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"Prejudgment" Rejudgment: The True Story Of Antoniu V. Sec, Douglas C. Michael
"Prejudgment" Rejudgment: The True Story Of Antoniu V. Sec, Douglas C. Michael
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In Antoniu v. SEC, the Eighth Circuit found that Charles C. Cox, then a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission), had "impermissibly tainted" an SEC administrative proceeding against Antoniu by a speech Cox gave while the proceeding was pending. In this way, Commissioner Cox is now joined with former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Paul Rand Dixon of Texaco, Inc. v. FTC and Cinderella Career & Finishing Schools, Inc. v. FTC fame as an administrative law casebook poster child for "prejudgment" by an administrative agency.
After a brief discussion of the factual background of the …
Kentucky Law Survey: Insurance, Richard H. Underwood
Kentucky Law Survey: Insurance, Richard H. Underwood
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This Survey will examine recent Kentucky decisions on insurance law issues, and comment on the latest crop of cases relating to the application and construction of the Kentucky Motor Vehicle Reparations Act. In addition, this Survey will discuss proposed unfair claims settlement practices legislation, which is once again generating interest in the Commonwealth.
Legal Ethics And Class Actions: Problems, Tactics And Judicial Responses, Richard H. Underwood
Legal Ethics And Class Actions: Problems, Tactics And Judicial Responses, Richard H. Underwood
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Perhaps no procedural innovation has generated more controversy than the class action. As Professor Arthur Miller has observed, debate over “class action problem[s]” has raged at several different levels. For example, opponents and proponents of class actions disagree on whether such actions produce socially desirable results in an economical fashion and whether an already overburdened judiciary can handle the additional supervisory demands of the class action. Recently, a somewhat more ideological dialogue has addressed the merit of publicly funded class actions. Such questions arise only indirectly in the context of class action litigation. However, a certain hostility toward class actions …