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Articles 1 - 30 of 32
Full-Text Articles in Law
Private Litigation And The Deterrence Of Corporate Misconduct, James D. Cox
Private Litigation And The Deterrence Of Corporate Misconduct, James D. Cox
Law and Contemporary Problems
Cox discusses the linkage between private litigation and the deterrence of corporate misconduct.
Deterrence Of Corporate Fraud Through Securities Litigation: The Role Of Institutional Investors, Keith L. Johnson
Deterrence Of Corporate Fraud Through Securities Litigation: The Role Of Institutional Investors, Keith L. Johnson
Law and Contemporary Problems
Johnson suggests that institutions are uniquely positioned to enhance the deterrence function of securities litigation without undermining the compensation goal.
Class Action Reform, Qui Tam, And The Role Of The Plaintiff, Jill E. Fisch
Class Action Reform, Qui Tam, And The Role Of The Plaintiff, Jill E. Fisch
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Preempting Unintended Consequences, A. A. Sommer Jr.
Preempting Unintended Consequences, A. A. Sommer Jr.
Law and Contemporary Problems
Sommer offers some insights on preemption. The case for preemption is that there is an inherent logic and consistency in having litigation involving nationally traded securities resolved in a single forum.
How Will Lawyering And Mediation Practices Transform Each Other?, John M. Lande
How Will Lawyering And Mediation Practices Transform Each Other?, John M. Lande
Faculty Publications
This article sketches out some aspects of both lawyering and mediation practice that may be affected by development of a litimediation culture. Part II examines the growth of the private market for mediation and an accompanying specialization of mediation practice. These changes seem likely to require mediators to develop market niches with identifiable characteristics of their mediation practices. Simultaneously, lawyers, as regular buyers of mediation services, will be expected to recognize and make decisions based on significant distinctions between mediation providers.
Dashing Consumer Hopes: Strict Products Liability And The Demise Of The Consumer Expectations Test, Rebecca Korzec
Dashing Consumer Hopes: Strict Products Liability And The Demise Of The Consumer Expectations Test, Rebecca Korzec
All Faculty Scholarship
The threshold issue in American products liability litigation is whether the product was defective at the time it left the manufacturer's control. Traditionally, courts and scholars define “defect” in three functional categories: manufacturing defects, design defects and marketing defects. American products liability doctrine employs two major tests to determine whether a "defect” exists: the seller-oriented risk-utility test and the buyer-oriented consumer expectations test. The Draft of the Restatement Third of Torts: Products Liability, like some American jurisdictions, rejects the “consumer expectations” test as an independent standard in defective warning and design cases. Ironically, this limitation of the use of the …
New Demands For Tribal Rights To Federal Water And Power, Jeanne S. Whiteing
New Demands For Tribal Rights To Federal Water And Power, Jeanne S. Whiteing
Dams: Water and Power in the New West (Summer Conference, June 2-4)
12 pages.
The Theory Of Fee Regulation In Class Action Settlements , Bruce L. Hay
The Theory Of Fee Regulation In Class Action Settlements , Bruce L. Hay
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Compact, Mt, Chippewa-Cree Tribe
Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Compact, Mt, Chippewa-Cree Tribe
Native American Water Rights Settlement Project
Settlement - State Legislation: There is no stand alone settlement agreement: Water Rights Compact - MT, Chippewa-Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's Reservation & US of 1997 (MCA 85-20-601) This Compact arose out of a MT state court water rights adjudication. It serves both as settlement agreement and state legislation. The Compact sets forth the Tribe’s rights and involve Stoneman Reservoir, East Fork Reservoir, Gravel Coulee, Lower Big Sandy Creek, Ancestral Missouri River Channel Aquifer, Box Elder Creek, Beaver Creek, Camp Creek, Duck Creek, Gorman Creek, Lake Elwell, Bonneau Reservoir, Brown’s Reservoir, and new impoundments. It identifies rights in groundwater and …
The Road From Medical Injury To Claims Resolution: How No-Fault And Tort Differ, Frank A. Sloan, Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein, Stephen S. Entman, Elizabeth D. Kulas, Emily M. Stout
The Road From Medical Injury To Claims Resolution: How No-Fault And Tort Differ, Frank A. Sloan, Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein, Stephen S. Entman, Elizabeth D. Kulas, Emily M. Stout
Law and Contemporary Problems
In the area of medical malpractice, no-fault has been offered as a response to the criticisms leveled against tort litigation for medical injuries. Five issues of no-fault are examined within the context of obstetrical malpractice.
