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Classaction.Gov, Amanda M. Rose
Classaction.Gov, Amanda M. Rose
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Essay proposes the creation of a federally run class action website and supporting administration (collectively, Classaction.gov) that would both operate a comprehensive research database on class actions and assume many of the notice and claims-processing functions performed by class action claims administrators today. Classaction.gov would bring long-demanded transparency to class actions and, through forces of legitimization and coordination, would substantially increase the rate of consumer participation in class action settlements. It also holds the key to mitigating other problems in class action practice, such as the inefficiencies and potential abuses associated with multiforum litigation, the limited success of the …
The Judgment Fund: America's Deepest Pocket & Its Susceptibility To Executive Branch Misuse, Paul F. Figley
The Judgment Fund: America's Deepest Pocket & Its Susceptibility To Executive Branch Misuse, Paul F. Figley
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Over the last thirty-five years, the United States government has paid out billions of dollars in settlements that have had no fiscal consequences for the agencies whose actions caused the claims. It has done so through the Judgment Fund, a relatively unknown permanent, indefinite appropriation originally created by Congress almost half a century ago to pay certain types of judgments entered against the United States.
Congress struggled for nearly two hundred years to find a way to exercise its Appropriations Clause authority over claims payments that did not drown its members in procedural detail. The article surveys that history. Through …
Slides: Second Thoughts About The Antiquities Act: Does The Process For Public Land Decisionmaking Have An Ethical Dimension?, James R. Rasband
Slides: Second Thoughts About The Antiquities Act: Does The Process For Public Land Decisionmaking Have An Ethical Dimension?, James R. Rasband
The Past, Present, and Future of Our Public Lands: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Public Land Law Review Commission’s Report, One Third of the Nation’s Land (Martz Summer Conference, June 2-4)
Presenter: James R. Rasband, Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
32 slides
Slides: Groundwater Law And Administration: From Conflict To Reform, Michael A. Gheleta
Slides: Groundwater Law And Administration: From Conflict To Reform, Michael A. Gheleta
Western Water Law, Policy and Management: Ripples, Currents, and New Channels for Inquiry (Martz Summer Conference, June 3-5)
Presenter: Michael A. Gheleta, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, Denver, CO
14 slides
Life Begins At 50: Ferc Relicensing Under The Federal Power Act, Thomas N. Russo
Life Begins At 50: Ferc Relicensing Under The Federal Power Act, Thomas N. Russo
Dams: Water and Power in the New West (Summer Conference, June 2-4)
5 pages.
Environmental Benefits Of Reoperation, Relicensing, Decommissioning And Recapture, Richard Roos-Collins
Environmental Benefits Of Reoperation, Relicensing, Decommissioning And Recapture, Richard Roos-Collins
Dams: Water and Power in the New West (Summer Conference, June 2-4)
35 pages.
Contains footnotes.