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Constitutional Law--Due Process--Replevin Statutes Allowing Seizure of Property Without Notice and Opportunity for Hearing Violate Due Process Clause of Fourteenth Amendment

Constitutional Law--Right to Counsel--Absent Waiver,No Defendant May Be Imprisoned Unless Represented By Counsel At Trial

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure-Class Actions-Class Action Alleging Similar Injury by Separate Defendants Who Acted Similarly but Independently Allowed Under Rule 23(b)(3)

Securities Regulation--Securities Act of 1933-Access Of All Offerees To Additional Desired Information Required For Section 4(2) Private Offering Exemption

Torts-Joint Tort-feasors--Apportionment of Damages Among Negligent Joint Tort-feasors Based upon Relative Responsibility of Parties

Rule 144: Sec Regulation Of Dispositions Of Securities By Controlling Persons And Private Places, Paul L. Sloan, Iii

Vanderbilt Law Review

In recent years, dissatisfaction with the law that governs the disposition of securities by controlling persons' and private places under the Securities Act of 1933 has been voiced in numerous commentaries.Although criticism has been directed at varying facets of the problem,the displeasure of critics has resulted from two fundamental objections: first, the unnecessary ambiguity that heretofore has enveloped public resale of privately placed securities and, to a lesser degree, resale of securities by controlling persons; and secondly, the failure of the present law adequately to effect the disclosure policy of the Securities Act of 1933 and of the Securities Exchange …

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Vanderbilt Law Review

RECENT CASES

Antitrust--Sham Exception--Allegations of Purposeful and Concerted Use of Adjudicatory Processes to Harass and Deter Parties From Having Free Access to These Processes Constitute a Cause of Action Under Antitrust Laws

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Criminal Procedure--Confessions--Determination of Confession's Voluntariness by Preponderance of the Evidence Is Not Violative of Fifth Amendment Prohibition Against Self-Incrimination

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Landlord and Tenant--Forcible Entry and Detainer Statute--Provisions for Immediate Trial and Limitation of Triable Issues Not Violative of Due Process or Equal-Protection Clauses

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Securities Regulation-Section 16(b) of Securities Exchange Act of 1934--Insider May Sell Enough Stock To Bring His Holdings Below Ten Percent and Within Six …