Medical Malpractice And Managed Care Organizations: The Implied Warranty Of Quality, William S. Brewbaker Iii
Medical Malpractice And Managed Care Organizations: The Implied Warranty Of Quality, William S. Brewbaker Iii
Law and Contemporary Problems
Managed care organizations (MCOs) have become prime targets in the new medical malpractice litigation, but getting a judgment against an MCO can be difficult. It is argued that courts should impose a tort-based implied warranty of quality on MCOs, under which they would be liable for selling physician services that are negligently rendered.
Mass Tort Litigation: Congress's Silent, But Deadly, Reform Effort, Mary J. Davis
Mass Tort Litigation: Congress's Silent, But Deadly, Reform Effort, Mary J. Davis
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article explores the ways in which The Common Sense Product Liability and Legal
Reform Act (“Act”) treats mass tort litigation issues. The Act does so both directly and indirectly. The direct methods of reform are mostly industry-specific and, thus, almost inconsequential in contrast to the indirect treatment. The indirect, almost clandestine, methods of reform are the most insidious and provide the most cause for concern as Congress once again attempts to "reform" products liability by reintroducing the Act in 1997. Given the President's early indication that a reform measure could meet with his approval, but that this one in …
Going To Trial: A Rare Throw Of The Die, Samuel R. Gross, Kent D. Syverud
Going To Trial: A Rare Throw Of The Die, Samuel R. Gross, Kent D. Syverud
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
Few of the suits that are filed continue to trial, but some plaintiffs and defendants find their interests served best by going to trial.
This essay is adapted from "Don’t Try: Civil Jury Verdicts in a System Geared to Settlement," appearing in 44 UCLA Law Review 1 (1996). Publication is by permission. A complete, fully cited version is available from the editor of Law Quadrangle Notes.
If it is true, as we often hear, that we are one of the most litigious societies on earth, it is because of our propensity to sue, not our affinity for trials. …
What Happens When Parties Fail To Prove Foreign Law?, William L. Reynolds
What Happens When Parties Fail To Prove Foreign Law?, William L. Reynolds
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Current Illegitimacy Of International Human Rights Litigation, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith, Iii
Current Illegitimacy Of International Human Rights Litigation, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith, Iii
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
In The Hot Box And On The Tube: Witnesses' Interests In Televised Trials, Stacy R. Horth-Neubert
In The Hot Box And On The Tube: Witnesses' Interests In Televised Trials, Stacy R. Horth-Neubert
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Gasperini In Line With Erie: New York Law Determines Excessiveness Of Verdict In Diversity Cases, Edie C. Grinblat
Gasperini In Line With Erie: New York Law Determines Excessiveness Of Verdict In Diversity Cases, Edie C. Grinblat
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Tis Better To Give Than To Receive: Charitable Donations Of Medical Malpractice Punitive Damages, Nicholas M. Miller
Tis Better To Give Than To Receive: Charitable Donations Of Medical Malpractice Punitive Damages, Nicholas M. Miller
Journal of Law and Health
The purpose of this Note is not to answer the question of how excessive medical malpractice and punitive damage awards are. Many highly respected scholars on different sides of the issue have spent large portions of their careers trying to resolve that issue without finding a common ground. This author does not boldly claim to provide an answer in this limited forum. This Note does, however, address a possible source of public frustration with the state of medical malpractice and punitive damages: the lack of a principled basis for the awards that juries give to the victims. The perception among …
Section 1983 In The Second Circuit, Honorable George C. Pratt
Section 1983 In The Second Circuit, Honorable George C. Pratt
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Adapting Mediation To Link Resolution Of Medical Malpractice Dispute With Health Care Quality Improvement, Edward A. Dauer, Leonard J. Marcus
Adapting Mediation To Link Resolution Of Medical Malpractice Dispute With Health Care Quality Improvement, Edward A. Dauer, Leonard J. Marcus
Law and Contemporary Problems
It is hypothesized that mediation in either a fault-based or a no-fault environment can make claims resolution more efficient and simultaneously promote quality improvement in health care more effectively than does the litigation/settlement process.
