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British Antitrust In Action, Michael Conant Apr 1961

British Antitrust In Action, Michael Conant

Michigan Law Review

The Restrictive Trade Practices Act of 1956 was the first positive anti-monopoly statute in the United Kingdom since the Statute of Monopolies in 1623. Now that the statute has been in effect four years there are sufficient decisions and consent orders to make possible a report on its operation. Since most American readers are unfamiliar with the legal and economic background of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, the prior common law in this area and the 1948 monopolies investigation statute will be summarized first. This summary is followed by an analysis of the structure of the 1956 Act, of the …


Constitutional Law - Citizenship - Draft -Avoidance Statute Declared Unconstitutional, Ralph L. Wright Apr 1961

Constitutional Law - Citizenship - Draft -Avoidance Statute Declared Unconstitutional, Ralph L. Wright

Michigan Law Review

In 1951 plaintiff, a native-born American citizen, went to England for temporary work, as a physician and research physiologist. In 1953 his draft board ordered him to report for induction but he failed to comply with the order. The State Department then issued an administrative order expatriating plaintiff for remaining outside the United States for the purpose of avoiding service in the armed forces in violation of section 349 (a) (10) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. In a declaratory judgment suit before a three-judge court, held, section 349 (a) (10) is unconstitutional. Expatriation of United States …


Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Published Opinions Of The New Tax Officialdom: A Review, David G. Hill S.Ed. Apr 1961

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Published Opinions Of The New Tax Officialdom: A Review, David G. Hill S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

President John F. Kennedy has appointed as his principal tax officials two men who have long been on record as proponents of tax reform. This comment is a collection and, to a small extent, an analysis of the opinions found in their published statements on taxation. Stanley S. Surrey, fifty-year-old Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, first served with the Treasury Department in 1937. He was Tax Legislative Counsel from 1942 to 1947 and later served as Special Counsel to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Administration of the Revenue Laws. He also has served as Reporter …


Constitutional Law - Eminent Domain - Extension Of Fifth Amendment "Taking" To Include Destruction Of Lien Right By The Doctrine Of Immunity Of Government Property From Attachment, Henry J. Price Apr 1961

Constitutional Law - Eminent Domain - Extension Of Fifth Amendment "Taking" To Include Destruction Of Lien Right By The Doctrine Of Immunity Of Government Property From Attachment, Henry J. Price

Michigan Law Review

Upon default of the contracting shipbuilder, the United States acquired title to certain materials in accordance with a contract provision. Petitioners, who had previously acquired materialmen's liens on these materials, claimed that assertion of the doctrine of immunity of government property from attachment resulted in a "taking" of their liens in violation of the fifth amendment. This was rejected by the Court of Claims. On certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, held, reversed, three Justices dissenting. Since the builder had title at the time the materials were furnished, the property was not a "public work" and thus the …


Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - Local Smoke Control Ordinance Not An Undue Burden On Interstate Commerce, John M. Niehuss Apr 1961

Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - Local Smoke Control Ordinance Not An Undue Burden On Interstate Commerce, John M. Niehuss

Michigan Law Review

In accordance with a scheme of federal ship inspection, appellant possessed certificates which permitted its ships to operate on the Great Lakes and which specified the type of boiler which might be used. While two of its ships were docked in Detroit, smoke was emitted from their boilers in violation of the minimum density and duration requirements of the Detroit Smoke Abatement Code. The equipment which appellant was then using made compliance with the ordinance impossible. When criminal proceedings were instituted against appellant, it brought an action to enjoin the City of Detroit from enforcing the ordinance on the theory …


Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review Apr 1961

Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This index includes articles, comments and some of the longer notes which have appeared in leading law reviews since the publication of the last issue of this Review.


Henkin: Arms Control And Inspection In American Law, Eric Stein Apr 1961

Henkin: Arms Control And Inspection In American Law, Eric Stein

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Arms Control and Inspection in American Law. By Louis Henkin. With a Foreword by Philip C. Jessup.


