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The Commerciality Doctrine As Applied To The Charitable Tax Exemption For Homes For The Aged: State And Local Tax Perspectives, David A. Brennen
The Commerciality Doctrine As Applied To The Charitable Tax Exemption For Homes For The Aged: State And Local Tax Perspectives, David A. Brennen
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This essay examines the question of how state and local government officials should consider federal tax law principles, like the commerciality doctrine, when they challenge state and local property tax exemptions that rely, at least in part, on tax-exempt charitable status for federal income tax purposes. In particular, this essay uses the example of continuing care retirement communities to consider tax-exempt law’s commerciality doctrine in an attempt to discern distinctions between “homes for the aged” that are “charitable,” and thus entitled to exemption, and those that are too commercial, and thus not entitled to exemption. In fact, one might say …
The Battle Over Implied Preemption: Products Liability And The Fda, Mary J. Davis
The Battle Over Implied Preemption: Products Liability And The Fda, Mary J. Davis
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
A mere five years ago, the Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA") began, for the first time in its 100-year history, to take the position that its prescription drug labeling regulations defeated the ability of injured plaintiffs to pursue common law tort claims based on the adequacy of the labeling. This position, radical to many and rational to others, places federal preemption of prescription drug labeling actions directly in the center of the debate over the proper roles of federal regulation and state tort laws in promoting product safety. The U.S. Supreme Court has contributed to this debate with several …
When Is A "Minor" Also An "Adult"?: An Adolescent's Liberty Interest In Accessing Contraceptives From Public School Distribution Programs, Joshua A. Douglas
When Is A "Minor" Also An "Adult"?: An Adolescent's Liberty Interest In Accessing Contraceptives From Public School Distribution Programs, Joshua A. Douglas
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Imagine “Mary,” a sixteen-year-old junior in high school, who has been dating “John,” a seventeen-year-old senior, for three years in a serious relationship. Mary knows that she and John should practice safe sex, and she does not want to become pregnant or catch a sexually transmitted disease. However, she is concerned that her parents will not approve of her activities and will not help her in obtaining contraceptives. John also feels that he is mature enough to make the decision to have sex, yet he knows that his parents will want to consent before he can receive condoms from his …
Social Security Reform: Fundamental Restructuring Or Incremental Change?, Kathryn L. Moore
Social Security Reform: Fundamental Restructuring Or Incremental Change?, Kathryn L. Moore
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In light of Social Security's long-term deficit, reform of the system appears inevitable. Commentators and policymakers have offered a wide range of possible reforms. This Article describes and analyzes five possible types of reform: (1) individual accounts, (2) progressive price indexing, (3) general revenue and/or estate tax revenue financing, (4) increasing the maximum taxable wage base, and (5) increasing the normal retirement. The Article opposes the first two proposed changes, individual accounts and progressive price indexing, because they would fundamentally restructure the current system. The Article recommends that Social Security's financing difficulties be addressed by a combination of estate tax …
The Health Implications Of Violence Against Women: Untangling The Complexities Of Actual And Chronic Effects: Part Two, Carol E. Jordan
The Health Implications Of Violence Against Women: Untangling The Complexities Of Actual And Chronic Effects: Part Two, Carol E. Jordan
Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women Publications
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Human Nature Constraints Upon The Realistic Utopianism Of Rawls And Nussbaum, James M. Donovan
Human Nature Constraints Upon The Realistic Utopianism Of Rawls And Nussbaum, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
As Christopher Bobonich (1993, p. S92) reminds us, “The idea of basing an ethical theory on human nature has attracted Western philosophers from the very beginning of philosophical reflection on ethics.” Unfortunately many philosophers have not kept apace with the best research in the empirical disciplines exploring that topic, with the result that their works contain more impractical idealism than they intend. In order to ensure the soundness and persuasiveness of their ethical conclusions, philosophers should routinely confront the relevant social scientific literature and situate their initial assumptions within that corpus. Before expounding on how humans ought to live, the …
The Health Implications Of Violence Against Women: Untangling The Complexities Of Acute And Chronic Effects: Part One, Carol E. Jordan
The Health Implications Of Violence Against Women: Untangling The Complexities Of Acute And Chronic Effects: Part One, Carol E. Jordan
Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women Publications
No abstract provided.
Managers’ Fiduciary Duties In Financially Distressed Corporations: Chaos In Delaware (And Elsewhere), Rutheford B. Campbell Jr., Christopher W. Frost
Managers’ Fiduciary Duties In Financially Distressed Corporations: Chaos In Delaware (And Elsewhere), Rutheford B. Campbell Jr., Christopher W. Frost
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The inherent conflict between creditors and shareholders has long occupied courts and commentators interested in corporate governance. Creditors holding fixed claims to the corporation's assets generally prefer corporate decision making that minimizes the risk of firm failure. Shareholders, in contrast, have a greater appetite for risk, because, as residual owners, they reap the rewards of firm success while sharing the risk of loss with creditors.
