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Full-Text Articles in Law
Unattainable Justice: The Form Of Complex Litigation And The Limits Of Judicial Power, Jay Tidmarsh
Unattainable Justice: The Form Of Complex Litigation And The Limits Of Judicial Power, Jay Tidmarsh
Jay Tidmarsh
No abstract provided.
Character, Liberalism, And The Protean Culture Of Evidence Law, Daniel D. Blinka
Character, Liberalism, And The Protean Culture Of Evidence Law, Daniel D. Blinka
Seattle University Law Review
It is time to rethink character evidence. Long notorious as the most frequently litigated evidence issue, character doctrine plagues courts, trial lawyers, and law students with its infamously “grotesque” array of nonsensical rules, whimsical distinctions, and arcane procedures. Character is a calculation of social worth and value; it is the sum total of what others think of us, whether expressed as their own opinion or the collective opinions of many (reputation). Once we grasp that character is a social construct, we are in a better position to address some of the problems that plague evidence law. To provide needed clarity …
Breathe Deeply: The Tort Of Smokers' Battery, Irene Scharf
Breathe Deeply: The Tort Of Smokers' Battery, Irene Scharf
Irene Scharf
This Article explores the long and faltering history of attempts to impose liability on tobacco product manufactures. Part II traces the manufacturers' historical and current actions of targeting youth through both promotions and deceptive advertising. Part III argues in favor of an expanded cause of action against the manufacturers for the intentional tort of battery. Part IV discusses the prospect of awards of punitive damages in these cases, and the Epilogue summarizes other advantages of the battery cause of action.
Solving The Nuisance-Value Settlement Problem: Manadatory Summary Judgment, David Rosenberg, Randy J. Kozel
Solving The Nuisance-Value Settlement Problem: Manadatory Summary Judgment, David Rosenberg, Randy J. Kozel
Randy J Kozel
The nuisance-value settlement problem arises whenever a litigant can profitably initiate a meritless claim or defense and offer to settle it for less than it would cost the opposing litigant to have a court dismiss the claim or defense on a standard motion for merits review like summary judgment. The opposing litigant confronted with such a nuisance-value claim or defense rationally would agree to settle for any amount up to the cost of litigating to have it dismissed. These settlement payoffs skew litigation outcomes away from socially appropriate levels, undermining the deterrence and compensation objectives of civil liability. Yet current …
The Constitutional Dilemma Of Litigation Under The Independent Counsel System, William K. Kelley
The Constitutional Dilemma Of Litigation Under The Independent Counsel System, William K. Kelley
William K. Kelley
No abstract provided.
How Much Is That Lawsuit In The Window; Pricing Legal Claims, Maya Steinitz
How Much Is That Lawsuit In The Window; Pricing Legal Claims, Maya Steinitz
Faculty Scholarship
This article poses the question: How should parties to litigation finance agreements – third party funding or contingency fees – deal with the inherent difficulty in pricing legal claims? It answers that a practical solution would be to use staged funding. Staged funding side-step the impossibility of accurately pricing litigation ex ante by allowing re-pricing and exit that are pegged to information disclosure. Done right, staging allows all parties to minimize the effects of uncertainty, better price their bargain, optimize the distribution of the proceeds of litigation between its different investors – far beyond practices common today. Staged funding also …
New Opportunities For Obtaining And Using Litigation Reserves And Disclosures, Matthew J. Barrett
New Opportunities For Obtaining And Using Litigation Reserves And Disclosures, Matthew J. Barrett
Matthew J. Barrett
Following the publication of Opportunities for Obtaining and Using Litigation Reserves and Disclosures, which highlighted the helpful information about litigation reserves that a litigator can often detect or discover from an opponent's financial statements, accounting books and records, tax returns, public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), and auditor, two important regulatory developments occurred in early 2003 that create additional opportunities to obtain information about an opponent's assessments of (i) expected liability in the underlying case or (ii) obligations or settlements in similar cases. First, pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the SEC issued final regulations …
Opportunities For Obtaining And Using Litigation Reserves And Disclosures, Matthew J. Barrett
Opportunities For Obtaining And Using Litigation Reserves And Disclosures, Matthew J. Barrett
Matthew J. Barrett
In late 1975, the accounting and legal professions reached an accord that led to three new professional standards: (1) a new financial accounting rule for contingencies, (2) an auditing standard addressing the requirement that an auditor obtain evidence about an audit client's contingent liabilities to determine whether the client has properly treated those items in its financial statements, and (3) the American Bar Association's Statement of Policy Regarding Lawyers' Responses to Auditors' Requests for Information under that auditing standard. The Commentary that accompanied the Statement of Policy explicitly stated that the organized bar's expectation that communications between lawyers and auditors …
Sealing Records, Curtis E.A. Karnow
Sealing Records, Curtis E.A. Karnow
Curtis E.A. Karnow
Practical tips on sealing records in California state courts
On Monday's Argument In Al-Bahlul, Peter Margulies
On Monday's Argument In Al-Bahlul, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Risk Regulation In Perspective: Reserve Mining Revisited, Daniel A. Farber
Risk Regulation In Perspective: Reserve Mining Revisited, Daniel A. Farber
Daniel A Farber
The Reserve Mining v. EPA case involved the disposal of iron ore mine tailings containing asbestos in Lake Superior over an extended period. The case litigation is described, and the decision forcing the Reserve Mining Co to spend over $200 million to eliminate asbestos from the drinking water of Duluth, MN, is assessed in light of uncertain risk assessment. It is concluded that the court decision was the prudent one on the basis of both cost/benefit and feasibility analysis. Cost/benefit analysis focuses on the possible number of lives saved vs. the total cost of control, while feasibility analysis stresses factors …
