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Survey Of Metropolitan Courts: Detroit Area, Maxine Boord Virtue

Michigan Legal Studies Series

It has long been recognized that the social problems of the city are something more than a mere multiple of the social problems of the rural community. The bigness of the metropolitan area breeds its own difficulties, which find no counterpart outside its borders. Only recently, however, have experts begun to suggest that this same uniqueness inheres in the problems of the organization of metropolitan courts.

Should the organization of the metropolitan court system differ from court organization elsewhere? How should it differ? Before these questions can be answered, we must know something of existing court organizations in metropolitan areas …

Keeney: Judgment By Peers, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of JUDGMENT BY PEERS. By Barnaby C. Keeney.

Chief Justice John Marshall And The Growth Of The Republic, By David Loth, William B. Hesseltine

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Henry B. Witham, George K. Gardner, Malcolm Sharp, Ivan C. Rutledge, F. Eugene Reader, Murray Seasongood

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Federal Appellate Procedure--Certiorari--Consideration Of Constitutional Objections Not Preserved On The Record, W. E. C.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Busch: Law And Tactics In Jury Trials, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

A Review of LAW AND TACTICS IN JURY TRIALS. By Francis X. Busch.

Place Of Trial Of Civil Cases, William Wirt Blume

Michigan Law Review

Places involved in a study of place of trial may be classified in various ways. The most general classification is: (1) Places within one sovereignty, (2) Places in different sovereignties. Where there is choice of place within one sovereignty, the only rational basis for making the choice is convenience-convenience of the parties, jurors, witnesses, and of the court itself. The same is true when the choice is between courts of different sovereignties, but without cooperation between the sovereignties rational choice may not be possible. The purpose of this discussion is to compare choice of place in England before 1800 with …

A Brief Survey Of The Jurisdiction And Practice Of The Courts Of The United States (5th Ed.), By Charles W. Bunn, Charles E. Clark

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Courts On Trial: Myth And Reality In American Justice, By Jerome Frank, Fred Rodell

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Direct Appeal To The Supreme Court By The United States In Criminal Cases, Philip B. Kurland, Richard F. Wolfson

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Successful Trial Tactics, By A. S. Cutler, Lloyd Paul Stryker

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

International Law-International Court Of Justice-Advisory Opinions-Admission To Membership In The United Nations, William C. Gordon

Michigan Law Review

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, and the Statute of the Court forms an integral part of the United Nations Charter. The Court is essentially a continuation of the Permanent Court of International Justice, which operated in connection with the League of Nations. Like its predecessor, the Court is composed of fifteen judges, nominated in a manner designed to ensure impartiality and elected by the General Assembly and the Security Council voting separately upon a list of nominees.

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Punishment For Direct Contempt Of Court, William R. Worth

Michigan Law Review

Opposing counsel's objection to material in petitioner's opening statement to the jury was sustained. When petitioner rephrased his statement, the trial court, feeling that he was still trying to get inadmissible material before the jury, threatened to "declare a mistrial if you mess with me two minutes and a half, and fine you besides.'' Petitioner took an exception to the conduct of the court, and was immediately fined $25. His protests led to successive increases in penalty, culminating in a $100 fine and three days in jail. The Supreme Court of Texas denied habeas corpus on the ground that the …

Vanderbilt: Men And Measures In The Law, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of MEN AND MEASURES IN THE LAW. By Arthur T. Vanderbilt.

