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Administrative Law -- 1962 Tennessee Survey, Val Sanford

Vanderbilt Law Review

The writing of this article is an experience in frustration and despair, for in Tennessee there is little recognition of the existence of any such body of principle, of legal concepts and techniques, of procedures and practice, as "administrative law." There is one law, substantive and procedural, for beer boards, another for the Public Service Commission, another for the rate-making decisions of the insurance commissioner, another for employment insurance benefits,another for licensing well-diggers, and so on ad infinitum--a separate law, both substantive and procedural, not only for each agency, but often for each function within an agency. All of these …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

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Administrative Law--Due Process--Expulsion From Public University Requires Notice and Hearing

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Antitrust Law--Investigatory Powers--Federal Trade Commission Has Right To Obtain Private Copies Of Privileged Census Information

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Constitutional Law--Due Process-Escheat By One State of a Fund Claimed By Other States Held To Violate Due Process

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Sales--Warranty--Advertisement That Cigarettes Are Harmless Held An Express Warranty

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Taxation--Income Tax-Deferral Of Prepaid Income Disallowed

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Taxation--Inheritance, Estate and Gift Taxes--Blockage Rule Rejected in Evaluating Stock For Ohio Succession Tax

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Taxation--Use Tax--Commerce and Equal Protection Clauses--Discrimination Against Multi-State Business

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Torts--Negligence--Vendor of Alcoholic Beverages Held Liable for Injuries to Intoxicated Vendee Despite …

Annual Survey Of Tennessee Law, Val Sanford

Vanderbilt Law Review

The principal conclusion to be derived from a survey of the decisions reported and the statutes adopted during the past year in the field of administrative procedure is that sound policy necessitates the enactment of a general, uniform and effective administrative procedure act in this state.The standards by which any procedural system should be measured can readily be stated. The basic purpose of any procedural system should be to attempt to assure that all matters within its scope are resolved on their true merits, and not on some failure to follow exactly the prescribed path. To accomplish this end, there …

The Function Of Legal Philosophy, Roscoe Pound

Vanderbilt Law Review

For twenty-four hundred years--from the Greek thinkers of the fifth century B.C. who asked whether right was right by nature or only by enactment and convention, to the social philosophers of today, who seek the ends, the ethical basis and the enduring principles of social control--the philosophy of law has taken a leading role in all study of human institutions. The perennial struggle of American administrative law with nineteenth-century constitutional formulations of Aristotle's threefold classification of governmental power, the stone wall of natural rights against which attempts to put an end to private war in industrial disputes for a long …

Disqualification Of Administrative Officials For Bias, Robert N. Covington

Vanderbilt Law Review

For centuries English and American writers on jurisprudence have been concerned with the problem of the impartial tribunal. With the rise in importance of the administrative agency, which often may function as investigator, prosecutor, and judge in the same proceeding, this concern has found a new focal point.' This note is designed to explore one question arising from the problem of administrative prejudice: When should an administrative official be disqualified from acting because of his bias? In investigating this problem, we shall examine the various formulas developed by the courts before whom disqualification has been urged; call attention briefly to …

Constitutional Law--1959 Tennessee Survey, Elvin E. Overton

Vanderbilt Law Review

A smaller number of cases have been selected for inclusion in this year's survey. Seven cases are included, including one federal court decision dealing with a municipal ordinance. In addition, two specific acts of the General Assembly are noted although there has as yet been no opportunity for the courts to rule upon them.

Annual Survey Of Tennessee Law, Harold Seligman

Vanderbilt Law Review

The subject of administrative law in Tennessee remained generally static in the year in review. The supreme court held consistently to its line of decisions concerning review of administrative actions in the limited number of decided cases concerning the subject. The 1959 General Assembly of Tennessee made some sweeping revisions in the organization of several departments of government and various agencies and boards but these changes were solely for purposes of administrative efficiency and economy with no practical jurisdictional, regulatory or substantive effect.

