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Motions 1987 Volume 1 Number 2, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association Nov 1987

Motions 1987 Volume 1 Number 2, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association

Newspaper, Motions (1987-2019)

No abstract provided.


Motions 1987 Volume 1 Number 1, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association Oct 1987

Motions 1987 Volume 1 Number 1, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association

Newspaper, Motions (1987-2019)

No abstract provided.


Judgment Of The United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Sep 1987

Judgment Of The United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit

Orders

No abstract provided.


V.24-5, 1987 Masthead Sep 1987

V.24-5, 1987 Masthead

San Diego Law Review

No abstract provided.


Empathy Subjectivity And Testamentary Capacity, Jane B. Baron Sep 1987

Empathy Subjectivity And Testamentary Capacity, Jane B. Baron

San Diego Law Review

This Article examines the requirements of testamentary capacity in the execution of wills, and the difficulties that courts face in determining a testator's intent. The author begins by describing the doctrine of testamentary capacity and explores its connection to the ideas of individualism. The author then examines the tests that courts have adopted for assessing testamentary capacity and argues that these tests have the potential to conflict with the idea that values are subjective. The author proceeds to illustrate how courts typically empathize with the testator, rather than focus on the testator's abstract ability to reason, and explores the relationship …


Challenges To Jury Composition: Purging The Sixth Amendment Analysis Of Equal Protection Concepts, Laurie Magid Sep 1987

Challenges To Jury Composition: Purging The Sixth Amendment Analysis Of Equal Protection Concepts, Laurie Magid

San Diego Law Review

This Article examines the use of the sixth amendment to challenge the composition of a jury. The author argues that it is the sixth amendment's cross-section analysis, and not the equal protection analysis, which can fully protect a defendant's right to a fair and impartial jury. The author examines the case law and the basic approaches taken by courts in addressing sixth amendment challenges to jury composition, and then discusses the difficulties a defendant faces in establishing standing in an equal protection challenge to jury composition. The author goes on to explore the different definitions of groups that cannot be …


Justice Brennan And Freedom Of Expression Doctrine In The Burger Court, Edward V. Heck Sep 1987

Justice Brennan And Freedom Of Expression Doctrine In The Burger Court, Edward V. Heck

San Diego Law Review

This Article examines Justice Brennan's voting record and opinions in first amendment cases decided since 1969 and compares Justice Brennan's votes to those of his colleagues on the Burger Court. The author investigates the major themes that run through Justice Brennan's opinions in an attempt to ascertain whether Justice Brennan's votes are rooted in a coherent doctrine of freedom of expression, and whether he has moved away from his reliance on the functional view of the first amendment. The author concludes that Justice Brennan has developed an approach that combines a conservative approach to freedom of expression with a more …


Sherman V. Lloyd And Mutual Selection In California Limited Partnership Law, George M. Means Sep 1987

Sherman V. Lloyd And Mutual Selection In California Limited Partnership Law, George M. Means

San Diego Law Review

This Comment examines the issue of when a limited partnership is in existence in light of the California Court of Appeal's decision in Sherman v. Lloyd, in which it held that no limited partnership exists unless the limited partners have "mutually selected" each other for admission into the limited partnership. The author criticizes this recent twist in limited partnership doctrine, arguing from both a practical and an analytical standpoint that "mutual selection" has no place in California law.


Expanding Bankruptcy Protection To The Individual Businessman: Taking Chapter 12 One Step Further, Andrew D. Simons Sep 1987

Expanding Bankruptcy Protection To The Individual Businessman: Taking Chapter 12 One Step Further, Andrew D. Simons

San Diego Law Review

In this Comment, the author examines the issues surrounding the recent enactment of a new Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code and its protection of individual bankruptcies. The author argues that, while the Code provides both consumer debtors and large corporations with a mechanism for restructuring their debts and continuing an on-going concern, it does not address the needs of individual businessmen with large business structures. The author examines the Congressional enactment of the new Chapter 12, which was designed to provide individual farmers with the chance to reorganize. The author argues that Congress should expand this newly afforded protection …


A California Juvenile's Right To Trial By Jury: An Issue Now Overripe For Consideration, Carol R. Berry Sep 1987

