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If The Question Is Chocolate-Related, The Answer Is Always Yes: Why Doe V. Nestle Reopens The Door For Corporate Liability Of U.S. Corporations Under The Alien Tort Statute, Amanda A. Humphreville
If The Question Is Chocolate-Related, The Answer Is Always Yes: Why Doe V. Nestle Reopens The Door For Corporate Liability Of U.S. Corporations Under The Alien Tort Statute, Amanda A. Humphreville
American University Law Review
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The Judgment Fund: America's Deepest Pocket & Its Susceptibility To Executive Branch Misuse, Paul F. Figley
The Judgment Fund: America's Deepest Pocket & Its Susceptibility To Executive Branch Misuse, Paul F. Figley
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Over the last thirty-five years, the United States government has paid out billions of dollars in settlements that have had no fiscal consequences for the agencies whose actions caused the claims. It has done so through the Judgment Fund, a relatively unknown permanent, indefinite appropriation originally created by Congress almost half a century ago to pay certain types of judgments entered against the United States.
Congress struggled for nearly two hundred years to find a way to exercise its Appropriations Clause authority over claims payments that did not drown its members in procedural detail. The article surveys that history. Through …
Hitting A Home Run In Your Writing, David Spratt
Hitting A Home Run In Your Writing, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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