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Some Recent Developments In The Substantive Law Of Workmen's Compensation, Wex S. Malone

Vanderbilt Law Review

After setting out the factors which make for change in the compensation structure, the author goes on to discuss three problem areas in which that change is clearly visible: distinguishing between employees and independent contractors, determining tho rights of a borrowed employee, and deciding whether an accident arose out of the employment. He concludes that the law of workmen's compensation is developing in consonance with the social philosophy which underlies it.

Torts -- 1962 Tennessee Survey, Dix W. Noel

Vanderbilt Law Review

Most of the tort cases during the survey period do not involve any significant changes in the law. Mindful of the necessity of stability and predictability, and of a tradition of even-handed continuity, our courts have been naturally hesitant to upset established rules. However, in a few areas (injuries to unborn children, application of the immunity doctrine to a minor whose disability is removed, scope of liability for negligent misrepresentation) the courts have been faced with new problems and changed conditions. In these areas the decisions frankly accept responsibility for some development of legal doctrine to keep it responsive to …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Administration of Justice-Federal Rules of Civil Procedure--District Court Has No Power To Penalize Counsel for Delay Which Violates Standing Orders of Court

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Carriers--Routes-Action for Reparation Available Under Motor Carrier Act for Unreasonable Routing Defendant motor carrier transported shipments for plaintiff shipper

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Constitutional Law--Full Faith and Credit--Collateral Attack on Errors of Court of Prior Forum

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Restraint of Trade--Labor Law-Where Defendants Stipulated They Were Independent Contractors and Joined Union To Fix Prices, Having No Other Legitimate Union Interest, Membership May Be Terminated Under Sherman Act

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Domestic Relations--Annulment--Female Impotence Is Made Curable by the Surgical Creation of a Functional …

Liability Of Unincorporated Association For Tortious Injury To A Member, Judson A. Crane

Vanderbilt Law Review

Whether a partnership should be treated as a legal entity has been discussed in connection with the drafting of the Uniform Partnership Act' and its interpretation. It seems that the act is in some respects consistent with the entity theory, particularly in the creation of "tenure in partnership" of the joint property. As to liability of the partnership for tortious injury of a member by the partners or partnership employees, it seems clearly to have adopted the non-entity or aggregate approach. Section 13 provides that the partnership is liable for loss or injury by wrongful act or omission caused --to …