Federal Estate Tax - Marital Deduction - Annuity For Life With Guaranteed Certain Payments Not Divided Into Two Properties By Insurer's Accounting Treatment, William S. Bach Apr 1961

Federal Estate Tax - Marital Deduction - Annuity For Life With Guaranteed Certain Payments Not Divided Into Two Properties By Insurer's Accounting Treatment, William S. Bach

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, executor of decedent's estate, brought suit to recover an overpayment of federal estate tax. Decedent had purchased a life insurance policy and had elected an option under which proceeds would be paid to his wife in monthly payments for her life; however, the option also guaranteed a minimum of 240 payments. In the event the wife died before 240 payments were made, payments were to continue to decedent's daughter, or on the death of both wife and daughter, the commuted value of the remaining guaranteed payments would be paid in lump sum to the estate of the survivor. The …


Federal Antitrust Law - Stockholders' Remedies For Corporate Injury Resulting From Antitrust Violations: Derivative Antitrust Suit And Fiduciary Duty Action, William Y. Webb S.Ed. Apr 1961

Federal Antitrust Law - Stockholders' Remedies For Corporate Injury Resulting From Antitrust Violations: Derivative Antitrust Suit And Fiduciary Duty Action, William Y. Webb S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The question of what remedies are available to a stockholder whose corporation has been injured or is threatened with injury by acts violative of the federal antitrust laws is largely unexplored. The staggering fines suffered by a number of corporations in the recent electrical industry criminal antitrust convictions demonstrate, however, that the question is both timely and important. Moreover, its answer could have a great impact both upon the means of protecting corporate minority rights and upon the means of private enforcement of the federal antitrust laws. The stockholders' derivative suit affords two remedies which deal with these two points …


Conflict Of Laws-State Cession Of Territory-Effect Of Exclusive Jurisdiction By Federal Government On State Law, William R. Nicholas Apr 1961

Conflict Of Laws-State Cession Of Territory-Effect Of Exclusive Jurisdiction By Federal Government On State Law, William R. Nicholas

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County welfare board refused claimant, a civilian resident on a federal military reservation, assistance under a state aid program for needy disabled on the ground she did not satisfy the requirement of residence within the county. The state had ceded the reservation land to the federal government giving it "exclusive jurisdiction for all purposes whatsoever," reserving to the state only the right to serve civil and criminal process. On appeal, the State Board of Public Welfare found claimant qualified and ordered payment. In a declaratory judgment sought by the welfare board, the state district court held the claimant met the …


Habeas Corpus - Procedural Prerequisites - Motion Denied For Failure To Appeal Convicion Despite Failure Being Excusable, Harvey O. Mierke Jr. Apr 1961

Habeas Corpus - Procedural Prerequisites - Motion Denied For Failure To Appeal Convicion Despite Failure Being Excusable, Harvey O. Mierke Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff was convicted of robbery in a federal district court and, although represented by counsel, failed to appeal within the statutory ten-day period. Three months later he filed a motion in the same court under section 2255 of the judicial code to vacate the sentence on the ground that the conviction, because it was based on a coerced confession, was unconstitutionally obtained without due process of law. The motion was denied and the denial affirmed, in the absence of any attempt to excuse the failure to appeal. On reargument, plaintiff attempted to excuse his failure to appeal by alleging that …


Escheat - Abandoned Property - Full Faith And Credit As A Bar To Multiple Escheat Of Intangibles, Clarold L. Britton S.Ed. Mar 1961

Escheat - Abandoned Property - Full Faith And Credit As A Bar To Multiple Escheat Of Intangibles, Clarold L. Britton S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Escheat of abandoned or unclaimed property by the sovereign is as old as the common law. Recast in constitutional form, this ancient right of kings has become a significant source of revenue in an increasing number of American states. While the right of escheat is inherent in the power of a sovereign, its exercise requires specific legislative authority. Until recently this authority was sparingly given and escheat was generally limited to the administration of estates and abandoned tangible property. However, in this past decade, state legislatures have greatly expanded the scope and extent of escheat by authorizing the escheat of …


No-Strike Clauses In The Federal Courts, Frank H. Stewart Mar 1961

No-Strike Clauses In The Federal Courts, Frank H. Stewart

Michigan Law Review

One consideration will support several promises. A promisor may extract more than one promise in return for his single undertaking to do - or not to do. It depends upon his bargaining power. His single undertaking may be so valuable that several promises are necessary to induce him to act, or not to act. He is privileged to hold out for the best deal. The law does not examine his motives or reduce his demands. And from this arises the common- law principle that one consideration may support several promises.


