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Book Review, Henry P. Coppolillo

Vanderbilt Law Review

We often are startled when someone presents us with a new awareness of the significance of issues or phenomena at which we have been looking for years but have never really seen. Freda Adler will startle a number of people who read her book Sisters in Crime. She will also anger them. The only thing her book will not do is leave people unmoved. Sisters in Crime provides punch, provocation, revelation, promise, and explanation, as the author uses the central theme of the change in the rate and nature of crimes committed by women to explore women's roles and fortunes …

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

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Civil Rights--Civil Rights Act of 1871--"Under Color of Law" Defined

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Conflict of Laws--Characterization--Amount of Damages in Wrongful Death Action Held to be Procedural and thus Controlled by Law of the Forum

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Criminal Law-Insanity--Third Circuit Adopts A New Test for Criminal Responsibility

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Criminal Law--Smith Act--Membership Clause Requiring Active Membership in Communist Party and Specific Intent To Use Violence Held Not To Violate the First or Fifth Amendments

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Criminal Procedure--Evidence-States May Not Constitutionally Use Evidence Obtained by Illegal Search and Seizure in Criminal Cases

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Evidence--Hearsay--Old Newspaper Article Admitted as Evidence of Facts Contained on Grounds of Necessity …