out the practical effect which the decisions will have on state law, both statutory and decisional. This note is concerned primarily with those aspects of the law of defamation dealing specifically with the conditional or qualified privilege to …