Traditionally, this conflict is mediated by a governance structure that imposes a fiduciary duty on the corporation's managers-its officers and directors-to maximize the value of the shareholders' interests in the firm. In this traditional view, …
Conspiracy Theories: Is There A Place For Civil Conspiracy In Products Liability Litigation?, Richard C. Ausness
Conspiracy Theories: Is There A Place For Civil Conspiracy In Products Liability Litigation?, Richard C. Ausness
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A civil conspiracy is a group of two or more persons acting together to achieve an unlawful objective or to achieve a lawful objective by unlawful or criminal means. During the past two decades, plaintiffs have brought numerous civil conspiracy claims against product manufacturers. The defendants in these cases have included manufacturers or producers of tobacco products, asbestos, pharmaceuticals, lead-based paint, multi-rim truck wheels, and gasoline additives. Surprisingly, less than half of the civil conspiracy claims have made it to trial. This unimpressive success rate suggests that courts are not very receptive to civil conspiracy claims even when there is …
Prolegomenon To A Fairness-Centered Anthropology Of Law, James M. Donovan
Prolegomenon To A Fairness-Centered Anthropology Of Law, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Legal anthropology, which began with Malinowski’s holistic reflections on law, has today drifted toward an emphasis on the study of dispute resolution. Part I outlines the three historical phases of this development—Holism, Realism, and Processualism—and identifies two shortcomings of viewing the dispute as the central problem for legal anthropology: (1) the collapse of law into dispute analyses has not been, and perhaps cannot be, fully theorized; and (2) the most pressing of current problems, such as human rights and intellectual property issues, cannot be reduced without distortion to the disputing paradigm. Part II offers fairness as an alternative organizing concept …
A Vote For Clarity: Updating The Supreme Court's Severe Burden Test For State Election Regulations That Adversely Impact An Individual's Right To Vote, Joshua A. Douglas
A Vote For Clarity: Updating The Supreme Court's Severe Burden Test For State Election Regulations That Adversely Impact An Individual's Right To Vote, Joshua A. Douglas
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The presidential election on November 2, 2004, was perhaps one of the most watched and contentious elections in recent memory. Both major parties knew that the race would come down to several battleground states, including Ohio. The real battle in Ohio, however, began a day or two before Election Day, when several federal judges clashed over whether to allow partisan challengers at the polls.
On October 31, 2004 and November 1, 2004, two separate district court judges ruled that an Ohio election statute allowing political parties and groups of five or more candidates to place challengers at election precincts to …
Reviving Lazarus: Status Of The Fda Compliance Defense After Bates V. Dow Agrosciences And The New Fda Regulations, Jason T. Ams
Reviving Lazarus: Status Of The Fda Compliance Defense After Bates V. Dow Agrosciences And The New Fda Regulations, Jason T. Ams
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Home Sweet Home?! Maybe Not For Parolees And Probationers When It Comes To Fourth Amendment Protection, David M. Stout
Home Sweet Home?! Maybe Not For Parolees And Probationers When It Comes To Fourth Amendment Protection, David M. Stout
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Delimiting The Culture Defense, James M. Donovan, John Stuart Garth
Delimiting The Culture Defense, James M. Donovan, John Stuart Garth
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This essay builds upon the arguments of Alison Dundes Renteln in her influential book, The Cultural Defense (2004), in which she argues persuasively for a uniformly recognized culture defense in certain litigations. Critiquing some of her details, we recast her three-prong culture defense test to more effectively balance the competing interests of minority culture members to have their ways of life taken seriously by the courts, and of members of the dominant tradition who wish to preserve the rule of law with its necessary perception as treating all parties equally. The offered formulation now includes the following five elements:
1. …
Why Do Landlords Still Discriminate (And What Can Be Done About It)?, Robert G. Schwemm
Why Do Landlords Still Discriminate (And What Can Be Done About It)?, Robert G. Schwemm
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Let's say you have a serious, though not life-threatening, medical condition, such as a non-malignant growth in your back that causes considerable pain and impairs your ability to walk. At first, your doctor tells you there is no cure, but then one day, a new drug specifically designed to eliminate this kind of problem is approved. You take this drug, but notice no change. With your doctor's encouragement, you continue to take the drug, hoping that its cumulative effect will achieve the desired result. Twenty years go by with no relief. Then, your doctor tells you that a much stronger …
Book Review | The Battle For Social Security: From Fdr’S Vision To Bush’S Gamble By Nancy J. Altman (2005), Kathryn L. Moore
Book Review | The Battle For Social Security: From Fdr’S Vision To Bush’S Gamble By Nancy J. Altman (2005), Kathryn L. Moore
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This book review examines The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble by Nancy J. Altman (2005).
