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The American Jury On Trial: Psychological Perspectives (Book Review), Leo M. Romero

Faculty Scholarship

Book Review of S. Kassin & L. Wrightsman, The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives (1988)

When Must A Hospital Challenge The Medicare Reimbursement Policy?, Robert L. Schwartz

Faculty Scholarship

The Issue for the Court is whether the Medicare statute permits hospitals that do not formally request Medicare reimbursement for particular items in the cost reports filed with their fiscal intermediaries (who audit the reports) to seek reimbursement for those items when they appeal the fiscal intermediary's decision to the appropriate administrative board or court.

When Can The Government Issue A Retroactive Medicare Reimbursement Rule? A Preview Of Bowen V. Georgetown University Hospital, Robert L. Schwartz

Faculty Scholarship

The only issue before the Court is whether the Secretary of Health and Human Services can issue a regulation with entirely retroactive effect governing Medicare reimbursement for healthcare providers. The Court must decide whether such a retroactive rule is permitted by the Administrative Procedures Act (the "APA"), which defines a rule as "an agency statement of either general or particular applicability and future effect," or by the Medicare statute, which authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to provide for the reimbursement of the "reasonable costs" of hospitals providing Medicare services.

Rediscovering Traditional Tort Typologies To Determine Media Liability For Physical Injuries: From The Mickey Mouse Club To Hustler Magazine, John L. Diamond

Faculty Scholarship

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Developing A Consensus Of Constraint: A Judge's Perspective On Judicial Retention Elections, Joseph R. Grodin

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The Lawyer As Litigator In The 1980s, Mary Kay Kane

Faculty Scholarship

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Water And Wilderness/Law And Politics, John D. Leshy

Faculty Scholarship

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Tax Collection And Populist Rhetoric: Shifting The Burden Of Proof In Tax Cases, Leo P. Martinez

Faculty Scholarship

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The Rationale Of Personal Admissions, Roger C. Park

Faculty Scholarship

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Rule 11 Revisited, William W. Schwarzer

Faculty Scholarship

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The Golden Wedding Year: Erie Railroad Company V. Tompkins And The Federal Rules, Mary Kay Kane

Faculty Scholarship

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Nationwide Service Of Process: Due Process Limitations On The Power Of The Sovereign, Robert A. Lusardi

Faculty Scholarship

There are a number of instances in which a federal court asserts personal jurisdiction by service of process beyond the territorial limits of the state in which it sits. The most common examples of these assertions of jurisdiction are the use of a state's long-arm statute and the "bulge" provision of the federal rules. But, in addition, there are a number of statutes by which Congress has authorized nationwide service of process in particular circumstances.

It is generally accepted that Congress may authorize expansion limits of the states in which it sits, including authorization of extraterritorial service of process. However, …

Task Force Reports On Women In The Courts: The Challenge For Legal Education, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

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On The Knowing Inclusion Of Unenforceable Contract And Lease Terms, Bailey Kuklin

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Surrogate Parenting: What Should Legislatures Do?, Marsha Garrison

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Informed Decision-Making And The Law Of Torts: The Myth Of Justiciable Causation, Aaron Twerski, N. B. Cohen

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Hush: The Criminal Status Of Confidential Information After Mcnally And Carpenter And The Enduring Problem Of Overcriminalization, John C. Coffee Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

Each of the last three decades has witnessed an intense public reaction to a distinctive type of "white collar" crime. In the early 1960's, public attention was riveted by the Electrical Equipment conspiracy and the image of senior corporate executives of major firms meeting clandestinely to fix prices. In the mid-1970's, the focus shifted to corporate bribery, as the media ran daily stories regarding questionable payments abroad and illegal political contributions at home. The representative white collar crime of the 1980's is undoubtedly "insider trading." The archetype of this new kind of criminal in the public's mind is Ivan Boesky …

A Vice Of Its Virtues: The Perils Of Precision In Criminal Codification, As Illustrated By Retreat, General Justification, And Dangerous Utterances, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

My subject, the problem of precision in criminal codes, is hardly novel. Greater precision has been a major aim of systematic codification, which can specify what behavior is criminal in a way that is more rational, coordinated, and exact than would be possible if liability were determined by occasional statutory enactment, by common-law development, or by a combination of occasional statutes and judicial development. Under this last approach, which was typical in the United States prior to the Model Penal Code, statutes loosely set out the list of offenses and their penalties; critical elements of offenses and many defenses of …

