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Injunctions- By Foreign Court-Forum Non Conveniens In Minnesota May 1933

Injunctions- By Foreign Court-Forum Non Conveniens In Minnesota

Michigan Law Review

Alert Minnesota lawyers undertake to enlighten aggrieved persons in neighboring States in regard to the procedural advantages to be obtained in Minnesota. As a result of their efforts, a deluge of personal-injury litigation continues to flood the Minnesota courts. These tribunals are crowded with cases between non-residents on causes of action accruing abroad; Minnesota citizens are delayed in the trial of their own suits, and Minnesota citizens pay the bill for the added litigation. In addition, the non-resident defendant, required to appear in Minnesota, is deprived of evidence and is frequently put to useless expenditure; yet the Minnesota court, with …


Equity-Intervention Apr 1933

Equity-Intervention

Michigan Law Review

A Kansas statute forbids the operation of theatres on Sunday. Appellee obtained an interlocutory injunction restraining "the Attorney General of the State of Kansas, and his subordinates . . . and every other person acting or attempting to act for said defendants" from enforcing the statute. Following this temporary injunction the appellee continued to operate his theatres on Sunday, and when the municipal authorities of Winfield and Eldorado threatened to enforce municipal ordinances prohibiting Sunday shows, the appellee served them with copies of the preliminary order against the attorney general, and warned them that contempt proceedings would be instituted if …


State Juvenile Court Procedure For Federal Juvenile Offenders, Howard E. Wahrenbrock Nov 1931

State Juvenile Court Procedure For Federal Juvenile Offenders, Howard E. Wahrenbrock

Michigan Law Review

The Report on the Child Offender in the Federal System of Justice recommends the enactment of federal legislation which will provide means of utilizing the machinery of existing state juvenile courts where federal laws have been violated by children. The details of such legislation are not suggested in the Report. The legal questions to be encountered in the framing of such legislation call for careful consideration if full advantage is to be taken of the knowledge which the study made for the Commission furnishes. Some of the questions of more general interest will be taken as the subject of this …


Courts-Power To Direct Verdicts Where Forbidden By State Constitution Jun 1931

Courts-Power To Direct Verdicts Where Forbidden By State Constitution

Michigan Law Review

ln a suit for personal injuries the district court of the United States for the district of Arizona directed a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence. The constitution of Arizona, sec. 5, art. 18 provides: "The defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of risk shall, in all cases whatsoever, be a question of fact and shall, at all times, be left to the jury." Held, that this section is not binding on a federal court sitting in Arizona, and does not prevent such court from directing a verdict when …


The New Michigan Court Rules, Edson R. Sunderland Mar 1931

The New Michigan Court Rules, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

There are two features of general interest connected with the revised system of practice which went into operation in Michigan on January 1, 1931. The first is the manner of employing the rule-making power, and the second is the content of the new rules.


The Illinois Appellate Courts-Are They Satisfactory? May 1929

The Illinois Appellate Courts-Are They Satisfactory?

Michigan Law Review

The instantaneous answer of "Yes" to this question was given by every Illinois attorney the writer asked while gathering material for this article, and undoubtedly that would be the answer of an overwhelming percentage of the Illinois Bar. In the Constitutional Convention of 1920 in Illinois, not one of the fifty odd lawyer members ever questioned their expediency in all the debates on the judiciary article. And much can, of course, be said in their favor. They relieve the supreme court of a great burden of work. They are closer at hand than the supreme court to most of the …


State Law And The Federal Courts, Raymond T. Johnson Jan 1929

State Law And The Federal Courts, Raymond T. Johnson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Indiana Docket Dec 1927

Indiana Docket

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Notes Dec 1927

Recent Case Notes

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket) Jun 1927

Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket)

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket) May 1927

Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket)

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket) Apr 1927

Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket)

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket) Feb 1927

Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket)

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Re-Arranging The Indiana Judiciary (Continued), Theophilus J. Moll Jan 1927

Re-Arranging The Indiana Judiciary (Continued), Theophilus J. Moll

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket) Jan 1927

Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket)

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Re-Arranging The Indiana Judiciary, Theophilus J. Moll Dec 1926

Re-Arranging The Indiana Judiciary, Theophilus J. Moll

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket) Dec 1926

Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket)

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Privity Of Parties And Attack For Fraud On Judgments Of Sister State Dec 1926

Privity Of Parties And Attack For Fraud On Judgments Of Sister State

Michigan Law Review

An interesting recent decision in Minnesota, Schendel v. C. M. & St. P. Ry. Co., raises two important questions concerning the effect to be given in one state of the Union to a judgment rendered in the courts of another. An action was brought in Minnesota by a special administrator, there appointed, to recover damages for the death of his decedent. The accident resulting in death had occurred in Iowa while the decedent, it was claimed, was engaged in inter-state commerce, so as to bring the claim within the federal statute. To this Minnesota action the defendant set up …


Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket) Nov 1926

Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket)

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Some Phases Of Procedure In The Supreme And Appellate Courts Of Indiana, Zack T. Dungan Nov 1926

Some Phases Of Procedure In The Supreme And Appellate Courts Of Indiana, Zack T. Dungan

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Indiana Docket Jun 1926

Indiana Docket

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Ruling On Demurrer To Petition For Annulment Of Marriage, Theophilus J. Moll Jun 1926

Ruling On Demurrer To Petition For Annulment Of Marriage, Theophilus J. Moll

Indiana Law Journal

This is a ruling on demurrer by Judge Moll in In Re Marriage of Henry R. Steinkuhler and Elizabeth P. Bowman, Superior CT. No. 35298. It gives a judicial pronouncement in a most unusual legal action


Review Of Findings By The District Court Of The United States, Milton W. Magnus Mar 1926

Review Of Findings By The District Court Of The United States, Milton W. Magnus

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law--Due Process--Kansas Industrial Court Dec 1923

Constitutional Law--Due Process--Kansas Industrial Court

Michigan Law Review

Has the State power to regulate wages and to secure continuity of functioning in essential industries? The U. S. Supreme Court, in Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations of Kansas, -- U. S. -- Adv. Op. June 11, 1923, says no, at least as to individuals or corporations, engaged in the production of food, but not strong enough to dominate or control the industry. The case involves the validity, under the Federal Constitution, of the Kansas Act establishing the Court of Industrial Relations, referred to hereinafter as the "Industrial Court." Special Session Laws of Kansas, 1920, Chap. …


Legislation In Vague Or General Terms, Ralph W. Aigler Jan 1923

Legislation In Vague Or General Terms, Ralph W. Aigler

Articles

FOR some reason, probably in part the increasing complexity of our life and relationships, but more largely, perhaps, the growing tendency to regulate everybody and everything by positive law, the courts have been called upon with increasing frequency to pass upon the effectiveness of statutes and ordinances phrased in indefinite terms. In a very interesting and valuable paper, Professor Freund has pointed out the weakness and strength, on the one hand, of legislation in general terms, and on the other hand, legislation in which the rule of conduct is attempted to be laid down with precision. His interest apparently lay …


Challenges To The Array, Edson R. Sunderland Jan 1923

Challenges To The Array, Edson R. Sunderland

Articles

Trial by jury demands impartial jurors as the indispensable basis for public confidence. And the first requisite for obtaining impartiality is indifference on the part of those who select the jury. This was fully recognized at the common law, and ever since the days when jurors ceased to be witnesses and became triers of facts, it was a good objection to the entire panel that the sheriff was not indifferent between the parties in the selection and summoning of the jury. Prejudice on the part of individual jurors could be met by challenges to the polls, but when favor lurked …


Methods For Relieving Courts Of Last Resort From The Growing Burden Of Appeals, Edson R. Sunderland Mar 1922

Methods For Relieving Courts Of Last Resort From The Growing Burden Of Appeals, Edson R. Sunderland

Articles

"At the last meeting of the Michigan State Bar Association, held in Detroit in June, 1920, the question of employing an intermediate appellate court in this state, as a means for relieving the Supreme Court and expediting the disposal of appeals, was discussed at some length, and it was thereupon moved and carried that the whole subject be referred to the Committee on Legislation and Law Reform to be investigated, and that the Committee report upon the matter at the next meeting of the Association."


Growth And Development Of The Police Power Of The State, Collins Denny Jr Dec 1921

Growth And Development Of The Police Power Of The State, Collins Denny Jr

Michigan Law Review

The police power of the state is one of the most difficult phases of our law to understand, and it is even more difficult to define it and to place it within any bounds. In speaking of this power the court has recently said: "It extends not only to regulations which promote the public health, morals, and safety, but to those which promote the public convenience or the general prosperity. * * * It is the most essential of powers, at times the most insistent, and always one of the least limitable of the powers of government."' The term is …


Departure From Precedent, H W. Humble Apr 1921

Departure From Precedent, H W. Humble

Michigan Law Review

With the death of the reason for it, every legal doctrine dies.' * * * The fact that the reason for a given rule perished long ago is no just excuse for refusing now to declare the rule itself abrogated, but rather the greater justification for so declaring; and if no, reason ever existed, that fact furnishes additional justification. The doctrine of stare decisis does not preclude a departure from precedent established by a series of decisions clearly erroneous, unless property complications have resulted and a reversal would work a greater injury and injustice than would ensue by following the …


Public Policy And Personal Opinion, John B. Waite Jan 1921

Public Policy And Personal Opinion, John B. Waite

Articles

THE real relation of economics to law, only recently acquiring positive recognition, is illuminated by the varying decisions in regard to attempted restrictions on the enjoyment of personal property.