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A New (Republican) Litigation State?, Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang
A New (Republican) Litigation State?, Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang
All Faculty Scholarship
It is a commonplace in American politics that Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to favor access to courts to enforce individual rights with lawsuits. In this article we show that conventional wisdom, long true, no longer reflects party agendas in Congress. We report the results of an empirical examination of bills containing private rights of action with pro-plaintiff fee-shifting provisions that were introduced in Congress from 1989 through 2018. The last eight years of our data document escalating Republican-party support for proposals to create individual rights enforceable by private lawsuits, mobilized with attorney’s fee awards. By 2015-18, there …
Judicial Protection Of Individual Applicants Revisited: Access To Justice Through The Prism Of Judicial Subsidiarity, Sanja Bogojevic
Judicial Protection Of Individual Applicants Revisited: Access To Justice Through The Prism Of Judicial Subsidiarity, Sanja Bogojevic
Sanja Bogojević
Rules on standing hold the power to enable, as well as foreclose, intervention in regulatory processes. As such, they determine whom, and according to which criteria regulatory power may be challenged. This makes standing rules pivotal to any legal system. In the EU context, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has, over the years, been much criticised for its narrow interpretation of direct standing rules of individual applicants. Examining recent case law on standing of individual applicants, focusing on jurisprudence concerning mainly EU environmental law, this article sheds new light on this judicial approach, arguing that the …
Federal Procedure-Limitation Of Actions-Suspension Of Statute Of Limitations As To Citizen Of Enemy-Occupied Territory In War Time, Stephen J. Martin S.Ed.
Federal Procedure-Limitation Of Actions-Suspension Of Statute Of Limitations As To Citizen Of Enemy-Occupied Territory In War Time, Stephen J. Martin S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a Filipino, loaned money to a recognized guerilla unit in the Philippine Islands in 1943, during the period of the Japanese occupation of the Islands. He filed suit in the United States Court of Claims on December 31, 1952, to recover the amount of the loan. Defendant United States moved to dismiss on the ground that the claim was barred by the six-year statute of limitations applicable to the Court of Claims. Held, petition dismissed. Plaintiff's cause of action first accrued at the earliest moment when suit might have been legally instituted upon it. No circumstance in the …