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A Dangerous Distinction: The Deconstitutionalization Of Private Speech, Derigan Silver, Ruth Walden
A Dangerous Distinction: The Deconstitutionalization Of Private Speech, Derigan Silver, Ruth Walden
Derigan Silver
In the mid-1960s the U.S. Supreme Court began applying a Meiklejohnian approach to certain First Amendment claims, using a self-government rationale to justify enhanced protection for freedom of expression on matters of public concern in cases involving defamation, false light invasion of privacy, government employees’ speech, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, as well as others. The Court, however, refrained from acknowledging the remainder of Meiklejohn’s argument — that private speech is outside the purview of the First Amendment and protected only by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. In the wake of Supreme Court defamation rulings in …
Shaping The Disclosure Tort: Scholars' Early Importance And Modern Impotence, Jared A. Wilkerson
Shaping The Disclosure Tort: Scholars' Early Importance And Modern Impotence, Jared A. Wilkerson
Jared A. Wilkerson
Legal scholars guided the creation and development of the disclosure tort for about seventy-five years (1890–1965), a period in which most states recognized a common law or statutory right to privacy. Since then, however, scholarly attempts to curb or modify the tort have yielded nothing. This article—beginning with the formalism-realism debate won by such sages as Brandeis, Pound, and Prosser and ending with modern experts like Chemerinsky, Posner, and Solove—shows that notwithstanding enormous efforts by some of America’s most respected contemporary academics, would-be reformers of the disclosure tort have not budged it since Prosser’s definition in the Restatement (Second). This …
Burdens Of Proof And Qualified Immunity, Kenneth J. Duvall
Burdens Of Proof And Qualified Immunity, Kenneth J. Duvall
Kenneth J Duvall
Despite the need to strike a proper balance between effective § 1983 suits to deter government misconduct and corresponding, robust defenses to deter frivolous suits, courts across the nation cannot agree on the fundamental questions of what the proper defenses to § 1983 actions are or how to allocate the burdens of proof in such litigation. This Article would remedy this situation, proposing an approach that offers both a single defense to § 1983 claims and a uniform allocation of the burdens of proof when that defense is raised. In Part I, this Article briefly explains the burdens of proof, …
Torts As (Only) Wrongs? An Empirical Perspective, Lawrence M. Solan, Joseph Sanders, Matthew Kugler, John M. Darley
Torts As (Only) Wrongs? An Empirical Perspective, Lawrence M. Solan, Joseph Sanders, Matthew Kugler, John M. Darley
Lawrence M. Solan
In this article, we report on several studies that explore peoples’ preferences for strict liability or negligence in assigning responsibility for accidents. Depending on the situation, a substantial percentage of individuals stand prepared to assign liability to actors who are not negligent. We relate these findings to current debate over whether the essence of tort law is compensation to victims for wrongs committed by defendants.
We begin with a brief discussion of the relative roles that strict liability and negligence play in the tort system, both historically and in current doctrine. In essence, both the scholarly literature and the law …
Torts As (Only) Wrongs?: An Empirical Perspective, Lawrence Solan, Joseph Sanders, Matthew Kugler, John Darley
Torts As (Only) Wrongs?: An Empirical Perspective, Lawrence Solan, Joseph Sanders, Matthew Kugler, John Darley
Lawrence M. Solan
In this article, we report on several studies that explore peoples’ preferences for strict liability or negligence in assigning responsibility for accidents. Depending on the situation, a substantial percentage of individuals stand prepared to assign liability to actors who are not negligent. We relate these findings to current debate over whether the essence of tort law is compensation to victims for wrongs committed by defendants.
We begin with a brief discussion of the relative roles that strict liability and negligence play in the tort system, both historically and in current doctrine. In essence, both the scholarly literature and the law …
The Law And Economics Of Products Liability, Keith N. Hylton
The Law And Economics Of Products Liability, Keith N. Hylton
Keith N Hylton
This paper presents a largely positive analysis of products liability law, in the sense that it aims to predict the incentive effects and the welfare consequences of the law, with close regard to its specific legal tests and the real-world constraints that impinge on these tests. The other major part of this paper is a normative assessment of the parts of products liability law that should be reformed. In contrast with the prevailing law and economics literature suggesting that products liability law reduces social welfare, I argue that the law probably improves social welfare, though it is in need of …
The Social Equality Function Of Punitive Damages, Brittan J. Bush
The Social Equality Function Of Punitive Damages, Brittan J. Bush
Brittan J Bush
No abstract provided.
