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The Problem Of Group Defamation, Tom C. Clark
The Problem Of Group Defamation, Tom C. Clark
Cleveland State Law Review
It is my hope that the work of this symposium will contribute much to an understanding of the problems of group libel. But we cannot expect the judicial process to control such utterances. Heads get too hot and evil is too rampant. The final control must await the elimination of the three I's of this evil: Intolerance, Ignorance and Ignobility. They can be destroyed. They are not the inevitable results of increased social intercourse. They are not inherited- they are acquired. They cannot be legislated or decreed into the hearts and minds of men. It is for us- in the …
Hunting Accident Liability, Vincent A. Feudo
Hunting Accident Liability, Vincent A. Feudo
Cleveland State Law Review
Increased interest in hunting for pleasure has led to an increased number of mishaps. Recent statistics show one injury for every 7,800 hunters, with one in every five or six fatal. From early to more recent cases it has generally been held that where one is not negligent in the handling of his weapon he is not liable. But "ordinary care" while hunting means a high degree of care, due to the inherent nature of the sport.
Malpractice In Dental Anesthesiology, Allen L. Perry
Malpractice In Dental Anesthesiology, Allen L. Perry
Cleveland State Law Review
Cases invovlving dental anesthesia reveal that breaches of the duty to use proper skill and care have occurred in selection of the type of anesthetic, method of administration, failure to examine the patient, use of unsterile instruments, failure to use safety devices, and failure to properly care for patients under the influence of anesthesia. Persons practicing dental anesthesiology, like those pracing medicine and surgery, must be duly able and careful. This rule is elementary and is founded on considerations of public policy. Whenever the behavior of a dentist or dental anesthesiologist has been of a nature such that a dereliction …
Group Defamation In The U. S. A., James Jay Brown, Carl L. Stern
Group Defamation In The U. S. A., James Jay Brown, Carl L. Stern
Cleveland State Law Review
The difficulties faced by the group defamation victim are obvious on paper and terrifying in reality. In merely defending his reputation, he is confronted by unprovable issues and, as will be pointed out, is bludgeoned in court by a history of "rational-reasonable" civil and criminal precedents. A brief outline of this paradox is set out here, but the question still remains whether the civil-common law or our legislatures have an answer to this unbelievable legal .
Stare Decisis In The F.E.L.A., Harry G. Fuerst
Stare Decisis In The F.E.L.A., Harry G. Fuerst
Cleveland State Law Review
The general doctrine on stare decisis is that when a court has once laid down a principle of law as applicable to a certain set of facts, it will adhere to that principle and apply it to all future cases, where the facts are substantially the same. Congress on August 11, 1939, amended the Federal Employers Liability Act, and by the sweep of the President's pen the old and archaic defense of assumption of risk was completely eliminated from the Act.
Group Defamation In France, Jean Peytel
Group Defamation In France, Jean Peytel
Cleveland State Law Review
It cannot be said that there is any French legislation which specifically protects citizens of any particular ethnic origin or creed. For instance, there is no law that shelters members of a particular religious faith from group defamation. The absence of legislative texts in this connection is explicable by the tradition rooted in the French psyche, born out of the French Revolution, that frowns upon racial discrimination and religious intolerance.
Syposium Conclusion, Pieter J. Hoets
Syposium Conclusion, Pieter J. Hoets
Cleveland State Law Review
Tort liability, based on modern medical understanding of the very real injury to an individual member of a defamed group, probably is the readiest and best preventive of abuse of the right of free speech until sound legislation is adopted. But we need both criminal and civil law. In the last analysis all legislation deals with morality-legislates morality. The law serves not only to regulate but also to educate, elevate, and dignify. It must deal with group defamation now. We must have law that will protect us from the sick and evil souls who poison our society with hatreds.
Negligent Misrepresentation: Fraud Or Negligence, June W. Wiener
Negligent Misrepresentation: Fraud Or Negligence, June W. Wiener
Cleveland State Law Review
Although there was no remedy for negligent misrepresentation at common law, and English law apparently still provides none, the American courts have all, in one way or another, accepted the thesis that "conscience, fair dealing and the usages of business require" some type of liability. But the nature and limits of that liability have never been clearly defined by the majority of American jurisdictions.
The Fright Peddlers, Thomas H. Kuchel
The Fright Peddlers, Thomas H. Kuchel
Cleveland State Law Review
Senator Kuchel from California authorized the Editors of this Law Review to publish, as his contribution to this Symposium, extracts from his address to Congress as reported in the Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 88th Congress, First Session; Vol. 10g, No. 79; May 28, 1963. This article is, in effect, a brief digest of that address.
Group Defamation In England, David R. Fryer
Group Defamation In England, David R. Fryer
Cleveland State Law Review
This article will attempt to sketch briefly the extent of the remedies in tort and the restraints in criminal law which can be invoked in English law when defamatory matter is written or spoken of a group of persons associated either voluntarily or involuntarily on the basis of race, religion, vocation, political views or in any other way.