Associations-Expulsion, Suspension, Or Exclusion Of Members-Physician's Right To Membership In County Medical Society, David K. Kroll Mar 1961

Associations-Expulsion, Suspension, Or Exclusion Of Members-Physician's Right To Membership In County Medical Society, David K. Kroll

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff had satisfied all state requirements for the practice of medicine on the basis of work at an osteopathic college and residency at an osteopathic hospital, and had received a state license to practice medicine and surgery. Subsequently, plaintiff attended an AMA accredited medical college which awarded him a degree based in part on his osteopathic training. The Middlesex County Medical Society refused to admit plaintiff into active membership because he had not fulfilled the membership requirement of four years of study in a medical school approved by the AMA. As a result, two private hospitals terminated plaintiff's staff membership …


Insurance-Regulation Under The Mccarran-Ferguson Act-Ftc Jurisdiction Not Ousted By A State Statute Proporting To Control Deceptive Advertising Mailed To Other States, Thomas D. Heekin Mar 1961

Insurance-Regulation Under The Mccarran-Ferguson Act-Ftc Jurisdiction Not Ousted By A State Statute Proporting To Control Deceptive Advertising Mailed To Other States, Thomas D. Heekin

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner issued a cease-and-desist order prohibiting respondent from making statements in its advertising materials which violated the Federal Trade Commission Act. Respondent, a Nebraska health insurance company, mailed its circulars to residents of every state. The McCarran-Ferguson Act provides that "the Federal Trade Commission Act ... shall be applicable to the business of insurance to the extent that such business is not regulated by State law." A Nebraska statute prohibits an insurer domiciled there from engaging in unfair business practices in any state. In an action to set aside the FTC cease-and-desist order, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth …


Labor Law- Railway Labor Act-Union Referendum Provisions As An Indication Of Failure To Bargain In Good Faith, Paul D. Borman Mar 1961

Labor Law- Railway Labor Act-Union Referendum Provisions As An Indication Of Failure To Bargain In Good Faith, Paul D. Borman

Michigan Law Review

In negotiations arising out of a "major dispute" under the Railway Labor Act, defendant's union representatives were prohibited by a provision in the union constitution from reaching any final agreement without the proposals having first been adopted by a majority vote of the union membership. At the bargaining table, the union representatives presented no specific proposals or counter-proposals; when a management offer was made and presented to the union membership, the representatives refused either to sign it or to recommend its adoption. The management proposal was defeated at the union referendum, and a strike date was set. Plaintiff railroad sought …


Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review Mar 1961

Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This index includes articles, comments and some of the longer notes which have appeared in leading law reviews since the publication of the last issue of this Review.


Macdonald: Fraud On The Widow's Share, Max Rheinstein Mar 1961

Macdonald: Fraud On The Widow's Share, Max Rheinstein

Michigan Law Review

A Review of FRAUD ON THE WIDOW'S SHARE. By William D. Macdonald


Front Matter, Michigan Law Review Feb 1961

Front Matter, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Front Matter for Volume 59, Issue 4 of Michigan Law Review


The Rule Of Law In Historical Perspective, W. Burnett Harvey Feb 1961

The Rule Of Law In Historical Perspective, W. Burnett Harvey

Michigan Law Review

Events of the past two decades have made imperative a fundamental re-examination of the basis of government and the legal order. The gross inhumanities of the German and Japanese regimes during the Second World War are fresh in our memories. In many areas of the world today, the force of law is being used for the systematic suppression of claims to freedom and human dignity. The revolutionary ferment of the post-war years has brought into existence new governments with the task of determining their fundamental orientation and the direction of their legal orders.


The Rule Of Law And The Judicial Process, Luke K. Cooperrider Feb 1961

The Rule Of Law And The Judicial Process, Luke K. Cooperrider

Michigan Law Review

An anecdote which I believe I recall from one of Professor Brogan's ·writings concerns a conversation between the archbishop and the chief justice about the relative importance of their respective powers. After the conversation had continued for some time the archbishop sought to administer the coup de grâce. "I have the advantage of you, your lordship, because you see, in the long run, the most you can say to a man is, 'You shall be hanged!' whereas it is within the functions of my office to say, 'You shall be damned!' " To this, after a moment of thought, …


The Executive Department Of Government And The Rule Of Law, Frank E. Cooper Feb 1961

The Executive Department Of Government And The Rule Of Law, Frank E. Cooper

Michigan Law Review

For a long time, people have been talking about the executive department of government and the Rule of Law. Indeed, the suggestion of Aristotle that government should be by law, and not by men, represented a protest directed to the earlier Grecian systems of despotically controlled administrative law. It is my privilege this afternoon to carry forward the discussion of a problem that has been talked about for some two thousand years: how to apply the Rule of Law to the executive agencies of the government. They are commonly called "independent agencies" within the executive branch. I suggest that the …


The Challenge Of The Rule Of Law, W. Burnett Harvey Feb 1961

The Challenge Of The Rule Of Law, W. Burnett Harvey

Michigan Law Review

The lecture last week considered the Rule of Law concept in historical perspective. Aside from its possible, highly restricted connotation of public order maintained by the force of politically organized society, three basic meanings or emphases were identified in discussions of the Rule of Law: first, certain constitutional principles, particularly those ascribed by Dicey to 19th-century Britain; second, certain valuable procedural safeguards of a fair trial; and third, those asserted universal and perhaps immutable principles, derived from God or Nature by the rational faculties of man, available to guide and, in some views, to invalidate positive legal action. Without denying …


