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Section 241 And The First Amendment: Avoiding A False Conflict Through Proper Mens Rea Analysis, Adam G. Safwat

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Empirical Evidence On The Deep Pockets Hypothesis: Jury Awards For Pain And Suffering In Medical Malpractice Cases, Neil Vidmar

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Just The Facts, Ma'am: Lying And The Omission Of Exculpatory Evidence In Police Reports,, Stanley Z. Fisher

Faculty Scholarship

George Jones's ordeal was the product of, and in turn sheds light upon, police practices of investigating crimes and writing reports. Written police reports of criminal incidents and arrests give details such as the time, place, and nature of criminal conduct; the names and addresses of victims and witnesses; physical characteristics of the perpetrator(s) or arrestee(s); weapons used; property taken, recovered, or seized from the arrestee; and injuries to persons and property. Through their reports, the police "have fundamental control over the construction of [the] 'facts' for a case, and all other actors (the prosecutor, the judge, the defense lawyer) …

Re Canada Post Corp And Cupw, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

Preliminary Issues involving intervention in hearing, scope of available remedies and joinder of grievances.

National union grievance dated December 30, 1991, alleging breach of the collective agreement between the parties bearing the expiry date 31-07-89, but kept in effect by force of legislation, and in particular of arts. 11, 12 and 13, in that the employer designated certain wicket positions as bilingual without justifying, for each position, the need for this change and without regard to the staffing requirements of the collective agreement. The union requests a declaration that this action by the employer was in breach of the collective …

Alaska Distress Law In The Commercial Context: Ancient Relic Of Functional Remedy, Shane J. Osowski

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.

Restricting Rico: Narrowing The Scope Of Enterprise, David M. Ludwick

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Employment-At-Will—Is The Model Act The Answer?, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Articles

Over the last quarter century, the most significant development in the field of labor and employment law has been a nationwide movement toward a revision of the at-will employment doctrine. Courts in over forty-five jurisdictions have used one or more of three main theories to carve out exceptions to the previously allpervasive principle. Unfortunately, though one can applaud the values embodied in these decisions, there are serious deficiencies in the common law modifications. The purpose of this Article is to outline those defects and to demonstrate that the interests of employees and employers alike would be better served by new …

Habeas After The Revolution, Joseph L. Hoffmann, William J. Stuntz

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Oppressed But Not Betrayed: A Comparative Assessment Of Canadian Remedies For Minority Shareholders And Other Corporate Constituents, Deborah A. Demott

Law and Contemporary Problems

The distinctive Canadian contribution to the resolution of conflict among shareholders and of conflict between nonshareholder constituents--such as creditors--and persons controlling a corporation, typically its shareholders and directors, is examined with respect to comparable US judicial remedies.