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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Recent Cases--

Attorney and Client--Contingent Fee Contracts--Divorce Action

Corporations--Corporate Power--Contributions to Philanthropic Institutions

Corporations--Criminal Anti-Trust Action--Indemnification of Directors for Litigation Expenses

Evidence--Presumption of Law and Inference of Fact--Retrospective Presumption of Continuity

Federal Procedure--Class Actions--Discretion of Trial Court

Income Taxation--Deductions--"Ordinary and Necessary"--Expenses

Income Taxation--False Statements--Criminal Penalties

Labor Law--Arbitration Agreements--Specific Enforcement in Federal Courts

Military Law--Discharged Personnel--Power to Arrest for Serious Crimes

Military Law--Privilege Against Self Incrimination--Admissibility of Handwriting Specimen Obtained Involuntarily

Torts--Automobile Guest--Contributory Negligence as a Matter of Law

Workmen's Compensation--Employees' Altercations--Aggresso

Labor Law, Paul H. Sanders

Vanderbilt Law Review

The body of statutory wording, regulations and court and administrative decisions which clusters around such familiar federal landmarks as the Labor-Management Relations Act ("Taft-Hartley") and the Fair Labor Standards Act ("Wage and Hour") fall far short of constituting the entire subject matter of Labor Law. State statutes or the common law of the state may be much more in point in providing the legal framework for solving a particular problem of the employment relationship, whether viewed individually or collectively. The law which governs the various aspects of the "human factor in industry," or which prescribes the ground rules under which …

Labor Relations--Union-Employer Contract--Employee's Rights, J. L. A.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Contracts--Ceiling Price Legislation--Effect upon Performance

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Evidence--Declarations against Interest--Third-Party Confessions

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Family Law--Loss of Consortium of the Parent--Right of Child to Recover Against a Negligent Defendant

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Federal Procedure--Statutory Construction--Meaning of "Mentally Incompetent"

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Income Taxation--Surrender of Lease--Capital Gain to Lessee

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Income Taxation--Taxable Stock Dividend--Treasury Stock Held for Investment

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Judgment--Suit to Vacate--Insufficient Allegations of Cruelty Void Divorce Decree

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Labor Law--Filing Requirements--Noncompliance at Time Charges Filed

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Municipal Corporations--Liability for Negligence--Operation of Swimming Pool for Profit

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Process--Constructive Service--Tort Action Arising Without State

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Torts--Res Ipsa Loquitur--Application To Disappearing Airplane

Labor Law-Application Of Unlawful Purpose Doctrine To Sustain Injunction Against Picketing In Support Of Breach Of Employment Contract. [Arkansas]

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Constitutional Law--Constitutionality of Group Libel Statute

Federal Employers Liability Act--Liability for Employment of Man with Violent Tendencies

Federal Jurisdiction--Diversity Jurisdiction and the Multi-State Corporation

Federal Jurisdiction--Erie Railroad Doctrine Extended to State-Created Rights Arising under Special Federal Question Jurisdiction

Labor Law--Picketing--Injunction against Breach of Bargaining Agreement

Landlord and Tenant--Exculpatory Agreement--Effect on Right of Subrogation of Landlord's Insurer

Military Law--Failure to Instruct as Prejudicial Error

Military Law--Infiltration of Command Influence as General Prejudice

Trusts--Distribution of Stock Dividends between Life Tenant and Remainderman

The Effect Of Relocation Or Sale Of Industry Upon Labor--Management Relations, Harold I. Ticktin

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

Management's Prerogatives Vs. Labor's Rights, Richard A. Clapp

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.