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Notice To Class Members Under The Fair Labor Standards Act Representative Action Provision, Thomas Ashby
Notice To Class Members Under The Fair Labor Standards Act Representative Action Provision, Thomas Ashby
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Federal courts currently apply different standards concerning the permissibility of notice. Although the Ninth Circuit forbids notice and the Seventh Circuit grants plaintiffs a right to send notice, the Second Circuit permits notice only in appropriate cases. This Note advocates that plaintiffs in FLSA and ADEA actions should be allowed to notify potential class members in appropriate cases. Part I analyzes inherent court powers, statutes, legislative history, and federal policies relating to notice. It concludes that enactment of FLSA and ADEA remedies did not alter the inherent power of federal courts to permit or prohibit notice. On the contrary, only …
The Propriety Of Section 10(J) Bargaining Orders In Gissel Situations, Michigan Law Review
The Propriety Of Section 10(J) Bargaining Orders In Gissel Situations, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The courts have split on the question of whether a bargaining order constitutes ''just and proper" relief under section 10(j). This Note contends that such an order is always just in a Gissel situation but that a district court may properly issue one only in situations where the Board's prior decisions clearly establish the relevant labor policy and indicate a high probability that the Board will eventually issue a Gissel bargaining order. Part I of the Note develops the criteria relevant to determining what kind of temporary relief is "just." Although section 10(j) does not itself define these criteria, the …
Criminal Venue In The Federal Courts: The Obstruction Of Justice Puzzle, Michigan Law Review
Criminal Venue In The Federal Courts: The Obstruction Of Justice Puzzle, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Courts have struggled to determine venue for cases involving obstruction of justice with similarly inconsistent results. The circuits have divided over where to lay venue in prosecutions for obstruction of justice when the defendant allegedly acted in one judicial district to obstruct a proceeding that was pending in another. This Note argues that formalistic analysis, which has led courts to set venue in the district of the affected trial, should be rejected in favor of a more policy-oriented approach. Part I demonstrates that a formalistic statutory analysis that closely inspects either legislative history or the language of the statute ultimately …
The Scope Of Judicial Review Of Consent Decrees Under The Antitrust Procedures And Penalties Act Of 1974, Michigan Law Review
The Scope Of Judicial Review Of Consent Decrees Under The Antitrust Procedures And Penalties Act Of 1974, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
In the wake of this uncertainty, this Note analyzes the proper scope of judicial review of consent decrees. The Note argues that to further the policies embodied in the APP A, courts should undertake intense review of proposed settlements before entering them as final judgments. Both the congressional intent in enacting the APP A and the public's interest in effective enforcement of the antitrust laws support intense judicial review. The Note then demonstrates that the deferential standard that some courts have applied is derived mainly from a case that is inapplicable to the review of consent decrees. Finally, the Note …
Equity, Due Process And The Seventh Amendment: A Commentary On The Zenith Case, Patrick Devlin
Equity, Due Process And The Seventh Amendment: A Commentary On The Zenith Case, Patrick Devlin
Michigan Law Review
The seventh amendment to the United States Constitution requires that "[i]n Suits at common law . . . the right of trial by jury shall be preserved." What exactly is a suit at common law? When the amendment was enacted in 1791, there was no law that was common to all the states. In 1812 Supreme Court Justice Story, in a Circuit Court ruling, held that the common law alluded to was the common law of England, "the grand reservoir of all of our jurisprudence." This means that when today an American judge has to decide whether in any set …
The Courts' Inherent Power To Compel Legislative Funding Of Judicial Functions, Michigan Law Review
The Courts' Inherent Power To Compel Legislative Funding Of Judicial Functions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Litigation results when the legislative branch contests the inherent power order. Because judicial compulsion of legislative action must derive from constitutional authority, and because of the practical and doctrinal challenges such litigation presents, many courts have struggled to resolve these cases in a principled fashion. This Note defends the inherent power doctrine, but argues that current judicial approaches to its application have failed to confront squarely the central issues raised by inherent power orders. The Note advocates an alternative procedure for defining the legitimate scope of judicial authority to compel appropriations on its own behalf. Part I examines the constitutional …
