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The Folklore Of Legal Biography, Mark Fenster Jan 2007

The Folklore Of Legal Biography, Mark Fenster

Michigan Law Review

Spencer Weber Waller's Thurman Arnold: A Biography faces the problem of making this life stand out, and this Review seeks both to evaluate his rendering-which it does in Part II, after providing more details of the raw materials of Arnold's life in Part I-and to use Arnold's ideas to reflect on the endeavor of the legal biography. Although other works bearing on Arnold's life have been available,' Waller's competent, readable chronicle will provide an authoritative source of information and satisfy the desires of general readers interested in accomplished legal lives and seeking a straightforward account of Arnold's career. But Waller's …


Antitrust Civil Process Act-Requirements For A Civil Investigative Demand, Mary Mandana Long Apr 1964

Antitrust Civil Process Act-Requirements For A Civil Investigative Demand, Mary Mandana Long

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner sought an order from the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota modifying or setting aside a Civil Investigative Demand served upon it by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. The demand was issued pursuant to the Antitrust Civil Process Act, which provides a compulsory pre-complaint procedure through which the Department of Justice may obtain documentary information upon which it can make a determination of whether there has occurred a violation of the antitrust laws. Section 1312(b) of the act requires that the demand state the nature of the conduct constituting the alleged violation, recite …


Some Abuses Of Antitrust Prosecution: The Investment Bankers Case, Ralph M. Carson Jan 1956

Some Abuses Of Antitrust Prosecution: The Investment Bankers Case, Ralph M. Carson

Michigan Law Review

The epochal decision of Judge Medina on October 14, 1953, in United States v. Morgan has already been the subject of adverse criticism by the losing Government counsel and defense by an opposing lawyer. Professor Steffen's grief at the ruin of his handiwork has led him into the impropriety of attacking with unwarranted epithet a thoroughly considered decision by one of the most eminent judges now sitting in our federal courts and into the more symptomatic fault of attributing to the new chief of the Antitrust Division political motivation in his decision not to appeal. He has the assurance to …