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Democracy And Tort Law In America: The Counter-Revolution, Christopher J. Roederer
Democracy And Tort Law In America: The Counter-Revolution, Christopher J. Roederer
Christopher J. Roederer
Although the seeds of democracy and democratic tort reform were sown well before America’s founding, neither began to blossom until after the Second World War. Democratic progress from the 1950s to the 1970s led to, and was in part consolidated by, progressive developments in tort law during the same period. Unfortunately, the last quarter century has been a period of democratic decay in America and just as the revolution in tort law was bound up with democratic progress, the counter-revolution in tort law has tracked and reinforced the waning of American democracy since the 1980s. Although a few authors have …
Sign Amortization Laws: Insight Into Precedent, Property, And Public Policy, Stephen Durden
Sign Amortization Laws: Insight Into Precedent, Property, And Public Policy, Stephen Durden
Stephen Durden
This Article will (1) briefly overview Takings Clause jurisprudence; (2) state a paradigmatic fact pattern; (3) review how the Takings Clause has been applied to sign amortization codes by the United States Supreme Court; (4) review paradigmatic cases from Florida courts and federal courts with Florida jurisdiction; (5) discuss the precedential value of these cases; (6) discuss Lingle and whether it requires an overturning of this precedent; and (7) discuss whether failure to overturn these cases serves the purpose of precedential jurisprudence.