The Public Right Of Access To Juvenile Delinquency Hearings, Michigan Law Review
The Public Right Of Access To Juvenile Delinquency Hearings, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Despite the differences between the criminal and juvenile court systems, the Supreme Court has extended many criminal procedural safeguards to juvenile delinquency hearings. The Court does not, however, "automatically and preemptorily" apply every procedural safeguard to juvenile hearings; rather, it carefully examines the criminal trial standard in the context of delinquency hearings. Adopting a similar approach, this Note considers the implications of a constitutional right of access to juvenile delinquency hearings. Part I examines the right of access announced in Globe Newspaper and Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia. Part II looks at the juvenile justice system and argues that extension …
Improving Jury Deliberations: A Reconsideration Of Lesser Included Offense Instructions, Michael D. Craig
Improving Jury Deliberations: A Reconsideration Of Lesser Included Offense Instructions, Michael D. Craig
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note approves of efforts to avoid hung juries by giving lesser included offense instructions but opposes those instructions that restrict juror decisions and coerce minority jurors. Rather, this Note offers a lesser included offense instruction that promotes flexibility and jury compromise without undermining the deliberative process. Part I describes the problem of hung juries and how courts have tried to prevent them with restrictive lesser included offense instructions. Part II analyzes the coercive impact of restrictive lesser included offense instructions and concludes that an instruction conditioning deliberations upon individual juror disagreement better promotes compromises on the merits while reducing …
Habeas Corpus Review Of State Trial Court Failure To Give Lesser Included Offense Instructions, Michael H. Hoffheimer
Habeas Corpus Review Of State Trial Court Failure To Give Lesser Included Offense Instructions, Michael H. Hoffheimer
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note advocates that federal courts review state criminal convictions in habeas corpus proceedings when lesser included offense instructions are available under state law but were not given. Part I demonstrates that granting such review conforms to the modern jurisdictional scope of federal collateral review because failure to give the instructions undermines the fact-finding function of juries and is therefore unconstitutional. Part II analyzes the proper standard of review and determines that the federal interest in protecting the reliability of the fact-finding process should prevail over any conflicting state interest in refusing to give lesser included offense instructions. Part II …
Reassessing The Role Of The Trial Judge In Verdictless Dispositions Of Criminal Cases, H. Richard Uviller
Reassessing The Role Of The Trial Judge In Verdictless Dispositions Of Criminal Cases, H. Richard Uviller
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Passive Judiciary by Abraham S. Goldstein
Watching The Judiciary Watch The Police, Jon O. Newman
Watching The Judiciary Watch The Police, Jon O. Newman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Police Practices and the Law: Essays from the Michigan Law ReviewThe University of Michigan Press
The Politics Of Judicial Reform, Michigan Law Review
The Politics Of Judicial Reform, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Politics of Judicial Reform edited by Philip L. Dubois
Conceptual Overburden In The System's Operation?: Of Judges And Scholars, Jurisdiction And All That, James Dickson Phillips Jr.
Conceptual Overburden In The System's Operation?: Of Judges And Scholars, Jurisdiction And All That, James Dickson Phillips Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Federal Practice and Procedure, Volumes 13-19: Jurisdiction and Related Matters by Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller, and Edward H. Cooper
Making Noninterpretivism Respectable: Michael J. Perry's Contributions To Constitutional Theory, Richard B. Saphire
Making Noninterpretivism Respectable: Michael J. Perry's Contributions To Constitutional Theory, Richard B. Saphire
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Constitution, The Courts, and Human Rights: An Inquiry into the Legitimacy of Constitutional Policymaking by the Judiciary by Michael J. Perry
Habeas Corpus: Its History And Its Future, Charles Alan Wright
Habeas Corpus: Its History And Its Future, Charles Alan Wright
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Constitutional History of Habeas Corpus by William F. Duker
The Medieval English County Court, Stephen D. White
The Medieval English County Court, Stephen D. White
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The County Courts of Medieval England, 1150-1350 by Robert C. Palmer
Access To Justice And The Welfare State, Michigan Law Review
Access To Justice And The Welfare State, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Access to Justice and the Welfare State edited by Mauro Cappellitti
