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Causation In Common Sense: A Reply To Messrs. Hart And Honore, Paul F. Rothstein Jan 1968

Causation In Common Sense: A Reply To Messrs. Hart And Honore, Paul F. Rothstein

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No abstract provided.


[Review Of] Richard A. Levine & George D. Horning, Jr., Manual Of Federal Practice, Sherman L. Cohn Jan 1967

[Review Of] Richard A. Levine & George D. Horning, Jr., Manual Of Federal Practice, Sherman L. Cohn

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Today the federal court is becoming increasingly familiar to the average attorney. Gone is the day when federal practice was limited to a select bar in the largest cities. Going is the day when an attorney can economically and realistically limit himself to the state court practice. Social Security, government contract, tax, labor, federal tort matters now bring the federal presence into every hamlet. Every Congress increases that presence and the occasion for federal court litigation-our increasingly mobile society renders a diversity case more and more usual. Yet many attorneys outside the District of Columbia have not the slightest acquaintance …


The Proposed Federal Rules Of Appellate Procedure, Sherman L. Cohn Jan 1966

The Proposed Federal Rules Of Appellate Procedure, Sherman L. Cohn

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After a discussion of the history of uniform procedural rules and the authority of the Supreme Court to promulgate uniform appellate rules, Professor Cohn discusses some of the problems of expense and delay which are found in the appellate system today. In his analysis of the Proposed Uniform Rules of Federal Appellate Procedure, the author gives special emphasis to those areas where the rules constitute a departure from present practice. In addition, several changes are suggested in areas in which the author believes further improvement can be made.


The New Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure, Sherman L. Cohn Jan 1966

The New Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure, Sherman L. Cohn

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The amendments to the civil rules continue a process of transition from legal formulas toward adaptation to the practicalities of the various factual situations involved. This process was commenced with the early reform movement when the strictures of common-law, form-of-action pleading were abolished and the artificial separation of law and equity was ended. It continued through the original promulgation of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which attempted to eliminate many of the legalistic but artificial restrictions that code practice perpetuated. The current amendments move closer to what Mr. Justice Goldberg termed "the aims of a liberal, nontechnical application" of …


Beacon Theatres And The Constitutional Right To Jury Trial, Paul F. Rothstein Dec 1965

Beacon Theatres And The Constitutional Right To Jury Trial, Paul F. Rothstein

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No abstract provided.


A Re-Evaluation Of The Privilege Against Adverse Spousal Testimony In The Light Of Its Purpose, Paul F. Rothstein Jan 1963

A Re-Evaluation Of The Privilege Against Adverse Spousal Testimony In The Light Of Its Purpose, Paul F. Rothstein

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The recent development in American federal criminal evidence law to be examined and compared with English law in this paper, is a new evolutionary turn taken by the husband-wife privilege against adverse spousal testimony, manifest in the Supreme Court decision of Wyatt v. United States. The House of Lords, in Rumping v. D.P.P., just decided, suggests that the English spousal privileges might be susceptible of similar development.