Group Defamation In West Germany, Manfred Zuleeg
Group Defamation In West Germany, Manfred Zuleeg
Cleveland State Law Review
In each human society, there are social prejudices against certain groups which suffer a more or less discriminating treatment by the other parts of the population. Sometimes the discrimination becomes aggressive. Group defamation and actions of persecution are the consequences. German scholars agree with American sociologists that social prejudices and discriminations are not connected as cause and effect, but as interdependent factors. The origins of a social prejudice are traced by sociologists to an aggressive attitude because of personal or group conflicts or shortcomings. It is difficult, however, for sociologists to explain why the prejudice is directed against just this …
Defamation Of Corporations, Louis J. Bloomfield
Defamation Of Corporations, Louis J. Bloomfield
Cleveland State Law Review
Since the sixteenth century courts of law have held that an individual may bring an action for damages for libel or slander. When corporations came into their own, occasions arose where the question of a corporation's right to bring suit for libel or slander had to be decided. The first cases centered discussion on whether a corporation could sue on the basis of similarity to a natural person (an individual) or to an artificial person (an entity). While courts long have made a distinction between the artificial and the natural person, the law has been established that, like an individual, …
Defenses To Group Defamation Actions, Richard J. Quigg
Defenses To Group Defamation Actions, Richard J. Quigg
Cleveland State Law Review
The basic defenses applicable to ordinary individual defamation, of truth, privilege (including fair comment), and consent, also apply to group defamation. Most past group defamation cases have held that language including all members of a given group,or positively identifying the plaintiff, must be used. Tort actions have been upheld when small groups are defamed; tort claims are generally disallowed in the defamation of large groups unless the public readily recognizes the defamation as being directed at one individual. A number of "group-hate" statutes have been enacted by various states, making it a criminal offense to defame a class of citizens. …
Group Defamation In The Netherlands, W. H. Bijleveld
Group Defamation In The Netherlands, W. H. Bijleveld
Cleveland State Law Review
In this paper we shall discuss the ways in which Dutch law protects against group defamation.
Test Of Sovereign Immunity For Municipal Corporations, Howard H. Fairweather
Test Of Sovereign Immunity For Municipal Corporations, Howard H. Fairweather
Cleveland State Law Review
In a recent Ohio case, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion that a municipality that voluntarily owns and operates a swimming pool primarily for the benefit of its citizens (who might be interested), does so in the exercise of a proprietary function and is answerable for its negligence. Both the courts and legal writers have long recognized the problem of distinguishing between governmental and proprietary functions. And as it appears that the distinction will be with the courts for at least some time to come, the real problem is to rexamine the tests to see if a workable …
Defense Against Res Ipsa In Medical Malpractice, Howard M. Rossen
Defense Against Res Ipsa In Medical Malpractice, Howard M. Rossen
Cleveland State Law Review
In a res ipsa loquitur case the injured party is deemed in no position to explain the cause, while the party charged may begin a position to show himself free from negligence. If the plaintiff has equal or superior means of information, the doctrine does not apply. The question is really one of duty on the part of the defendant. Res ipsa loquitur leads only to a possible (not mandatory) inference that the defendant has not complied with his duty to use skill and care, and is not in itself proof that he was under a specific duty. This question …
Abuse Of Process, Tobi Goldoftas
Abuse Of Process, Tobi Goldoftas
Cleveland State Law Review
Abuse of process is not the act of starting an unjustified action. Rather it is the misuse or misapplication of process for an end other than that which it was designed to accomplish. In an action for abuse of process, the defendant need not prove that the proceeding terminated in his favor, nor that it was obtained without probable cause or in the course of a proceeding begun without probable cause.
Statute Of Limitations In Malpractice Actions, Ernest A. Cieslinski
Statute Of Limitations In Malpractice Actions, Ernest A. Cieslinski
Cleveland State Law Review
The ill-treated patient has sought redress for medical malpractice by actions that sound in tort, in contract, or in fraud. As with other actions, the underlying policy of "peace and repose" of all statutes of limitations dictates that these actions be timely. In Ohio, for example, the time limit for an action for malpractice is one year.
Change Of Neighborhood In Nuisance Cases, Martin A. Levitin
Change Of Neighborhood In Nuisance Cases, Martin A. Levitin
Cleveland State Law Review
The law of nuisance lies somewhere between the legal principle that each person may use his property as he sees fit, and the contradictory principle that he must so use it as not to injure the property or rights of his neighbors. With the growth of our nation, and its changing balance between rural and urban populations, the established principles of tort law as applied to nuisances evidence the "elastic adaptability" of the common law.
Governmental Immunity Of County Hospitals, Alice K. Henry
Governmental Immunity Of County Hospitals, Alice K. Henry
Cleveland State Law Review
The weight of authority holds that ownership and maintenance of a county hospital is a governmental function, even though the hospital is maintained for profit, and the county charges for treatment.