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Workmen's Compensation For Maritime Employees: Obscurity In The Twilight Zone, Robert E. Rodes
Workmen's Compensation For Maritime Employees: Obscurity In The Twilight Zone, Robert E. Rodes
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As late as 1893, state courts were not required to apply federal maritime law to common-law proceedings involving maritime subjects; each jurisdiction developed, somewhat incidentally, its own system of substantive law. The elimination of the general maritime law as an inhibition on state regulation of the employment relationship would have resulted in the complete debilitation of the Longshoremen's Act, since state law could "validly" be applied in the whole field. The judiciary's interest shifted towards according the injured worker and his family adequate means of availing themselves of the compensatory relief that is provided by federal and state governments. The …
Freedom Of Inquiry Versus Authority: Some Legal Aspects, Joseph O'Meara
Freedom Of Inquiry Versus Authority: Some Legal Aspects, Joseph O'Meara
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I am to discuss some legal aspects of freedom of inquiry versus authority. It raises the issue of free speech; for inquiry is not free - it is confined and frustrated - if one must keep the fruits of inquiry to one's self. The contest between freedom and authority, even in a democracy, is an unequal contest, with the advantage on the side of authority; for authority has power and power has the drop on freedom. This is why eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Freedom has its dangers. There is no doubt about that. The risk is still …
Insurance (Annual Survey Of The Law Of New Jersey, 1954-55), Robert E. Rodes
Insurance (Annual Survey Of The Law Of New Jersey, 1954-55), Robert E. Rodes
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The survey year seems, as far as the law of Insurance in New Jersey is concerned, to have been more portentous than eventful. Across the river in New York, it has been decided that a company may be a partial subscriber to a rating bureau. Now, another company is attempting, with at least partial success, to write certain types of fire insurance there at 20% less than the bureau rate. These inroads on the bureau structure in New York will certainly have an effect throughout the country in the years to come. But what came to New York with a …