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Judge Parker And The Public Service State, Peter G. Fish Jan 1985

Judge Parker And The Public Service State, Peter G. Fish

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Court Trial Empirical Survey: Interview Responses From Trial Judges Explaining Their Experiences And Views Regarding The Trial Of Non-Jury Cases, John O. Sonsteng, Roger S. Haydock Jan 1985

Court Trial Empirical Survey: Interview Responses From Trial Judges Explaining Their Experiences And Views Regarding The Trial Of Non-Jury Cases, John O. Sonsteng, Roger S. Haydock

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Knowing how a judge will react to certain trial techniques in a trial can greatly enhance an attorney's effectiveness in the courtroom. This article contains and explains the results of the authors' empirical survey. Fifty-nine judges serving in both criminal and civil court in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area were surveyed, with each judge responding to thirty-eight questions designed to obtain objective information concerning their experiences and views on effective trial advocacy. The survey covered eight topics: (1) trial briefs; (2) pretrial chambers discussions; (3) opening statements; (4) direct and cross-examinations; (5) evidentiary matters; (6) closing arguments; (7) findings of fact …


Constitutional Remedies For Underinclusive Statutes: A Critical Appraisal Of Heckler V. Mathews, Bruce K. Miller Jan 1985

Constitutional Remedies For Underinclusive Statutes: A Critical Appraisal Of Heckler V. Mathews, Bruce K. Miller

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The power of the federal courts to remedy injuries caused by constitutional violations is a fundamental assumption of our constitutional scheme. The Supreme Court's equal protection decisions of the past generation illustrate the extent to which we take this power completely for granted. When confronted with a statute that denies a litigant's fifth or fourteenth amendment right to equal treatment, the Court has rarely limited itself to a simple declaration that the statute is unconstitutional. Such declarations, rather, have been routinely accompanied by awards of often substantial relief to the persons injured by the unconstitutional inequality. The author analyzes Heckler …


The Common Law Powers Of Federal Courts, Thomas W. Merrill Jan 1985

The Common Law Powers Of Federal Courts, Thomas W. Merrill

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Lawmaking by federal courts has been a matter of controversy since the early days of the Republic. In the last forty years, the debate has fallen into roughly two periods, with Roe v. Wade marking the dividing line. During what might be called the "legal process" era of the 1950's and 1960's, scholarly energy was focused on Erie Railroad v. Tompkins and what was then called the "new federal common law." To be sure, important work on judicial review was also done in those years, particularly in the wake of the Supreme Court's dramatic decision in Brown v. Board of …


Taking Bureaucracy Seriously, Henry Paul Monaghan Jan 1985

Taking Bureaucracy Seriously, Henry Paul Monaghan

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The Federal Courts: Crisis and Reform can be viewed as not one but two "books." "Book I" (pp. 1-192), which reflects Judge Posner's well-known commitment to the interplay of law and economics, adds to the literature on the explosive and unremitting growth of litigation in the inferior federal courts during the last quarter-century. Noting this situation with alarm, Judge Posner seeks to identify the dimensions of the "crisis," to evaluate some current proposals for reform, and to advance some of his own. “Book II” (pp. 192-340) is quite different. Considerably less reliant upon law and economics, it addresses the substance …


Supreme Court Report: Five Wins And Nine Losses For Free Speech Fans, Joel Gora Jan 1985

Supreme Court Report: Five Wins And Nine Losses For Free Speech Fans, Joel Gora

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The Intellectual Development Of The American Doctrine Of Judicial Review, Pnina Lahav Nov 1984

The Intellectual Development Of The American Doctrine Of Judicial Review, Pnina Lahav

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The Small Claims Court: A Reconceptualization Of Disputes And An Empirical Investigation, Neil Vidmar Jan 1984

The Small Claims Court: A Reconceptualization Of Disputes And An Empirical Investigation, Neil Vidmar

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In this paper disputes are seen as varying along a dimension of admitted liability, that is, the extent to which defendants admit some obligation to plaintiffs; they may admit no liability, partial liability, or full liability. This conceptualization was used in an empirical study of a small claims court. The results paint a portrait of the court that is at variance with most of the previous literature. Consumer issues constitute a substantial portion of the court caseload. On average, defendants, including individual consumers, do well when they dispute claims. Among disputed cases, small rather than large businesses predominate. Prior literature …


