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Recent Burn Damage Awards, Frederick F. Waugh
Recent Burn Damage Awards, Frederick F. Waugh
Cleveland State Law Review
In ascertaining damages for thermal injuries, the usual elements present in other types of personal injuries must be considered, such as loss of wages, medical expenses, pain and suffering, loss of future earnings, loss of consortium, etc. Presentation of the evidence to the jury is a paramount factor, which can make every difference in the award granted. Photographs, expert testimony, and the display of the evidence on the victim's body, such as scars, discolorations, lesions and physical impairment, can be used in a dramatic manner.
Malpractice Used As A Hospital Defense, Carl H. Miller
Malpractice Used As A Hospital Defense, Carl H. Miller
Cleveland State Law Review
Hospital immunity in negligence and other torts of agents and employees is disappearing steadily. The course of decisions in many states has been consistently in the direction of elimination of "charitable" immunity of hospitals. Seeking another line of defense, hospital administrators have re-examined the parties generally involved in a medical negligence action-patient, physician and hospital. Hospital administrators realized quickly that in order to remain free from general negligence liability, the main onus of tort responsibility would have to be shifted to the physician (or even the nurse) whenever and wherever possible.
Clergymen's Interference With Private Rights, Robert B. Dunsmore
Clergymen's Interference With Private Rights, Robert B. Dunsmore
Cleveland State Law Review
If a clergyman is to be granted complete immunity to say whatever he believes, or to take any action which he believes best for his church or his congregation, then eventually either our concept of separation of church and state will be destroyed or else by the very weight of the immunities and the inequities resulting therefrom the qualified privilege of the clergyman will be destroyed. The real question is not whether such a privilege exists or should exist, but at what point does the interference with the rights of the individual become so great as to be actionable. This …
Recent Hearing Damage Awards, Denis M. Burgoon
Recent Hearing Damage Awards, Denis M. Burgoon
Cleveland State Law Review
Acoustic trauma and direct injury to the mechanism of hearing are the compensable personal injuries delineated here. As hearing loss has, in all but a few cases, been a minor part of the injury sustained, it is not possible to determine the value of loss of hearing alone. It would appear that partial loss of hearing, either permanent or temporary, is not considered very disabling. $56,000 seems to be the highest award for total loss of hearing with no other injury reported, while $3,500 is the lowest award found for partial loss of hearing. As the cases generally involve various …
Book Review, Milton Oppenheim
Book Review, Milton Oppenheim
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing David W. Louisell and Harold Williams, Trial of Medical Malpractice Cases, Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., 1960
Selecting A Jury In Civil Trials, Forrest A. Norman
Selecting A Jury In Civil Trials, Forrest A. Norman
Cleveland State Law Review
It is probably no exaggeration to state that many cases are won or lost on the jury selection. Every lawyer is familiar with cases that were tried through to a jury verdict and following a motion or appeal, were retried to a different jury, with opposite results being reached. In many of these cases the witnesses, the testimony, and all of the facts remain the same-the only difference being in the jury and the result. Thus, the importance of the jury selection cannot be overestimated.
Refusal Of Surgery In Mitigation Of Damages, Eileen Kelley
Refusal Of Surgery In Mitigation Of Damages, Eileen Kelley
Cleveland State Law Review
Generally where one has been injured by another's wrongful conduct he is required to exercise ordinary care and reasonable prudence to seek medical treatment so as to minimize the defendant's damages. Failure to do so may diminish the amount of damages the injured person may recover. This is a fundamental principle of the law of damages, and not of tort.
Death Damages And Conflicts Of Laws, Marvin D. Silver
Death Damages And Conflicts Of Laws, Marvin D. Silver
Cleveland State Law Review
Since the adoption of the Fatal Accidents Act of 1846 in the United Kingdom, each of the fifty United States has created by statute a similar right of action which pertains to the survivors or to the estate of the decedent whose death resulted from the wrongful acts of another. During recent years, fourteen states have incorporated within their wrongful death statutes a maximum limitation on the amount of damages recoverable. These restrictions consistently trouble the courts when a wrongful death occurs in one of these limiting states and the suit is brought elsewhere. However, the courts have, with a …
Book Review, William K. Gardner
Book Review, William K. Gardner
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing Reed Rowley, Rowley on Partnership, 2d Ed., Bobbs-Merrill Co., 2 vol., 1960
Recent Ohio Procedure Changes, Lee E. Skeel
Recent Ohio Procedure Changes, Lee E. Skeel
Cleveland State Law Review
It might be well to begin by giving consideration to the recent cases dealing with appellate procedure, before considering statutory changes. The questions of when a motion for new trial tolls the time for giving notice of appeal, and what constitutes a final order, have been given consideration in recent cases.
