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Mclendon V Continental Group Inc, Westlaw Sep 1992

Mclendon V Continental Group Inc, Westlaw

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Selph V. Nelson, Reabe And Snyder, Inc., Westlaw Jun 1992

Selph V. Nelson, Reabe And Snyder, Inc., Westlaw

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Mckeesport Beer Distributors, Inc. V. All Brand Importers, Inc., Westlaw May 1992

Mckeesport Beer Distributors, Inc. V. All Brand Importers, Inc., Westlaw

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Bailey V. Dell Pub. Co., Inc., Westlaw Apr 1992

Bailey V. Dell Pub. Co., Inc., Westlaw

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Pennsylvania State Police, Bureau Of Liquor Control V. Case Beer And Soda Outlet, Inc., Westlaw Feb 1992

Pennsylvania State Police, Bureau Of Liquor Control V. Case Beer And Soda Outlet, Inc., Westlaw

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Pennsylvania State Police, Bureau Of Liquor Control Enforecement V. Beer And Pop Warehouse, Inc., Westalw Jan 1992

Pennsylvania State Police, Bureau Of Liquor Control Enforecement V. Beer And Pop Warehouse, Inc., Westalw

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Exchange Loss Damages And The Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act: The Emperor Hasn't All His Clothes, Ronald A. Brand Jan 1992

Exchange Loss Damages And The Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act: The Emperor Hasn't All His Clothes, Ronald A. Brand

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In 1989, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws approved a new Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act. This Act is designed to change and clarify the law regarding judgments on obligations denominated in a foreign currency. It does so by recognizing that old rules preventing judgment in a foreign currency - developed in times of a strong dollar - are inappropriate. Unfortunately, in seeking fairness for plaintiffs when the U.S. dollar is weak, the Act replaces rigid old rules with stiff new rules that fail to address the basic issue of appropriate damages for exchange rate losses. While the …


'Coming To Our Senses': Communication And Legal Expression In Performance Cultures, Bernard J. Hibbitts Jan 1992

'Coming To Our Senses': Communication And Legal Expression In Performance Cultures, Bernard J. Hibbitts

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This article examines how semi-literate or largely non-literate cultures having little or no experience with writing ("performance cultures") communicate and express law and legal meaning through the orchestrated use of the physical senses. It first examines how each of the senses - hearing (sound), sight, touch, smell and taste - is brought to bear in the cultural and legal experience of performance-based societies. It then considers how and why members of performance cultures "perform", i.e. use and combine various sensory media in single messages, and describes how and why they use the same strategy in creating law and legal expression. …