Annual Survey Of Tennessee Law, Harold Seligman

Vanderbilt Law Review

Of particular significance in this field during the survey year has been the decision of the Supreme Court of Tennessee in Southern Bell Tel. and Tel. Co. v. Tennessee Pub. Serv. Comm'n. Several aspects of administrative law are involved in this holding, including scope of review, evidence to be considered by the court on review, and the rate-making function...

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In Flowers v. Benton County Beer Board, the license of a beer permit holder was revoked by a county beer board due to the holder's plea of guilty to driving an automobile while under the influence of an intoxicant in …

Bills And Notes -- 1957 Tennessee Survey, Paul J. Hartman

Vanderbilt Law Review

Since usury constitutes a defect in title under section 59 of the Negotiable Instruments Law, which defect apparently will be purged under the Tennessee law if the note gets into the hands of a holder in due course, there arises some questions as to the burden of proof in connection with establishing whether the holder is a holder in due course--Braswell v. Tindall is somewhat unusual in that the maker of the note is seeking by his affirmative action, as plaintiff, to dislodge the defendant-holder from his position as a holder in due course so that the defect in title …

Agency -- 1957 Tennessee Survey, F. Hodge O'Neal

Vanderbilt Law Review

Several interesting and significant decisions in the fields of agency and master and servant were handed down during the survey period. This article discusses the decisions in groups, each group being placed under a topic heading which is designed to give the reader an idea of the particular phase of agency law involved in that group of cases.

Establishing that Tort feasor is a Servant of Defendant: It is elementary law of course that a master is liable for the torts of his servant acting within the scope of his employment. A question often arises, however, as to whether a …

Administrative Law -- 1957 Tennessee Survey, James B. Earle

Vanderbilt Law Review

Only a few cases by the Tennessee Supreme Court decided during the survey year considered questions of general administrative law. These concerned the timing and extent of judicial review of administrative action and the conduct of hearings by agencies.

Prerequisites to Judicial Review: Whether available administrative remedies must be exhausted by a litigant before seeking a review or other relief by court action is a question not always capable of exact prediction.' The "long settled rule of judicial administration that no one is entitled to judicial relief for a supposed or threatened injury until the prescribed administrative remedy has been …

Drafting Of Grievance And Arbitration Articles Of Collective Bargaining Agreements, Charles A. Reynard

Vanderbilt Law Review

When the parties to collective bargaining negotiations formulate the provisions of their contract relating to grievances and arbitration, they are establishing the basic system of private administrative law that will govern the plant community for the period of the agreement. This is obviously a task that involves more than mere words and phrases. The maturity of their relationship, their respective understandings of the place of collective bargaining in our industrial society, the size and nature of the plant, and innumerable other considerations will substantially influence the choice of language and procedures adopted in the framing of these provisions. Because of …

Administrative Law -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, James B. Earle

Vanderbilt Law Review

Questions of the scope and timing of judicial review of administrative agency action were again before the courts during the period covered by this survey. Timing of Judicial Review: The problem of "timing" of judicial review of administrative action includes questions of the availability of administrative remedies and whether their exhaustion must be required before court action; ripeness for review, usually associated with the issuance of agency rules and regulations; and jurisdictional questions vis-a-vis the agency and the court.

Administrative Law -- 1955 Tennessee Survey, Paul H. Sanders

Vanderbilt Law Review

Judicial review of administrative agency action, with emphasis upon the limited nature of such review, has again been of major importance in Tennessee Administrative Law during the survey period, This is shown to be true not only in the number of decisions but also in the frequent utilization (and apparent broadening) of the doctrine of Hoover Motor Express Co. v. Railroad & Public Utilities Commission in according finality to administrative action. In addition to holdings on various aspects of judicial review, the Tennessee appellate courts contributed important decisions during the survey period dealing with delegation of legislative power and the …

Administrative Law Problems In The Unemployment Insurance Program, Reginald Parker

