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How Can A Product Be Liable?, Anita Bernstein Oct 1995

How Can A Product Be Liable?, Anita Bernstein

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Liberating Commercial Speech: Product Labeling Controls And The First Amendment, Lars Noah, Barbara A. Noah Jan 1995

Liberating Commercial Speech: Product Labeling Controls And The First Amendment, Lars Noah, Barbara A. Noah

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As federal regulators impose increasing limits on what manufacturers may say about their products, constitutional protections for commercial speech become ever more important. Indeed, the United States Supreme Court's most recent First Amendment decisions suggest meaningful regard for the value of advertising and labeling as types of protected expression. At the same time, however, federal lawmakers are imposing ever more onerous restrictions on promotional activities and product labeling. The Authors discuss federal law relating to regulation of product labeling.


Greater Representation For California Consumers–Fluid Recovery, Consumer Trust Funds, And Representative Actions, James R. Mccall, Patricia Sturdevant, Laura Kaplan, Gail Hillebrand Jan 1995

Greater Representation For California Consumers–Fluid Recovery, Consumer Trust Funds, And Representative Actions, James R. Mccall, Patricia Sturdevant, Laura Kaplan, Gail Hillebrand

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Is Unlimited Liability Really Unattainable: Of Long Arms And Short Sales, Mark R. Patterson Jan 1995

Is Unlimited Liability Really Unattainable: Of Long Arms And Short Sales, Mark R. Patterson

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Unlimited shareholder liability would radically change the way we look at corporations. In an unlimited-liability world, one part at least of the veil between corporation and shareholder would no longer exist. As a result, the relationship between corporation and shareholder would be, both in law and in fact,much closer than it is currently. The two parts of this change-the legal and the factual-would reinforce each other. The legal change would be reflected in court decisions enforcing unlimited liability Regardless of the exact contours that decisions in this area took initially, there would be at least some shareholders-mutual funds, for example--whom …


Is The Shingle Theory Dead?, Roberta S. Karmel Jan 1995

Is The Shingle Theory Dead?, Roberta S. Karmel

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