Conflicts Among Circuits And Transfers Within The Federal Judicial System, Richard L. Marcus Jan 1984

Conflicts Among Circuits And Transfers Within The Federal Judicial System, Richard L. Marcus

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The Depublication Practice Of The California Supreme Court, Joseph R. Grodin Jan 1984

The Depublication Practice Of The California Supreme Court, Joseph R. Grodin

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The Place Of Agencies In Government: Separation Of Powers And The Fourth Branch, Peter L. Strauss Jan 1984

The Place Of Agencies In Government: Separation Of Powers And The Fourth Branch, Peter L. Strauss

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For the past few years the Supreme Court has been struggling with issues of government structure so fundamental that they might have been thought textbook simple, yet with results that seem to imperil the everyday exercise of law-administration. Under what circumstances can Congress assign the adjudication of contested issues in the first instance to tribunals that are not article III courts? The past century has witnessed the profuse growth of legislation assigning to special adjudicative tribunals – administrative agencies and other article I courts – the power to hold trial-type hearings that might otherwise have been placed in the article …


No Light At The End Of The Pipeline: Confusion Surrounds Legislative Courts, Maryellen Fullerton Jan 1983

No Light At The End Of The Pipeline: Confusion Surrounds Legislative Courts, Maryellen Fullerton

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Pretrial Procedure Under The Massachusetts Rules Of Criminal Procedure, Eric D. Blumenson, Eva Nilsen Jun 1982

Pretrial Procedure Under The Massachusetts Rules Of Criminal Procedure, Eric D. Blumenson, Eva Nilsen

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The Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure became effective on July 1, 1979. While many of their provisions helpfully codify previously existing practice and case law, the Rules have in some areas effected a major transformation of criminal procedure. This article examines the changes wrought by the Rules in the pretrial arena, with emphasis on those areas that remain somewhat unfamiliar to the practitioner or untested against constitutional challenge in the courts. While the Rules appear to have done an admirable job of simplifying and rationalizing the criminal trial process, their emphasis on mutuality and reciprocity have in some cases created …


The Tax Benefit Of Bliss, Alan L. Feld Mar 1982

The Tax Benefit Of Bliss, Alan L. Feld

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In recent years the Supreme Court has limited its substantive decisions in federal income tax matters.I For the most part, the handful of tax cases it has considered each year deal with collection, liens, or other issues peripheral to doctrinal development in the tax area.2 The Court's recent decision in Diedrich v. Commissioner,3 however, dealt with a realization question involving net gifts; and its grant of certiorari consolidating the cases of Bliss Dairy, Inc. v. United States and Hillsboro National Bank v. Commissioner4 promises a continuing interest in substantive tax law. Bliss Dairy will enable the …


Judicial Management Of The Pretrial Process In Massive Litigation: Special Masters As Case Managers, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Paul R. Rice Jan 1982

Judicial Management Of The Pretrial Process In Massive Litigation: Special Masters As Case Managers, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Paul R. Rice

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Nineteenth Century Interpretations Of The Federal Contract Clause: The Transformation From Vested To Substantive Rights Against The State , James L. Kainen Jan 1982

Nineteenth Century Interpretations Of The Federal Contract Clause: The Transformation From Vested To Substantive Rights Against The State , James L. Kainen

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During the early nineteenth century, the contract clause served as the fundamental source of federally protected rights against the state. Yet the Supreme Court gradually eased many of the restrictions on state power enforced in the contract clause cases while developing the doctrine of substantive due process after the Civil War. By the end of the nineteenth century, the due process clause had usurped the place of the contract clause as the centerpiece in litigation about individual rights. Most analyses of the history of federally protected rights against the state have emphasized the rise of substantive due process to the …


Congressional Regulation Of Federal Courts' Jurisdiction And Processes: United States V. Klein Revisited, Gordon G. Young Jan 1981

Congressional Regulation Of Federal Courts' Jurisdiction And Processes: United States V. Klein Revisited, Gordon G. Young

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An Evaluation Of Limited Publication In The United States Courts Of Appeals: The Price Of Reform, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman Jan 1981

An Evaluation Of Limited Publication In The United States Courts Of Appeals: The Price Of Reform, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman

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Justice Douglas And His Brethren: A Personal Recollection, William A. Reppy Jr. Jan 1981

Justice Douglas And His Brethren: A Personal Recollection, William A. Reppy Jr.

