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Book Review, William Samore
Book Review, William Samore
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing Harry A. Gair and A.S. Cutler, Negligence Cases: Winning Strategy, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1957 and Leon Green, Wex S. Malone, Willard H. Pedrick, James A. Rahl, Cases on the Law of Torts, West Publishing Company, 1957
Book Review, Howard L. Oleck
Book Review, Howard L. Oleck
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing Welcome D. Pierson, Editor-in-Chief, Defense Law Journal, Allen Smith Co., 1957 and The Defense Attorney and Basic Defense Tactics, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1956
Tax Aspects Of Jury Valuation Of Future Earnings, John J. Kennett
Tax Aspects Of Jury Valuation Of Future Earnings, John J. Kennett
Cleveland State Law Review
Whether or not a jury should be instructed, in a personal injury case, that its verdict is exempt from federal income taxation, has been much discussed recently. A most practical element in this problem is the difference between "gross pay" and "take-home pay" in computing the present value of future earnings, when estimating damages. The real question presented by the topic concerns impairment, or deprivation, of future earning capacity. Some of the early English cases which I shall mention considered earnings lost between the time of injury and the time of trial, in addition to the impairment of future earning …
Product Warranty Liability, Lee E. Skeel
Product Warranty Liability, Lee E. Skeel
Cleveland State Law Review
Much has been said about the liability of a manufacturer to a sub-purchaser for injuries caused by his products. Actions against manufacturers, if based on the theory of negligence, offer obvious difficulties of proof. Actions based on implied or even express warranties often are defeated by lack of contract privity. There is however, a widespread misconception of the true nature of warranty. This misconception must result in unjust decisions in some cases. It therefore is desirable that the true nature of warranty be analyzed. Such analysis may disclose the proper relation of an express or implied warranty to the injury …
Radiation Injury: A Technical And Legal Survey, Andrew J. Humphrey
Radiation Injury: A Technical And Legal Survey, Andrew J. Humphrey
Cleveland State Law Review
In the field of radiation damage much has been written and many scientific opinions have been given. As to legal decisions,there is much to criticize from a technical point of view in the early X-ray cases, particularly in regard to the leeway allowed to physicians in treating their patients through use of a new tool. The following survey is intended to serve to give to the lawyer a basic working knowledge of the subject of radiation. With this, plus knowledge of general principles of law, common sense should enable him to get his client's point across to the judge and …
Psychotic Aspects Of Premenstrual Tension, Naoma Lee Stewart
Psychotic Aspects Of Premenstrual Tension, Naoma Lee Stewart
Cleveland State Law Review
What legal conclusions may be drawn from the newly developing medical understanding of premenstrual tension in women, insofar as mental competency and criminal law are concerned? That is the subject of this paper.
Psychosomatic Injury, Traumatic Psychoneurosis, And Law, Paul David Cantor
Psychosomatic Injury, Traumatic Psychoneurosis, And Law, Paul David Cantor
Cleveland State Law Review
This paper deals with court decisions on liability claims for injuries to the mind rather than for broken bones alone. This subject now is as important to practitioners and students of the law as it long has been to medical men. Much medical knowledge is now reflected in new interpretations by the courts, so that today the legal fact is established that a person's emotional security as well as his physical security must be protected and compensated. The author's purpose is to focus attention on the developments of recent years as well as those of earlier times, and to demonstrate …
Continuing Jurisdiction In Divorce Cases, Otto Miller Iii
Continuing Jurisdiction In Divorce Cases, Otto Miller Iii
Cleveland State Law Review
This paper discusses whether or not a divorce court, by granting a continuing order for support and/or alimony, thereby retains such jurisdiction over the person that it need only give notice by mail or publication before reducing an arrearage to a lump sum judgment which, under "due process" is entitled to full faith and credit in the courts of sister States. It is assumed that the court had jurisdiction over the person of the defendant at the time the order for support and/or alimony was originally granted.
