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Tort Claims Against Churches And Ecclesiastical Officers: The First Amendment Considerations, Carl H. Esbeck Sep 1986

Tort Claims Against Churches And Ecclesiastical Officers: The First Amendment Considerations, Carl H. Esbeck

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Liability Of A Public Officer For Nonfeasance Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Sep 1986

Liability Of A Public Officer For Nonfeasance Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Keepers Of The Flame: Prosser And Keeton On The Law Of Torts, Craig Joyce Apr 1986

Keepers Of The Flame: Prosser And Keeton On The Law Of Torts, Craig Joyce

Vanderbilt Law Review

Rarely in the history of American legal education has one author's name been so clearly identified with his subject as the name of William L. Prosser is with the law of torts. Even today, fourteen years after his death in 1972, "Prosser on Torts" remains in the minds of students, teachers, the bench, and the bar alike a single thought, its parts indistinguishable one from the other. Indeed, the passage of time has done nothing to diminish the influence of the man on the subject. His articles remain landmarks in the development both of the literature of torts and of …


Torts - Defamation - Public Figure Doctrine Will Be Used Expansively To Protect Media, Mark J. Foley Jan 1986

Torts - Defamation - Public Figure Doctrine Will Be Used Expansively To Protect Media, Mark J. Foley

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


United States-Based Multinational Corporations Should Be Tried In The United States For Their Extraterritorial Toxic Torts, Dianna B. Shew Jan 1986

United States-Based Multinational Corporations Should Be Tried In The United States For Their Extraterritorial Toxic Torts, Dianna B. Shew

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

When a foreign plaintiff sues a United States-based multinational for damages resulting from an extraterritorial toxic tort, the case should be tried in United States courts. The courts are assured of personal jurisdiction as long as there are sufficient contacts between the foreign subsidiary and the United States. Dismissal on grounds of forum non conveniens is not desirable because the United States has a vested interest in monitoring and even influencing the behavior of multinationals that do business within its borders. The requisite "adequate alternative forum" is simply not available in some countries. In addition, despite their case backload, United …


Automatic Teller Machine Robberies: Theories Of Liability, Joan Miles Jan 1986

Automatic Teller Machine Robberies: Theories Of Liability, Joan Miles

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This student note examines theories of liability arising from robberies and assaults at ATMs (automated teller machines). The author draws from tort law the principles of landowner liability for intentional, criminal acts of third parties that arise because of a landowner's failure to protect his or her tenants or customers. The author also examines recent legislation, the EFTA (electronic funds transfer act) to see if ATM robberies can be successfully categorized as 'unauthorized transfers' from banks. The author describes possible defenses for the banks based on the location and type of ATM that is robbed, and finally concludes that because …


Torts, Jill L. Miles Jan 1986

Torts, Jill L. Miles

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.