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Torts, Frederick J. Moreau

Cal Law Trends and Developments

No abstract provided.

Remedies, Kenneth H. York

Cal Law Trends and Developments

Remedial problems are best dealt with in the context of substantive law situations. However, the disparate characteristics of restitution, equitable remedies, and damages necessitate some generalized preliminary comment. We regret that the points raised in the California cases during a one-year period do not form a tidy or cohesive pattern or adapt themselves to a symmetrical outline.

Torts, Frederick J. Moreau

Cal Law Trends and Developments

No abstract provided.

Remedies, Kenneth H. York

Cal Law Trends and Developments

It is a curious circumstance that, although the sole purpose of a lawsuit is to obtain redress of some sort, the remedial aspects of cases are usually shunted to the back of the litigational bus from which they emerge belatedly, casually, and somewhat rumpled. Anyone searching for illuminating bits of remedial lore in California (or any other) advance sheets must be prepared to rummage about among tag-end paragraphs of literally hundreds of civil cases from which such interest as may originally have existed in parties, facts, controversy, strategy, or even style has long since been drained away.

However, remedial considerations …

Remedies, Kenneth H. York

Cal Law Trends and Developments

This article will cover the remedial aspects of civil cases, and as such will mention several decisions which are reviewed elsewhere in this volume in a substantive law context. It will concentrate upon the California courts' application of various legal remedies (principally damages), equitable remedies (including the existence of equitable jurisdiction), and restitutionary remedies (both legal and equitable) with some reference to the substantive elements needed for restitution.

Reforms In Medical Device Regulation: An Examination Of The Silicone Gel Breast Implant Debacle, Rebecca Vveisman

Golden Gate University Law Review

This article will consider the regulatory policies of the FDA in protecting the health of the nation's women, particularly its handling of silicone gel breast implants and its policing of the leading implant manufacturer, Dow Corning Corporation. While this article recognizes the various difficult problems which the FDA must address in protecting consumers from unsafe food, drugs, and medical devices, it also recognizes the need for reform. This article will describe what resulted from the tragedies of diethylstilbestrol (DES) and the Dalkon Shield. With these failures in mind, this article will examine present FDA policies, describe social forces outside of …