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Secondary Picketing Of A Neutral Employer, Nlrb V. Retail Store Employees Union, Frances C. Elliott
Secondary Picketing Of A Neutral Employer, Nlrb V. Retail Store Employees Union, Frances C. Elliott
Akron Law Review
This note compares Justice Powell's reasoning in Safeco with the rationale of Tree Fruits and concludes that although Justice Powell was correct in limiting the Tree Fruits principles, he may have created a more substantial problem for future courts attempting to apply the Safeco principles in light of Tree Fruits. This note will explore the constitutional ramifications of the Sajeco decision and of the Labor Act itself as interpreted by Justice Powell and conclude that the legislative history is clear in its mandate that all secondary picketing is violative per se of the Labor Act. To illustrate the difficulties which …
Progressive Legal Thought, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
Progressive Legal Thought, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
All Faculty Scholarship
A widely accepted model of American legal history is that "classical" legal thought, which dominated much of the nineteenth century, was displaced by "progressive" legal thought, which survived through the New Deal and in some form to this day. Within its domain, this was a revolution nearly on a par with Copernicus or Newton. This paradigm has been adopted by both progressive liberals who defend this revolution and by classical liberals who lament it.
Classical legal thought is generally identified with efforts to systematize legal rules along lines that had become familiar in the natural sciences. This methodology involved not …