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Check Your Crystal Ball At The Courthouse Door, Please: Exploring The Past, Understanding The Present, And Worrying About The Future Of Scientific Evidence, David L. Faigman, Elise Porter, Michael J. Saks Apr 1994

Check Your Crystal Ball At The Courthouse Door, Please: Exploring The Past, Understanding The Present, And Worrying About The Future Of Scientific Evidence, David L. Faigman, Elise Porter, Michael J. Saks

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Since the earliest days of the use of expert witnesses, judges (and more recently legislatures) have struggled to design the juridical intersection where law and science cross paths. The effort has not met with notable success. This situation could be changing, however. Last term, in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Supreme Court adopted a novel approach to the age-old problem of scientific evidence. The -Court determined that the Federal Rules of Evidence require scientific evidence to be scientifically valid before it enters the courtroom. The Court has served notice that experts should trade in their crystal balls …


The Meaning Of Daubert And What That Means For Forensic Science, Randolph N. Jonakait Apr 1994

The Meaning Of Daubert And What That Means For Forensic Science, Randolph N. Jonakait

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Daubert's effect on forensic science is unclear because the opinion is unclear. The Daubert Court did start blazing a useful path by stating that before scientific testimony is admitted, the trial court must be convinced that "the reasoning or methodology underlying the testimony is scientifically valid and ... that [the] reasoning or methodology properly can be applied to the facts in issue." But the Court's trailblazing was incomplete and often misleading.


The Supreme Court’S View Of Science: Has Daubert Exorcised The Certainty Demon?, Bert Black Apr 1994

The Supreme Court’S View Of Science: Has Daubert Exorcised The Certainty Demon?, Bert Black

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The Supreme Court's mandate in Daubert that experts who give testimony based on science must confine themselves to valid scientific knowledge seems tautologically obvious, and hardly an issue requiring the attention of the nation's nine highest judges. The debate that led to Daubert was generated, however, by opponents of judicial screening who argued that holding experts to scientific standards somehow imposes an undue burden of proof on plaintiffs, especially in toxic tort cases - and the Supreme Court's decision has not put the issue completely to rest. Science, according to this "relaxed standards" argument, demands certainty far beyond the law's …


On The Relevance Of The Admissibility Of Scientific Evidence: Tort System Outcomes Are Principally Determined By Lawyers’ Rates Of Return, Lester Brickman Apr 1994

On The Relevance Of The Admissibility Of Scientific Evidence: Tort System Outcomes Are Principally Determined By Lawyers’ Rates Of Return, Lester Brickman

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The attention generated by Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. reflects the perceived importance of the issue of the admissibility of scientific evidence in tort litigation. In products liability litigation, whether claimants prevail often depends upon expert testimony presented on the issue of causation. Unless a claimant is able to have the expert's testimony admitted, there will be little or no chance of prevailing. Thus, though it is disputed whether Daubert will extend or contract tort liability, it is undisputed that its importance lies in its impact on the scope of tort liability.


Daubert V. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Epistemiology And Legal Process, Margaret G. Farrell Apr 1994

Daubert V. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Epistemiology And Legal Process, Margaret G. Farrell

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Justice Blackmun's majority opinion in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. acknowledges that law and science have different goals, but it fails to recognize the implications of those differences for legal process. Recent increases in the scientifically-based claims brought in the federal courts, and in the size and complexity of the litigation in which such claims are made, have raised the stakes in the debate. At the same time, scientific concepts of relativity, uncertainty, and multiple causation are at odds with simple, legal notions about fact-finding and cause and effect. This disparity between legal and scientific understandings over the admission …


Judicial Opinions As Binding Law And As Explanations For Judgments, Thomas W. Merrill Oct 1993

Judicial Opinions As Binding Law And As Explanations For Judgments, Thomas W. Merrill

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To what extent does the executive branch have autonomous powers of legal interpretation? The issue is often broadly framed in terms of two disparate understandings of the allocation of interpretative power: "judicial supremacy" and "departmentalism." In this paper, I shall speak of two different understandings of judicial opinions: the idea that judicial opinions (or at least the "holdings" of opinions) are legally binding on actors in the executive branch, and the idea that opinions are, from the perspective of executive actors, merely explanations for judicial judgments. I adopt this locution because it focuses more precisely on the core of the …


Presidential Interpretation Of The Constitution, David A. Strauss Oct 1993

Presidential Interpretation Of The Constitution, David A. Strauss

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May the executive branch disagree with the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution, and act in accordance with its own view? We tend to associate this question with a few great constitutional crises. Disputes between President Jackson and the Supreme Court over the Bank of the United States; between President Lincoln and the Court over slavery; and between President Franklin Roosevelt and the Court over New Deal legislation, all produced memorable statements by presidents claiming a broad power to act independently from the Court's decisions. The school desegregation controversy was between the Court and some state governments, not the President, …


Imposing Unified Executive Branch Statutory Interpretation, Michael Herz Oct 1993

Imposing Unified Executive Branch Statutory Interpretation, Michael Herz

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Since the birth of the administrative state, the dominant legal debate about the fourth branch has concerned the powers of the other three to control it. In recent years, the particular focus has been on presidential oversight, in part as a result of the increasingly systematic efforts of every President since Richard Nixon to gain control of the federal bureaucracy. This enormous, and in general, illuminating literature has tended, I think, to overlook two aspects of the problem.


