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Current Trends In The Business Of The Federal District Courts, Will Shafroth
Current Trends In The Business Of The Federal District Courts, Will Shafroth
Vanderbilt Law Review
Congestion in the dockets of many United States district courts in metropolitan centers has called attention to the effects on the judicial business of the great economic development of the past few years, a growth which far exceeds in extent that in any period of equal duration in our history. In the short space of thirteen years from 1940 to 1952 the market value of the output of goods and services produced by the nation's economy increased from 101 billions to 346 billions. Part of this phenomenal rise was due to a 90 percent increase in the cost of living, …
Dalehite V. United States: A New Approach To The Federal Tort Claims Act?, Massillon M. Heuser
Dalehite V. United States: A New Approach To The Federal Tort Claims Act?, Massillon M. Heuser
Vanderbilt Law Review
The decision for the United States in "Dalehite v. United States,"'though by a closely divided Supreme Court, possibly indicates a turning point in litigation involving the construction of the Federal Tort Claims Act. The trend theretofore had been to expand the concept of suability and liability expressed in the Act. In "United States v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Co." the Court had established the right of an insurer-subrogee to sue in its own name on a portion of a claim arising in favor of the insured-subrogor, despite the Anti-Assignment Statute and the obvious procedural and administrative difficulties not dealt with …