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Public Relations, Law, And Environmental Pollution, Barbara L. Schoonover, David J. Sherriff Jan 1969

Public Relations, Law, And Environmental Pollution, Barbara L. Schoonover, David J. Sherriff

Cleveland State Law Review

In public relations, however, the relationship is a complementary one, in which the law acts as the formulator of the rules of society and public relations serves as the interpreter of them to the people. Beyond that, public relations often can support the law by creating an atmosphere in which the law can more effectively perform its function of protecting the people and preserving the health of society. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the area of air and water pollution control.


Music And Law: Copyrighting A Musical Idea, Irving B. Marks, Robert M. Phillips Jan 1969

Music And Law: Copyrighting A Musical Idea, Irving B. Marks, Robert M. Phillips

Cleveland State Law Review

The law of music copyright, although now quite old, is still relatively young in its development and refinement when compared to other segments of the copyright law. The impediment in its progress is partially due to the technicalities inherent in the discipline itself, and also to the lack of musical sophistication on the part of most law making bodies. Modern day electronic developments in recording and storing sound will do much to facilitate and broaden the scope of the law. Its implementation through a Music-Legal Board of Experts could be the effective step needed in order to overcome the present …


Book Review, William Tabac Jan 1969

Book Review, William Tabac

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Louis B. Heller, Do You Solemnly Swear? Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1968


Pharmacy, Law, And The U.C.C., And Patent Medicines, John J. Kuchinski Jan 1969

Pharmacy, Law, And The U.C.C., And Patent Medicines, John J. Kuchinski

Cleveland State Law Review

The primary legal concern of the pharmacist has been and continues to be in the field of negligence. With the increasing legal awareness of society, however, it becomes imperative to examine what liabilities may arise under the U.C.C. The main objective of this paper is to explore the possible areas of liability that may arise under the Code in the sale of patent medicines by the pharmacist.


Book Review, Albert Averbach Jan 1969

Book Review, Albert Averbach

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Elliot L. Sagall and Barry C. Reed, The Heart and the Law, McMillan, 1968


Court Ordered Non-Emergency Medical Care For Infants, James A. Baker Jan 1969

Court Ordered Non-Emergency Medical Care For Infants, James A. Baker

Cleveland State Law Review

It has long been recognized that a privilege to act is a perfect defense to liability for a non-consensual, intentional interference with another person. This privilege is based upon self defense, defense of third persons, mistake, or various other recognized legal theories. Even a state may have a privilege to interfere with the person of a citizen, and this privilege may extend to an interference to provide an infant citizen with medical care without the consent of, or against the express wishes of, the parent or guardian.


Pragmatic Approach To Problems Of Group Law Practice, Herschel Kriger Jan 1969

Pragmatic Approach To Problems Of Group Law Practice, Herschel Kriger

Cleveland State Law Review

United Mine Workers of America, District 12 v. Illinois State Bar Association, is one of the latest in a line of holdings which have demonstrated that areas heretofore considered by the Bar as sacrosanct unto itself or the state courts are not immune from re-evaluation. That decision, rendered on December 5, 1967, was not unexpected in the light of the pronouncements of the Supreme Court in NAACP v. Button, and Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia Bar Association, and the process is likely to continue.


Book Review, Grace Sindell Jan 1969

Book Review, Grace Sindell

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Howard L. Oleck, A Singular Fury, World Publishing Co., 1968


Failure Of Religious, Moral And Legal Controls To Meet The Needs Of Modern Life: Legal Education, Frederick K. Beutel Jan 1969

Failure Of Religious, Moral And Legal Controls To Meet The Needs Of Modern Life: Legal Education, Frederick K. Beutel

Cleveland State Law Review

Law is social control, and law devised without direct reference to the facts of life of the people controlled is not likely to be successfully administered. This is especially true in the modern world where social conditions are being changed with kaleidoscopic rapidity, while laws are changing slowly if at all. If all the professions using science have so changed man's environment, why does it not make sense to give the scientific method a improve law and government? The means of accomplishing this have been discussed at length elsewhere and need not be repeated here; but the impact of these …


A Core Curriculum For Urban Law, David F. Cavers Jan 1969

A Core Curriculum For Urban Law, David F. Cavers

Cleveland State Law Review

My suggestions here will be directed to the second and third years of the law curriculum. In suggesting courses which I believe can provide a valuable body of knowledge in preparation for the new demands of urban law practice, I have ignored the opportunities for drawing on materials relevant to that practice in many of the courses that I do not mention. Without sacrificing instructional value, such materials can frequently be substituted in first-year courses and in some of the second and third year courses for materials drawn from a more bucolic America. This process is already beginning to take …