The Calculation Of Prejudgment Interest, Michael S. Knoll, Jeffrey M. Colon
The Calculation Of Prejudgment Interest, Michael S. Knoll, Jeffrey M. Colon
Jeffrey M. Colon
This Essay describes the proper method of calculating prejudgment interest based on sound financial principles. Using the paradigm that the claim plaintiff holds in litigation represents an involuntary loan from plaintiff to defendant and recognizing that in bankruptcy courts treat legal claims similarly to unsecured debt, we argue that prejudgment interest should be computed using the defendant's unsecured borrowing rate. Furthermore, we argue that courts should use a short-term, floating interest rate rather than a long-term rate in order to provide the proper incentive for the parties to settle. We criticize alternative bases for awarding prejudgment interest and address modifications …
I'Ll Huff And I'Ll Puff - But Then You'll Blow My Case Away: Dealing With Dismissed And Bad-Faith Defendants Under California's Anti-Slapp Statute, Jeremiah Ho
Jeremiah A. Ho
This Article will demonstrate that, despite efforts to recognize SLAPPs and to safeguard our legal process from abuses, SLAPP suits and their underlying interference with the legitimate exercise of the right to petition can often engender new ways of creeping back onto the legal stage to wreak havoc on the private citizen - that the devious, shape-shifting Big Bad Wolf of First Amendment rights can return to reprise its role as the subversive villain and to trot unsuspecting litigants out to slaughter. After an introduction into the general world of SLAPPs and the specific history behind California's section 425.16, this …
The Fixable Flaws Of America's Civil Justice System, James Maxeiner
The Fixable Flaws Of America's Civil Justice System, James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Administrative Law Judges Under Fire: Association Of Administrative Law Judges, Inc. V. Heckler, David J. Agatstein
Administrative Law Judges Under Fire: Association Of Administrative Law Judges, Inc. V. Heckler, David J. Agatstein
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Agency Inaction, Abner J. Mikva
Agency Inaction, Abner J. Mikva
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Preclusive Effect Of Administrative Decisions In Wrongful Dismissal Suits, Henry H. Perritt Jr.
Preclusive Effect Of Administrative Decisions In Wrongful Dismissal Suits, Henry H. Perritt Jr.
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
This article considers the interaction between administrative agency decisions and wrongful dismissal lawsuits under the res judicata doctrine.
Impeachment In Administrative Cases, Calvin William Sharpe
Impeachment In Administrative Cases, Calvin William Sharpe
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Redeeming A Lost Generation: "The Year Of Law School Litigation" And The Future Of The Law School Transparency Movement, Andrew S. Murphy
Redeeming A Lost Generation: "The Year Of Law School Litigation" And The Future Of The Law School Transparency Movement, Andrew S. Murphy
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Aviation Litigation: Federal Preemption And The Creation Of A Federal Remedy As A Means To Extinguish The Current Confusion In The Courts, Deborah J. Olsen
Aviation Litigation: Federal Preemption And The Creation Of A Federal Remedy As A Means To Extinguish The Current Confusion In The Courts, Deborah J. Olsen
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Timeless Trial Strategies And Tactics: Lessons From The Classic Claus Von Bülow Case, Daniel M. Braun
Timeless Trial Strategies And Tactics: Lessons From The Classic Claus Von Bülow Case, Daniel M. Braun
Daniel M Braun
In this new Millennium -- an era of increasingly complex cases -- it is critical that lawyers keep a keen eye on trial strategy and tactics. Although scientific evidence today is more sophisticated than ever, the art of effectively engaging people and personalities remains prime. Scientific data must be contextualized and presented in absorbable ways, and attorneys need to ensure not only that they correctly understand jurors, judges, witnesses, and accused persons, but also that they find the means to make their arguments truly resonate if they are to formulate an effective case and ultimately realize justice. A decades-old case …
Recent Developments In Alternative Dispute Resolution , Lee R. Petillon
Recent Developments In Alternative Dispute Resolution , Lee R. Petillon
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Reasoning Per Se And Horizontal Price Fixing: An Emerging Trend In Antitrust Litigation?, Joseph W. Defuria Jr.
Reasoning Per Se And Horizontal Price Fixing: An Emerging Trend In Antitrust Litigation?, Joseph W. Defuria Jr.
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Mandatory Summary Jury Trial In Federal Court: Foundationally Flawed, Nina Jill Spiegel
The Mandatory Summary Jury Trial In Federal Court: Foundationally Flawed, Nina Jill Spiegel
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Rule 408: Maintaining The Sheild For Negotiation In Federal And Bankruptcy Courts, Leslie T. Gladstone
Rule 408: Maintaining The Sheild For Negotiation In Federal And Bankruptcy Courts, Leslie T. Gladstone
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Implications Of Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes For Decisionmaking In Administrative Disputes, Wallace Warfield
The Implications Of Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes For Decisionmaking In Administrative Disputes, Wallace Warfield
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Using Court-Annexed Arbitration To Reduce Litigant Costs And To Increase The Pace Of Litigation, John L. Barkai, Gene Kassebaum
Using Court-Annexed Arbitration To Reduce Litigant Costs And To Increase The Pace Of Litigation, John L. Barkai, Gene Kassebaum
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mediation - A Preferred Method Of Dispute Resolution, Kenneth R. Feinberg
Mediation - A Preferred Method Of Dispute Resolution, Kenneth R. Feinberg
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Unwed Father's Custody Claim In California: When Does The Parental Preference Doctrine Apply?, Jeffrey S. Boyd
The Unwed Father's Custody Claim In California: When Does The Parental Preference Doctrine Apply?, Jeffrey S. Boyd
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Response To "One Year After Dondi: Time To Get Back To Litigating?", Thomas M. Reavley
Response To "One Year After Dondi: Time To Get Back To Litigating?", Thomas M. Reavley
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.