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Privileged Communications--Some Recent Developments, Lloyd S. Adams Jr., Mary E. Polk
Privileged Communications--Some Recent Developments, Lloyd S. Adams Jr., Mary E. Polk
Vanderbilt Law Review
It is the purpose of this Note to collect and discuss some of the newer decisions construing and applying the rules of evidence as to certain privileged communications, with a view toward indicating possible trends and developments or limitations, if any, in this field of the law of evidence. It is limited primarily to communications between husband and wife, attorney and client, physician and patient, and priest and penitent, with a short discussion of the so-called "novel privileges." The assumption is made that the reader is familiar with generally accepted definitions of the various privileges, as well as traditional limitations.' …
Federal Civil Procedure Rule 43(A): A Freak Among The Rules, Thomas F. Green Jr.
Federal Civil Procedure Rule 43(A): A Freak Among The Rules, Thomas F. Green Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
Rule 43(a) is an anomaly in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.'Attorney General Cummings, the chief sponsor of the enabling act, apparently did not contemplate the inclusion of any rule dealing with the admissibility of evidence. The American Bar Association, which sponsored similar bills before Congress for years, laid much of the groundwork but abandoned the project prior to successful completion. A report of the Association's committee charged with the duty of "pushing" the then current version of the bill stated that the court rules were not to deal with evidence. The broadest expression in the bill which was enacted …