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The Attorney-Client Privilege And The Work-Product Doctrine In Michigan, D. A. Celphane, Barbara Mcquade, Leonard Niehoff, Daniel P. Malone Jan 1998

The Attorney-Client Privilege And The Work-Product Doctrine In Michigan, D. A. Celphane, Barbara Mcquade, Leonard Niehoff, Daniel P. Malone

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In Upjohn Co v. United States, the United States Supreme Court acknowledged that the attorney-client privilege - the "oldest of the privileges for confidential communications known to the common law" - has the crucial purpose of "encourag[ing] full and frank communication between attorneys and their clients and thereby promote[s] broader public interests in the observance of law and administration of justice." Similarly, in Hickman v Taylor, the Court stressed the importance of the work-product doctrine, noting that "[n]ot even the most liberal of discovery theories can justify unwarranted inquiries into the files and the mental impressions of an attorney." …


Defining Aboriginal Title In The 90'S: Has The Supreme Court Finally Got It Right?, Kent Mcneil Jan 1998

Defining Aboriginal Title In The 90'S: Has The Supreme Court Finally Got It Right?, Kent Mcneil

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The arrival of Europeans in North America had a profound impact on the Aboriginal peoples who had been living here for thousands of years. Virtually everything changed: unfamiliar diseases like smallpox ravished the population; the fur trade and European settlement and resource use decimated the wildlife; new technology such as firearms altered Aboriginal economies and tribal relations; Christian evangelism affected spiritual beliefs and values; European imposition of sovereignty and governmental structures weakened, and in some cases replaced, Aboriginal forms of government; and so on. But more than anything else, the taking of Aboriginal lands by Europeans has probably had the …


Regulation Of The Electronic Mass Media: Law And Policy For Radio, Television, Cable And The New Technologies, Michael Botein Jan 1998

Regulation Of The Electronic Mass Media: Law And Policy For Radio, Television, Cable And The New Technologies, Michael Botein

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The Art Of The Fact: An Afternoon Colloquy In A Tentative Key, Jethro K. Lieberman Jan 1998

The Art Of The Fact: An Afternoon Colloquy In A Tentative Key, Jethro K. Lieberman

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