The International Rule Of Law, William W. Bishop Feb 1961

The International Rule Of Law, William W. Bishop

Michigan Law Review

In contrast with the previous lectures in this series on the Rule of Law, we are today not concerned with how the Rule of Law operates in a highly organized modem state like our own United States; but are turning instead to the world-wide community (or perhaps more properly international arena or international sphere of action, since the very word "community" may over-emphasize the degree of common sentiment!), in which the present role of the law is far less than within the state. Our first question is whether there is in fact any such thing as an international Rule of …


Copyright-Notice Requirements-Pitfalls For The Unwary, Gregor N. Neff Feb 1961

Copyright-Notice Requirements-Pitfalls For The Unwary, Gregor N. Neff

Michigan Law Review

Whether judicial remedy of the situation will be adequate or whether legislative change is necessary to remedy the situation presents another problem; but the need for remedy seems clear. The purpose of this comment is to discuss these pitfalls and to indicate present judicial trends regarding these problems. Proposed remedies, both legislative and judicial, will be listed and evaluated where possible.


The Legislative Process And The Rule Of Law: Attempts To Legislate Taste In Moral And Political Beliefs, Samuel D. Estep Feb 1961

The Legislative Process And The Rule Of Law: Attempts To Legislate Taste In Moral And Political Beliefs, Samuel D. Estep

Michigan Law Review

In a nutshell, the topic of this paper is "Comstockery and the Bowdlerizing of Ideas." The thesis here asserted is that the Rule of Law is violated when legislatures succumb to modern attempts by the often pathologically-motivated zealot legally to freeze current tastes in moral and political beliefs. The relationship between taste statutes and the seemingly esoteric topic, "The Legislative Process and the Rule of Law," is based on the premise that the maximum possible degree of intellectual freedom for each individual is an essential ingredient in the legal system of a civilized society.


Corporations - Directors - Validity Of By-Law Permitting Removal Of Directors Without Cause, Timothy F. Scanlon Feb 1961

Corporations - Directors - Validity Of By-Law Permitting Removal Of Directors Without Cause, Timothy F. Scanlon

Michigan Law Review

A by-law of defendant, a Delaware corporation, permitted removal of a director with or without cause by a majority vote of the stockholders. The certificate of incorporation provided for a staggered board system which divided the board of directors into three groups, the term of one group expiring at each annual meeting. At a special stockholders' meeting three directors were removed without cause. Plaintiff, majority stockholder of the corporation, instituted an action to determine the validity of the removal. Held, the three directors were improperly removed since the by-law which allowed removal without cause was inconsistent with the certificate …


Constitutional Law - Judicial Determination Of Constitutional Questions - The Necessity Of Explicit Authorization Of Administrative Officers To Take Actions Which Limit First Amendment Freedoms, Walter R. Allan Feb 1961

Constitutional Law - Judicial Determination Of Constitutional Questions - The Necessity Of Explicit Authorization Of Administrative Officers To Take Actions Which Limit First Amendment Freedoms, Walter R. Allan

Michigan Law Review

Appellant applied for renewal of his radio operator's license but refused to complete an FCC form relating to past and present affiliations with the Communist Party and other organizations which advocate the violent overthrow of the United States Government. At that time, and later in a hearing granted by the FCC, appellant relied upon the first amendment to justify his refusal. Subsequently the FCC denied his application. On appeal to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, held, affirmed, one judge dissenting. Pursuant to its power to grant licenses in the public interest,1 the FCC may impose …


Schubert: Constitutional Politics, Schmidhauser: The Supreme Court, Mcclosky: The American Supreme Court, Paul G. Kauper Feb 1961

Schubert: Constitutional Politics, Schmidhauser: The Supreme Court, Mcclosky: The American Supreme Court, Paul G. Kauper

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Constitutional Politics. By Glendon A. Schubert., The Supreme Court. By John R. Schmidhauser., and The American Supreme Court. By Robert G. McCloskey.


Stein And Nicholson: American Enterprises In The European Common Market: A Legal Profile, Volume 1, James N. Hyde Feb 1961

Stein And Nicholson: American Enterprises In The European Common Market: A Legal Profile, Volume 1, James N. Hyde

Michigan Law Review

A Review of American Enterprises in the European Common Market: A Legal Profile, Volume 1. Edited by Eric Stein and Thomas L. Nicholson.