Mistake In The Model Penal Code: A False False Problem, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

No solution seems more gratifying to the modern theorist than to claim that an apparently serious problem is not really a problem at all. By branding nonfalsifiable propositions as nonsense, the Vienna circle of logical positivists discovered that the metaphysical concerns of others were really false problems. By ridding philosophy of false problems, Wittgenstein thought that he could let the fly escape from the bottle; he could release the philosophical spirit from its confounding constraints. Brainerd Currie brought this method to the law with his justly famous theory of false conflicts in the conflicts of laws. There was no need …

Colors In Conflicts: Moral Rights And The Foreign Exploitation Of Colorized U.S. Motion Pictures, Jane C. Ginsburg

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores an international aspect of the current debate over colorized motion pictures. Under the present U.S. copyright law, most film directors and other creative contributors to an audiovisual work are unlikely to obtain injunctive relief from a U.S. court against the exhibition or dissemination of color-encoded versions of black and white originals. The difficulty is not simply that the U.S. copyright law does not recognize a specific moral right of integrity independent of economic rights. The director's poor domestic prospects are largely due to U.S. copyright law's work-made-for-hire doctrine. Most contributors to an audiovisual work are employees for …

Plemel As A Primer On Proving Paternity, David H. Kaye

Faculty Scholarship

Although in the past courts only permitted genetic evidence in paternity suits to prove that an accused man was not the father, with the advent of new genetic tests, which easily can exclude ninety to nitey-five percent of the population in most cases, the supreme courts of Massachusetts, Oregon, and Utah have held that various genetic tests may be used to prove paternity. While a positive move, the admissibility of genetic proof of paternity raises serious questions as to the manner in which this evidence should be presented in court. In the interests of efficiency, some jurisdictions seem to dispense …

Spite Nominations To The United States Supreme Court: Herbert C. Hoover, Owen J. Roberts, And The Politics Of Presidential Vengeance In Retrospect, Peter G. Fish

Faculty Scholarship

Presidential revenge as a motivating force behind Supreme Court nominations is an ineluctable thread running through American judicial selection politics.

A Causation Approach To Criminal Omissions, Arthur Leavens

Faculty Scholarship

This Article examines the scope of criminal laws that impose liability for failures to prevent a proscribed harm. Traditionally, courts have only imposed criminal sanctions upon individuals for their failure to act where the individual has a "legal duty" to prevent a specific harm. Professor Leavens rejects this conventional approach as being an artificial and ultimately unfair way to set the limits of omission liability. He asserts that in order for the courts validly to utilize any concept -- including "legal duty"-- to define the scope of omission liability, that concept must fairly reflect the underlying criminal prohibition; namely, that …

Luther Martin, Maryland And The Constitution, William L. Reynolds

Faculty Scholarship

Reviews the life and contributions of Maryland lawyer and scholar Luther Martin (1748-1826).

America And Other National Variations On The Theme Of International Commercial Arbitration, Thomas E. Carbonneau

Faculty Scholarship

Despite attempts at harmonization through treaty relations and State participation in multilateral organizations, the international arena is a composite of unsettled and unsettling structures. The volatility of global politics and discordant national perceptions of legitimate lawful conduct constitute a precarious, usually unsuitable, basis for an international rule of law. Domestic concepts of legality rarely serve as adequate instruments for molding the character of international relations. The irreducible principle of national sovereignty makes the world community resistant to the adoption of universal juridical standards and consecrates the fragmentation of national self-interest as the ultimate source of legality among nation-states. This article …

Some Reflections On State Constitutions, Joseph R. Grodin

Faculty Scholarship

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Arizona Law Where Ground And Surface Water Meet, John D. Leshy, James Belanger

Faculty Scholarship

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A Cause Of Action For Option Traders Against Insider Option Traders, William K.S. Wang

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The Corporation As Client: Problems, Perspectives, And Partial Solutions, James R. Mccall

Faculty Scholarship

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The Isolation Of Private International Law, Joel R. Paul

Faculty Scholarship

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