Federal Courts-Granting Of New Trial On Initiative Of The Court, William F. Snyder S. Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Following conviction for violation of a federal statute, petitioner was granted his release on a writ of habeas corpus by a federal district court, on the basis of uncontroverted testimony that his counsel had not been present when the jury returned its verdict. Within ten days of this release, a motion for rehearing was filed, supported by affidavits that his counsel actually had been present. On subsequent hearing, the court set aside its former order and remanded petitioner to custody, on the theory that his release was obtained by means of a fraud on the Court. The present action was …

Judicial Draftmanship, Charles A. Beardsley

Washington Law Review

Nine years ago, when I was president of the American Bar Association, I said out loud what members of the bar had long been whispering throughout the country—I said that the judges of our appellate courts were casting an all but unbearable financial burden upon the lawyers, by steadily and unnecessarily increasing the length of their opinions—printed copies of which opinions the lawyers must buy and store, if they are to continue to practice law I did not then refer to any specific opinion, but I did point out that, on the average, the opinions are about six times as …

Federal Courts-Criminal Procedure-Effect Of Excusing Procedure On Composition Of Jury Panel, Robert P. Griffin

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner was found guilty of violating the Harrison Narcotics Act in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia by a jury composed wholly of federal employees. During the course of voir dire examination, petitioner moved to strike the entire panel, asserting that it did not represent a proper cross-section of the community. This motion was denied. Petitioner exhausted his ten peremptory challenges, and, upon finding that only government employees remained on the jury, then challenged the jury as impaneled for cause. The challenge was overruled. Conviction was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals. On certiorari to the …

Constitutional Law-Power Of Supreme Court To Review Judgments Of International Military Tribunal For Far East, J. R. Mackenzie S. Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The board of directors of defendant, a nonprofit corporation, passed a resolution that persons should not be denied membership on racial, religious or political grounds. Plaintiff, a branch member of defendant, had enacted by-laws denying Negroes admission to its group. Defendant's board declared plaintiff's by-laws were in conflict with the resolution and threatened to expel plaintiff branch if its by-laws were not amended. Plaintiff brought suit to enjoin defendant from carrying out its threat. Held, injunction granted. No national by-law required admission of all races to membership in branches, nor did the national directors have power to expel a …

Effect Of State Statute On Jurisdiction Of Federal Courts

Indiana Law Journal

Federal Courts Note

Nuisance Or Negligence: A Study In The Tyranny Of Labels

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Administrative Tribunals-Judicial Review Of Administrative Interpretations Of Statutory Provisions-Recent Federal Developments, L. B. Lea S. Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The first half-century of experience with administrative tribunals demonstrated that prediction of the scope of judicial review in any particular case was impossible because so many factors entered into determination of the question. Constitutional limitations began to receive less emphasis as practical necessity for according this new "fourth branch" of government a place in the broad scheme of administration of justice became more apparent. Doubtlessly the courts felt that "supremacy of law" demanded closest scrutiny of the activities of this new governmental instrumentality, which was beginning to occupy areas traditionally thought reserved exclusively for the judiciary. As the courts' respect …

Courts-Necessity Of Existence Of De Jure Office As Condition For Recognition Of De Facto Judge

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

And This, Too, O King, Shall Change And Pass Away, C. T. Graydon

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Federal Courts--Venue--"Residence" Of Defendant In Federal Reservation Grounded On State Laws Concerning Admission Of Foreign Corporations, D. B. H.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Federal Discovery Practice Should Be Adopted By All States, Philip S. Van Cise

Washington Law Review

In September, 1938 new rules of procedure were adopted in the federal courts. Since then many of the states have abandoned their old codes and in the main followed the new federal procedure. If the only advantages were that lawyers, in the states which have adopted the new rules, can practice confidently in both courts, that would be sufficient justification for the change. But when we add to that the results that pleadings have been simplified, motion days largely dispensed with, trial dates expedited, facts laid on the table and not concealed until trial, contested cases shortened, and a large …

Volume 20 (1947-1949)

Tennessee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mr. Justice Black: The Man And His Opinions, By John P. Frank, Sherman Minton

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Review. A Brief Survey Of The Jurisdiction And Practice Of The Courts Of The United States, 5th Ed. By Charles W. Bunn, Ivan C. Rutledge

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The United States Supreme Court: 1948-49, John P. Frank

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Mr. Chief Justice Stone, Herbert Wechsler

Indiana Law Journal

Remarks at the meeting of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in memory of Chief Justice Stone, November 12, 1947