A California Juvenile's Right To Trial By Jury: An Issue Now Overripe For Consideration, Carol R. Berry

San Diego Law Review

This Comment addresses the issue of a juvenile's right to trial by jury. The author traces the origin and development of the juvenile justice system. The author argues that a quid pro quo system was established where a minor's due process rights were exchanged for the protection and rehabilitative efforts of the juvenile court, but that juvenile courts have failed to effect this purpose. The author analyzes United States Supreme Court case law that extends procedural due process rights to minors. The author then analyzes California case law and addresses the trend toward the "criminalization" of California juvenile delinquency proceedings. …


Rcra Immunity From Nepa: The Epa Has Exceeded The Scope Of Its Authority, Kristina Hauenstein Sep 1987

Rcra Immunity From Nepa: The Epa Has Exceeded The Scope Of Its Authority, Kristina Hauenstein

San Diego Law Review

This Comment questions the Environmental Protection Agency's enactment of regulations that exempt all Resource Conservation and Recovery Act permits from the Environmental Impact Statement provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act. The author examines administrative law and the legislative history and text of both NEPA and RCRA to determine whether the EPA, in enacting these regulations, exceeded the scope of its statutory authority. The author then addresses the public policy considerations against condoning such regulatory overreaching if the EPA indeed exceeded RCRA's scope. The author also discusses the constitutional implications of an administrative agency regulation that categorically defeats congressional mandates. …


Equal Protection For The Poor: Fair Distribution To Meet Brutal Needs, William Rich Sep 1987

Equal Protection For The Poor: Fair Distribution To Meet Brutal Needs, William Rich

San Diego Law Review

This Article proposes a principle of equal protection based on a "fair distribution" of basic government services and benefits to those with "brutal needs." The author identifies the theoretical perspectives of constitutional interpretation that have influenced the analysis and examines the historical developments that have created the need to change the constitutional treatment of welfare assistance. The author continues on to review the arguments that illustrate the difficulties in developing articulable standards for the Supreme Court to review and attempts to resolve some of the doctrinal problems encountered by the Court. The author concludes that the Court should recognize an …


The Social Insurance-Deterrence Dilemma Of Modern North American Tort Law: A Canadian Perspective On The Liability Insurance Crisis, Michael J. Trebilcock Jul 1987

The Social Insurance-Deterrence Dilemma Of Modern North American Tort Law: A Canadian Perspective On The Liability Insurance Crisis, Michael J. Trebilcock

San Diego Law Review

This Article surveys the trends in the United States and Canadian tort systems and discusses how they have impacted American and Canadian liability insurance markets. A major thesis of this Article is that the changing complexion of the United States tort system, paralleled by similar trends in Canada, explains many of the recent problems in availability, affordability and adequacy of liability insurance. Changes in parameters of liability and quantum of damage have made it increasingly difficult for insurers to price various types of risks. In particular, the author argues that attempts to pursue deterrence objectives and compensation (social insurance) objectives …


Serious Tort Law Reform, Stephen D. Sugarman Jul 1987

Serious Tort Law Reform, Stephen D. Sugarman

San Diego Law Review

In this Article, the author argues that tort law generates more perverse behavior than safety and that it is an expensive and unfair system of compensating victims. The author critiques various attempts at tort law reform, suggests abandoning the traditional form of tort law as it exists today, and proposes several wide-ranging changes in the areas of compensation and damages.


Up With Torts, Joseph W. Little Jul 1987

Up With Torts, Joseph W. Little

San Diego Law Review

This author presents an additional critique of Prof. Sugarman's tort reform proposal. The author argues that, while tort law does have its problems, potential tort law reforms should be made within the existing tort law framework, rather than completely abandoning the law of torts.


V.24-4, 1987 Masthead Jul 1987

V.24-4, 1987 Masthead

San Diego Law Review

No abstract provided.


On Sugarman On Tort-Chopping, Oscar S. Gray Jul 1987

On Sugarman On Tort-Chopping, Oscar S. Gray

San Diego Law Review

In this Article, the author critiques Prof. Sugarman's tort reform proposal. While agreeing with Prof. Sugarman's overall proposal, the author suggests that reform could better be achieved through following the themes that have been developing in twentieth century tort law, rather than repudiating the entire system.


