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Llc Member And Limited Partner Breach Of Fiduciary Duty Claims: Direct Or Derivative Actions, James R. Burkhard
Llc Member And Limited Partner Breach Of Fiduciary Duty Claims: Direct Or Derivative Actions, James R. Burkhard
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Do Owners Have A Fair Chance Of Prevailing Under The Ad Hoc Regulatory Takings Test Of Penn Central Transportation Company?, F. Patrick Hubbard
Do Owners Have A Fair Chance Of Prevailing Under The Ad Hoc Regulatory Takings Test Of Penn Central Transportation Company?, F. Patrick Hubbard
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Forfeiture By Wrongdoing And Those Who Acquiesce In Witness Intimidation: A Reach Exceeding Its Grasp And Other Problems With Federal Rule Of Evidence 804(B)(6), James F. Flanagan
Forfeiture By Wrongdoing And Those Who Acquiesce In Witness Intimidation: A Reach Exceeding Its Grasp And Other Problems With Federal Rule Of Evidence 804(B)(6), James F. Flanagan
Faculty Publications
This article is the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the new exception to the hearsay rule that permits prosecutors to admit hearsay statements of absent witnesses when the defendant causes their unavailability at trial. The article develops the problems with the rule's overbroad language, its potential to admit unreliable hearsay and its relationship to the Confrontation Clause. These issues are of increasing interest to lawyers, judges and justices now that it is a federal rule and been adopted by ten states.
The first section is a comprehensive statement of the rule as now applied. The exception is traced from …
A New Framework For Law Firm Discipline, Elizabeth Chambliss, David B. Wilkins
A New Framework For Law Firm Discipline, Elizabeth Chambliss, David B. Wilkins
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Escape From New York: Analyzing The State's Relative Interests In Proscribing The Withdrawal Of Life Support And Physician-Assisted Suicide, Colin Miller
Faculty Publications
This Note argues that states cannot consistently prohibit physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients while they continue to allow the withdrawal of life support for even non-terminal patients. All of the state interests identified by the Supreme Court in rejecting a right to assisted suicide are implicated to a higher degree by withdrawal of life support. The primary reason for this difference is that withdrawal of life support often involves incompetent patients and surrogate decision making while assisted suicide by definition requires a competent patient choosing to hasten her death.
Hostile Environment Actions, Title Vii, And The Ada: The Limits Of The Copy-And-Paste Function, Lisa A. Eichhorn
Hostile Environment Actions, Title Vii, And The Ada: The Limits Of The Copy-And-Paste Function, Lisa A. Eichhorn
Faculty Publications
Two federal circuits, borrowing from Title VII jurisprudence, recently recognized a cause of action for a disability-based hostile environment under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Neither opinion, however, considered how the analysis of a disability-based hostile environment claim under the ADA might differ from that of a race- or sex-based hostile environment claim under Title VII. This Article examines the differing theories of equality underlying the two statutes and argues that, because the statutes prohibit discrimination in fundamentally different ways, courts must resist the temptation to copy and paste Title VII doctrine into ADA hostile environment opinions. This Article …
Federal Preemption Of Products Liability Claims, David G. Owen
Federal Preemption Of Products Liability Claims, David G. Owen
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No abstract provided.
A Decade Of Daubert, David G. Owen
A Death By Any Other Name: The Federal Government's Inconsistent Treatment Of Drugs Used In Lethal Injections And Physician-Assisted Suicide, Colin Miller
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