Vanderbilt Law Review

"A good government," Albert Einstein said recently, "not only gives its citizens a maximum amount of liberty and political rights but also provides for a certain amount of economic security."' Our Constitution provides for political rights and liberties but not for economic security. Unlike foreign federal constitutions it neither provides for it directly nor delegates social legislation to the states; nor does the Constitution expressly prohibit this type of law. As, however, the Constitution authorizes the states to exercise powers not reserved to the central government, it may be deduced that unemployment relief legislation is within the competence of the …

Annual Survey Of Tennessee Law Administrative Law -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, Paul H. Sanders

Vanderbilt Law Review

Administrative Law consists of those legal principles, whether of constitutional, statutory or common law derivation, which are generally concerned with the organization, relationships, powers and procedures of administrative agencies.' These are the agencies of government, other than the regular courts and legislatures, which can determine private rights through adjudication or affect these rights through the making of rules having the status of law. It will be noted that the definition excludes the substantive rules of law applied and developed through such agencies. Procedural in nature, it is an area of law in which the institution of judicial review of administrative …

Book Reviews, Edmund M. Morgan (Reviewer), Albert Williams (Reviewer), J. Warren Madden (Reviewer), Melvin M. Belli (Reviewer), George H. Tyne (Reviewer), William J. Bowe (Reviewer)

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Book Reviews

The Hearsay Rule

By R. W. Baker

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons,Ltd., 1950. Pp. xxi, 180

reviewer: Edmund M. Morgan

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Self-Incrimination: What Can an Accused Person be Compelled to Do?

By Fred E. Inbau

Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1950.Pp. x, 91. $2.50

reviewer: Albert Williams

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Administrative Law

By Kenneth C. Davis

St. Paul: West Pub. Co.,1951. Pp. xvi, 1024. $8.00

Administrative Law: A Test

By Reginald Parker

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1952. Pp. x, 344. $5.50

Administrative Agencies and the Courts

By Frank E. Cooper

Ann Arbor; University of Michigan Law School, 1951. Pp. …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

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RECENT CASES

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW--FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT--REVOCATION OF DRIVER'S LICENSE WITHOUT HEARING

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--ECONOMIC REGULATION--STATE COURT INTERPRETATIONS OF SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--EMINENT DOMAIN FOR SLUM CLEARANCE--EFFECT OF SALE OR LEASE OF PROPERTY TO PRIVATE PERSONS FOR REDEVELOPMENT

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS--STATE SALES TAX ON INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR DEALING WITH FEDERAL AGENCY WHOSE "ACTIVITIES" ARE EXEMPTED

CRIMINAL LAW--EFFECT OF PROOF OF COMPLETED CRIME ON CHARGE OF ATTEMPT--FATAL VARIANCE

FEDERAL JURISDICTION--FORUM NON CONVENIENS--STAY OF FEDERAL ACTION PENDING STATE DECISION

INSANE PERSONS--COMMITMENT PROCEEDINGS--REQUIREMENT OF REASONABLE NOTICE

RIGHT OF PRIVACY--PUBLICATION OF PICTURES AS OFFENSE TO "ORDINARY SENSIBILITIES"--QUESTION OF LAW OR FACT?

TRUSTS--DUALITY OF INTEREST--MERGER OF TITLE …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

ADJOINING LAN DOWNERS--OVERHANGING BRANCHES--INJUNCTION AGAINST MAINTENANCE REFUSED

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW--ZONING BOARD--RIGHT OF BOARD TO APPEAL FROM ADVERSE DECISION OF LOWER COURT

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--FREEDOM OF RELIGION--STATUTE OUTLAWING SNAKE-HANDLING

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--STATE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT FOR VOTING TO "UNDERSTAND AND EXPLAIN" THE CONSTITUTION--EFFECT OF DISCRIMINATORY ADMINISTRATION AGAINST NEGROES

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CONTRACTS--OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE--EFFECT OF ATTEMPTED REVOCATION OF UNILATERAL OFFER AFTER PART PERFORMANCE

