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Prisoners Of Fate: The Challenges Of Creating Change For Children Of Incarcerated Parents, Amy B. Cyphert
Prisoners Of Fate: The Challenges Of Creating Change For Children Of Incarcerated Parents, Amy B. Cyphert
Maryland Law Review
Children of incarcerated parents, the invisible victims of mass incarceration, suffer tremendous physical, psychological, educational, and financial burdens—detrimental consequences that can continue even long after a parent has been released. Although these children are blameless, policy makers, judges, and prison officials in charge of visitation policies have largely overlooked them. The United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines Manual explicitly instructs judges to ignore children when fashioning their parents’ sentences, and judges have largely hewed to this policy, even in the wake of the 2005 United States v. Booker decision that made those Guidelines merely advisory, not mandatory. Although some scholars have …
Is The Supreme Court Disabling The Enabling Act, Or Is Shady Grove Just Another Bad Opera?, Robert J. Condlin
Is The Supreme Court Disabling The Enabling Act, Or Is Shady Grove Just Another Bad Opera?, Robert J. Condlin
Faculty Scholarship
After seventy years of trying, the Supreme Court has yet to agree on whether the Rules Enabling Act articulates a one or two part standard for determining the validity of a Federal Rule. Is it enough that a Federal Rule regulates “practice and procedure,” or must it also not “abridge substantive rights”? The Enabling Act seems to require both, but the Court is not so sure, and the costs of its uncertainty are real. Among other things, litigants must guess whether the decision to apply a Federal Rule in a given case will depend upon predictable ritual, judicial power grab, …
In Re Mstg And The Shifting Role Of Litigation-Related Patent Licenses In Reasonable Royalty Rate Determinations, Whitney Levandusky
In Re Mstg And The Shifting Role Of Litigation-Related Patent Licenses In Reasonable Royalty Rate Determinations, Whitney Levandusky
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
Brief Of Amici Curiae In Support Of Appellant, James Townsend V. Midland Funding, Llc, Stuart Robert Cohen, Peter A. Holland
Brief Of Amici Curiae In Support Of Appellant, James Townsend V. Midland Funding, Llc, Stuart Robert Cohen, Peter A. Holland
Court Briefs
The Consumer Protection Clinic of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, filed a Motion to Participate and an Amicus Brief in the case of Townsend v. Midland Funding, LLC. The case presents the question of whether documents created by third party predecessors in interest—usually a bank—may be admitted into evidence when a debt buyer plaintiff does not demonstrate personal knowledge regarding any of the foundational elements which would be required to admit the documents under the business records exception to the hearsay rule. Amici urge the Court to overturn the lower court, and hold that a …
A Matter Of National Importance: The Persistent Inefficiency Of Deceptive Advertising Class Actions, Stacey M. Lantagne
A Matter Of National Importance: The Persistent Inefficiency Of Deceptive Advertising Class Actions, Stacey M. Lantagne
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
Stopped At The Starting Gate: The Overuse Of Summary Judgment In Equal Pay Cases, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg
Stopped At The Starting Gate: The Overuse Of Summary Judgment In Equal Pay Cases, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg
Faculty Scholarship
Prepared for a symposium about the overuse of summary judgment in employment discrimination cases, this Article provides a grassroots empirical analysis of what is happening in equal pay cases on the front lines of the district courts. Analyzing a database of 500 federal district court decisions—both published and unpublished—that considered whether to grant summary judgment on an equal pay claim from 2000 to 2011, the review shows that dismissing equal pay claims at the summary judgment stage has become the modus operandi for most federal courts. Courts granted 68% of summary judgment motions in equal pay cases—meaning that only about …
Future Conduct And The Limits Of Class-Action Settlements, James Grimmelmann
Future Conduct And The Limits Of Class-Action Settlements, James Grimmelmann
Faculty Scholarship
This Article identifies a new and previously unrecognized trend in class-action settlements: releases for the defendant’s future conduct. Such releases, which hold the defendant harmless for wrongs it will commit in the future, are unusually dangerous to class members and to the public. Even more than the “future claims” familiar to class-action scholars, future-conduct releases pose severe informational problems for class members and for courts. Worse, they create moral hazard for the defendant, give it concentrated power, and thrust courts into a prospective planning role they are ill-equipped to handle.