Draft Card Burning, Robert M. Phillips Jan 1969

Draft Card Burning, Robert M. Phillips

Cleveland State Law Review

It has long been recognized by the courts that not only written and spoken words," but certain acts and conduct will likewise be considered a form of speech protected under the First Amendment. However, it has been difficult for the courts to determine exactly what type of conduct or action is acceptable and thus protected as "symbolic" speech,and those which are objectionable in that they contravene public policy. This exact difficulty arose in two of the present cases. The Miller Court found that it could not determine whether willful burning of a draft card was speech; nevertheless it was punishable. …


Libelous Ridicule By Journalists, James M. Naughton, Eric R. Gilbertson Jan 1969

Libelous Ridicule By Journalists, James M. Naughton, Eric R. Gilbertson

Cleveland State Law Review

Proof of actual malice, or even establishing that an attack in ridicule bears no relation to public conduct, seems at best, extremely difficult to bring out. The public interest in protecting itself, through criticism of those in prominence, weighs much more heavily on the scales of justice than does the interest of public figures in protecting themselves from personal attack. So go ahead and draw your cartoons, Conrad. Keep sticking pins in the kewpie dolls of America, Art Buchwald. And tell it like it is, Pogo.


Unfair Competition In Intellectual Products In The Public Domain, Marian R. Nathan Jan 1969

Unfair Competition In Intellectual Products In The Public Domain, Marian R. Nathan

Cleveland State Law Review

A recent Federal District Court case , Grove Press, Inc. v. Collector's Publication, Inc., illustrates another attempt by our judiciary to find its way out of the immense entanglement of copyright infringement in statutory law and unfair competition in common law besetting properties in the public domain. Two 1964 United States Supreme Court decisions have further complicated the positions of both creators and judiciary.


Credibility Gap In Judicial Review Of Administrative Determinations, Morris D. Forkosch Jan 1969

Credibility Gap In Judicial Review Of Administrative Determinations, Morris D. Forkosch

Cleveland State Law Review

The increasing credibility gap in, and judicial review of, administrative determinations is a resultant of agency and judicial misunderstanding and language. Briefly, an examiner's intermediate report ordinarily evaluates the witnesses' demeanor, conduct, believability and credibility before accepting as true certain of their testimony, upon which findings of fact may now be based. Subsequently, the agency has the opportunity to exercise its statutory power to adopt, modify, or reject these findings. Thereafter, on judicial review, the court's whole record approach takes into account as a factor and scrutinizes any examiner agency disagreement as to findings of fact in determining whether substantial …


Book Review, Philip J. Bourne Jan 1969

Book Review, Philip J. Bourne

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Charles Kramer, The Negligent Doctor, Crown Publishers Inc., 1968


Trade Association Offering Legal Services - A Possibility For Small Corporations, Robert R. Hussey Jan 1969

Trade Association Offering Legal Services - A Possibility For Small Corporations, Robert R. Hussey

Cleveland State Law Review

Small corporations generally belong to a trade association which allows them to increase their proficiency in and knowledge of their industry. As a possible solution to the problem of increasing legal service requirements this paper investigates the suitability of allowing these trade associations to provide legal services to member corporations.


Punitive Damages Against Shipowners, Arthur E. Miller Jan 1969

Punitive Damages Against Shipowners, Arthur E. Miller

Cleveland State Law Review

Much of our national maritime policy is deep-rooted in the body of American admiralty law. Traditionally, Congress and the courts of admiralty have viewed the merchant seaman as within their protective custody because of the inherent danger of his calling and the unique status of his contract of employment. To encourage shipbuilding and develop the American Merchant Marine, similar protection has been extended to the shipowner by enabling him to limit his financial risks in the event of disaster. Conversely, the concept of punitive damages finds no statutory support in our maritime law and has been so seldom awarded as …


Arbitration As A Remedy In Labor Disputes, William F. Powers Jan 1969

Arbitration As A Remedy In Labor Disputes, William F. Powers

Cleveland State Law Review

The object of arbitration is the final disposition of the dispute in a non-technical, less expensive and more expeditious manner, by persons having expertise in labor management relations. Labor arbitration should not be categorized as a substitute for litigation.


Pollution, Law, Science, And Damage Awards, Thomas M. Schmitz Jan 1969

Pollution, Law, Science, And Damage Awards, Thomas M. Schmitz

Cleveland State Law Review

Today, air and water pollution resemble the loathsome albatross which is constantly vexing mankind. If they are not removed they may eventually destroy all life on the earth. Not unexpected, therefore, is the current public outcry against all environmental pollution, raising such questions as, "How far do we go in sacrificing the pleasantness of everyone's surroundings for the short term economic gains of a relative few?" Accordingly, promulgation of the concept that "Polluters-Must-Pay" is long overdue.