Medical Evaluation Of Mental Pain And Suffering, Carl E. Wasmuth
Medical Evaluation Of Mental Pain And Suffering, Carl E. Wasmuth
Cleveland State Law Review
What the attorney calls "mental pain and suffering" and emotional disturbance is identified by the physician as stress, a concept easier to appreciate than to define. The term was probably borrowed from the language of the engineer. Selye, the chief proponent of the term in medicine, employs it to describe the effects of external influences upon the human mind and body. The lawyer seeking damages for his client on the basis of mental and emotional disturbances (mental "pain and suffering") finds proof difficult. Until the sciences supply an accurate measure of mental and emotional disturbances due to stress, the legal …
The Frightened Medical Witness; Or Globus Hystericus Must Go, David I. Sindell
The Frightened Medical Witness; Or Globus Hystericus Must Go, David I. Sindell
Cleveland State Law Review
This article is written on behalf of the many trauma patients and their trial attorneys who discover to their horror, that their important medical witness - the "attending" doctor, - suffers from "Globus Hystericus". It is hoped that this paper may prove to be the elusive Rx to cure some difficulties raised by those few physicians (and yet there are too many) who hide their fear of the witness chair behind lame excuses, or even behind flat refusals to testify.
Adopted Child's Right Of Inheritance From The Natural Parents, John R. Murphy Jr.
Adopted Child's Right Of Inheritance From The Natural Parents, John R. Murphy Jr.
Cleveland State Law Review
Ohio's adoption statutes have always been under the close scrutiny of the courts, the legislatures and society. Their main purpose is to promote the welfare of adopted children, as well as to protect them. However, in their zeal to create a close relationship between the child and the adopting parent, the legislatures of several states, including Ohio, have attempted to sever the connection of blood relationship, in favor of the adopting parents. In the process they sometimes have cut off the right of inheritance between the child and the natural parent. A review of several recent cases indicates that this …
Federal Civil Jurisdiction Of Military Justice, Chester B. Gynn Jr.
Federal Civil Jurisdiction Of Military Justice, Chester B. Gynn Jr.
Cleveland State Law Review
Control exercised by the federal civil courts over courts-martial differs from that found in other types of cases involving the relation of federal and state courts. The federal civil courts are constitutional courts; the military courts are administrative courts established by Congress and empowered by the Constitution; while state courts receive their power from entirely different sovereigns. Thus, to determine the powers of review which federal civil courts have over courts-martial, reference must be made almost exclusively to cases involving courts-martial.
Functions Of The Office Of Attorney General Of Ohio, William A. Saxbe
Functions Of The Office Of Attorney General Of Ohio, William A. Saxbe
Cleveland State Law Review
The office of the Attorney General of Ohio was established by the Constitution of 1851 in Article XII, Section 1. The duties of the Attorney General and the functions of the Office are prescribed by statute. That places the Attorney General as the last of our statutory officers in Ohio. The Attorney General, if there was any before the Constitution of 1851, served at the pleasure of the Governor as a legal advisor. And some of the things I shall say later reflect the importance of making this a Constitutional office, thus putting a different light on the function of …
Building Up To An Awful Let-Down, Robert J. Knorr
Building Up To An Awful Let-Down, Robert J. Knorr
Cleveland State Law Review
In modem construction, theoretically the duties, liabilities and warranties of those involved in a construction project ordinarily are broken down thus: The owner agrees to furnish the funds; the architect-engineer contracts to furnish experience, know-how, design, engineering plans, specifications, and supervision to assure the owner that he will receive what he requires and pays for; while the contractor agrees to furnish skilled labor,and proper material for the job. However, in actual practice, especially where the owner engages one firm to furnish the architectural drawings, specifications and supervision; another to do the necessary engineering design of the structural elements of the …
Whiplash - Defense Counsel's View, Harley J. Mcneal
Whiplash - Defense Counsel's View, Harley J. Mcneal
Cleveland State Law Review
Many words have been spoken and written on the controversial subject of whiplash injuries of the cervical spine. However, no papers have been noted which discuss the problem from the viewpoint of the defense trial attorney. From a defense standpoint, some of the medical phrases or words used by doctors today have devastating psychological effects upon jurors trying personal injury cases. The word "whiplash" is one of these "coined" words. Thus, while it is conceded that medical men are only trying to define particular injuries with preciseness, the constant use and repetition of such words or terms cause the average …
Book Review, Jack F. Smith
Book Review, Jack F. Smith
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing Fowler V. Harper and Fleming James, Jr., The Law of Torts, Little, Brown & Company, 1956
Fluoroscopic X-Ray Shoe Fitting Devices, Donald D. Weisberger
Fluoroscopic X-Ray Shoe Fitting Devices, Donald D. Weisberger
Cleveland State Law Review
Exposure to X-rays or other radiation over and above a certain cumulative tolerance limit can be damaging to the human body. This fact is thoroughly explained in Mr. Humphrey's article on Radiation in this issue of this law review. But a person thus injured by x-ray radiation from so-called fluoroscopic fitting machines in shoe stores will find it virtually impossible to make out a cause of action in negligence against the owners and operators of the machines. Yet, use of such machines now is known to be seriously harmful, unless that use is closely controlled.
