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Full-Text Articles in Law
Unrules, Gabriel Scheffler, Cary Coglianese, Daniel E. Walters
Unrules, Gabriel Scheffler, Cary Coglianese, Daniel E. Walters
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At the center of contemporary debates over public law lies administrative agencies' discretion to impose rules. Yet for every one of these rules, there are also unrules nearby. Often overlooked and sometimes barely visible, unrules are the decisions that regulators make to lift or limit the scope of a regulatory obligation through, for instance, waivers, exemptions, or exceptions. In some cases, unrules enable regulators to reduce burdens on regulated entities or to conserve valuable government resources in ways that make law more efficient. However, too much discretion to create unrules can facilitate undue business influence over the law, weaken regulatory …
Confidentiality In The Courts: Privacy Protection Or Prior Restraint?, Sergio J. Campos
Confidentiality In The Courts: Privacy Protection Or Prior Restraint?, Sergio J. Campos
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In civil litigation courts often deal with information that is subject to a previously imposed restraint on the ability of a court or others to use the information. Such “evidentiary prior restraints” arise most prominently in settlement agreements, which may include nondisclosure provisions that prevent information concerning the settlement from being used by parties to the agreement. But evidentiary prior restraints can also arise from prior court action, as when parties seek information subject to a protective order or sealing order made by a different court. Although evidentiary prior restraints have received great attention given recent controversies concerning sexual harassment, …
The Commonality Of Causation, Sergio J. Campos
The Commonality Of Causation, Sergio J. Campos
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This essay, a version of which was given as the inaugural Goldman Endowed Lecture at Ohio Northern University School ofLaw, discusses the treatment of causation in class actions, multidistrict litigation, and similar collective litigation. Causation is a ubiquitous element of civil claims, and typically it is treated as an individual element of a claim because it is dependent on the circumstances of each individual claimant. Even if the conduct at issue in litigation is "common, " or the same, for a group of claimants, whether that conduct caused harm to a specific claimant will depend on the unique circumstances of …
The Uncertain Path Of Class Action Law, Sergio J. Campos
The Uncertain Path Of Class Action Law, Sergio J. Campos
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For the past ten terms the Supreme Court has increased its focus on the law of class actions. In doing so, the Court has revised the law to better accord with a view of the class action as an exception to an idealized picture of litigation. This "exceptional" view of the class action has had a profound impact not only on class action law, but on procedural and substantive law in general. However, in the October 2015 term the Court decided three class action cases that support an alternative, 'functional" view of the class action, one that does not view …
Discovery Disclosure And Deterrence, Sergio J. Campos, Cheng Li
Discovery Disclosure And Deterrence, Sergio J. Campos, Cheng Li
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Courts, practitioners, and scholars have recently expressed concern over the ex post costs of discovery in civil litigation. In this Article, we develop a game theoretic model of litigant behavior to study an overlooked phenomenon-the ex ante effects of discovery on a defendant's incentive to engage in unlawful conduct. We focus on motions to seal, which limit the disclosure of discovered information to the public, but permit disclosure to the court and parties. Specifically, we examine the effect different rules regarding such motions have in deterring defendants from engaging in unlawful behavior. We show that as a rule becomes more …
Changing Course, Sergio J. Campos
The Class Action As Trust, Sergio J. Campos
Class Actions And Justiciability, Sergio J. Campos
Class Actions And Justiciability, Sergio J. Campos
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A lingering issue in class action law concerns the case or controversy requirement of Article III, otherwise known as the requirement of justiciability. For purposes of justiciability doctrines such as standing, mootness, and ripeness, is the class action brought by all class members, some class members, or just the class representative?
This Article argues that the answer should be none of the above-it should be the class attorney. This Article first shows that the function of the class action is to assign dispositive control of, and a partial beneficial interest in, the class members' claims to the class attorney. Put …
Class Actions All The Way Down, Sergio J. Campos
Erie As A Choice Of Enforcement Defaults, Sergio J. Campos
Erie As A Choice Of Enforcement Defaults, Sergio J. Campos
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The Erie doctrine governs, among other things, when a federal court sitting in diversity jurisdiction may use a federal procedure that differs from the procedure a state court would use. Displacing the state procedure with the federal procedure (or not) may impact the substantive objectives of either state or federal law, but the current Erie doctrine provides little guidance. This Article argues that the Erie doctrine is best understood as governing a choice of enforcement defaults. As argued below, the primary function of civil liability is to protect a substantive entitlement to avoid the legal violation, either directly through specific …
Proof Of Classwide Injury, Sergio J. Campos
Mass Torts And Due Process, Sergio J. Campos
Taking The Business Out Of Work Product, Michele M. Destefano Beardslee
Taking The Business Out Of Work Product, Michele M. Destefano Beardslee
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Over the past fifteen years, a common set of questions has surfaced in different areas of scholarship about the breadth of the corporate attorney's role: Should the corporate attorney provide business advice when providing legal advice? Should the corporate attorney provide counsel related to other disciplines such as public relations, social responsibility, morals, accounting, and/or investment banking? Should the corporate attorney prevent corporate wrongdoing? Questions like these resound in the scholarship addressing the risks and benefits of multi-disciplinary partnerships, gatekeeping, moral counseling, ancillary services, and the application of the attorney-client privilege. When looked at in combination, these segregated discussions equate …
Reforming The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Misguided Approach To Real-Offense Sentencing, David Yellen
Reforming The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Misguided Approach To Real-Offense Sentencing, David Yellen
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Just Deserts And Lenient Prosecutors: The Flawed Case For Real--Offense Sentencing, David Yellen
Just Deserts And Lenient Prosecutors: The Flawed Case For Real--Offense Sentencing, David Yellen
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Empirical Studies In Civil Procedure: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Michael G. Chiorazzi, Barbara A. Baccari, Karen R. Cashion, Christopher R. Hart, Donald M. Nielsen, Charles M. North, William T. O'Neil
Empirical Studies In Civil Procedure: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Michael G. Chiorazzi, Barbara A. Baccari, Karen R. Cashion, Christopher R. Hart, Donald M. Nielsen, Charles M. North, William T. O'Neil
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