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Fifty Years Of Community Service: A Tribute To Mel Shimm, Barak D. Richman Dec 2005

Fifty Years Of Community Service: A Tribute To Mel Shimm, Barak D. Richman

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"Defendant Veto" Or "Totality Of The Circumstances?": It's Time For The Supreme Court To Straighten Out The Personal Jurisdiction Standard Once Again, Robert J. Condlin Jan 2004

"Defendant Veto" Or "Totality Of The Circumstances?": It's Time For The Supreme Court To Straighten Out The Personal Jurisdiction Standard Once Again, Robert J. Condlin

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Commentators frequently claim that there is no single, coherent doctrine of extra-territorial personal jurisdiction, and, unfortunately, they are correct. The International Shoe case, commonly (but inaccurately) thought of as the wellspring of the modern form of the doctrine, announced a relatively straightforward, two-factor, four-permutation test that worked well for resolving most cases. In the nearly sixty-year period following Shoe, however, as the Supreme Court expanded and refined the standard, what was once straightforward and uncomplicated became serendipitous and convoluted. Two general, and generally incompatible, versions of the doctrine competed for dominance. The first, what might best be described as …


Litigation With A Foreign Flavor: The Warsaw Convention, Joseph Sweeney Jan 1994

Litigation With A Foreign Flavor: The Warsaw Convention, Joseph Sweeney

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