Anesthetic Malpractice In Canada, John H. Harland
Anesthetic Malpractice In Canada, John H. Harland
Cleveland State Law Review
Making allowance for the tenfold difference in population between Canada and the United States, it is evident that litigation arising from anesthetic malpractice is very much less common in the former country. We have attempted to give some of the reasons for this discrepancy.
Freedom From Obscenity, Norman A. Erbe, Arlo F. Craig Jr.
Freedom From Obscenity, Norman A. Erbe, Arlo F. Craig Jr.
Cleveland State Law Review
Interest in obscenity laws, in the reason and purpose for their being, their efficacy in achieving the ends for which they are intended, the threat their existence and enforcement pose to the freedoms of speech and press, and the attitude of the courts toward them, seems to be at a new high. Obscenity is universally condemned throughout the United States. Yet law enforcement officers who attempt to enforce obscenity laws invariably are accused of "censoring" and "book burning."' A good many of such charges come from persons whose ox is being gored-persons who have a pecuniary interest in having obscenity …
Drug Induced Statements, Gilbert Geis, Ernest R. Kamm
Drug Induced Statements, Gilbert Geis, Ernest R. Kamm
Cleveland State Law Review
No serious attempt appears to have been made to check the opinions of scientific authorities in regard to drug-induced statements, beyond a cursory survey in 1941, and the courts have gone their way without much information, often, as has been charged in other areas involving forensic psychiatry, substituting the claims of the more articulate and aggressive members of the profession for the consensus of knowledgeable opinion within the entire group. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to learn from a sample of psychiatrists the present state of professional belief about the legal value and reliability of barbiturate drugs in forensic …
Taxation Of Professional Athletes, Ronald B. Cohen
Taxation Of Professional Athletes, Ronald B. Cohen
Cleveland State Law Review
There is very little doubt that the current income tax laws are not applied with equal fairness to people of all occupations. There are many groups whom Congress has seen fit to give many tax advantages, both directly and indirectly. Others assert, and rightly so, that they must pay too much of the tax burden. Professional athletes have probably often wondered just which category best fitted them. This article is for the purpose of pointing out some of the unique problems of the "play for pay" boys. I have grouped those problems into three topics, which I call, "Deferred Compensation", …
Recent Arm And Hand Damage Awards, Robert M. Hisnay
Recent Arm And Hand Damage Awards, Robert M. Hisnay
Cleveland State Law Review
The ever-present question to be answered in personal injury cases, other than liability of course, is the measure of damages to which the plaintiff is entitled. Where the plaintiff has been left with a permanent total, or permanent partial disability, such disability must be properly evaluated and transformed into an element of a money award for damages in order that adequate compensation will be received by the injured party. The problem of evaluating a permanent disability of the arm or hand is as medically complex as the multiplicity of functions which the member performs.
Illegally Obtained Evidence, Norman B. Miller
Illegally Obtained Evidence, Norman B. Miller
Cleveland State Law Review
In this case the Supreme Court of the United States in a five to three decision revised its earlier thinking on the problem of evidence illegally obtained by State police officers in a State criminal case and held that evidence obtained through an illegal search and seizure is inadmissible in a state criminal trial even though the illegal means was used by other than Federal law enforcement officers. The author's original reaction to the decision was one of regret in that the court had decided this case when the precise issue on which it turned had been neither adequately argued …
Rules Of The Road On Private Land, Margaret Mazza
Rules Of The Road On Private Land, Margaret Mazza
Cleveland State Law Review
As the number of automobiles increases, and as a main attraction to retail merchandising becomes the amount of parking facilities available to customers, courts will be confronted more often with traffic accidents on private property. Whether the common law rules of negligence are used, or whether the statutory regulations are applied initially or indirectly by analogy, the courts will find it more and more important to settle this legal problem uniformly and realistically.
Admission Of Liability, Richard H. Burgess
Admission Of Liability, Richard H. Burgess
Cleveland State Law Review
There is a great amount of resistance to the admission of liability when the slightest defense is available. Many defendants' attorneys would prefer to take the long chance of hoping for an unexpected verdict rather than admit fault and leave only the issue of damages to the jury. Surprisingly, there have actually been cases in which liability was admitted and the jury returned a verdict of no cause of action. Generally speaking, though, an admission of liability will tend to keep the damage award reasonable, but it will take away the slight possibility of an unexpected defendant's verdict.
Res Ipsa Loquitur In Malpractice Cases In Canada, John H. Harland
Res Ipsa Loquitur In Malpractice Cases In Canada, John H. Harland
Cleveland State Law Review
We do not intend here to advocate or condemn application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur in malpractice cases, but simply to indicate the cases where it was or was not applied, relying where possible on direct quotation from the judgments.
