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Response To Richard Garnett, "Individuals, Institutions, And Religious Freedom", Gregory Kalscheur, Richard Garnett

Richard W Garnett

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Chapters Of The Civil Jury, Doug R. Rendleman

Doug Rendleman

The civil jury, though constitutionally protected by the seventh amendment, has remained a controversial institution throughout much of Anglo-American legal history. Our romantic ideals are questioned by critics who view the civil jury as prejudiced and unpredictable; proponents note the sense of fairness and "earthy wisdom" gained by community participation in the legal process. This debate surfaces in the process of accommodation between certain substantive goals of the law and the pre-verdict and post-verdict procedural devices courts have employed to control the jury. In this article, Professor Rendleman examines this conflict in his three "chapters" involving racially motivated discharges of …

Simplification- A Civil Procedure Perspective, Doug Rendleman

Doug Rendleman

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Un Supuesto De Inaplicabilidad Del Artículo 1762 Del Código Civil. Un Nuevo Enfoque De La Responsabilidad Civil De Los Profesionales, Fort Ninamancco Córdova

Fort Ninamancco Cordova

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Stopped At The Starting Gate: The Overuse Of Summary Judgment In Equal Pay Cases, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg

Deborah Thompson Eisenberg

Prepared for a symposium about the overuse of summary judgment in employment discrimination cases, this Article provides a grassroots empirical analysis of what is happening in equal pay cases on the front lines of the district courts. Analyzing a database of 500 federal district court decisions—both published and unpublished—that considered whether to grant summary judgment on an equal pay claim from 2000 to 2011, the review shows that dismissing equal pay claims at the summary judgment stage has become the modus operandi for most federal courts. Courts granted 68% of summary judgment motions in equal pay cases—meaning that only about …

"Workers' Compensation And The Separation Of Powers In Tennessee", Matthew Lyon

Matthew Lyon

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Financiers As Monitors In Aggregate Litigation, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

This Article identifies a market-based solution for monitoring large-scale litigation that proceeds outside of Rule 23’s safeguards. Although class actions dominate the scholarly discussion of mass litigation, the ever-increasing restrictions on certifying a class mean that plaintiffs’ lawyers routinely rely on aggregate litigation (through multidistrict litigation and liberal joinder devices like Rules 20 and 42) to seek redress for group-wide harms. Despite sharing key features with its class-action counterpart, lik fe attenuated attorney-client relationships, attorney-client conflicts of interest, and high agency costs, no monitor exists in aggregate litigation. Informal group litigation not only lacks Rule 23’s judicial protections against attorney …

The Two-Trillion Dollar Carve-Out: Foreign Manufacturers Of Defective Goods And The Death Of H.R. 4678 In The 111th Congress, Andrew F. Popper

Andrew Popper

Whatever happened to H.R. 4678, The Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act? While at first the bill looked like it would sail through, vocal and well-funded opposition from foreign manufacturers and their U.S. representatives placed its future in doubt – and ultimately killed the bill. Gross sales of foreign manufactured goods in the U.S. exceed two trillion dollars annually. Conservatively, there are tens of millions of defective, dangerous, and in some instances deadly goods produced abroad for sale in U.S. markets (e.g., Chinese dry-wall, toxic levels of lead paint on toys, contaminated pet food, allegedly lurching cars, infant cribs that to …

A Tragédia Do Judiciário: Subinvestimento Em Capital Jurídico E Sobreutilização Do Judiciário, Ivo T. Gico Jr.

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

Esta tese explora o subinvestimento em capital jurídico como uma explicação para o problema de congestionamento dos tribunais brasileiros. A análise indica que os magistrados brasileiros não possuem incentivos e mecanismos suficientes para investir em capital jurídico e uniformizar regras jurídicas. A insegurança jurídica resultante, combinada com o livre acesso ao serviço publico adjudicatório constitucionalmente garantindo, gera incentivos para a sobreutilização dos tribunais, resultando no problema endêmico de congestionamento, a Tragédia do Judiciário. O congestionamento atrai litigantes que desejam postergar suas obrigações pelo sistema judicial, enquanto litigantes legítimos são excluídos, um problema trágico de seleção adversa.

Due Process In Civil Commitments., Alexander Tsesis

Alexander Tsesis

In one of its most controversial decisions to date, United States v Comstock, the Roberts Court upheld a federal civil commitment statute requiring only an intermediate burden of proof The statute provided for the postsentencing confinement of anyone proven by "clear and convincing evidence" to be mentally ill and dangerous. The law relied on a judicial standard established more than thirty years before. The majority in Comstock missed the opportunity to reassess the precedent in light of recent psychiatric studies indicating that the ambiguity of available diagnostic tools can lead to erroneous insanity assessments and mistake evaluations about patients' likelihood …

Amicus Brief In Support Of Neither Party In Sebelius V. Auburn Reg. Med. Ctr., No. 11-1231, Scott Dodson

Scott Dodson

This amicus brief in support of neither party in the merits case of Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center, No. 11-1231, urges the Supreme Court to decide the question presented (whether 42 U.S.C. § 1395oo(a)(3) permits equitable tolling) without resort to jurisdictional labels.

