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The Information Highway Must Pay Its Way Through Cities: A Discussion Of The Authority Of State And Local Governments To Be Compensated For The Use Of Public Rights-Of-Way, Clarence A. West
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
In the ever-changing telecommunications industry there appears to be an enormous amount of confusion not only as to the appropriate amount of compensation chargeable to the users of public rights-of-way, but also as to the very authority of state and local governments to require compensation. This was not always the case. It has long been a well-settled legal principle that local governments may receive reasonable "rental" compensation from private commercial entities for their use of local public property for private economic gain, even where federal statutory law restricts local governments from denying access to rights-of-way for telecommunications services. For example, …
Decreasing The Costs Of Jurisdictional Gridlock: Merger Of The Securities And Exchange Commission And The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Mark Frederick Hoffman
Decreasing The Costs Of Jurisdictional Gridlock: Merger Of The Securities And Exchange Commission And The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Mark Frederick Hoffman
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Jurisdictional conflict exists between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), primarily due to the language of the 1974 CFTC Act. This Act grants the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction to regulate certain financial instruments which, given the increasing complexity and "hybrid" nature of such instruments, might simultaneously be subject to SEC regulation. This Note first explores the history of the two agencies and the statutory language giving rise to the jurisdictional conflict. This Note then examines several instances of jurisdictional conflict that resulted in extensive costs for the respective agencies and the United States' financial …
Risk Regulations And Its Hazards, Stephen F. Williams
Risk Regulations And Its Hazards, Stephen F. Williams
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation by Stephen Breyer
Power, Responsibility, And Republican Democracy, Marci A. Hamilton
Power, Responsibility, And Republican Democracy, Marci A. Hamilton
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation by David Schoenbrod
Making Rules: An Introduction, Steven Croley
Making Rules: An Introduction, Steven Croley
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Law and Make Policy by Cornelius M. Kerwin