Book Review, Irwin N. Perr
Book Review, Irwin N. Perr
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing Ben Bernstein, Whiplash - Its Medical-Legal Aspects, Legal Medicine Institute, 1958
A Defense Of First-Cousin Marriage, Marvin M. Moore
A Defense Of First-Cousin Marriage, Marvin M. Moore
Cleveland State Law Review
In most American jurisdictions a marriage between first cousins constitutes incest. This rule cannot be justified, as this writer hopes to demonstrate in the following discussion.
Lung Cancer Liability Of Cigarette Manufacturers, Richard H. Burgess
Lung Cancer Liability Of Cigarette Manufacturers, Richard H. Burgess
Cleveland State Law Review
The medical evidence is quite strong as to tobacco causation of lung cancer. However, this leaves several legal questions to be answered before a plaintiff can recover from a cigarette manufacturer. The primary question at hand is: Do cigarette manufacturers impliedly warrant that their product is not dangerous to health; or, if not, do they have a duty to warn the public or the consumers in some direct way of the probable dangers to health in smoking. To phrase it differently, recovery will most likely lie in either implied warranty or in negligence, until statutory provisions are made to help …
Practical Aspects Of Ohio Divorce Proceedings, Anthony R. Fiorette
Practical Aspects Of Ohio Divorce Proceedings, Anthony R. Fiorette
Cleveland State Law Review
In its enforcement, the lawyer, as an officer of the court, occupies a top position of responsibility. The opportunity to deter, and perhaps prevent, the ultimate dissolution of the family comes first to him, and carries with it, a challenge to his patience, tolerance and particularly to his concept of social service. When pursuit of divorce and consequent family disorganization appears unavoidable, counsel is accorded a further opportunity to minimize expenses, avoid scandal and bitterness, and to plan the future welfare of the minor children and the estranged spouses. In performing this task he seeks to evaluate how the court …
Book Review, Milton E. Wilson
Book Review, Milton E. Wilson
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing George Rossman, ed., Advocacy and the King's English, Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1960
Unilateral Mistake Of Fact In Personal Injury Releases, Paul D. Malina
Unilateral Mistake Of Fact In Personal Injury Releases, Paul D. Malina
Cleveland State Law Review
Many personal injury cases that appear on court calendars, as well as many not filed, are settled before trial. Settlements usually involve payment by the alleged wrongdoer in consideration of a release executed by the injured party. As for the alleged wrongdoer, this act settles the conflict in that the releasor has bargained away his legal remedy. As for the releasor, compensation for the injury was his objective. Sparse authority to the contrary, a release constitutes a contract, the validity of which can be affected by fraud, duress or mistake. Generally, one need not go into equity and pray for …
Tax Of Qualified Deferred Compensation Plan, Lucius C. Gossick
Tax Of Qualified Deferred Compensation Plan, Lucius C. Gossick
Cleveland State Law Review
One of the primary reasons for the steady growth in the number of qualified deferred compensation plans described in Section 401 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 19541 is their usefulness as tax planning devices. An important tax consideration in adopting such a plan is that the taxation of plan benefits to employee-participants or their beneficiaries, provided by current employer contributions, will be deferred to some future time. Because of the rapid changes that occur in the income tax law this article will cover general tax considerations applicable to such benefits that exist presently. Consideration will be given the …
Book Review, Howard L. Oleck
Book Review, Howard L. Oleck
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing Carl E. Wasmuth, Anesthesia and the Law, C.C. Thomas, 1961
Book Review, Jack F. Smith
Book Review, Jack F. Smith
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing James Jackson Kilpatrick, The Smut Peddlers, Doubleday & Co., 1960
Newspaper Interference In Judicial Proceedings, John Vamis
Newspaper Interference In Judicial Proceedings, John Vamis
Cleveland State Law Review
Emphasis has been put on situations which appear to indicate that the press has been, at the very least, over-aggressive in its operations. As has been shown, considerable leeway is accorded the press in its activity, even where it conflicts with the fair administration of justice. Although the courts will enforce penalties for clear violation of the fair administration of justice, the facts must spell out a clear and imminent danger. As to the individual, there does not presently appear to beany clear provision of legal remedy for newspaper interference with individual rights, except in the civil or criminal libel …
Should Ohio Abolish Capital Punishment, Richard J. Goetz
Should Ohio Abolish Capital Punishment, Richard J. Goetz
Cleveland State Law Review
In view of all the controversy surrounding this topic, it is interesting to review the history of the death penalty in Ohio, in other states, and elsewhere in the world.