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The Use Of Social Science Data In A Change Of Venue Application: A Case Study, Neil Vidmar, John W. T. Judson Jan 1981

The Use Of Social Science Data In A Change Of Venue Application: A Case Study, Neil Vidmar, John W. T. Judson

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This article describes how social science data and professional testimony were used to assist judicial decision-making in an application to have a criminal fraud trial moved from Middlesex County, Ontario, because of prejudicial attitudes extant in the community. Typically, in such applications, tenuous documentation of pre-trial publicity and perhaps some unsubstantiated "opinion" testimony by persons purportedly in touch with the pulse of the community are the only evidence introduced . The presiding judge is required to consider this circumstantial, indirect, evidence and draw a conclusion about the level and extent of public prejudice as the merits of the application are …


The Burger Court And "Our Federalism", Henry Paul Monaghan Jan 1980

The Burger Court And "Our Federalism", Henry Paul Monaghan

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Dicey derided federal government as "weak government;" others have found genius lurking in its institutional arrangements. But most students, as Professor S. R. Davis's illuminating little book makes clear, have considerable difficulty in identifying what federal government is, whether the concept is approached analytically, legally, descriptively or normatively. American lawyers are not inclined to pursue such inquiries too far. For, like Justice Black, they are concerned only with "Our Federalism" and, like Justice Stewart and obscenity, they know it when they see it. Moreover, American lawyers have, in large measure, confined their attention to one specific component of "Our Federalism;" …


Ceremony And Realism: Demise Of Appellate Procedure, Paul D. Carrington Jan 1980

Ceremony And Realism: Demise Of Appellate Procedure, Paul D. Carrington

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No abstract provided.


Limited Publication In The Fourth And Sixth Circuits, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman Jan 1979

Limited Publication In The Fourth And Sixth Circuits, William L. Reynolds, William M. Richman

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No abstract provided.


Should Federal Appellate Judges Help Select Their Colleagues?, Peter G. Fish Jan 1979

Should Federal Appellate Judges Help Select Their Colleagues?, Peter G. Fish

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No abstract provided.


Civil Litigation And Jura Novit Curia, Lawrence G. Baxter Jan 1979

Civil Litigation And Jura Novit Curia, Lawrence G. Baxter

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No abstract provided.


Making Sense Of Desegregation And Affirmative Action, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 1979

Making Sense Of Desegregation And Affirmative Action, William W. Van Alstyne

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This review discusses J. Harvie Wilkinson's "From Brown to Bakke" and its companion work, "Counting by Race: Equality from the Founding Fathers to Bakke and Weber" written by Terry Eastland and William J. Bennett. Wilkinson's work is found to maintain a narrow focus on its specific subject of school desegregation and the Supreme Court, but it suffers from over-exaggeration and an abundance of adornment in his writing style. "Counting" is a provocative piece that asserts the position that the Constitution is still not color-blind, despite what many have proposed, and makes an authoritative argument for such a claim.


Professor Jones And The Constitution, Henry Paul Monaghan Jan 1979

Professor Jones And The Constitution, Henry Paul Monaghan

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Professor Harry Jones's elegant and stimulating Waterman lectures begin on a salutary note. Professor Jones rightly reminds us that, first and foremost, a constitution is not exclusively or primarily a limitation on the exercise of political power, but rather is a charter for its exercise. Accordingly, to view the Constitution as "all brakes and no engine" suggests a serious and fundamental myopia, albeit an understandable one given the popular preoccupation with the Supreme Court's role in vindicating guarantees of civil liberty. But that preoccupation, Professor Jones notes, does more than distort the meaning of the Constitution; it ignores an historically …


Adjudication As A Private Good: A Comment, Paul D. Carrington Jan 1979

Adjudication As A Private Good: A Comment, Paul D. Carrington

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Comment on William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner, Adjudication as a Private Good, 8 J. Legal Stud. 235 (1979).


Securities Commentary, Roberta S. Karmel, John P. Ketels Jul 1978

Securities Commentary, Roberta S. Karmel, John P. Ketels

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The Court Of Appeals Of Maryland: Roles, Work And Performance - Part Ii: Craftsmanship And Decision-Making, William L. Reynolds Jan 1978

The Court Of Appeals Of Maryland: Roles, Work And Performance - Part Ii: Craftsmanship And Decision-Making, William L. Reynolds

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No abstract provided.