The Pathologist And The Autopsy, Lawrence J. Mccormack
The Pathologist And The Autopsy, Lawrence J. Mccormack
Cleveland State Law Review
The autopsy, properly performed, remains one of the keystones of modern medicine. However, obtaining the legally required consent or authorization for a medical autopsy can be a complex, almost impossible task. Simplification of the legal requirements for consent throughout the United States would be a definite step forward for medicine, and would benefit society generally.
Federal Tort Claims Act Summarized, Russell E. Ake
Federal Tort Claims Act Summarized, Russell E. Ake
Cleveland State Law Review
To attempt a brief summary of the Federal Tort Claims Act may be likened to an attempt to explain atomic energy in ten words. But such a summary may be of some usefulness to our esteemed adversaries - the plaintiff's counsel in FTCA cases. Like most statutes, both state and federal, the text of this Act is encompassed within a few paragraphs. Then there follows a welter of interpretations, exceptions, and constructions. However, I shall attempt to hit the high spots and see if we can't come at least to a general understanding of what it's about and what it …
The Warsaw Convention's Damages Limitations, William B. Wright
The Warsaw Convention's Damages Limitations, William B. Wright
Cleveland State Law Review
The Convention for the Unification of Certain rules relating to International Transportation by Air, popularly known as the Warsaw Convention, regulates the conditions of international transportation by air with respect to the documents used for such transportation by air with respect to the documents used for such transportation and the liability of the carrier. This paper relates particularly to the limitation this treaty places on the rights of passengers and their dependents to recover damages for personal injury or death.
Licensing, And Administrative Procedure Acts, Homer W. Giles
Licensing, And Administrative Procedure Acts, Homer W. Giles
Cleveland State Law Review
Licensing laws have proved to be very effective governmental regulatory devices. Although the supposed purpose of government in requiring a license for a particular activity is to regulate, "by a general formal denial of a right, which is then made individually available by an administrative act of approval, certification, consent or permit," the effect in many cases is actually to prohibit. While government should be permitted to prohibit activities which it regards with disfavor, it should not be permitted to allow an administrative agency to deprive a person of a license for a business or occupation, otherwise lawful, without giving …
Book Review, Winifred R. Higgins
Book Review, Winifred R. Higgins
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing Samuel J. Weiner and Zellie Miner, Ohio Methods of Practice, West Publishing Company, 1957
What's Wrong With Modern Legal Education, John G. Hervey
What's Wrong With Modern Legal Education, John G. Hervey
Cleveland State Law Review
Some one once observed that the size of a man is measured by the size of the things that he will let bother him. Which is to say, that what concerns the legal profession, and those who aspire to enter it, is the adequacy of the job that is being done. The great majority of the lawyers have had training in the law schools of the country - very few come to the practice today via law office study. The practicing profession is, therefore, but the mirror that reflects the schools in which the lawyers were trained. If the bench …
Whiplash Injuries Of The Neck, Kenneth H. Abbott
Whiplash Injuries Of The Neck, Kenneth H. Abbott
Cleveland State Law Review
The nomenclature, mechanics, pathology and symptomatology of the minor injuries to the neck incurred in the socalled whiplash injury are reviewed. The common mechanism of this injury is shown to be hyperextension with recoil into hyperflexion, causing a sprain, of the soft tissues of the neck. In the more seriously injured, there may occur tearing and even avulsion of capsular and ligamentous structures of the neck. With injury to nerves and blood vessels, associated head and lower back injuries may also occur. Less commonly bony fractures of the neck vertebrae may be found. Attention is given to the delayed symptoms …
