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2012

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Full-Text Articles in Civil Procedure

Argument Recap: Imputing Eligibility For Relief From Removal, Jill Family Jan 2012

Argument Recap: Imputing Eligibility For Relief From Removal, Jill Family

Jill E. Family

At oral argument on January 18, the Court questioned the attorneys in Holder v. Gutierrez and Holder v. Sawyers about calculating relief from removal.  At issue in these consolidated cases is whether a parent’s immigration status and residency in the United States may be imputed to a minor child to calculate eligibility for relief from removal.  The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) said no; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said yes.

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Argument Preview: Calculating Relief From Removal, Jill Family Jan 2012

Argument Preview: Calculating Relief From Removal, Jill Family

Jill E. Family

Holder v. Gutierrez and Holder v. Sawyers call into question the BIA’s decision to forbid the imputation of a parent’s immigration status and residency in the United States to a minor child for the purpose of calculating eligibility for relief from removal.  Scratching that simple surface reveals a complex history of imputation and relief from removal.

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Moore's Federal Practice. Vol. 11 (Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 56: Summary Judgement), Steven Gensler, Jeffrey Stempel Dec 2011

Moore's Federal Practice. Vol. 11 (Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 56: Summary Judgement), Steven Gensler, Jeffrey Stempel

Steven S. Gensler

No abstract provided.

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Cases And Materials On The Law Governing Lawyers, James Moliterno Dec 2011

Cases And Materials On The Law Governing Lawyers, James Moliterno

James E. Moliterno

No abstract provided.

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Administrative Law Through The Lens Of Immigration Law, Jill Family Dec 2011

Administrative Law Through The Lens Of Immigration Law, Jill Family

Jill E. Family

Immigration law does lag behind in the advancement of public law, but not in all respects. While immigration law is idiosyncratic in many ways, this article finds immigration law in the administrative law mainstream when it comes to its troubles with nonlegislative rules (sometimes called guidance documents). There are concerns throughout administrative law that agencies use such rules to bind regulated parties practically, even if not legally, without the procedural protections of notice and comment.
This article analyzes immigration troubles with nonlegislative rules and makes three main contributions. First, it casts new light on the negative effects of guidance documents …

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Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure: Rules And Commentary (Annual Editions Since 2007), Steven Gensler Dec 2011

Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure: Rules And Commentary (Annual Editions Since 2007), Steven Gensler

Steven S. Gensler

No abstract provided.

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Invisible Federalism And The Electoral College, Derek Muller Dec 2011

Invisible Federalism And The Electoral College, Derek Muller

Derek T. Muller

What role do States have when the Electoral College disappears? With the enactment of the National Popular Vote on the horizon and an imminent presidential election in which a nationwide popular vote determines the winner, States would continue to do what they have done for hundreds of years — administer elections. The Constitution empowers States to decide who votes for president, and States choose who qualifies to vote based on factors like age or felon status. This power of States, a kind of “invisible federalism,” is all but ignored in Electoral College reform efforts. In fact, the power of the …

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Loser Pays - But Only A Reasonable Amount, Martin Sunnqvist Dec 2011

Loser Pays - But Only A Reasonable Amount, Martin Sunnqvist

Martin Sunnqvist

In Sweden, the loser pays the costs in civil procedure. But the costs are still reasonable in comparison with many other countries. In the text, I try to explain why.

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Contested Elections As Secret Weapon: Legislative Control Over Judicial Decisionmaking, Matthew R. Lyon, Judy M. Cornett Dec 2011

Contested Elections As Secret Weapon: Legislative Control Over Judicial Decisionmaking, Matthew R. Lyon, Judy M. Cornett

Matthew Lyon

No abstract provided.

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It's All About The People: Personal Jurisdiction, Lord Of The Rings And Classroom Community In Civil Procedure I, Jennifer E. Spreng Dec 2011

It's All About The People: Personal Jurisdiction, Lord Of The Rings And Classroom Community In Civil Procedure I, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

This article describes my ongoing experiments with “learning communities” and “spiral curricula” in my Civil Procedure I classes, as influenced by my eight years as a sole practitioner in Western Kentucky. Despite endorsement from many education theorists and classroom teachers and potential effectiveness in combating student disaffection, neither has made more than the shallowest dent in legal education. “Classroom community” implies a less stratified and more culturally respectful education experience that is more rewarding, more honorable and more likely to be urban law school graduates’ professional future. Spiral curriculum design facilitates analytical depth that leads to a sense of the …

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Optimizing Liability For Extraterritorial Torts: A Response To Professor Sykes, Chimene I. Keitner Dec 2011

Optimizing Liability For Extraterritorial Torts: A Response To Professor Sykes, Chimene I. Keitner

Chimene I Keitner

No abstract provided.

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Some Functions Of Alien Tort Statute Litigation, Chimene I. Keitner Dec 2011

Some Functions Of Alien Tort Statute Litigation, Chimene I. Keitner

Chimene I Keitner

No abstract provided.