What Do Kim Kardashian And Lance Armstrong Have In Common?: Celebrity Complaints In The Classroom, Amy K. Langenfeld
What Do Kim Kardashian And Lance Armstrong Have In Common?: Celebrity Complaints In The Classroom, Amy K. Langenfeld
Amy K Langenfeld
Every day brings a report of a celebrity suing or being sued. The complaints initiating these suits are available online within hours. Regardless of the merits or outcomes of these complaints by or against celebrities, celebrity complaints are a rich source of samples for the law school classroom. As supplements to course materials in civil procedure or legal writing, celebrity complaints are likely to generate discussion for several reasons. First, they show a range of strategies and persuasive writing techniques. Second, they engage students because they are real world documents, and because they have a pop culture setting. Third, they …
Unmasking A Pretext For Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal To Let Employment Discrimination Speak For Itself, Bill Corbett
Unmasking A Pretext For Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal To Let Employment Discrimination Speak For Itself, Bill Corbett
William R. Corbett
Unmasking a Pretext for Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal to Let Employment Discrimination Speak for Itself
William R. Corbett*
Has too much tort law been incorporated into the case law under the federal employment discrimination statutes? The debate on this issue has been reinvigorated by the Supreme Court’s decision in Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 131 S. Ct. 1186 (2011). In Staub the Court referred to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, a federal employment discrimination statute, as a “federal tort.” The Court then adopted the tort doctrine of proximate cause as the standard for evaluating subordinate bias (or …
Legal Applications Of Modern Finance, Matthew E. Cavanaugh Mba Cpa Esq.
Legal Applications Of Modern Finance, Matthew E. Cavanaugh Mba Cpa Esq.
Matthew E. Cavanaugh MBA CPA Esq.
While scholars and practitioners have applied economics to law successfully for decades, there has been almost no similar application of modern finance. Courts have used the central concept of classical finance, time value of money, for many years, but their use is still unsophisticated.
This article details two ways to apply modern finance to law. This article first describes a method of improving courts’ time value of money calculations, by using a systematically complete four factor analysis to determine the appropriate discount rate. This article then describes a method of calculating future damages that uses market price of risk, based …
Who Shot Charles Summers?, Kyle Graham
Who Shot Charles Summers?, Kyle Graham
Faculty Publications
This short piece ties up a loose end from the somewhat famous Torts case of Summers v. Tice. In it, St. Peter considers who, as between Harold Tice and Ernest Simonson, actually shot Charles Summers.
Deceiving Law Students: Employment Statistics & Tort Liability, Angie D. Roberts-Huckaby
Deceiving Law Students: Employment Statistics & Tort Liability, Angie D. Roberts-Huckaby
Angie D. Roberts-Huckaby
Controversy is rampant in American legal education. In less than a year, an unprecedented fourteen separate class action lawsuits have been filed against fourteen different law schools. The lawsuits each allege that the schools have disseminated postgraduate employment statistics in ways that are fraudulent and misleading. Students’ primary goal, when applying to law school, is to become lawyers. Law school is not an institution students attend merely to satisfy intellectual curiosity. Law school is a grueling three-year endurance race challenging student’s intellectual reasoning, emotional rationale, and financial security. Therefore, it is critical for students to choose the right school7 Law …
Blinded By A Bright Line: An Analysis Of The Fairfield Formula And Its Impact On Existing Laws And Legislative Procedure, Thomas A. Limehouse Jr.
Blinded By A Bright Line: An Analysis Of The Fairfield Formula And Its Impact On Existing Laws And Legislative Procedure, Thomas A. Limehouse Jr.