Reconstructing Reality In The Courtroom: Justice And Judgement In American Culture, Michigan Law Review
Reconstructing Reality In The Courtroom: Justice And Judgement In American Culture, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and Judgement in American Culture by W. Lance Bennett and Martha S. Feldman
The Environmental Decade In Court, Michigan Law Review
The Environmental Decade In Court, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Environmental Decade in Court by Lettie McSpadden Wenner
Judicial Reform: Setting The Prairies Afire, Monroe G. Mckay
Judicial Reform: Setting The Prairies Afire, Monroe G. Mckay
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Blueprint for Judicial Reform edited by Patrick B. McGuigan and Randall R. Rader
American Court Management: Theories And Practices, Michigan Law Review
American Court Management: Theories And Practices, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of American Court Management: Theories and Practices by David J. Saari
Exploring The Roots Of Our Criminal Justice Systems, Samuel Walker
Exploring The Roots Of Our Criminal Justice Systems, Samuel Walker
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Roots of Justice by Lawrence M. Friedman and Robert V. Percival, and Conscience and Convenience by David Rothman
How Consumer Remedies Fail, Bryant G. Garth
How Consumer Remedies Fail, Bryant G. Garth
Michigan Law Review
A Review of No Access to Law: Alternatives to the American Judicial System edited by Laura Nader
Plato's Ideal And The Perversity Of Politics, Mark G. Yudof
Plato's Ideal And The Perversity Of Politics, Mark G. Yudof
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Educational Policy Making and the Courts: An Empirical Study of Judicial Activism by Michael A. Rebell and Arthur R. Block
A Comparative Perspective On Legal Evolution, Revolution, And Devolution, Laura Nader
A Comparative Perspective On Legal Evolution, Revolution, And Devolution, Laura Nader
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Courts--A Comparative and Political Analysis by Martin Shapiro, and Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700 by Richard L. Kagan
Legal Psychology: Eyewitness Testimony--Jury Behavior, Michigan Law Review
Legal Psychology: Eyewitness Testimony--Jury Behavior, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Legal Psychology: Eyewitness Testimony--Jury Behavior by L. Craig Parker
Trade Restrictions, Federalism, And The Judiciary: Comparative Perspectives, Mackenzie Stuart
Trade Restrictions, Federalism, And The Judiciary: Comparative Perspectives, Mackenzie Stuart
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Courts and Free Markets: Perspectives From the United States and Europe edited by Terrance Sandalow and Eric Stein
The War On Diversity, John W. Reed
The War On Diversity, John W. Reed
Other Publications
Over the past decade or more there have been strong pressures to abolish the diversity jurisdiction of the federal courts. With the strong backing of the prestigious American Law Institute and many scholars, and with the support of the Chief Justice, Senator Kennedy, and others, specific proposals have been introduced in Congress, have been discussed at enormous length, and have passed one or the other House but not both. At the moment, therefore, we still have diversity jurisdiction, and it is safe to predict that abolition of diversity will not occur during the present session of Congress. Nevertheless, the long-term …
Reducing Court Costs And Delay: An Overview, Leonard S. Janofsky
Reducing Court Costs And Delay: An Overview, Leonard S. Janofsky
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The American legal system is unparalleled in its efforts to protect individual rights. A citizen's access to the legal system provides the basis for our government of laws. Yet, it must be recognized that serious problems confront the American system and persist despite a long history of efforts at reform by the organized bar, the judiciary, and other interested parties. Years of delay exist in many of the nation's busiest courts. The cost of maintaining or defending a suit has grown at an alarming rate. These infamous twin evils - delay and cost - do more than belie the standard …
An Appellate Court Dilemma And A Solution Through Subject Matter Organization, Daniel J. Meador
An Appellate Court Dilemma And A Solution Through Subject Matter Organization, Daniel J. Meador
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The recent litigation explosion presents a two-pronged dilemma for American appellate courts. If, on the one hand, the number of appellate judges is not expanded to keep abreast of growing case loads, there is a risk that courts will rely too heavily on professional staff, thereby watering down the decision-making process. If, on the other hand, the number of judges is proportionately increased with the growth in appellate litigation, the number of three-judge decisional units will also increase, thereby threatening predictability and uniformity in the law of the jurisdiction. This Article undertakes to explain that dilemma and to offer a …