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Procedural Wrongdoing, Matthew A. Shapiro
Procedural Wrongdoing, Matthew A. Shapiro
BYU Law Review
Both the practice and the study of civil justice are rife with accusations of litigation “abuse.” Although it’s tempting to dismiss all this abuse talk as merely rhetorical, the concept of abuse in fact has deep roots in the normative structure of civil procedure’s doctrinal apparatus for regulating parties’ wrongful litigation conduct — their procedural wrongdoing. Prior accounts of procedural wrongdoing have maintained that parties abuse the civil justice system whenever they violate a procedural rule that’s calibrated to maximize the net benefits of litigation. Such accounts, however, ignore the many rules that define procedural wrongdoing not in terms of …
Utah Marriage And Divorce Laws, Kory Staheli, Stephen Elmo Averett
Utah Marriage And Divorce Laws, Kory Staheli, Stephen Elmo Averett
BYU Law Library Publications
A summary of current Utah domestic relations law, updated annually. Selected sample filing documents and links to current legal forms are included in the Appendix.