How Serious Is Sugarman's "Serious Tort Law Reform"?, Monroe Berkowitz Jul 1987

How Serious Is Sugarman's "Serious Tort Law Reform"?, Monroe Berkowitz

San Diego Law Review

This author again presents a critique of Prof. Sugarman's tort reform proposal. The author argues that, while Prof. Sugarman's critique and analysis of the problems of current tort law are valid, his solutions will not lead to the desired result.


Serious Tort Reform Isn't: A Critique Of Professor Sugarman's "Serious Tort Law Reform", Harry M. Snyder Jul 1987

Serious Tort Reform Isn't: A Critique Of Professor Sugarman's "Serious Tort Law Reform", Harry M. Snyder

San Diego Law Review

In another critique of Prof. Sugarman's proposal, the author argues that Prof. Sugarman's proposals do little to practically solve the current problems of victim compensation, and in fact leave many victims uncompensated and does not provide incentives for safe behavior. The author further argues that Prof. Sugarman's proposals lack the requisite impartiality to objectively effect serious tort reform.


Defining The Agenda For Serious Tort Reform, Alfred W. Cortese Jr., Yosef J. Riemer Jul 1987

Defining The Agenda For Serious Tort Reform, Alfred W. Cortese Jr., Yosef J. Riemer

San Diego Law Review

In this Article, the authors support Prof. Sugarman's tort reform proposals, but argue that these proposals need more development before they will produce actual change.


North America's Most Ambitious No-Fault Law: Quebec's Auto Insurance Act, Jeffrey O'Connell, Charles Tenser Jul 1987

North America's Most Ambitious No-Fault Law: Quebec's Auto Insurance Act, Jeffrey O'Connell, Charles Tenser

San Diego Law Review

In this Article, the authors describe the Automobile Insurance Act of Quebec, its provisions for damages, and its exceptions.


Wrongful Death Damages In California: On The Brink Of Full Compensation, Thomas E. Courtney Jr. Jul 1987

Wrongful Death Damages In California: On The Brink Of Full Compensation, Thomas E. Courtney Jr.

San Diego Law Review

This Comment addresses the denial by California courts of mental anguish damages in wrongful death actions, despite strong policy reasons to the contrary. The author discusses the inconsistencies that exist when outdated legal doctrine preclude compensation for a recognized, legitimate element of damages, and proposes that mental anguish damages be recognized in wrongful death actions. Additionally, the author explores the concept of "hedonic value" and its potential application in wrongful death damage assessment.


Wickline V. State: The Emerging Liability Of Third Party Health Care Payors, Dorsett Marc Lyde Jul 1987

Wickline V. State: The Emerging Liability Of Third Party Health Care Payors, Dorsett Marc Lyde

San Diego Law Review

This Comment examines the issue of liability of third party health care payors in light of the decision in Wickline v. State. The author argues that third party payor liability for modern medicine is experiencing a tension that revolves around the need for quality medical care and the concurrent problem of the rising cost of medical services. The author further argues that third party payors are being pressured by California courts to provide carefully designed benefit programs that allow physicians to make quality health care decisions without having to worry about the payment source of additional costs. The author assesses …


Senate Office Of Research, F. Adelman, C. Traxler May 1987

Senate Office Of Research, F. Adelman, C. Traxler

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


Commission On California State Government Organization And Economy (Little Hoover Commission), F. Adelman, C. Traxler May 1987

Commission On California State Government Organization And Economy (Little Hoover Commission), F. Adelman, C. Traxler

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


Bureau Of Automotive Repair, M. Nuesca May 1987

Bureau Of Automotive Repair, M. Nuesca

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


Office Of The Auditor General, F. Adelman, C. Traxler May 1987

Office Of The Auditor General, F. Adelman, C. Traxler

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


Board Of Barber Examiners, J. Dolese May 1987

Board Of Barber Examiners, J. Dolese

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


Board Of Cosmetology, R. Hutak May 1987

Board Of Cosmetology, R. Hutak

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


Board Of Funeral Directors And Embalmers, J. Vogler May 1987

Board Of Funeral Directors And Embalmers, J. Vogler

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.