Don't Just Do Something!: E-Hearsay, The Present Sense Impression, And The Case For Caution In The Rulemaking Process, Liesa L. Richter

Liesa L. Richter

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Arbitration And Reform In Private Securities Litigation: Dealing With The Meritorious As Well As The Frivolous, Steven A. Ramirez

Steven A. Ramirez

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El Problema De Los Efectos Del Negocio Jurídico Nulo: Actualidad Del Pensamiento De José León Barandiarán, Fort Ninamancco Córdova

Fort Ninamancco Cordova

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Procedure, Politics, Prediction, And Professors: A Response To Professors Burbank And Purcell, Stephen Subrin

Stephen N. Subrin

In this article I comment on four themes in the work of Stephen Burbank and Edward Purcell, two of the leading scholars of American civil procedure and procedural reform: (1) the relationship of substantive and procedural law; (2) the place of politics in procedural reform; (3) the difficulty of reliably predicting consequences of procedural reform; and (4) challenges that the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) and similar reforms present for law professors, both in their roles as researchers and writers, and as teachers of would-be lawyers.

Federal Rules, Local Rules, And State Rules: Uniformity, Divergence, And Emerging Procedural Patterns, Stephen Subrin

Stephen N. Subrin

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Preface: Symposium: The 50th Anniversary Of The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure, 1938-1988, Stephen Subrin

Stephen N. Subrin

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Procedure, Politics, Prediction, And Professors: A Response To Professors Burbank And Purcell, Stephen Subrin

Stephen N. Subrin

In this article I comment on four themes in the work of Stephen Burbank and Edward Purcell, two of the leading scholars of American civil procedure and procedural reform: (1) the relationship of substantive and procedural law; (2) the place of politics in procedural reform; (3) the difficulty of reliably predicting consequences of procedural reform; and (4) challenges that the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) and similar reforms present for law professors, both in their roles as researchers and writers, and as teachers of would-be lawyers.

Federal Rules, Local Rules, And State Rules: Uniformity, Divergence, And Emerging Procedural Patterns, Stephen Subrin

Stephen N. Subrin

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How Equity Conquered Common Law: The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure In Historical Perspective, Stephen Subrin

Stephen N. Subrin

Part I of this Article first looks at the major components of common law and equity procedure, and then examines the domination of an equity mentality in the Federal Rules. Part II explores the American procedural experience before the twentieth century, and demonstrates how David Dudley Field and his 1848 New York Code were tied to a common law procedural outlook. Part III concentrates on Roscoe Pound (who initiated the twentieth century procedural reform effort), Thomas Shelton (who led the American Bar Association Enabling Act Movement), and Charles Clark (the major draftsman of the Federal Rules). Through understanding these men …

Preface: Symposium: The 50th Anniversary Of The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure, 1938-1988, Stephen Subrin

Stephen N. Subrin

No abstract provided.

'El Derecho A La Intimidad': Inferencias Normativas Sobre Un Clásico, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

En el presente ensayo, describo las partes medulares del texto 'The right to privacy [the implicit made explicit]'; lo anterior, como sustento de una proyección de los postulados de Warren y Brandeis desarrollados por ejecutorias y tesis aisladas de la SCJN así como de criterios generales del IFAI.

The Proscription Of Incorporated Law Practices (Ilps) In Nigeria: The Legal And Constitutional Issues Arising, Abdullahi Saliu Ishola

Abdullahi Saliu Ishola

This paper critically examines the legality and constitutionality of the provision of Rule 5 sub-rule (5) of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners, 2007 (the Rules), prohibiting the practice of law in Nigeria as a corporation. The appraisal is done on the scales of the provisions of Sections 40 and 42 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended (the Constitution), providing for rights to freedom of association and peaceful assembly and freedom from discrimination, respectively; on one hand, and, Section 18 of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), allowing any two or …

Legal Process And The Past Of Antitrust, William L. Reynolds, Spencer Weber Waller

Spencer Weber Waller

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Ashcroft V. Iqbal: Contempt For Rules, Statutes, The Constitution, And Elemental Fairness, Stephen Subrin

Stephen N. Subrin

We were asked to write about one of the worst United States Supreme Court opinions we had read. My article is about Ashcroft v. Iqbal because it is such an important decision in the field of federal civil litigation and the majority opinion is unsupportable in so many different ways. I explain how that opinion changes the substantive law of supervisory liability for government officials without providing the parties notice that the issue would be considered by the Court. The majority then enshrines fact pleading requirements in federal court for all cases (although denying they have done so), without following …

Opinion Analysis: Deferring To (Even More) Limited Relief From Removal, Jill Family

Jill E. Family

The Uniform Provisions Of Evidence: A Major Reform That Maintains China’S Judicial Traditions, John Capowski

John J. Capowski

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Redefining Summary Judgment By Statute: Has The General Assembly Overruled The Tennessee Supreme Court’S Decision In Hannan?, Matthew Lyon, Judy M. Cornett

Matthew Lyon

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The Verdict On Juries, Valerie P. Hans, Neil Vidmar

Valerie P. Hans

In reviewing debates and research evidence about jury trials for our book, American Juries: The Verdict (Prometheus Books, 2007), we have had the chance to reflect on the status of the jury system in the United States. High profile jury trials put the spotlight on the American practice of using its citizens as decision makers. When jury verdicts are at odds with public opinion, criticisms of the institution are common. The civil jury has been a lightning rod for those who want tort reform. This article draws together some of our reflections about the health of the jury system and …

Non-Retained Experts: Adding Credibility To Your Case, Tammy B. Georgelas, John S. Treu, Melinda K. Bowen

John S. Treu

Non-retained experts are valuable weapons for defending cases. Similar to retained experts, they can educate on scientific or other principles providing fact finders with the building blocks to draw inferences and conclusions.