Management's Liability For Defamation In Proxy Statements, Morton L. Berg Jan 1969

Management's Liability For Defamation In Proxy Statements, Morton L. Berg

Cleveland State Law Review

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 specifically provides for a dual system of regulation over securities and persons by both state securities commissions and the SEC, provided that the state authority does not conflict with the Exchange Act or consequent rules and regulations. However, there is no direction given in the Act or its rules as to whether federal pre-emption will be applied when a Commission rule attempts to abrogate the state's common law of defamation.


Labor Union Group Legal Service For Members, Eugene Green Jan 1969

Labor Union Group Legal Service For Members, Eugene Green

Cleveland State Law Review

The right of associations to provide their members with legal services appears to be as broad as the freedom of assembly and discussion protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. These freedoms "are not confined to any field of human interest" and are of the same dimension in matters of local or national interest.


Aesthetics And The Police Power, Robert J. Dicello Jan 1969

Aesthetics And The Police Power, Robert J. Dicello

Cleveland State Law Review

Under the Ohio Constitution municipalities have the authority to exercise all powers of local self-government. This authority is exercised through police power which is sufficient to support the enactment and enforcement of a wide variety of regulations which serve the public welfare. The police power, then, is the means whereby there is delegated by the state to the municipality effective power to promote and protect the general welfare. The purpose of any enforceable ordinance established under the police power must be directly related to the general welfare of the community wherein it operates.


Public Employees' Right To Strike, Marc J. Bloch Jan 1969

Public Employees' Right To Strike, Marc J. Bloch

Cleveland State Law Review

In a society which demands constantly increased services from its government, work stoppages in the public sector are cause for growing concern. Public employees are involved in myriad of service jobs. Yet, public employees are the largest group of employees in Ohio who lack basic labor rights.


Book Review, Carl D. Hamilton Jan 1969

Book Review, Carl D. Hamilton

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Martin Mayer, Emory Buckner, Harper & Row, 1968


On Legal Writing, Albert P. Blaustein Jan 1969

On Legal Writing, Albert P. Blaustein

Cleveland State Law Review

Virtually all legal writing is atrocious! This is true about (a) statutes and administrative regulations; (b) judicial opinions and agency rulings; (c) trial papers and appellate briefs; (d) office memoranda and opinion letters; (e) annotations and digest paragraphs; and (f) law treatises and legal articles. It is even true (especially true?) about articles on legal writing. This is a serious matter. For the ramifications of bad legal writing are very costly-in time, in money and, indeed, in the very quality of life. Working to improve legal writing is no frivolous exercise.


Book Review, Carroll H. Sierk Jan 1969

Book Review, Carroll H. Sierk

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Law in a Changing America, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1968


The Military And The Law, James K. Gaynor Jan 1969

The Military And The Law, James K. Gaynor

Cleveland State Law Review

Military law is the law which governs members of the Armed Services and, to some extent, the relations of other persons with the Armed Services. Military law often is thought of as synonymous with court-martial, but that is not correct. The number of people who will be involved in a court-martial during a year-either as an accused, or as one having duties in connection with a court-likely will be less than two percent of any large military organization. Members of the military service, however, are involved with military law every day in the year. It governs the way in which …


Broker-Dealer Disclosure Of Corporate Inside Information, James K. Weeks, Jeffrey V. Mccormick Jan 1969

Broker-Dealer Disclosure Of Corporate Inside Information, James K. Weeks, Jeffrey V. Mccormick

Cleveland State Law Review

The recent decisions in the field of securities transactions do not significantly change the legal standards, but they do create an increased awareness of the problems and the limits imposed upon the financial community. It is well established now that a broker's duties to the investing public take precedence over any conflicting duties to his customers or advisees to whom he only owes a duty not to defraud them or profit at their expense. The broker further has a duty to prevent his clients from profiting at the expense of the uninformed public.


The Student And Law School Governance, Ralph F. Bischoff Jan 1969

The Student And Law School Governance, Ralph F. Bischoff

Cleveland State Law Review

At a recent meeting of a university Board of Trustees, discussion centered on three problems-perhaps one should say three aspects of one problem-the solution to which will affect the university and its role in our quickly-changing society. I refer, of course, to the violence of a few student extremists who are disrupting the normal activities of the university, to the new emphasis on a Black student separatist movement and to student demands for responsibility in the governance of the university. Of the three, the latter is clearly the most important; its solution should aid in solving the difficulties created by …


A Few Words About Law Teaching, Robert A. Leflar Jan 1969

A Few Words About Law Teaching, Robert A. Leflar

Cleveland State Law Review

The purpose of these few paragraphs will be to look for a quick moment at the law teacher's job as it appears both in retrospect and prospect to one whose law school teaching spans more than forty years and whose fortunate experience at working with other jobs in the law has given him reason to appreciate mightily the happy chance that led him as a youth into the teaching branch of the legal profession.