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Foreword: "Just Do It!": Title Ix As A Threat To University Autonomy, Richard A. Epstein
Foreword: "Just Do It!": Title Ix As A Threat To University Autonomy, Richard A. Epstein
Michigan Law Review
For a short time I was stymied to identify a suitable theme for the Foreword to the 2003 Survey of Books in the Michigan Law Review. The task is surely a daunting one, because it is never possible to write a Foreword that offers the reader a Cook's Tour of the many distinguished offerings reviewed in its pages. Therefore I hope to link one broad theme to one narrow topic, knowing that at first it may look as though they have little in common. In taking this approach, I prefer dangerous shoals to well-marked channels. I shall therefore begin with …
Ftc May Determine Whether Advertisements Containing Therapeutic Claims In Promotion Of Health Books Are Deceptive- Rodale Press, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Ftc May Determine Whether Advertisements Containing Therapeutic Claims In Promotion Of Health Books Are Deceptive- Rodale Press, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Rodale Press advertised that the ideas and suggestions in its publication, The Health Finder, would increase life span, prevent various diseases, and permit savings on medical and dental expenses. The Federal Trade Commission challenged the advertising claims, which were substantially restatements of claims made in the book, on the ground that adherence to the book's suggestions would not effect the promised results. The hearing examiner denied Rodale's motion to dismiss the complaint. On request for permission to file an interlocutory appeal from the dismissal, held, request denied, one commissioner dissenting. The Commission may challenge the collateral claims in …
Torts - Unauthorized Publication Of Photograph - Invasion Of Right Of Privacy, James W. Mehaffy
Torts - Unauthorized Publication Of Photograph - Invasion Of Right Of Privacy, James W. Mehaffy
Michigan Law Review
Defendant newspaper published an advertisement containing a picture of plaintiff, a radio artist, in a bathing suit, under the mistaken belief that it was a picture of a member of a vaudeville troupe whose name appeared in the advertisement, and who was described as an "exotic red-haired Venus" who endorsed a certain brand of whole-wheat bread as a means of "keeping that sylph-like figure." Plaintiff alleged that the vaudeville act was a "sensual performance or sex parade" and was composed of the "cheapest class of chorus girls." Held, that the advertisement was an invasion of plaintiff's right of privacy …
Municipal Corporations - Police Power - Billboard Regulations For Aesthetic Purposes, Bertram H. Lebeis
Municipal Corporations - Police Power - Billboard Regulations For Aesthetic Purposes, Bertram H. Lebeis
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff applied to defendant superintendent of buildings for permits to erect billboards for general advertising purposes on plaintiff's, property in the city of Troy. Defendant refused to issue the permits on the authority of an ordinance which made it unlawful to erect any billboard and/ or signboard within the city limits, except upon real property owned or leased by the occupants thereof and for the sole purpose of advertising the sale of such property or of merchandise kept for sale upon such premises. Plaintiff petitioned for a writ of mandamus to compel defendant to issue the permits. Held, that …