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Recent Cases, John P. Kelly, G. David Dodd
Recent Cases, John P. Kelly, G. David Dodd
Vanderbilt Law Review
The principle that the government must not only refrain from providing special preference to a particular religion, but, that it also must stand apart from religion in general is abridged once the government seeks to provide sustenance to religious interests. Government neutrality is preserved, however, when the government merely provides fertile ground on which religious interests can thrive independently. Because state-imposed employment accommodation of religious precepts creates proselytizing opportunities" upon which religious interests flourish and because there is no overriding government interest in requiring such accommodation, Title VII's Randolph Amendment transgresses establishment clause prohibitions.
John P. Kelly
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The court …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Conflict of Laws--Torts--Lex Loci Delicti Is Proper Law When Parties Are Domiciled in Different Jurisdictions Unless Displacing That Law Advances Forum State's Substantive Law Purposes Without Impeding Interstate Relations or Predictability of Result
Plaintiff, an Ontario domiciliary, brought an action in New York for the wrongful death of her husband, also a domiciliary of Ontario,who was killed in a collision in that province' while a passenger in an automobile driven by defendant's intestate, a New York domiciliary. Defendant pleaded as an affirmative defense the Ontario guest statute, which restricts a guest's recovery to damages for injuries sustained only as a …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Antitrust--Treble Damage Actions--Private Litigant Whose Injury Was Reasonably Foreseeable Has Standing To Sue
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Constitutional Law--Free Exercise of Religion--First Amendment Violated by Compulsory Education Statute that Prevents a Parent from Raising His Children According to His Religious Beliefs
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Constitutional Law--Immunity Statutes-Section 201 of Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Which Provides Only Use and Fruits Immunity, Violates Fifth Amendment
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Constitutional Law-Search and Seizure--AFDC Caseworker's Visit to Home of Nonconsenting Welfare Recipient Not Prohibited by Fourth Amendment
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Consumer Protection Law-Standing -United States Has Standing To Seek Injunction Against Practice of Obtaining Default Judgments Through False Affidavits Certifying Service …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Conflict of Laws--Significant Interest Doctrine Extended to Marital Property Litigation
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Constitutional Law-Search and Seizure--Fourth Amendment Restrictions Apply to Electronic Eavesdropping When Conversations Are Private--Physical Trespass Test Discarded
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Constitutional Law-Section 5(a) (1) (D) Prohibiting Members of Communist-Action Organizations from Employment in Defense Facilities Held Unconstitutional Infringement Upon Freedom of Association
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Criminal Law--Evidence-Unauthorized Juror View Violates Sixth Amendment Right to Confrontation
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Domestic Relations--Intentional False Representation of Pregnancy Grounds for Annulment
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Income Tax--Corporations--Attorneys' and Accountants' Fees Incurred in Sale of Assets Pursuant to a Section 337 Liquidation Are Not Deductible
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Interest--Usury--Charging Debtor with Statutory Maximum Loan Fees …
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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Advertising--Undisclosed Use of Simulations In Television Commercials--a Deceptive Practice
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Antitrust Law--News Service Package Contract, a Tying Arrangement under Section I of the Sherman Act
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Antitrust--Union-Employer Agreements as to Labor Demands To Be Sought From Other Employers
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Constitutional Law--Laws Prohibiting the Use of Contraceptives by Married Couples for the Prevention of Conception Are Unconstitutional
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Constitutional Law--Rights of Addressee To Receive "Communist Political Propaganda" Protected Under First Amendment
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Federal Courts--Erie Doctrine Not the Test for Applicability of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
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Constitutional Law--Televising of Criminal Trials Held Violative of the Right to a Fair Trial …
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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Antitrust Law--Violation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act by Joint Venture
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Civil Rights--Anti-discrimination Law as a Vehicle for a Private Civil Action
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Condemnation--Landowner Cannot Recover From Federal Government for Damages Caused Before Date of Taking Where Government Did Not Previously Contemplate, Condemning Property
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Constitutional Law--Loss of Nationality--Foreign Residency Statute Held Violative of Due Process
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Constitutional Law--Reapportionment--Both Houses of a State Legislature Must Be Based as Nearly as Is Practicable on Population
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Constitutional Law--Twenty-first Amendment--Scope of State Power Over Intoxicants Moving Within Its Borders