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Corporate Laibility And Foreign Acts Of Torture: Aziz V. Alcolac, Inc., C. Alexander Cable
Corporate Laibility And Foreign Acts Of Torture: Aziz V. Alcolac, Inc., C. Alexander Cable
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Statutes And Civil Liability In The Commonwealth And The United States: A Comparative Critique, Neil J. Foster
Statutes And Civil Liability In The Commonwealth And The United States: A Comparative Critique, Neil J. Foster
Neil J Foster
Both the major “common law” systems of private law allow breach of a criminal statute to inform or create civil liability. This paper discusses the differences and similarities between the Commonwealth jurisdictions and the United States of America in this somewhat under-theorised area. The aim is not to resolve all the problems presented by the jurisprudence and commentary on these various forms of action, but to provide a starting point for comparison between the approaches that the two systems have adopted on this issue of implied statutory civil liability. It is hoped that a proper understanding of the development of …
Stepping Away From The Abyss? Will The Supreme Court Preclude Extraterritorial Application Of The Alien Tort Statute?, Richard O. Faulk
Stepping Away From The Abyss? Will The Supreme Court Preclude Extraterritorial Application Of The Alien Tort Statute?, Richard O. Faulk
Richard Faulk
Policymakers find themselves increasingly occupied with ATS claims arising from conduct that occurred in other countries and which has no significant connection to the United States — claims that may not be consistent with our own government’s policies for promoting human rights. Although this issue of “extraterritorial” application has been inherent in every ATS case that has involved injuries caused by foreign corporations outside the United States, it has evaded review in every instance, and — until the Supreme Court heard arguments recently in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum — it appeared that the proliferation of ATS cases in that …
A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits
A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits
Richard S. Markovits
No abstract provided.
The Constitutional Bounding Of Adjudication: A Fuller(Ian) Explanation For The Supreme Court's Mass Tort Jurisprudence, Donald G. Gifford
The Constitutional Bounding Of Adjudication: A Fuller(Ian) Explanation For The Supreme Court's Mass Tort Jurisprudence, Donald G. Gifford
Donald G Gifford
In this Article, I argue that the Supreme Court is implicitly piecing together a constitutionally mandated model of bounded adjudication governing mass torts, using decisions that facially rest on disparate constitutional provisions. This model constitutionally restricts common law courts from adjudicating the rights, liabilities, and interests of persons who are neither present before the court nor capable of being defined with a reasonable degree of specificity. I find evidence for this model in the Court’s separate decisions rejecting tort-based climate change claims, global settlements of massive asbestos litigation, and punitive damages awards justified as extra-compensatory damages. These new forms of …
Contratto Di Appalto, Difformità E Vizi E Responsabilità Dell'appaltatore, Valerio Sangiovanni
Contratto Di Appalto, Difformità E Vizi E Responsabilità Dell'appaltatore, Valerio Sangiovanni
Valerio Sangiovanni
No abstract provided.
Sayonara To Fair Play And Substantial Justice, Howard B. Stravitz
Sayonara To Fair Play And Substantial Justice, Howard B. Stravitz
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Bloody Truth: Examining America's Blood Industry And Its Tort Liability Through The Arkansas Prison Plasma Scandal, Sophia Chase
The Bloody Truth: Examining America's Blood Industry And Its Tort Liability Through The Arkansas Prison Plasma Scandal, Sophia Chase
William & Mary Business Law Review
Most of the time, blood transfusions are safe. Over the years, however, tragedies connected to tainted blood and blood products have ripped through communities on an international scale. Blood contaminated with hepatitis C, HIV, and hepatitis B has sickened and killed recipients, causing financial, political, and legal repercussions for those found responsible.
This Note seeks to explore one such tragedy: the Arkansas Prison Plasma Scandal. Occurring between 1982 and 1994 at the Cummins Prison in Grady, Arkansas, the scandal stemmed from the operation of a blood product center in which prisoners “bled” in exchange for $7 to $10 per donation. …
The Economics Of Third-Party Financed Litigation, Keith N. Hylton
The Economics Of Third-Party Financed Litigation, Keith N. Hylton
Faculty Scholarship
This paper examines the law and economics of third-party financed litigation. I explore the conditions under which a system of third-party financiers and litigators can enhance social welfare, and the conditions under which it is likely to reduce social welfare. Among the applications I consider are the sale of legal rights (such as contingent tort claims) to insurers, to patent trolls, and to financiers generally
A New Look At Duty In Tort Law: Rehabilitating Foreseeability, And Related Themes, Alani Golanski
A New Look At Duty In Tort Law: Rehabilitating Foreseeability, And Related Themes, Alani Golanski
Alani Golanski
Battleground In The Classroom - Disabled Students And Section 1983 Claims, J. Richard Caldwell Jr., Darryl Lee Gavin, Lauren Fackender Carmody
Battleground In The Classroom - Disabled Students And Section 1983 Claims, J. Richard Caldwell Jr., Darryl Lee Gavin, Lauren Fackender Carmody
