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The New Flat Tax: A Modest Proposal For A Constitutionally Apportioned Wealth Tax, John Plecnik
The New Flat Tax: A Modest Proposal For A Constitutionally Apportioned Wealth Tax, John Plecnik
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This Article is the first to propose a solution that complies with the Apportionment Clause without imposing different rates in different states. This Article discusses the practical and administrative issues with implementing a wealth tax in the United States as well as the substantive fairness of such a tax relative to the income and consumption tax regimes. This article describes the Apportionment Clause, so-called direct taxes, and the constitutional issues with implementing a wealth tax. It also describes prior proposals to circumvent the Apportionment Clause for the sake of a wealth tax. It also outlines a modest proposal to pass …
Much Ado About Possibly Pretty Little: Mccarran-Ferguson Repeal In The Health Care Reform Effort, Christopher L. Sagers
Much Ado About Possibly Pretty Little: Mccarran-Ferguson Repeal In The Health Care Reform Effort, Christopher L. Sagers
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Since 1945, the McCarran-Ferguson Act (MFA) has shielded the “business of insurance” from antitrust liability, so long as the challenged conduct is “regulated by State Law” and does not constitute “boycott, coercion, or intimidation.” This law, like the dozens of other statutory antitrust exemptions that still exist for other industries, has more or less always been controversial, and efforts to repeal it date back more than thirty years. This Essay asks two questions: (1) what consequences the pending repeal measures might have if one of them becomes law; and (2) what a close examination of this effort might teach us …
Holt V. Grange Mut. Cas. Co. Children Not "Insureds" Under Policy Are Entitled To Death, Barbara Tyler, Thomas S. Tyler
Holt V. Grange Mut. Cas. Co. Children Not "Insureds" Under Policy Are Entitled To Death, Barbara Tyler, Thomas S. Tyler
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The recent Ohio Supreme Court decision of Holt v. Grange Mutual Casualty Co., is a consumer friendly decision and represents both an equitable and sound interpretation and application of Ohio law to consumer insurance contracts.The decision in Holt favors insurance consumers but has alarmed the insurance industry. The industry perceives the decision as bringing into question what language of an insurance policy will be upheld under the freedom of contract and what will be stricken as against public policy. First, the industry would argue that Holt seems to denigrate and abrogate the rights of an uninsurance/underinsurance provider to craft its …
Revisiting The National Flood Insurance Program, Alan C. Weinstein
Revisiting The National Flood Insurance Program, Alan C. Weinstein
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article discusses the hazards proposed by floods, the options for their control, the operation of the National Flood Insurance Program, and the changes made by the 1994 amendments.
Symposium: Ohioans Without Health Insurance: How Big A Problem? Are There Solutions?, Alan C. Weinstein
Symposium: Ohioans Without Health Insurance: How Big A Problem? Are There Solutions?, Alan C. Weinstein
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Ohioans Without Health Insurance: How Big A Problem? Are There Solutions?, was the INAUGURAL Conference of Cleveland State University's Law & Public Policy Program, an interdisciplinary program of instruction, public service and research sponsored jointly by the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. The goal of the Conference was to facilitate an exchange of information and views among representatives of the public and major interests concerned with the growing numbers of persons who either lack health insurance or have inadequate coverage.
Introduction To Keynote Speaker Randall Bovbjerg, Symposium: Ohioans Without Health Insurance, Joel J. Finer
Introduction To Keynote Speaker Randall Bovbjerg, Symposium: Ohioans Without Health Insurance, Joel J. Finer
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The author introduces keynote speaker Randall R. Bovbjerg at the Inaugural Conference of the Law and Public Policy Program.
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach To Seat Belt Issues, Stephen J. Werber
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach To Seat Belt Issues, Stephen J. Werber
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
To fully appreciate the life-saving and injury-reduction capacity of seat belt restraint systems, it is necessary to examine several non-legal topics which have direct bearing on what the law should reflect. In addition, these topics could prove to have practical application for the attorney attempting to establish the necessity for judicial acceptance of the seat belt defense. These areas include: (1) the human and economic toll arising from automobile accidents; (2) the events that take place during an automobile collision in terms of vehicle dynamics and occupant kinematics; and (3) the effects of a seat belt restraint system upon occupant …
Automotive "Crashworthiness:" An Untenable Doctrine, Stephen J. Werber
Automotive "Crashworthiness:" An Untenable Doctrine, Stephen J. Werber
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
It is the purpose of this article to review the decisional law of automobile crashworthiness and to place it in the context of important policy considerations which justify such judicial determinations. It will be shown that the great majority of these decisions are entirely consistent with the doctine of "strict tort liability" as enunciated in section 402A of the Restatement of Torts, Second; that the questions sought to be submitted to juries in these cases are properly the subject of highly technical and complex legislative and administrative action on both a state and federal level; and that the few decisions …