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Revalorización Del Precedente Judicial En El Ordenamiento Jurídico Peruano: Una Lectura Comparatística De La Institución, Con Especial Referencia A Los Métodos De Apartamiento Del Precedente Vinculante, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo, Rocio De Lily Llanos Navarro Dec 2011

Revalorización Del Precedente Judicial En El Ordenamiento Jurídico Peruano: Una Lectura Comparatística De La Institución, Con Especial Referencia A Los Métodos De Apartamiento Del Precedente Vinculante, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo, Rocio De Lily Llanos Navarro

Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

Los autores, analizan el sistema de precedentes vinculantes establecido en el artículo 400° del Código Procesal Civil, manifestando que el mismo establece un modelo de índole eminentemente formal y autoritario, por lo cual, en base a un profundo análisis comparatistico de dicha institución jurídica, sostienen que su aplicación en nuestro ordenamiento jurídico sería más funcional y concordante con el principio de autonomía e independencia judicial, si los magistrados pudiesen emplear de manera adecuada mecanismos a través de los cuales pudiesen apartarse válidamente del precedente vinculante. Toda vez que, según los autores, dichos mecanismos no sólo permiten evitar situaciones jurídica, moral …

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The Relational Contingency Of Rights, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky Dec 2011

The Relational Contingency Of Rights, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky

Alex Stein

In this Article, we demonstrate, contrary to conventional wisdom, that all rights are relationally contingent. Our main thesis is that rights afford their holders meaningful protection only against challengers who face higher litigation costs than the rightholder. Contrariwise, challengers who can litigate more cheaply than a rightholder can force the rightholder to forfeit the right and thereby render the right ineffective. Consequently, in the real world, rights avail only against certain challengers but not others. This result is robust and pervasive. Furthermore, it obtains irrespectively of how rights and other legal entitlements are defined by the legislator or construed by …

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The Timeliness Of Removal And Multiple-Defendant Lawsuits, Paul Lund Dec 2011

The Timeliness Of Removal And Multiple-Defendant Lawsuits, Paul Lund

Paul Lund

Although the procedure for removing cases from state to federal court has existed for nearly 225 years, removal remains one of the most controversial aspects of federal jurisdictional law. Each year, more than 30,000 civil cases are removed from state to federal court, and many of those cases involve more than one defendant. One of the most frequently litigated issues in these cases has involved when the notice of removal must be filed. Prior to a recent amendment, the statute governing removal, 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b), required that a notice of removal be filed within thirty days of service on …

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Civil Procedure In Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Eurasia Context, Janet Walker, Et Al. Dec 2011

Civil Procedure In Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Eurasia Context, Janet Walker, Et Al.

Janet Walker

The Idea of the book is to discuss the evolution of civil procedure in different societies, not only in the well-known civil or common law systems, but also in different countries of Eurasia, Asia, etc. Civil procedure in Europe and North America is a subject of enormous scientific and practical importance. We know a lot about these systems. But we do not know enough about civil procedure in the rest of the world. How does it work and what are the main principles? Culture is one of the main factors that makes civil procedure of these countries different. Therefore it …

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Structuring Jurisdictional Rules And Standards, Scott Dodson, Elizabeth Mccuskey Dec 2011

Structuring Jurisdictional Rules And Standards, Scott Dodson, Elizabeth Mccuskey

Scott Dodson

This essay, for Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, critically assesses Jonathan Remy Nash’s article, "On the Efficient Deployment of Rules and Standards to Define Federal Jurisdiction," which proposes to use rules to demarcate jurisdictional boundaries at the front end while "migrating" standards into a discretionary abstention phase at the back end. While we believe Nash's cause is worthy, and while we applaud his creativity, we think his proposal suffers from ambiguous definitions of “rules” and “standards” and assumes that clear and simple “rules” are actually attainable in jurisdictional doctrine. We also show that Nash's proposal works only with a broad …

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Managing Summary Judgment, Steven S. Gensler, Lee H. Rosenthal Dec 2011

Managing Summary Judgment, Steven S. Gensler, Lee H. Rosenthal

Steven S. Gensler

No abstract provided.

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Special Rules For Social Media Discovery?, Steven S. Gensler Dec 2011

Special Rules For Social Media Discovery?, Steven S. Gensler

Steven S. Gensler

No abstract provided.

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Un Atisbo A 'Transcendental Non Sense And The Functional Approach' De Felix S. Cohen, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández Dec 2011

Un Atisbo A 'Transcendental Non Sense And The Functional Approach' De Felix S. Cohen, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Redacté este ensayo sobre un jurista poco explorado en México,aunque destacado en EEUU: Félix S. Cohen. Precursor del estudio ysistematización del derecho indígena en la Unión Americana, su perspectivafuncionalista destaca en su ensayo Transcendentalnon sense and the functional approach. Presento este trabajo que contieneun atisbo a este importante jurista americano.

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