Seqra’S Too Valuable To Trash: A Reply To Stewart Sterk, Philip Weinberg May 1993

Seqra’S Too Valuable To Trash: A Reply To Stewart Sterk, Philip Weinberg

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Districting: A Second Vantage Point, Alan Gartner Apr 1993

Districting: A Second Vantage Point, Alan Gartner

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The Constitution Outside The Courts, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. Apr 1993

The Constitution Outside The Courts, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.

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The forty-fourth Cardozo Lecture, delivered in memory of Benjamin N. Cardozo at the House of the Association on December 5, 1991.


What Courts Do To Secured Creditors In Chapter 11 Cram Down, Jack Friedman Apr 1993

What Courts Do To Secured Creditors In Chapter 11 Cram Down, Jack Friedman

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German Constitutional Culture In Transition, Bernhard Schlink Jan 1993

German Constitutional Culture In Transition, Bernhard Schlink

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Constitutional Identity, George P. Fletcher Jan 1993

Constitutional Identity, George P. Fletcher

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Comment, Agnes Heller Jan 1993

Comment, Agnes Heller

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The Court’S Role In Interbranch Disputes Over Oversight Of Agency Rulemaking, John J. Gibbons Jan 1993

The Court’S Role In Interbranch Disputes Over Oversight Of Agency Rulemaking, John J. Gibbons

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This paper is adapted from the Uri and Caroline Bauer Memorial Lecture delivered at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, on March 10, 1992.


Grand Jury Charges Delivered By Supreme Court Justices Riding Circuit During The 1790s, David J. Katz Jan 1993

Grand Jury Charges Delivered By Supreme Court Justices Riding Circuit During The 1790s, David J. Katz

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John D. Appel, Leslie Berman Nov 1992

John D. Appel, Leslie Berman

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Why The “Look And Feel” Of Computer Software Should Not Receive Copyright Protection, Matthew J. Fortnow Nov 1992

Why The “Look And Feel” Of Computer Software Should Not Receive Copyright Protection, Matthew J. Fortnow

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The Asbestos Litigation Crisis: Is There A Need For An Administrative Alternative?, Lester Brickman Apr 1992

The Asbestos Litigation Crisis: Is There A Need For An Administrative Alternative?, Lester Brickman

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Derrida, Law, Violence And The Paradox Of Justice, Michel Rosenfeld Dec 1991

Derrida, Law, Violence And The Paradox Of Justice, Michel Rosenfeld

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Stories, Forensic Science, And Improved Verdicts, Randolph N. Jonakait Nov 1991

Stories, Forensic Science, And Improved Verdicts, Randolph N. Jonakait

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Proving Your Case - Evidence And Procedure In Action, Christopher Finlayson Nov 1991

Proving Your Case - Evidence And Procedure In Action, Christopher Finlayson

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No abstract provided.


Mistrial By Likelihood Ratio: Bayesian Analysis Meets The F-Word, Paul Bergman, Al Moore Nov 1991

Mistrial By Likelihood Ratio: Bayesian Analysis Meets The F-Word, Paul Bergman, Al Moore

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Nationwide Service Of Process In State Courts, David Carlebach Oct 1991

Nationwide Service Of Process In State Courts, David Carlebach

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Justice Scalia’S Textualism: The “New” New Legal Process, Nicholas S. Zeppos Jun 1991

Justice Scalia’S Textualism: The “New” New Legal Process, Nicholas S. Zeppos

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Tradition, Precedent, And Justice Scalia, David A. Strauss Jun 1991

Tradition, Precedent, And Justice Scalia, David A. Strauss

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Justice Scalia’S Jurisprudence And The Good Society: Shades Of Felix Frankfurter And The Harvard Hit Parade Of The 1950’S, Peter B. Edelman Jun 1991

Justice Scalia’S Jurisprudence And The Good Society: Shades Of Felix Frankfurter And The Harvard Hit Parade Of The 1950’S, Peter B. Edelman

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Textualism And Taboo: Interpretation And Deference For Justice Scalia, Michael E. Herz Jun 1991

Textualism And Taboo: Interpretation And Deference For Justice Scalia, Michael E. Herz

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Judicial Asceticism, Larry Kramer Jun 1991

Judicial Asceticism, Larry Kramer

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No abstract provided.