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Injunctions In Defamation Cases, Erwin Chemerinsky Jan 2007

Injunctions In Defamation Cases, Erwin Chemerinsky

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Corrective Justice And Liability For Global Warming, Matthew D. Adler Jan 2007

Corrective Justice And Liability For Global Warming, Matthew D. Adler

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If You Prompt Them, They Will Rule: The Warranty Of Habitability Meets New Court Information Systems, Mary Zulack Jan 2007

If You Prompt Them, They Will Rule: The Warranty Of Habitability Meets New Court Information Systems, Mary Zulack

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A recent conference on housing rights invited participants to think about the impacts, actual and potential, of the judge-made doctrine of the implied warranty of habitability in residential tenancies. This essay focuses on the warranty, and suggests establishing technology systems for judges to help them give new
life to the doctrine and thereby to accelerate actual repair of rental housing through court mandates.

The conference attendees seemed to agree that when trial judges are presented with claimed breaches of the warranty of habitability, they have not, on the whole, used the doctrine to order that repairs actually be effectuated. They …