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Theodore A. Smedley And The Race Relations Law Reporter, Paul H. Sanders

Vanderbilt Law Review

Beginning in 1959, Ted Smedley served with personal distinction and national recognition as Director of the Race Relations Law Reporter and as Director and Editor of the successor publications,the Race Relations Law Survey and the Race Relations Law Index. Professor Smedley, who joined the Board of Editors of the Race Relations Law Reporter in the fall of 1957 as one of three Associate Directors, engaged in editorial activities in this dynamic and sensitive area over a seventeen-year period, an era marked by tremendous ferment and revolutionary change. The quality of his work is evident in the words published within the …

Recent Developments

American Indian Law Review

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The Right Of Prisoner Access: Does Bounds Have Bounds?, Josephine R. Potuto

Indiana Law Journal

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Administrative Law: Due Process Requirements Of Notice And Hearing Apply To Native Claims Under Administrative Procedure Act; Civil Rights: Challenging Tribal Membership Ordinance; Criminal Law: Nor Prejudice To Indian Defendant Sentenced Under State Due To Additional Or Alternative Fina Authorized By Federal Statute; Due Process: Tribal Elections And The Indian Civil Rights Act; Environment: Standing Of Non-Indians To Challenge Validity Of Coal Leases On Indian Land; Evidence: Indian Concept Of "Toka" As Concerning Issues Of Provocation And Justification; Indian Civil Rights Act: Residency Requirements For Tribal Political Office Upheld; Indian Lands: Quiet Title Action By Indian Allottees Against Railroad Holding Easement In The Nature Of A Limited Fee; Jurisdiction: Adoption Where All Parties Are Residents Of An Indian Reservation; Jurisdiction: New Mexico State Constitution As Affecting Adjudication Of Indian Water Rights; Taxation: State Right Of Taxation On Reservations When Commerce Effectuated Between Indians And Non-Indians

American Indian Law Review

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Constitutional Law--The Eleventh Amendment--Injustice For All, Devon L. Gosnell

West Virginia Law Review

The concept of sovereign immunity has long been a vibrant force in American law, overshadowing the inequities it created by the theory that government was responsible only for those wrongs it chose to recognize from a moral consciousness inherent within the state. When the thirteen colonies banded together to form the union known as the United States of America, state government played a relatively minor role in the lives of the people. Of the few disputes that did arise between states and citizens, mainly payment of bond obligations incurred during the Revolutionary War, most were settled out of court. As …

Section 1983 And The "Background" Of Tort Liability, Sheldon H. Nahmod

Indiana Law Journal

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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Civil Rights--Personal Injury--Intent to Injure Is Not a Prerequisite to Recovery for Police Abuse Under Section 1983

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Constitutional Law--Abortion--Statute Prohibiting Abortion of Unquickened Fetus Violates Mother's Constitutional Right of Privacy

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Constitutional Law--Obscenity--State Statute Allowing Injunction Against Dissemination of Allegedly Obscene Material Prior to Adversary Hearing Not Violative of First Amendment

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Constitutional Law--Right of Privacy--State Statute Requiring Disclosure of All Substantial Financial Interests of Public Officials is Overbroad and an Unconstitutional Invasion of Privacy

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Constitutional Law--Sixth Amendment--Admission of Prior Inconsistent Statements as Substantive Evidence Does Not Violate Right of Confrontation

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Criminal Procedure--Search and Seizure--Warrantless Search of …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Antitrust--Burden of Proof--"Clear Proof" Standard Applied to Union Liability Under Sherman Act

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Antitrust--Robinson-Patman Act--Private Litigants Need Not Show Consequential Damages in Order to Recover Treble Damages for Price Discrimination Violations

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Antitrust Remedies--State Given Standing to Sue as Parens Patriae

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Civil Rights--State Action Not Required Under Sections 1981,1982, and 1985(3) of Title 42; Action "Under Color of State Constitutional Right" Satisfies the "Color of Law" Requirement of Section 1983

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Conflict of Laws--"Contacts" Approach Rejected--Lex LociDelicti Applied Until Undeniably Better Rule is Found

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Conflict of Laws--Criminal Procedure--Law of Forum Applies to Search and Seizure in Accused's Out-of-State …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Antitrust--When Plaintiff Participates in a Scheme Initiated by Defendant, In Pari Delicto Is No Bar to Recovery

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Civil Rights--Amusement Park Is Covered by Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Civil Rights--Desegregation--Freedom-of-Choice Plans Are Not To Be Used When More Effective Means for Desegregation Are Available

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Constitutional Law--Fourteenth Amendment Entitles Defendants Charged with Serious Crimes in State Courts to Trial by Jury

