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Suggestions For The Improvement Of Municipal Annexation Law, Wallace Mendelson

Vanderbilt Law Review

World War II aggravated one of our most troublesome municipal problems--the growth of urban fringe areas around the outskirts of towns and cities. Many municipalities are finding their natural development either frustrated or completely strangled by choker necklaces of satellite settlements. Parent cities are surrounded by slum areas which they cannot control and wealthy suburban sections which they cannot tax. For it is common that the poorest and the most prosperous tend to live in the outskirts--the former to avoid the sanitation and anti-nuisance standards of urban life, the latter to escape their share of the cost of government in …

Claims Against States, Leslie L. Anderson

Vanderbilt Law Review

In 1924, commencing a leading series of articles on "Government Liability in Tort," Professor Edward M. Borchard referred to what he called the "unexampled expansion of the police power in the United States." He wrote of the increasing risks which individuals in this country are left to bear from "defective, negligent, perverse or erroneous administration" of the functions of government. If those functions had increased at a considerable rate at the time of his article, what would one say of their extent today? Even the leaders of the New Deal discerned the risks to which increased governmental activity subjected people, …

State Law Versus A Federal Common Law Of Torts, Irvin M. Gottlieb

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Statute, Its Scope and Basic Standard Section 421(k) of the Federal Tort Claims Act excludes from its coverage "any claim arising in a foreign country."' The Foreign Claims Act which was passed by the 77th Congress and amended by the 78th Congress has specific application to foreign countries, including places located therein which are under the temporary or permanent jurisdiction of the United States.

Court test of the territorial scope of the Federal Tort Claims Act arose in a series of cases decided in 1948, culminating in United States v. Spelar, where the issue of possible foreign coverage was …