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Reasonable Mistake Of Age: A Needed Defense To Statutory Rape, Larry W. Myers Nov 1965

Reasonable Mistake Of Age: A Needed Defense To Statutory Rape, Larry W. Myers

Michigan Law Review

Hernandez represents the first positive judicial step toward changing the irrational rules which currently control the crime of statutory rape, and its import should furnish a touchstone for the future development of the law of all sex crimes. In the brief period since the Hernandez decision was handed down it has been reaffirmed by its authors, and the legislatures in two other states have enacted statutes which embrace its sound reasoning. However, at least one state has evidenced an intent to follow the traditional judicial approach of imposing strict liability, notwithstanding the defendant's reasonable mistake with respect to the true …


The Director's Liability For Negligence, Richard B. Dyson Apr 1965

The Director's Liability For Negligence, Richard B. Dyson

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Punitive Damage Liabality Of Municipal Corporations Mar 1965

Punitive Damage Liabality Of Municipal Corporations

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Municipal Liability For Police Dog Bites Mar 1965

Municipal Liability For Police Dog Bites

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Passenger Carrier's Liability Extended Beyond Its Own Line By Ticket Sale Transaction--Ephraim V. Safeway Trails, Inc., Michigan Law Review Feb 1965

Passenger Carrier's Liability Extended Beyond Its Own Line By Ticket Sale Transaction--Ephraim V. Safeway Trails, Inc., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a Negro woman, purchased a roundtrip bus ticket in New York City for travel between there and Montgomery, Alabama. The ticket was sold by defendant, an interstate common carrier licensed to do business in New York, and consisted of a strip of coupon tickets, each good for a separate portion of the journey over the lines of defendant and other independent carriers. Printed on the back of each coupon was a clause limiting defendant's liability to its own line.1 Defendant received a ten per cent commission on those connecting tickets it sold for the other lines, and on the …


Television, Tort Law, And Federalism, Robert M. O'Neil Jan 1965

Television, Tort Law, And Federalism, Robert M. O'Neil

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Legal Liability In Tobacco Products Cases, Eugene E. Siler Jr. Jan 1965

Legal Liability In Tobacco Products Cases, Eugene E. Siler Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.