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Don't Cheat; Escheat - What Every Business Lawyer Ought To Know About Tennessee's Abandoned Property Laws, Joan Macleod Heminway
Don't Cheat; Escheat - What Every Business Lawyer Ought To Know About Tennessee's Abandoned Property Laws, Joan Macleod Heminway
Scholarly Works
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W(H)Ither Zschernig?, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
W(H)Ither Zschernig?, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The author argues here that a declaration of victory by the critics of the dormant foreign affairs doctrine would be premature. Notwithstanding the Court's citation of Ashwander v. TVA, the actual grounds of the decision in Crosby were in no meaningful sense less "constitutional" in nature than a decision based on the dormant foreign affairs power would have been. Moreover, even though the Court said that its decision was based on a straightforward application of "settled ... implied preemption doctrine," the Court's preemption analysis was anything but ordinary. Indeed, Crosby's version of preemption analysis is subject to the …
Legislative Innovation In State Brownfields Redevelopment Programs, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
Legislative Innovation In State Brownfields Redevelopment Programs, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
States throughout the country have created legislation and administrative programs to encourage the cleanup and redevelopment of urban brownfield land. In part, these efforts respond to the federal government's recent focus on the issue. However, leadership in method and approach has come, not from the federal government, but from the states. States have approached the cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated land in a variety of ways, some choosing to create voluntary cleanup programs, others imposing mandatory cleanup programs, and still others using combinations of these approaches. Regardless of method, however, the push to clean brownfield land is grounded in a …
Consumer Discrimination: The Limitations Of Federal Civil Rights Protection, Deseriee A. Kennedy
Consumer Discrimination: The Limitations Of Federal Civil Rights Protection, Deseriee A. Kennedy
Scholarly Works
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Doctors, Hmos, Erisa, And The Public Interest After Pegram V. Herdrich, Jeffrey W. Stempel, Nadia Von Magdenko
Doctors, Hmos, Erisa, And The Public Interest After Pegram V. Herdrich, Jeffrey W. Stempel, Nadia Von Magdenko
Scholarly Works
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 was enacted in the wake of highly publicized pension disasters in order to protect employee pension rights. Born as a piece of pro-worker legislation, it initially was criticized by business groups as a cause of bureaucratic arteriosclerosis that was worse than the disease of pension failures. Even worse, it prompted many employers to consider dispensing with pension plans altogether rather than struggle with the administrative and financial obligations of ERISA. Business, labor, and the public all complained about the law's complexity. It even became something of a national joke as regulators took …
The Legacy Of Byrd V. Hall: Gossiping About Summary Judgement In Tennessee, Judy Cornett
The Legacy Of Byrd V. Hall: Gossiping About Summary Judgement In Tennessee, Judy Cornett
College of Law Faculty Scholarship
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