Courts should guard against the dangers of future-conduct releases with …
Consumer Financial Services Arbitration: What Does The Future Hold After Concepcion?, Alan S. Kaplinsky, Mark J. Levin
Consumer Financial Services Arbitration: What Does The Future Hold After Concepcion?, Alan S. Kaplinsky, Mark J. Levin
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
Drafting Arbitration Agreements: A Practioner's Guide For Consumer Credit Contracts, Nicole F. Munro, Peter L. Cockrell
Drafting Arbitration Agreements: A Practioner's Guide For Consumer Credit Contracts, Nicole F. Munro, Peter L. Cockrell
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
An Argument For Uniform E-Discovery Practice In Cross-Border Civil Litigation, Daniel B. Garrie, Daniel K. Gelb
An Argument For Uniform E-Discovery Practice In Cross-Border Civil Litigation, Daniel B. Garrie, Daniel K. Gelb
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
J.D.B. V. North Carolina: An Appropriate Expansion Of Miranda To Account For Age In Juvenile Interrogations, Hanna M. Sheehan
J.D.B. V. North Carolina: An Appropriate Expansion Of Miranda To Account For Age In Juvenile Interrogations, Hanna M. Sheehan
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Availability Of Spousal Privileges For Same-Sex Couples, Lisa Yurwit Bergstrom, W. James Denvil
Availability Of Spousal Privileges For Same-Sex Couples, Lisa Yurwit Bergstrom, W. James Denvil
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
United States Ex Rel. Drc, Inc. V. Custer Battles, Llc: A Brutal Battle Foreshadowing The Future Of False Claims Act Litigation, Kathleen H. Harne
United States Ex Rel. Drc, Inc. V. Custer Battles, Llc: A Brutal Battle Foreshadowing The Future Of False Claims Act Litigation, Kathleen H. Harne
Maryland Law Review Online
No abstract provided.
Ashcroft V. Iqbal: How The Supreme Court Rewrote Rule 8 To Immunize High-Level Executive Officials From Post-9/11 Liability (A Plausible Interpretation), Cara Shepley
Maryland Law Review Online
No abstract provided.
Let My Love Open The Door: The Case For Extending Marital Privileges To Unmarried Cohabitants, Julia Cardozo
Let My Love Open The Door: The Case For Extending Marital Privileges To Unmarried Cohabitants, Julia Cardozo
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Victor Stanley, Inc. V. Creative Pipe, Inc.: How To Utilize Rule 502 To Prevent Inadvertent Disclosure And Reduce Discovery Costs In An Age Of Electronically Stored Information, Michael J. Christin
Victor Stanley, Inc. V. Creative Pipe, Inc.: How To Utilize Rule 502 To Prevent Inadvertent Disclosure And Reduce Discovery Costs In An Age Of Electronically Stored Information, Michael J. Christin
Maryland Law Review Online
No abstract provided.
Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. V. Broudo: A Missed Opportunity To Right The Wrongs In The Pslra And Rebalance The Private Rule 10b-5 Litigation Playing Field, Thomas F. Gillespie Iii
Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. V. Broudo: A Missed Opportunity To Right The Wrongs In The Pslra And Rebalance The Private Rule 10b-5 Litigation Playing Field, Thomas F. Gillespie Iii
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
Haas V. Lockheed Martin Corp.: Making The Case For Incorporation Of The Discovery Rule Into The Limitations Statute Governing Discriminatory Discharge Claims, Kerry T. Cooperman
Haas V. Lockheed Martin Corp.: Making The Case For Incorporation Of The Discovery Rule Into The Limitations Statute Governing Discriminatory Discharge Claims, Kerry T. Cooperman
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Formstone Of Our Federalism: The Erie/Hanna Doctrine & Casebook Law Reform, Robert J. Condlin
A Formstone Of Our Federalism: The Erie/Hanna Doctrine & Casebook Law Reform, Robert J. Condlin
Faculty Scholarship
The one I feel sorry for is John Ely. More than thirty years ago, in his classic article The Irrepressible Myth of Erie, he explained painstakingly, if not clearly, how thinking of the Erie/Hanna doctrine as a constitutional cornerstone of our federalism was just a mistake. Such a view, he pointed out, makes a major mystery out of what are really three distinct and rather ordinary problems of statutory and constitutional interpretation. He described the analytical and practical costs of the mistake, showed how the analysis ought to go, explained why academics and judges had failed to get it …
"Defendant Veto" Or "Totality Of The Circumstances?": It's Time For The Supreme Court To Straighten Out The Personal Jurisdiction Standard Once Again, Robert J. Condlin
"Defendant Veto" Or "Totality Of The Circumstances?": It's Time For The Supreme Court To Straighten Out The Personal Jurisdiction Standard Once Again, Robert J. Condlin
Faculty Scholarship
Commentators frequently claim that there is no single, coherent doctrine of extra-territorial personal jurisdiction, and, unfortunately, they are correct. The International Shoe case, commonly (but inaccurately) thought of as the wellspring of the modern form of the doctrine, announced a relatively straightforward, two-factor, four-permutation test that worked well for resolving most cases. In the nearly sixty-year period following Shoe, however, as the Supreme Court expanded and refined the standard, what was once straightforward and uncomplicated became serendipitous and convoluted. Two general, and generally incompatible, versions of the doctrine competed for dominance. The first, what might best be described as …
Federal Common Law In An Age Of Treaties, Michael P. Van Alstine
Federal Common Law In An Age Of Treaties, Michael P. Van Alstine
Faculty Scholarship
In this article Professor Van Alstine explores the interaction between the limitations on the doctrine of federal common law and the power of federal courts to interpret the law within the scope of treaties. The article first reviews the constitutional foundation for the operation of treaties as directly applicable ("self-executing") federal law. It then explains that, notwithstanding the Erie doctrine, federal courts may obtain lawmaking powers from either a delegation by Congress or in certain areas of "uniquely federal interest."
Professor Van Alstine then argues that the judicial relationship with self-executing treaty law in principle proceeds from the same source …
Robert Leflar, Judicial Process, And Choice Of Law, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman
Robert Leflar, Judicial Process, And Choice Of Law, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Representative Litigation In Maryland: The Past, Present, And Future Of The Class Action Rule In State Court , Ian Gallacher
Representative Litigation In Maryland: The Past, Present, And Future Of The Class Action Rule In State Court , Ian Gallacher
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bmw Of North America, Inc. V. Gore: Elevating Reasonableness In Punitive Damages To A Doctrine Of Substantive Due Process, Son B. Nguyen
Bmw Of North America, Inc. V. Gore: Elevating Reasonableness In Punitive Damages To A Doctrine Of Substantive Due Process, Son B. Nguyen
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Law And Ethics Of Civil Depositions , A. Darby Dickerson
The Law And Ethics Of Civil Depositions , A. Darby Dickerson
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Process And Choice Of Law, William L. Reynolds
Legal Process And Choice Of Law, William L. Reynolds
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
What Happens When Parties Fail To Prove Foreign Law?, William L. Reynolds
What Happens When Parties Fail To Prove Foreign Law?, William L. Reynolds
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Loser-Pays: Where Next?, Walter Olson, David Bernstein
Loser-Pays: Where Next?, Walter Olson, David Bernstein
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Studying Deck Chairs On The Titanic, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman
Studying Deck Chairs On The Titanic, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Legal Process And The Past Of Antitrust, William L. Reynolds, Spencer Weber Waller
Legal Process And The Past Of Antitrust, William L. Reynolds, Spencer Weber Waller
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.