Section 1983 Litigation, Martin A. Schwartz
Form Contracts Under Revised Article 2 (Symposium: Consumer Protection And The Uniform Commercial Code), James J. White
Form Contracts Under Revised Article 2 (Symposium: Consumer Protection And The Uniform Commercial Code), James J. White
Articles
The current draft of section 2-206 in Revised Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC") entitled "Consumer Contract: Standard Form"1 presents a unique and threatening challenge to the drafters of consumer form contracts. In earlier drafts, one part of the section applied to both to commercial contracts and consumer contracts. It required that "one manifest assent" to any form contract, commercial or consumer, in order for it to be binding.2 Bowing to commercial opposition in the most recent version, the drafters have omitted all reference to commercial contracts. As the section stands, it applies only to consumer contracts.
Understanding The Establishment Clause: The Perspective Of Constitutional Litigation, Robert A. Sedler
Understanding The Establishment Clause: The Perspective Of Constitutional Litigation, Robert A. Sedler
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Class Action Reform: Lessons From Securities Litigation, Jill E. Fisch
Class Action Reform: Lessons From Securities Litigation, Jill E. Fisch
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Applicability Of The Attorney-Client Privilege To Communications With Foreign Legal Professionals, Daiske Yoshida
The Applicability Of The Attorney-Client Privilege To Communications With Foreign Legal Professionals, Daiske Yoshida
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
On Parol: The Construction And Interpretation Of Written Agreements And The Role Of Extrinsic Evidence In Contract Litigation, Keith A. Rowley
On Parol: The Construction And Interpretation Of Written Agreements And The Role Of Extrinsic Evidence In Contract Litigation, Keith A. Rowley
Scholarly Works
As a general rule, extrinsic evidence, whether written or oral, is not admissible to prove either the intent of the parties to a contract or the meaning of contractual terms when the parties have executed an unambiguous, fully-integrated (i.e., final and all-inclusive) written agreement. The trial court may consider various types of extrinsic evidence, however, in determining whether a particular agreement is fully integrated or ambiguous, and even in choosing among rival interpretations of an agreement where ambiguity is not present. If the trial court determines that an agreement is not fully integrated, then the trier of fact may consider …
Using State Inspection Statutes For Discovery In Federal Securities Fraud Actions, Randall Thomas, Kenneth J. Martin, Erin O'Connor
Using State Inspection Statutes For Discovery In Federal Securities Fraud Actions, Randall Thomas, Kenneth J. Martin, Erin O'Connor
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
We propose that plaintiffs in securities fraud actions should use state inspections statutes to obtain discovery about potential securities fraud cases. First, we argue that the Private Securities Law Reform Act has substantially increased shareholders' difficulty in uncovering securities fraud. Next, we show that shareholders have an alternative method of investigating fraud: state inspections statutes. We then analyze cases filed under the Delaware inspection statute to examine the costs to plaintiffs of pursuing claims under this statute. We find that the statutory inspection process is a largely successful, although expensive and time-consuming, process. Nevertheless, potential plaintiffs could realize substantial benefits …
Thinking Of Mediation As A Complex Adaptive System, J.B. Ruhl
Thinking Of Mediation As A Complex Adaptive System, J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This article uses my work on complex adaptive systems to think about how litigation and mediation differ in terms of adaptive qualities, suggesting that mediation is indeed a more adaptive mode of dispute resolution in certain contexts.
How U.S. Procedure Skews Tort Law Incentives, Jonathan T. Molot
How U.S. Procedure Skews Tort Law Incentives, Jonathan T. Molot
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
A Tale Of Two Cities: Day Labor And Conflict Resolution For Communities In Crisis, Lela P. Love, Cheryl Mcdonald
A Tale Of Two Cities: Day Labor And Conflict Resolution For Communities In Crisis, Lela P. Love, Cheryl Mcdonald
Faculty Articles
Through the lens of Glen Cove and Agoura Hills, two cities facing social crisis revolving around a shaping point, this article addresses the importance of government and key interest groups developing approaches to conflict that will best move society forward while limiting the danger and costs of discord. This "tale of two cities" describes two remarkably similar situations involving day laborers and argues that one community’s choice of mediation after the commencement of litigation resulted in outcomes that addressed and satisfied a wider range of constituency interests than those realized by the community that chose litigation alone.