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Full-Text Articles in Social Welfare Law
Justice Murphy And The Welfare Question, Leo Weiss
Justice Murphy And The Welfare Question, Leo Weiss
Michigan Law Review
In 1941, an Italian law professor arrived in the United States to make his home here. Born in Russia during Czarist days, he was educated in Austria, England, and Italy, finally settling there and becoming a citizen. A member of the Italian bar and teacher of law at the Universities of Florence and Rome, he found himself in 1939 unwanted in his adopted homeland. He went to France, where he practiced law until coming to this country. In New York City he joined the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, remaining in that post for five years, …
Soonavala: Advocacy, Its Principles And Practice, Charles W. Joiner
Soonavala: Advocacy, Its Principles And Practice, Charles W. Joiner
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Advocacy, Its Principles and Practice. By R. K. Soonavala
Administrative Law - Separation Of Powers - Delegation Of Executive Functions To The Judiciary, Collins E. Brooks
Administrative Law - Separation Of Powers - Delegation Of Executive Functions To The Judiciary, Collins E. Brooks
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff applied to the county board of public welfare for a pension award under a state Old Age Assistance Act. In conformity to the act, an investigation was made by the county board and the facts were submitted, with a recommendation for an award, to the State Department of Public Welfare for approval. The latter, however, overruled the award, whereupon plaintiff applied to the circuit court for a trial de novo, as provided for by the statute, and was successful. On appeal from the court's order allowing the award, held, the statutory provision for a de novo review by …
Workmen's Compensation-Right Of Dole Employee To Compensation
Workmen's Compensation-Right Of Dole Employee To Compensation
Michigan Law Review
The plaintiff, a citizen on the relief rolls of the defendant city, was put to work in accordance with a scrip relief plan under which persons receiving aid were "required" to work if they were able. They were paid a stipulated amount of script per hour, which was exchangeable for goods at the city store. The plaintiff was injured while using a wheelbarrow in line of duty in so working in the city park, and claimed the right to workmen's compensation under the statute as an employee of the city. The court held, by a five-to-three division, that the …
Constitutional Law-Public Purpose-Feed Loans To Destitute Farmers
Constitutional Law-Public Purpose-Feed Loans To Destitute Farmers
Michigan Law Review
Pursuant to a constitutional provision enabling such action, the Governor asked the supreme court of South Dakota the following question: "Could the legislature enact legislation which would permit the several counties as a county enterprise to raise funds either by supplemental budget or bond or warrant issues with which they might in turn furnish feed loans or even distribute feed as a part of a county poor relief system . . . ?" In answer to this question the court held, in In re Opinion of the Judges, that the furnishing of feed or feed loans to individuals …
Legislation - Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Act
Legislation - Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Act
Michigan Law Review
Culminating years of activity in its state legislature, Wisconsin on January twenty-eighth adopted the Groves Bill (Bill No. 8, A) providing for compulsory unemployment insurance, the first legislation of the sort to be enacted in the United States. For a discussion of unemployment insurance measures introduced at the 1931 legislatures see 30 MICH. L. REV. 410 (January, 1932). The compulsory plan is to become operative July 1, 1933, unless Wisconsin employers employing more than 175,000 workers in the state have by that date established approved voluntary insurance systems.
Book Reviews, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson
Book Reviews, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson
Michigan Law Review
Unless lawyers are an unimaginative and hopelessly backward-looking social group, as some unkind critics have asserted, they will find this book one of he most suggestive and stimulating contributions to legal literature that has appeared in recent years. It touches in a broad way the whole field of the relation of legal institutions and the legal profession to the major problems of society. It demonstr4tes in a most striking manner how those who plan and administer the machinery of the law must awake to the fact that they form the front line of civilization's defense against anarchy. And it presents …