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The New Business Corporation Act: The Basics, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr., David W. Harper, Stephen B. Catron, Keith G. Hanley

Continuing Legal Education Materials

Handouts provided at the UK/CLE seminar on the New Business Corporation Act on October 1, 1988.

3rd Annual Federal Practice Institute, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, John R. Leathers, Willam M. Lear, Edward H. Johnstone, Eugene E. Siler, Frank E. Haddad, Laramie L. Leatherman, Melissa Forsythe, Gregory L. Monge, Leonard Green, Thomas D. Lambros, Stanley M. Chesley, Charles S. Cassis

Continuing Legal Education Materials

Outline of speakers' presentations from the 3rd Annual Federal Practice Institute held by UK/CLE on September 23, 1988.

15th Annual Seminar On Estate Planning, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Mark T. Macdonald, Gerald P. Johnston, Edward A. Rothschild, Turney P. Berry, Norvie L. Lay, Barry Bond, F. Gerald Greenwell, Marjorie Bassler, Mary Helen Myles, Valerie T. Mayer

Continuing Legal Education Materials

Outlines of speakers' presentations from the 15th Annual Seminar on Estate Planning held by UK/CLE on July 15-16, 1988.

8th Annual Seminar On Legal Issues For Financial Institutions, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, M. Brooke Senn, Keith G. Hanley, R. David Lester, David C. Pottinger, John T. Mcgarvey, Gary L. Stewart, Merrit S. Dietz, Phillip H. Schwartz, Helen Davis Chaitman, Neal L. Wolf

Continuing Legal Education Materials

Outline of speakers' presentations from the 8th Annual Seminar on Legal Issues for Financial Institutions held by UK/CLE on March 11-12, 1988.

7th Annual Seminar On Securities Law, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, H. Alexander Campbell, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr., Ivan M. Diamond, Fredrich H. Thomforde, Frederic H. Davis, Cynthia W. Young, C. Craig Bradley Jr, David W. Harper, Gary L. Stage, Garrison R. Cox

Continuing Legal Education Materials

Materials from the UK/CLE 7th Annual Seminar on Securities Law held February 12-13, 1988.

Employment Law, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Matthew R. Westfall, Alvin L. Goldman, Jon L. Fleishaker, Carl B. Boyd Jr., Marvin L. Coan, Carolyn S. Bratt, Michael W. Hawkins, Richard C. Stephenson, Dorothy M. Pitt, Paul H. Tobias, Judith B. Hoge

Continuing Legal Education Materials

Outlines of speaker presentations at the Employment Law Seminar held by UK/CLE on January 22-23, 1988.

Prison Reform Issues For The Eighties: Modification And Dissolution Of Injunctions In The Federal Courts, Sarah N. Welling, Barbara W. Jones

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

During the past two decades, federal courts have become involved in the supervision of state and local prison systems. This supervisory role is the result of a new type of litigation, the institutional reform lawsuit. These lawsuits originate when prisoners sue state or local prison administrators, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement. Plaintiffs usually seek a permanent injunction outlining a plan to eliminate the offending conditions. As prison litigation matured, the normal evolution of these lawsuits led to new questions taking center stage in the 1980's, questions of injunction, modification, and dissolution.

This article begins with a summary examination of prison …

Private Enforcement And The Fair Housing Act, Robert G. Schwemm

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The first section of the Fair Housing Act declares that "[i]t is the policy of the United States to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair housing throughout the United States." If the United States has been officially committed to providing for fair housing for the past 20 years, why is segregated housing still the prevailing norm throughout our nation? Why does discrimination still regularly occur when minority homeseekers venture into white areas? Why are the opportunities for living in stable, integrated neighborhoods only marginally better now than they were a generation ago in the days of Lyndon Johnson, Everett McKinley …

Victims In The Criminal Process: A Utilitarian Analysis Of Victim Participation In The Charging Decision, Sarah N. Welling

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Crime victims are currently being given the right to participate in criminal prosecutions at both the sentencing and plea bargaining stages. These are important steps in a criminal prosecution, but both the sentence and the plea bargain are dependent on the initial charging decision which determines what crime is to be prosecuted or whether there is to be any prosecution at all. As a prerequisite to both a plea bargain or a sentence, the charging decision is the crux of the prosecution.

Given the importance of the charging decision, and the fact that some jurisdictions have granted victims a right …

Foreword To Volume 77, Louise Everett Graham

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Professor Louise Graham authors this forward to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Kentucky Law Journal. In this brief statement, Graham discusses the relevance of entrusting the guardianship of legal scholarship to students.

Comments On Professor Rotunda's Essay, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this comment, Professor Richard H. Underwood provides a response to An Essay on the Constitutional Parameters of Federal Impeachment, by Professor Ronald D. Rotunda. Rotunda’s essay was published in the Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 707-732.

Self-Defense In Kentucky: A Need For Clarification Or Revision, Robert G. Lawson, William S. Cooper

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Recent prosecutions have pushed Kentucky’s concept of self-defense beyond the limits of tolerance for complexity and confusion. There is little doubt that there exists a critical need to clarify or to revise the Kentucky law of self-defense. A demonstration of this need and a description of its nature are the principal objectives of this article. To accomplish these objectives, it is necessary to provide some information about the recent history of homicide and self-defense in Kentucky and to describe some important recent interpretations of this law by the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Family Protection Under Kentucky's Inheritance Laws: Is The Family Really Protected?, Carolyn S. Bratt

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Courts and legislatures always have granted widows some protection from the economic hardships that their husbands' deaths cause. At the earliest common law, a surviving wife was entitled to dower in the form of a right to remain in her husband's home along with the other heirs after the husband's death. Today, the states have enacted a variety of statutory devices that provide protection for families who might otherwise experience financial hardship upon the death of a spouse or parent. The older types of statutory safeguards take the form of homestead and personal property exemptions. Typically, the probate homestead exemption …

Cigarette Company Liability: Preemption, Public Policy And Alternative Compensation Systems, Richard C. Ausness

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This Article speculates that some courts may have used the preemption doctrine to mask their misgivings about the ability of tort litigation to provide fair compensation to injured consumers without bankrupting the tobacco industry. Consequently, the author suggests that it may be necessary to streamline the litigation process for mass torts or perhaps even to replace it with an alternative compensation system for the purpose of adjudicating smoking-related claims.

With this in mind, Part I briefly examines the health risks of smoking and the nature of the common law duty to warn. It also reviews a number of recent cigarette …