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Evidence--Statutory Presumptions--Reasonableness Is Implicit in Test of Rational Connection
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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Administration of Justice-Federal Rules of Civil Procedure--District Court Has No Power To Penalize Counsel for Delay Which Violates Standing Orders of Court
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Carriers--Routes-Action for Reparation Available Under Motor Carrier Act for Unreasonable Routing Defendant motor carrier transported shipments for plaintiff shipper
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Constitutional Law--Full Faith and Credit--Collateral Attack on Errors of Court of Prior Forum
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Restraint of Trade--Labor Law-Where Defendants Stipulated They Were Independent Contractors and Joined Union To Fix Prices, Having No Other Legitimate Union Interest, Membership May Be Terminated Under Sherman Act
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Domestic Relations--Annulment--Female Impotence Is Made Curable by the Surgical Creation of a Functional …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Constitutional Law--Freedom of Speech--Prior Restraint on Motion Picture Exhibition
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Criminal Law--Murder--Year and a Day Rule Rejected in Pennsylvania
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Real Property--Restraints on Alienation--Conveyance Giving Housing Cooperative First Option to Buy and Right to Redeem is not an Invalid Restraint on Alienation
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Taxation--Income Tax--Uncompensated Casualty Loss Due to Drought Allowed as Section 165 Deduction
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Torts--Negligence--Fireman in Performance of Duties Allowed Recovery as Invitee
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Recent Cases
Conflict of Laws--Implied Warranties Governed by Law of the State Most Closely Associated with the Contract
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Constitutional Law--Due Process--Absolute Statutory Prohibition of the Use of Contraceptives Not a Violation of Rights Secured by Fourteenth Amendment
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Constitutional Law--Freedoms of Speech and Press--Ordinance Prohibiting Distribution of Handbills Without Identification of Author Violates Fourteenth Amendment
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Contracts--Termination--Employment for Indefinite Duration not Terminable for Refusal of Employee to Commit Perjury
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Evidence--Federal Courts--Evidence Obtained by State Officers Through Unreasonable Search and Seizure Inadmissible in Federal Courts
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Judgments--Limitation of Overruling Decision to Parties Before the Court and to Causes of …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Constitutional Law--Due Process--Duty of Non-Resident Vendor to Collect Use Tax
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Evidence--Criminal Law--Circumstantial Evidence Sufficient to Establish Corpus Delicti
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Evidence--Presumptions--Rebuttable Presumption Persists Until Trier of Fact Finds Nonexistence of Presumed Fact as Probable as its Existence
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Restraint of Trade--Sherman Act--Refusal to Sell as Unlawful Means of Effecting Price Maintenance
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Torts--Negligence--Vendor of Alcoholic Beverage to Intoxicated Minor Liable to Third Party
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--ALIENS--CONSTITUTIONALITY OF McCARRAN ACT
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DUE PROCESS--DUTY OF NON-RESIDENT VENDOR TO COLLECT USE TAX
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DUE PROCESS--TAXABLE SITUS OF PROPERTY OF INTERSTATE AIR CARRIER
DOMESTIC RELATIONS--INFANTS--RIGHT TO DISAFFIRM SEPARATION AGREEMENT
DOMESTIC RELATIONS--RES ADJUDICATA--FAILURE TO CROSS CLAIM IN SEPARATE MAINTENANCE SUIT AS BAR TO SUBSEQUENT DIVORCE
FEDERAL JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURE--FEDERAL STATUTORY RIGHT--CHARACTERIZATION OF RIGHT FOR PURPOSE OF APPLYING STATE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
INCOME TAXATION--TAXABLE INCOME--INCLUSION OF PROCEEDS OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES
NATURAL GAS ACT--STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION--SCOPE OF STATUTE AS AFFECTED BY SUBSEQUENT DECISIONS
NEGLIGENCE--USED-CAR DEALER--DUTY TO INSPECT
SALES--IMPLIED WARRANTY--REQUIREMENT OF PRIVITY BETWEEN PROCESSOR AND ULTIMATE CONSUMER
TORTS--UNATTENDED AUTOMOBILE STATUTE--LIABILITY OF OWNER FOR …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
A Commentary on Recent Case Law --By Subject:
Constitutional Law--Due Process--Use in State Prosecution of Evidence obtained by Illegal Invasion of Privacy
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Constitutional Law--Unlawful Search and Seizure--Admissibility of Evidence for Impeachment Purposes
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Evidence--Radar Evidence of Speed--Coincidence of Radar and Speedometer Readings as Hearsay
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Federal Courts--State NonResident Motorist Statute--Waiver of Federal Venue Privilege
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Federal Jurisdiction--Diversity of Citizenship--Retroactive Effect of Amendments to Perfect Jurisdiction
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Income Taxation--Deductions--Periodic Alimony Payments
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Labor Law--Preemptive Effect of Taft-Hartley--Scope of State Jurisdiction
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Torts--Dog Bite--Owner's Scienter
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Workmen's Compensation--Accident Arising out of Employment--Pre-Existing Heart Disease