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CRIMINAL LAW--DOUBLE JEOPARDY--CONVICTION OF HIGHER OFFENSE ON RETRIAL

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CRIMINAL LAW--LARCENY--SINGLE ACT CONSTITUTING SEPARATE OFFENSES

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FEDERAL JURISDICTION--AMOUNT IN CONTROVERSY--DEGREE OF EVIDENCE REQUIRED

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INSURANCE--INCONTESTABLE CLAUSE--EFFECT ON ACTION BY INSURER TO REFORM POLICY

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LOTTERIES--SLOT MACHINES--FREE GAMES AS PROPERTY OF …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW--RADIO LICENSES--FCC CONTROL OF RADIO PROGRAMMING

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--CORPORATIONS--STATUTE REQUIRING SECURITY FOR COSTS IN STOCKHOLDER'S DERIVATIVE SUIT

CONSTRUCTIVE TRUSTS--TAX SALES--RIGHT OF REMAINDERMAN TO PURCHASE AT TAX SALE TO THE EXCLUSION OF LIFE TENANT

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE--EVIDENCE--EXCLUSION OF VOLUNTARY CONFESSION OBTAINED DURING ILLEGAL DETENTION

DOMESTIC RELATIONS--ALIMONY-POWER OF COURT TO MODIFY OR REMIT PAST DUE INSTALLMENTS

EMINENT DOMAIN--REMOVAL COSTS WHEN PART OF A LEASE IS TAKEN--EFFECT OF RENEWAL OF OPTION TAKING ALL OF LEASE

EVIDENCE--CHARACTER WITNESS FOR ACCUSED--CROSS-EXAMINATION AS TO KNOWLEDGE OF ARREST MANY YEARS PREVIOUSLY

FEDERAL PROCEDURE--FOREIGN CORPORATIONS--WAIVER OF VENUE BY DESIGNATION OF AGENT FOR SERVICE OF PROCESS

FULL FAITH AND CREDIT--SUIT …

Tennessee Judicial Highlights, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

CASES OF CURRENT INTEREST AND IMPORTANCE PREVIOUSLY NOTED

Baker v. State, 184 Tenn. 503 (1947), 1 Vand. L. Rev. 127 (1947). Accessory after the fact--when is felony complete?

Black v. Black, 202 S. W. 2d 659 (Tenn. 1947), 20 Tenn. L. Rev. 201 (1948).' Effect of reciting an oral contract to sell land in an undelivered deed.

Churn v. State, 184 Tenn. 646 (1947), 20 Tenn. L. Rev. 195 (1948). Testimony of arresting officers.

Davis v. Beeler, 207 S. W. 2d 343 (Tenn. 1947), 1 Vand. L. Rev. 451 (1948). Prohibition of practice of naturopathy in Tennessee.

Elliott v. Fuqua, …

An Examination Of The Tennessee Law Of Administrative Procedure, George Street Boone

Vanderbilt Law Review

The problem of judicial review, which has been considered in some de-tail, seems a fertile field for reform. Without intending to deprecate the ability and conscientiousness of the judiciary of the state, the continued dominance of administrative procedure by this group will effectively prevent the development of an efficient body of administrative servants to discharge the ever increasing functions which are being delegated to them.

Cooperation and mutual respect between the judge and the administrator are the foundation stones upon which any satisfactory system must be con-structed. This requires considerable legislation and an awareness on the part of the judge …

Taxpayer's Paradise In The Caribbean, Robert M. Baker, James E. Curry

Vanderbilt Law Review

A new industrial tax exemption statute became law in Puerto Rico on May 12, 1947. This island possession of the United States, located eight hours away from New York's LaGuardia field is already free of all federal income taxation. In the past, this favorable factor in its competition with mainland communities has been offset to a large extent by a very heavy local income tax. But industrialists who operate under the new exemption will be free of both federal and insular income taxes, as well as property and other local taxes.