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Severance -- A Means Of Minimizing The Role Of Burden And Expense In Determining The Outcome Of Litigation, Warren F. Schwartz Nov 1967

Severance -- A Means Of Minimizing The Role Of Burden And Expense In Determining The Outcome Of Litigation, Warren F. Schwartz

Vanderbilt Law Review

This article is divided into two main parts. First, it is assumed that the controlling question is how severance affects the likely outcome of litigation by altering the normal incidence of expense and burden. Then the article examines the question of whether there are overriding considerations (particularly the need for "tempering" by reference to the entire controversy) which require that severance be withheld even if dictated by considerations of economy.


How To Try A Personal Injury Case, James Dooley Jan 1966

How To Try A Personal Injury Case, James Dooley

Cleveland State Law Review

Proper presentation of a case in court is dependent upon proper preparation. Proper presentation means an intimate knowledge of the facts, the parties, possible witnesses, and, o fcourse, the governing legal principles. Indeed, proper preparation means far more than knowledge. It embraces true compre-hension. Before an advocate can present his client's cause or meet his adversary on equal terms, he himself must completely understand the problem. Clear expression of an idea is impossible without a clear understanding of it.


The Contingent Fee Contract In Massachusetts, Kenneth B. Hughes Jan 1963

The Contingent Fee Contract In Massachusetts, Kenneth B. Hughes

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


A Lecture On Appellate Advocacy, Karl N. Llewellyn Jan 1962

A Lecture On Appellate Advocacy, Karl N. Llewellyn

Addison Harris Lecture

No abstract provided.


The Theory Of Criminal Discovery And The Practice Of Criminal Law, David W. Louisell Jun 1961

The Theory Of Criminal Discovery And The Practice Of Criminal Law, David W. Louisell

Vanderbilt Law Review

To crystallize in a few words the motif of a career as varied and comprehensive as that of Eddie Morgan would in any event be difficult, but it is doubly so for a life devoted, as his has been, to stuff as vital and dynamic as procedure and evidence. For me, his work most fundamentally is to be characterized as a quest for greater rationality in the adjudicative process. Whether one thinks of his analysis of the hearsay rule,' or his rationale of the admissions exception to it, or his treatment of the dead man's statute, or his study of …


Modern Techniques In The Preparation And Trial Of A Medical Malpractice Suit, Fitz-Gerald Ames Sr Jun 1959

Modern Techniques In The Preparation And Trial Of A Medical Malpractice Suit, Fitz-Gerald Ames Sr

Vanderbilt Law Review

Though it is true that in malpractice suits more than in any other type of litigation, the plaintiff must have a strong case on the merits, it is equally important and almost a necessity in most malpractice cases that patient's counsel carefully and thoroughly condition the jurors' minds from the very outset to a psychological acceptance of this type of litigation. Far too many veniremen, before they have been selected as trial jurors in a malpractice suit, have the attitude that (1) a "malpractice" suit connotes conduct either criminal, quasi-criminal or unethical on the part of the doctor or hospital; …


Accident Claim Settlement - A Proposal To Eliminate Unnecesasry Delay, James P. Mcgeein Oct 1957

Accident Claim Settlement - A Proposal To Eliminate Unnecesasry Delay, James P. Mcgeein

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Some Problems Of Proof Under The Anglo-American System Of Litigation, C. E. Goodwin Jun 1957

Some Problems Of Proof Under The Anglo-American System Of Litigation, C. E. Goodwin

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rules Of Evidence -- Substantive Or Procedural?, Edmund M. Morgan Apr 1957

Rules Of Evidence -- Substantive Or Procedural?, Edmund M. Morgan

Vanderbilt Law Review

It hardly needs stating that the definition of a legal word or term depends upon the purpose for which it is to be defined. If in framing a generalization designed to state a rule or make a discrimination applicable in a specific topic or field of the law, the courts use specified terms, it by no means follows that they intend those terms to be understood in the same sense in generalizations dealing with problems in another topic or field. The words, substance or substantive and procedure or procedural, have been used most frequently in three separate situations: (1) in …


Insurance -- 1955 Tennessee Survey, Robert W. Sturdivant Aug 1955

Insurance -- 1955 Tennessee Survey, Robert W. Sturdivant

Vanderbilt Law Review

If a period of three years be sufficient time to detect any trend in the field of insurance litigation, there is reflected a decrease in the number of cases reaching our appellate courts having to do with automobile liability insurance and an increase in the number of cases having to do with health and accident policies--the latter probably being the result of the extension of group insurance. In the past year there were only two reported decisions in the state courts and one in the federal court sitting in Tennessee involving automobile liability policies. During the present Survey period, there …


Current Trends In The Business Of The Federal District Courts, Will Shafroth Jun 1954

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 Feb 1954

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 …


Insurance, Robert W. Sturdivant Aug 1953

Insurance, Robert W. Sturdivant

Vanderbilt Law Review

One of the most significant decisions during the past year in the field of liability insurance was that of the Court of Appeals in the case of Southern Fire & Casualty Co. v. Norris.' The case involved the duty of a liability insurer toward the insured in the settlement of claims. As early as 1928, the Supreme Court of Tennessee held that the insurer has an obligation toward the insured to use good faith in the conduct of litigation and in the settlement of claims when the insurer assumes control of a case under the provisions of its policy.


Duty Of Liability Insurer To Compromise Litigation, John A. Appleman Jan 1938

Duty Of Liability Insurer To Compromise Litigation, John A. Appleman

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Legislative Loss Distribution In Negligence Actions By C. O. Gregory, Fowler V. Harper Jan 1937

Book Review. Legislative Loss Distribution In Negligence Actions By C. O. Gregory, Fowler V. Harper

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.