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The Popular Image Of The American Lawyer: Some Thoughts On Its Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Intellectual Bases, James W. Gordon
The Popular Image Of The American Lawyer: Some Thoughts On Its Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Intellectual Bases, James W. Gordon
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This essay explores the ambiguous position lawyers occupy in the popular mind in America by identifying some of the ideas which contributed to the schizophrenic popular attitude toward the legal profession in the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Many of the stock anti-lawyer themes and many of the intellectual sources of the profession's strength are clearly visible by the end of this period. The Author explores this problem, first by relating it to recent scholarship in American history describing the struggle between republicanism and liberalism at the time of the Founding. The way the profession was …
Consolidating The Preliminary Injunction Hearing And Trial: Changing The Rules In The Middle Of The Game, Arthur D. Wolf
Consolidating The Preliminary Injunction Hearing And Trial: Changing The Rules In The Middle Of The Game, Arthur D. Wolf
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In this Article the Author addresses the issues surrounding consolidation, the situation that arises when a court decides the merits of a dispute based solely on the record produced at a hearing on motion for a preliminary injunction. The Author identifies some of the more flagrant abuses that trial and appellate courts have committed in reaching the merits after only a hearing on a motion for preliminary relief. The proposed amendments discussed in the Article would serve both courts and parties. They would prevent the kind of abuses discussed in this article by requiring that the parties be informed of …