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Rira -- A Legal Information System In The Internal Revenue Service, David T. Link

Journal Articles

The IRS legal information retrieval program is still in its infancy. The results of its use so far indicate that the program is on a sound foundation. Consequently, the Office has great hopes for it. By eliminating a great deal of the duplication of effort among the attorneys it promises to result in certain economies to the Office. More important, it should assure a more consistent treatment of taxpayers through greater coordination than has ever been possible in the past. And most important, by providing more comprehensive and timely decision-making information the system should further the Offices constant goal of …

A Supplementary State Civil Rights Act, Robert E. Rodes

Journal Articles

Under the following statute, civil rights groups, with the approval of the state civil rights commission, may enter into agreements with employers, labor organizations, school authorities, or other public or private agencies, for a direct attack on de facto segregation through a deliberate mixing of races in a desired proportion. Professor Rodes characterizes his draft as "a suggestion for controlled concessions to the principle of direct mixing of the races" in such a manner as to be "philosophically consistent with an ultimate commitment to a society in which racial considerations play no part."

The Constitutional Right Of Association, Charles E. Rice

Journal Articles

It has been accurately observed that we are a nation of joiners. Alexis de Tocqueville, as early as 1835, concluded that "in no country in the world has the principle of association been more successfully used, or more unsparingly applied to a multitude of different objects, than in America." Tocqueville noted the ubiquitous character of American voluntary associations.

In 1958, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed, for the first time in unmistakable terms, the status of freedom of association as a fundamental right.

The occasion for this affirmation was an attempt by the State of Alabama to oust …

Compulsory Conciliation For New York, Willaim Burns Lawless

Journal Articles

It has been proposed that a state commission to study matrimonial statutes be created in New York. While this proposal has merit, New York state should in any event adopt legal procedures requiring compulsory conciliation where parties to a marriage undertake formal proceedings for legal separation or divorce.

Perhaps the most remarkable progress in this direction has been made in California and in Wisconsin, and we believe the experiences of these two states provide a helpful pattern for new procedures in New York. We think that New York law dealing with conciliation in marriage must be amended and strengthened if …