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The Supreme Court And Our Culture Of Irresponsibility, Mary J. Davis Jan 1996

The Supreme Court And Our Culture Of Irresponsibility, Mary J. Davis

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article chronicles the Supreme Court's expansion of the “culture of irresponsibility,” where institutional defendants are freed from tort liability with no check on the abuse of such immunity. Professor Davis describes the Court's progression toward immunity in products liability decisions of the past decade including East River Steamship, Boyle, Cipollone, and Lohr. Noting the effect of the Court's decisions in promoting institutional irresponsibility, Professor Davis encourages the Court to use its “cultural influence” and reconsider its broad extension of immunity which has spread to situations and institutional defendants the Court never imagined.


"I Vote This Way Because I'M Wrong": The Supreme Court Justice As Epimenides, John M. Rogers Jan 1991

"I Vote This Way Because I'M Wrong": The Supreme Court Justice As Epimenides, John M. Rogers

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Possibly the most unsettling phenomenon in the Supreme Court's 1988 term was Justice White's decision to vote contrary to his own exhaustively stated reasoning in Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co. His unexplained decision to vote against the result of his own analysis lends support to those who argue that law, or at least constitutional law, is fundamentally indeterminate. Proponents of the indeterminacy argument sometimes base their position on the allegedly inescapable inconsistency of decisions made by a multi-member court. There is an answer to the inconsistency argument, but it founders if justices sometimes vote, without explanation, on the basis of …


Comments On Professor Rotunda's Essay, Richard H. Underwood Jan 1988

Comments On Professor Rotunda's Essay, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this comment, Professor Richard H. Underwood provides a response to An Essay on the Constitutional Parameters of Federal Impeachment, by Professor Ronald D. Rotunda. Rotunda’s essay was published in the Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 707-732.


On Unpublished Opinions, Edwin R. Render Jan 1984

On Unpublished Opinions, Edwin R. Render

Kentucky Law Journal

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Karu Gene White V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0489 Jan 1983

Karu Gene White V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0489

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Economical Litigation: Kentucky's Answer To High Costs And Delay In Civil Litigation, C. Lynn Oliver Jan 1983

Economical Litigation: Kentucky's Answer To High Costs And Delay In Civil Litigation, C. Lynn Oliver

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Judicial V. Legislative Power In Kentucky: A "Comity" Of Errors, Douglas L. Mcswain Jan 1983

Judicial V. Legislative Power In Kentucky: A "Comity" Of Errors, Douglas L. Mcswain

Kentucky Law Journal

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Karu Gene White V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0489 Nov 1982

Karu Gene White V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0489

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Gary Wayne Wilson V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellant's Brief 1980-Sc-0489 Oct 1982

Gary Wayne Wilson V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellant's Brief 1980-Sc-0489

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Karu Gene White V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appendix 1980-Sc-0489 Oct 1982

Karu Gene White V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appendix 1980-Sc-0489

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Myron F. Gleberman V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Supplemental Brief 1980-Sc-0466 Nov 1981

Myron F. Gleberman V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Supplemental Brief 1980-Sc-0466

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Mark Douglas Cain V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0474 Sep 1981

Mark Douglas Cain V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0474

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Mark Douglas Cain V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0474 Sep 1981

Mark Douglas Cain V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0474

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Myron F. Gleberman V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Supplemental Brief 1980-Sc-0466 Aug 1981

Myron F. Gleberman V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Supplemental Brief 1980-Sc-0466

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Edgar Gilbert Miller V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellant's Brief 1980-Sc-0474 Aug 1981

Edgar Gilbert Miller V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellant's Brief 1980-Sc-0474

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Kenneth Ford V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0507 May 1981

Kenneth Ford V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0507

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Henry Lee Hall V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief (P) 1980-Sc-0360 May 1981

Henry Lee Hall V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief (P) 1980-Sc-0360

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Henry Lee Hall V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Petition For Rehearing 1980-Sc-0360 Apr 1981

Henry Lee Hall V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Petition For Rehearing 1980-Sc-0360

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Continental Casualty Company V. Cora Smith, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0460 Apr 1981

Continental Casualty Company V. Cora Smith, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0460