J. Richard Caldwell Jr.
Battleground in the Classroom – Disabled Students and Section 1983 Claims Synopsis Over the last 30 years, there has been a surge of lawsuits filed against teachers and school personnel alleging violations of students' rights under 42 U.S.C. section 1983. While courts have cautioned that section 1983 is not a substitute for state tort law, cases have arisen in a variety of school contexts. Among these have been several cases involving students under disabilities of one kind or another. In general, most courts hold that to be actionable under section 1983, the alleged conduct must "shock the conscience" of the …
Taxing Your Tears: Section 104(A)(2) And The Real Reason To Cry, Richard Cameron Gower
Taxing Your Tears: Section 104(A)(2) And The Real Reason To Cry, Richard Cameron Gower
Richard Cameron Gower
For nearly a century the federal government has been taxing the income of its citizens. For almost as long, it has been exempting damages paid in tort suits from that tax. Nonetheless, scholars cannot agree as to why the exemption should exist. Many justifications have been proposed but they all fail to rationalize the personal injury exemption. After considering and dismissing a variety of justifications for the personal injury tort exemption, this Article considers the sympathy-based rationale for the exemption, which claims that personal physical injury plaintiffs deserve favorable tax treatment because of their sympathetic situations. Though personal physical injury …
Too Many Teeth: Understanding The Medicare Secondary Payer Act And Its Threat To Businesses, James J. Hennelly Iii
Too Many Teeth: Understanding The Medicare Secondary Payer Act And Its Threat To Businesses, James J. Hennelly Iii
James J. Hennelly III
The Medicare Secondary Payer Act (“MSP”), first enacted in 1980, has undergone several changes over the past three decades in an effort by the government to recoup some of its losses from conditional payments it makes on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. In light of Congress’s many cost-cutting exploits of late, more attention should be drawn towards recent amendments to the MSP in an effort to find a healthy balance between the government’s interest in recouping its losses and private businesses’ interest in staying in business. Congress reacted to increasing Medicare costs in 2003 by inserting in the Medicare Modernization Act …
Reasonable Men, Ann Mcginley
Reasonable Men, Ann Mcginley
Ann McGinley
Abstract
REASONABLE MEN
Ann C. McGinley
After the Supreme Court recognized sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination under Title VII in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, lower courts used the reasonable person standard to measure whether the behavior was sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute a hostile working environment. Cultural and radical feminists objected to the reasonable person measure, and many supported a reasonable woman standard, which the Ninth Circuit adopted in Ellison v. Brady. Because of its tendency to essentialize how women would react, many feminists soon abandoned their support for the standard. A number of circuits, …
Reasonable Men, Ann Mcginley
Reasonable Men, Ann Mcginley
Ann McGinley
Abstract
REASONABLE MEN
Ann C. McGinley
After the Supreme Court recognized sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination under Title VII in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, lower courts used the reasonable person standard to measure whether the behavior was sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute a hostile working environment. Cultural and radical feminists objected to the reasonable person measure, and many supported a reasonable woman standard, which the Ninth Circuit adopted in Ellison v. Brady. Because of its tendency to essentialize how women would react, many feminists soon abandoned their support for the standard. A number of circuits, …
Intent And Consent In The Law Of Battery: Confusion And Controversy, Nancy J. Moore
Intent And Consent In The Law Of Battery: Confusion And Controversy, Nancy J. Moore
Nancy J Moore
Abstract
“Intent and Consent in the Tort of Battery:
Confusion and Controversy”
Much of contemporary torts scholarship has been devoted to determining who should bear the costs of unintended injury, that is, whether and when defendants should be strictly liable for the harm caused by their activities, as opposed to limiting plaintiffs to recovery when they can prove that the defendant’s conduct was negligent. Comparatively little scholarship has explored the appropriate distinction between the intentional torts and the non-intentional torts, such as negligence or strict liability. Recently, torts scholars have begun to explore some interesting and unresolved questions surrounding the …
Acceptance Speech: The Fleming Award 2004, Allen M. Linden
Acceptance Speech: The Fleming Award 2004, Allen M. Linden
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.