The Economic Loss Rule And Missed Opportunities: How To Keep Kentucky From Drowning In A Sea Of Tort, Matthew J. Pujol
The Economic Loss Rule And Missed Opportunities: How To Keep Kentucky From Drowning In A Sea Of Tort, Matthew J. Pujol
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Open Or Closed: Balancing Border Policy With Human Rights, Elizabeth M. Bruch
Open Or Closed: Balancing Border Policy With Human Rights, Elizabeth M. Bruch
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Corporate Domestic Partner Benefits, James M. Donovan
Corporate Domestic Partner Benefits, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Despite the common use of the term domestic partner, it remains unclear what that term means either in identifying a specific individual or in its relationship to the status of marriage. Is it a temporary substitute based on equity, or a challenger looking toward social reform? Because these positions are mutually exclusive, domestic partner benefits activists must clarify what it is they hope to achieve.
The justification for withholding equitable compensation tends to fall back on the federal DOMA and ERISA laws, which unquestionably complicate the benefits terrain. But experts agree that while these federal laws may serve as a …
Delimiting The Culture Defense, James M. Donovan, John Stuart Garth
Delimiting The Culture Defense, James M. Donovan, John Stuart Garth
James M. Donovan
This essay builds upon the arguments of Alison Dundes Renteln in her influential book, THE CULTURAL DEFENSE 2004), in which she argues persuasively for a uniformly recognized culture defense in certain litigations. Critiquing some of her details, we recast her three-prong culture defense test to more effectively balance the competing interests of minority culture members to have their ways of life taken seriously by the courts, and of members of the dominant tradition who wish to preserve the rule of law with its necessary perception as treating all parties equally. The offered formulation now includes the following five elements:
1. …
A Foundation For Transnational Obligations, James M. Donovan
A Foundation For Transnational Obligations, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Human rights have, over the last fifty years, risen to the forefront of foreign relations. Whereas Marx could refer them as the “so-called human rights,” few today would be so bold as to question the cogency of the category itself. Despite this pervasive influence, the concept of human rights sits uneasily with other deeply-entrenched categories, not least being the sovereign state. Without some ethical reconciliation between these two, enforcement of these rights will remain opportunistic.
Some will argue that, just as the rights are predicated on the universal concept of the human, the mechanisms for their enforcement should also be …
The Legislative Privilege To Judge The Qualifications, Elections, And Returns Of Members, Paul E. Salamanca, James E. Keller
The Legislative Privilege To Judge The Qualifications, Elections, And Returns Of Members, Paul E. Salamanca, James E. Keller
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In Stephenson v. Woodward, the Supreme Court of Kentucky functionally affirmed a quo warranto against a sitting member of the senate. Although a respectable argument can be made that the person in question was in fact not qualified to serve, the senate itself had deliberated on the issue and had reached its own respectable conclusion that she was qualified. More importantly, the Constitution of Kentucky, like the Constitution of the United States and that of virtually every other state, authorizes each house of the legislature to be the "judge of" its members' qualifications, elections and returns. According to the …
Social Security Reform: An Analysis Of The Ball/Altman Three-Point Plan, Kathryn L. Moore
Social Security Reform: An Analysis Of The Ball/Altman Three-Point Plan, Kathryn L. Moore
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In light of Social Security's long-term funding deficit, Robert Ball, a long-serving former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, has proposed a three part plan that would bring the Social Security system into close actuarial balance. The first part of the plan consists of gradually increasing the maximum earnings base until it reaches 90 percent of earnings. The second part of the plan calls for dedicating the estate tax to funding Social Security beginning in 2010, and the third part of the plan consists of investing a portion of the Social Security trust fund in equities. Nancy Altman, Chairman of …
The Economic Torts And English Law: An Uncertain Future, Hazel Carty
The Economic Torts And English Law: An Uncertain Future, Hazel Carty
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Teaching Economic Torts, Jay Feinman
"Deep" Impact: Can A Tort Theory Of Deepening Insolvency Survive In The "Options Backdating" Era?, Phillip G. Lewis
"Deep" Impact: Can A Tort Theory Of Deepening Insolvency Survive In The "Options Backdating" Era?, Phillip G. Lewis
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Solution To The Economic Loss Doctrine Confusion: The Disappointed Expectations Test, Mackenzie Mayes Walter
The Solution To The Economic Loss Doctrine Confusion: The Disappointed Expectations Test, Mackenzie Mayes Walter
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Mucking Out The Stalls: How Krs § 230.357 Promises To Change Custom And Facilitate Economic Efficiency In The Horse Industry, R. Kelley Rosenbaum
Mucking Out The Stalls: How Krs § 230.357 Promises To Change Custom And Facilitate Economic Efficiency In The Horse Industry, R. Kelley Rosenbaum
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Corporate Deferred Prosecutions Through The Looking Glass Of Contract Policing, Candace Zierdt, Ellen S. Podgor
Corporate Deferred Prosecutions Through The Looking Glass Of Contract Policing, Candace Zierdt, Ellen S. Podgor
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Plain Meaning Vs. Broad Interpretation: How The Risk Of Opportunism Defeats A Unitary Default Rule For Interpretation, Juliet P. Kostritsky
Plain Meaning Vs. Broad Interpretation: How The Risk Of Opportunism Defeats A Unitary Default Rule For Interpretation, Juliet P. Kostritsky
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.