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Picking Federal Judges: A Note On Policy And Partisan Selection Agendas, Micheal W. Giles, Virginia A. Hettinger, Todd C. Peppers Sep 2001

Picking Federal Judges: A Note On Policy And Partisan Selection Agendas, Micheal W. Giles, Virginia A. Hettinger, Todd C. Peppers

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The importance of lower federal courts in the policymaking process has stimulated extensive research programs focused on the process of selecting the judges of these courts and the factors influencing their decisions. The present study employs judicial decisionmaking in the U.S. Courts of Appeals as a window through which to reexamine the politics of selection to the lower courts. It differs from previous studies of selection in three ways. First, it takes advantage of recent innovations in measurement to go beyond reliance on political party as a measure of the preferences of actors in the selection process. Second, employing these …


A Tribute To Andrew W. Mcthenia, Jr., Samuel W. Calhoun Jan 2001

A Tribute To Andrew W. Mcthenia, Jr., Samuel W. Calhoun

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A tribute to Professor Andrew W. McThenia, Jr.


Private Or Public Approaches To Insuring The Uninsured: Lessons From International Experience With Private Insurance, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost Jan 2001

Private Or Public Approaches To Insuring The Uninsured: Lessons From International Experience With Private Insurance, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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In the recent past a broad consensus has emerged in the United States that the best way to expand coverage of the uninsured is to use tax subsidies to encourage the purchase of private health insurance policies. Many advocates of this approach also call for replacing employment-related group policies with individual policies, and for minimizing regulation of private insurance. Those who advocate these policies, however, have rarely considered the experience that other nations have had with private health insurance.

In fact most other countries have private insurance markets, and in many countries private insurance plays a significant role in financing …


Simplification- A Civil Procedure Perspective, Doug Rendleman Jan 2001

Simplification- A Civil Procedure Perspective, Doug Rendleman

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Quantum Meruit For The Subcontractor: Has Restitution Jumped Off Dawson's Dock?, Doug Rendleman Jan 2001

Quantum Meruit For The Subcontractor: Has Restitution Jumped Off Dawson's Dock?, Doug Rendleman

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Corporate And Business Law (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law), Lyman P.Q. Johnson Jan 2001

Corporate And Business Law (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law), Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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This article reviews changes in Virginia corporate and business law for the period from June 2000 through May 2001. Part II ex- amines legislative changes in corporate and other business stat- utes (excluding public service corporation and insurance law is- sues) based on Virginia General Assembly action in the 2001

session. Part III reviews judicial decisions during the year, in- cluding decisions addressing agency law, partnership law, and corporate law issues and principles. This article describes these decisions and, in several instances, it also critically analyzes the outcomes. Part IV summarizes a May 25, 2001, Order of the Vir- ginia …


(Reviewing Elizabeth Mensch And Alan Freeman, The Politics Of Virtue: Is Abortion Debatable (1993)), Samuel W. Calhoun Jan 2001

(Reviewing Elizabeth Mensch And Alan Freeman, The Politics Of Virtue: Is Abortion Debatable (1993)), Samuel W. Calhoun

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Antitrust And The Information Age: Section 2 Monopolization Analyses In The New Economy, A. Benjamin Spencer Jan 2001

Antitrust And The Information Age: Section 2 Monopolization Analyses In The New Economy, A. Benjamin Spencer

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Remedies - The Law School Course, Doug Rendleman Jan 2001

Remedies - The Law School Course, Doug Rendleman

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Restitution As A Remedy In The U.S. Courts For Violations Of International Law, Frederic L. Kirgis Jan 2001

Restitution As A Remedy In The U.S. Courts For Violations Of International Law, Frederic L. Kirgis

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What Passes For Policy And Proof In First Amendment Litigation?, Rodney A. Smolla Jan 2001

What Passes For Policy And Proof In First Amendment Litigation?, Rodney A. Smolla

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Erisa Preemption And The Case For A Federal Common Law Of Agency Governing Employer-Administrators, Joshua A.T. Fairfield Jan 2001

Erisa Preemption And The Case For A Federal Common Law Of Agency Governing Employer-Administrators, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Post-Trilogy Science In The Courtroom: What Are The Judges Doing?, Lewis H. Larue, David S. Caudill Jan 2001

Post-Trilogy Science In The Courtroom: What Are The Judges Doing?, Lewis H. Larue, David S. Caudill

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Bankruptcy Empiricism: Lighthouse Still No Good (Reviewing Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren & Jay Lawrence Westbook, The Fragile Middle Class: Americans In Debt (2000)), Margaret Howard Jan 2001

Bankruptcy Empiricism: Lighthouse Still No Good (Reviewing Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren & Jay Lawrence Westbook, The Fragile Middle Class: Americans In Debt (2000)), Margaret Howard

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The Ambiguous Significance Of Corporate Personhood, David K. Millon Jan 2001

The Ambiguous Significance Of Corporate Personhood, David K. Millon

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In the eyes of the law, the business corporation is a person. So, for example, the corporation can own property in its own right; it can sue or be sued, in contract or tort or any number of other causes of action; it can be prosecuted and punished for criminal activity; it enjoys various rights under the United States Constitution; and it is subject to tax liability. In these respects (and others), the corporation bears the legal attributes of an entity existing separately from the various natural persons who participate or have an interest in the corporation's activities. This way …