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Labor Law-Fair Labor Standards Act-- Coverage Of Construction Workers, David G. Davies
Labor Law-Fair Labor Standards Act-- Coverage Of Construction Workers, David G. Davies
Michigan Law Review
Respondent construction firm was engaged in building a dam, the sole purpose of which was to enlarge a reservoir that supplied water to the city of Corpus Christi, Texas. Industrial producers of goods for interstate commerce and operators of instrumentalities of interstate commerce consumed nearly half of the water supplied by the city's system. The Secretary of Labor sought an injunction against violations of the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act The district court granted the injunction; the court of appeals reversed, relying primarily upon the "new construction" doctrine. On certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, held …
Comparative Negligence And Automobile Liability Insurance, Cornelius J. Peck
Comparative Negligence And Automobile Liability Insurance, Cornelius J. Peck
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this article is not to re-plow the ground of history, case law, and statutory developments which has been so competently tilled by others. Nor is the purpose to give a detailed consideration of each of the practical matters mentioned above. Instead, the focus of this article is on the relationship between comparative negligence and automobile liability insurance. Insurance rates and accident statistics, rather than rules of law and cases, are the primary materials. Such a consideration of the subject it might be hoped would give a positive and substantiated answer to the frequently debated but never documented …
Torts - Wrongful Death - Expected Inheritance As An Element Of Damages, James Cripe
Torts - Wrongful Death - Expected Inheritance As An Element Of Damages, James Cripe
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, the widow of a railroad employee who was killed as the result of the defendant's negligence, instituted this action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act to recover damages for his death. The lower court in awarding a judgment refused to include the plaintiff's expectancy of inheritance in the measure of damages. On appeal, held, reversed. The expectance of an inheritance from the deceased is a pecuniary benefit which the beneficiary of the action might reasonably have received if the deceased had not died of his injuries. Martin v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, (5th Cir. 1959) 268 …