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Kenneth Ford V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0507 Apr 1981

Kenneth Ford V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0507

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Central Bank And Trust Company, A Kentucky Corporation, As Executor Of The Estate Of Garvice D. Kincaid, Deceased; W. E. Burnett, Jr. E. F. Schaeffer, Jr., And H. Hart Hagan, Jr., As The Membership Composing The Unincorporated Advisory Committee Under The Will Of Garvice D. Kincaid, Deceased; General Management Associates, Inc., A Kentucky Corporation; Lexington Finance Company, A Kentucky Corporation; And H. Hart Hagan, Jr. Individually And As President Of General Management Associates, Inc. V. Joan D. Kincaid, Supplemental Brief 1980-Sc-0353 Apr 1981

Central Bank And Trust Company, A Kentucky Corporation, As Executor Of The Estate Of Garvice D. Kincaid, Deceased; W. E. Burnett, Jr. E. F. Schaeffer, Jr., And H. Hart Hagan, Jr., As The Membership Composing The Unincorporated Advisory Committee Under The Will Of Garvice D. Kincaid, Deceased; General Management Associates, Inc., A Kentucky Corporation; Lexington Finance Company, A Kentucky Corporation; And H. Hart Hagan, Jr. Individually And As President Of General Management Associates, Inc. V. Joan D. Kincaid, Supplemental Brief 1980-Sc-0353

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Stanley Green V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0492 Mar 1981

Stanley Green V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0492

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Geneva Mae Perkins, Now Dyer V. Charles Elbert Read, And Charles Emery Read, Amicus Brief 1980-Sc-0368 Mar 1981

Geneva Mae Perkins, Now Dyer V. Charles Elbert Read, And Charles Emery Read, Amicus Brief 1980-Sc-0368

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Department For Human Resources V. Kentucky Products, Inc. And Floyd K. Nixon, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0506 Mar 1981

Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Department For Human Resources V. Kentucky Products, Inc. And Floyd K. Nixon, Appellee's Brief 1980-Sc-0506

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Phillip Bohannon V. Al C. Rutland, D/B/A Rutland's Barbeque, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Appellant's Brief 1980-Sc-0460 Mar 1981

Phillip Bohannon V. Al C. Rutland, D/B/A Rutland's Barbeque, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Appellant's Brief 1980-Sc-0460

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Stanley Green V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Respondent's Brief 1980-Sc-0492 Mar 1981

Stanley Green V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Respondent's Brief 1980-Sc-0492

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Commonwealth Of Kentucky Department For Human Resources And Valley View Community Hospital, Inc. V. Lynch Medical Services, Inc. D/B/A Cumberland Valley Primary Care Center, Respondent's Brief 1980-Sc-0404 Mar 1981

Commonwealth Of Kentucky Department For Human Resources And Valley View Community Hospital, Inc. V. Lynch Medical Services, Inc. D/B/A Cumberland Valley Primary Care Center, Respondent's Brief 1980-Sc-0404

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Louisville And Jefferson County Board Of Zoning Adjustment V. Joseph C. Hofgesang Sand Company Inc., Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0437 Feb 1981

Louisville And Jefferson County Board Of Zoning Adjustment V. Joseph C. Hofgesang Sand Company Inc., Reply Brief 1980-Sc-0437

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


Phillip R. Mcclure V. Fiscal Court Of Jefferson County, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Kentucky, Louis J. Hollenback, Iii, Howard Kassulke, Raymond A Kottak, Thomas C. Helm, Robert O. Kirchdorfer, Earl J. Hartlage, Respondent's Brief 1980-Sc-0410 Feb 1981

Phillip R. Mcclure V. Fiscal Court Of Jefferson County, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Kentucky, Louis J. Hollenback, Iii, Howard Kassulke, Raymond A Kottak, Thomas C. Helm, Robert O. Kirchdorfer, Earl J. Hartlage, Respondent's Brief 1980-Sc-0410

1980-1989

No abstract provided.


John H. Williams V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Brief 1980-Sc-0395 Feb 1981

John H. Williams V. Commonwealth Of Kentucky, Brief 1980-Sc-0395

1980-1989

No abstract provided.