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2019

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A Class Of Their Own: Applying Weak Ascertainability To Settlement-Only Classes In The Third Circuit, Danielle Lazarus Jan 2019

A Class Of Their Own: Applying Weak Ascertainability To Settlement-Only Classes In The Third Circuit, Danielle Lazarus

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Relationship Problems: Pendent Personal Jurisdiction After Bristol-Myers Squibb, Louis J. Capozzi Iii Jan 2019

Relationship Problems: Pendent Personal Jurisdiction After Bristol-Myers Squibb, Louis J. Capozzi Iii

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The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California provides an opportunity to reexamine pendent personal jurisdiction in the federal courts. There are two types of pendent personal jurisdiction. The first form, embraced by federal courts since 1957, is pendent claim personal jurisdiction: when a court has personal jurisdiction over a defendant as to one anchor claim, it can exercise personal jurisdiction with respect to related claims that it could not adjudicate in the anchor claim’s absence. This type is especially common where courts have personal jurisdiction over the defendant because of a statute with …


A Union By Any Other Name? How Capital Misses The Mark On The Position Of Worker Centers Within The Current Labor Law Regime, Elizabeth Dailey Jan 2019

A Union By Any Other Name? How Capital Misses The Mark On The Position Of Worker Centers Within The Current Labor Law Regime, Elizabeth Dailey

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Worker centers, community-based organizations that serve the most marginalized and unrepresented workers in American society, are under attack, again. With the decline of traditional labor unions in recent decades, worker centers have emerged to fill the void left by this decline and to organize and amplify the collective voice of low-wage, largely immigrant workers. These worker centers seek to rebalance the relative collective bargaining power between labor and capital in the 21st century economy. Technological advances, globalization, and the continued growth of the service sector have led to socioeconomic changes that have little resemblance to the industrial society that existed …


Medical Marijuana Laws And Opioid Overdose Deaths In The United States, Gregory Schuster Jan 2019

Medical Marijuana Laws And Opioid Overdose Deaths In The United States, Gregory Schuster

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