Physician's View Of Whiplash Injuries Of The Neck, Paul A. Nelson
Physician's View Of Whiplash Injuries Of The Neck, Paul A. Nelson
Cleveland State Law Review
Whiplash injuries of the neck as the result of automobile accidents have attracted increased attention in recent years from both the medical and legal professions. The incidence of such injuries has risen steadily, paralleling the increase in the number of automobiles and in the number of accidents on our highways. Unfortunately, effective safety measures or changes in automobile design that might prevent or minimize these injuries have not yet been introduced. Because most whiplash injuries involve compensation and many entail litigation, the correct management of such cases both medically and legally is of considerable economic importance.
Jury Instructions On Tax Exemption In Personal Injury Cases, Edwin Knachel
Jury Instructions On Tax Exemption In Personal Injury Cases, Edwin Knachel
Cleveland State Law Review
The practical aspects of instructing a jury that the amount of its verdict in a personal injury case is exempt from federal income taxation, of course, relate to the trend of the times. Jury verdicts in personal injury cases throughout the United States have been increasing in amount due to the booming economy of our times and the inflation of the dollar.
Causation: A Medico-Legal Battlefield, Albert Averbach
Causation: A Medico-Legal Battlefield, Albert Averbach
Cleveland State Law Review
In the court room, the trial lawyer strives to introduce medical testimony as to the cause of a condition or disease. Resort in many instances is made, through a hypothetical question to a non-attending physician, as to whether or not the accident described was a competent cause of a later-described or assumed condition, or "might," "could, "would," or "was" competent to have caused it. A great conflict exists in the various states as to the permissible range of inquiry in such cases, depending upon the particular jurisdiction's interpretation of the requirement that medical opinions must be reasonably certain or reasonably …
Hospital Immunity, Ellis B. Brannon
Hospital Immunity, Ellis B. Brannon
Cleveland State Law Review
An archaic rule has been modified in Ohio by the Supreme Court decision in Avellone v. St. John's Hospital. However, this decision leaves open the question of whether the Ohio Supreme Court will apply the New York Rule to hospital liability in Ohio, or whether it will apply a less restrictive rule of liability to hospitals in this State. Essentially, the question is whether the hospital will be held responsible for all acts of negligence of its agents occurring within the physical confines of hospital premises, or whether it will be excluded from liability in those instances where the act …
Postmortem Examinations, S.R. Gerber
Postmortem Examinations, S.R. Gerber
Cleveland State Law Review
Postmortem examination is frequently considered to be a synonymous term for autopsy. However, literally any examination performed after death is a postmortem examination. All examinations of cases received at coroners' offices are performed postmortem. These examinations vary in extent, depending upon the circumstances and developments disclosed upon investigation by police and others.
Consent To Surgical Procedures, Carl E. Wasmuth
Consent To Surgical Procedures, Carl E. Wasmuth
Cleveland State Law Review
Case law relating to surgical consent is fairly well settled. A review of the numerous decisions on this question can be summed up with a general statement: If the patient freely consults the physician, understands the operation contemplated, enters the hospital, and submits to the operation, consent is implied. This consent to a surgical operation is a privilege that the patient extends to the surgeon to commit trespass to the person.