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Constitutional Law-Reapportionment--"One Man, One Vote" Held Applicable to Units of Local Government

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Constitutional Law--Search and Seizure--Police May Conduct Limited Search for Weapons in Course of Field Investigatin Without Probable Cause for …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Antitrust--Labor Law-Exemption of Union from Antitrust Laws Is Lost When It Imposes Minimum Price Levels on a Member-Employer Acting on their own initiative, the plaintiffs, union member'

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Civil Rights--Desegregation--School Authorities Have Afirmative Duty To Integrate School System Negro children in six Louisiana and three Alabama school systems

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Constitutional Law--Citizenship--Stripping Congress of Its Right To Expatriate

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Constitutional Law--State Constitutional Amendment Guaranteeing Discretion to Seller of Real Estate Violates Fourteenth Amendment

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Criminal Law--The "Mere Evidence" Rule Is Expressly Abolished

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antitrust, civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law

Constitutional Law -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, James C. Kirby, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

The prosecutions in McKinnie v. State, arose from "sit-in" demonstrations by which a group of Negroes attempted to obtain service at a privately operated cafeteria in Nashville. The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has since been held by the United States Supreme Court to abate these particular prosecutions and the prospective application of its public accommodations provisions makes it unlikely that their facts will recur.

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Antitrust Law--Violation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act by Joint Venture

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Civil Rights--Anti-discrimination Law as a Vehicle for a Private Civil Action

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Condemnation--Landowner Cannot Recover From Federal Government for Damages Caused Before Date of Taking Where Government Did Not Previously Contemplate, Condemning Property

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Constitutional Law--Loss of Nationality--Foreign Residency Statute Held Violative of Due Process

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Constitutional Law--Reapportionment--Both Houses of a State Legislature Must Be Based as Nearly as Is Practicable on Population

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Constitutional Law--Twenty-first Amendment--Scope of State Power Over Intoxicants Moving Within Its Borders

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Evidence--Statutory Presumptions--Reasonableness Is Implicit in Test of Rational Connection

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Federalism And Double Jeopardy: A Study In The Frustration Of Human Rights, Harlan R. Harrison

University of Miami Law Review

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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Civil Rights--Civil Rights Act of 1957 Gives Federal Court Mandatory Jurisdiction To Entertain Suit by the United States To Enjoin State Criminal Prosecution

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Conflict of Laws--Federal Tort Claims Act--Applicable Substantive Law Held To Be Whole Law of State Where Negligence Occurred

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Constitutional Law--Discrimination--Conviction for Disturbing the Peace in Lunch Counter Sit-in Held To Violate Due Process for Lack of Evidence

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Federal Courts--Erie Doctrine--Opinion Evidence Held Admissible Under Federal Rule 43(a) in Diversity Case

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Federal Courts--Federal Question Jurisdiction--Lack of Jurisdiction to Enforce Award of Airline System Board of Adjustment in Labor Dispute

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Interstate Commerce--Taxation--State Privilege Tax …

Equal Access To Justice: The Challenge And The Opportunity, Orison S. Marden

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Natural Rights And The Founding Fathers-The Virginians, Chester James Antieau

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Right Of Petition, L. A. S.

West Virginia Law Review

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Judicial Acquiescence In The Forfeiture Of Constitutional Rights Through Expansion Of The Conditioned Privilege Doctrine

Indiana Law Journal

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Constitutional Law-Conflict Between Investigatory Powers Of Congress And Constitutionally Guaranteed Individual Liberties

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Committee To Frame A World Constitution: Preliminary Draft Of A World Constitution, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF A WORLD CONSTITUTION. By The Committee to Frame a World Constitution.

A Review Of Annual Survey Of American Law: 1947, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

This is the sixth annual volume in which the faculty of the New York University School of Law has published its summary of the important developments in American law. The magnitude of the task required to produce these volumes would be considered beyond the capacity of the teaching staff of any single law school if the actual publication, year by year, of these monumental surveys did not prove that it could be accomplished.

Prohibition Of Lawful Assembly When Opposed By Threat Of Violence

Indiana Law Journal

Constitutional Law Note

Political Affiliation As Qualification For Office

Indiana Law Journal

Constitutional Law Note

Civil Servants And The Right To Engage In Political Activity

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Constitutional Law

The Privilege Of A Negro Citizen To Vote In A Primary

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Constitutional Law

Another Jehovah's Witness Case

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Constitutional Law

The Virginia Bill Of Rights, Leonard C. Helderman

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Constitutional Law-Freedom Of Speech And Press-Municipal Ordinances Restricting Distribution Of Printed Matter

Indiana Law Journal

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