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Rico: Limiting Suits By Altering The Pattern, Edward Lee Isler

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Policing The Bases Of Modern Expert Testimony, Ronald L. Carlson

Vanderbilt Law Review

Technical witnesses have revolutionized the American lawsuit. Advertisements in litigation periodicals bear witness to the broad range of courtroom expert testimony available to the trial bar. A specialist in airplane pilot error places an advertisement on the same page with an advertiser who is eminently qualified to provide expert testimony in churning securities litigation."' Also included are obscenity experts for criminal cases as well as a timber products specialist with "global experience in accidents and related cases," who claims, "more than 30 years experience with wood utility poles."' Within the category of timber and woods there are other experts as …

Bite Mark Evidence, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Litigating A Novel Course And Scope Of Employment Issue: Ina Of Texas V. Bryant, J. Thomas Sullivan

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Child Custody - Jurisdiction And Procedure, Christopher L. Blakesley

Scholarly Works

Custody determinations traditionally have comprised a subcategory of litigation under the Pennoyer v. Neff exception for proceedings relating to status. Of course, states have the power to decide the status of their domiciliaries. It was natural, therefore, for the courts and scholars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to consider domicile the sole basis of jurisdiction in custody matters. Gradually, judges and scholars began to challenge the notion that domicile was the sole basis and courts began to apply other bases, such as the child's presence in the state or personal jurisdiction over both parents. One commentator suggests that …

The Development Of Professional Judgment In Law School Litigation Courses: The Concepts Of Trial Theory And Theme, Edward J. Imwinkelried

Vanderbilt Law Review

I was delighted when the Vanderbilt Law Review asked me to submit a short essay on trial advocacy. This Essay allows me to discuss two concepts, the trial theory and theme, that should be highlighted in every law school litigation course. Several years ago I wrote a text on commercial litigation for practitioners. That text proposed definitions for the concepts of "theory" and "theme"and suggested that trial attorneys organize their pretrial preparation and trial presentation in terms of those concepts. Since the publication of the text, I have attempted to refine the concepts and to use the concepts to restructure …

New York: The Right To Discharge At-Will Employees Post Weiner, John V. Dember

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Polygraph And Deception Tests: Part Ii, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Expert Testimony, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Polygraph And Deception Tests, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Firearms And Toolmark Evidence, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Cooperative Federalism Under The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act: Is This Any Way To Run A Government?, Mark Squillace

Publications

No abstract provided.

The Case For A Legislative Solution To Indian Water Claims, James M. Bush

The Federal Impact on State Water Rights (Summer Conference, June 11-13)

57 pages.

“Other Acts” Evidence, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Motions To Enforce Settlements: An Important Procedural Tool, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Admissibility Of Laboratory Reports, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Illinois Brick Dilemma: Is There A Legislative Solution?, Edward D. Cavanagh

Faculty Publications

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In Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, the United States Supreme Court held that in price-fixing actions brought under section 1 of the Sherman Act, only first purchasers in the chain of vertical distribution are "injured," within the meaning of section 4 of the Clayton Act, by the full amount of any overcharge. The Court's ruling bars plaintiffs who are "indirect purchasers" from offering proof that they have been injured by defendants' illegal overcharges which have been "passed on" to them by middlemen. The Court's holding reaffirmed the principles previously enunciated in Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe Machinery …

The Iranian Asset Negotiations, John E. Hoffman, Jr.

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

At the outset, I owe an obligation to you and to my fellow panelists to reveal my true colors. Following the remarks of Mr. Aksen and Mr. Rhodes, you would be entitled to expect me to give some examples of how some distressed clients entered this wonderful world of arbitration, how the scales fell from their corporate eyes, and how their problems were solved. I am going to tell a bit of a story this afternoon. The focus of it is arbitration, but I should tell you it is not an arbitration that occurred. The story is of an arbitration …

Comparative Approaches To Groundwater Management, Robert D. Hayton

Groundwater: Allocation, Development and Pollution (Summer Conference, June 6-9)

38 pages.

Ground Water Monitoring System And Procedures At Kin-Buc I Landfill Middlesex County New Jersey, Dan D. Raviv

Groundwater: Allocation, Development and Pollution (Summer Conference, June 6-9)

37 pages (includes illustrations and map).

Agenda: Groundwater: Allocation, Development And Pollution, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Groundwater: Allocation, Development and Pollution (Summer Conference, June 6-9)

Even before the [Natural Resources Law] Center was established [in the fall of 1981], the [University of Colorado] School of Law was organizing annual natural resources law summer short courses. To date four programs have been presented:

- July 1980: "Federal Lands, Laws and Policies-and the Development of Natural Resources"

- June 1981: "Water Resources Allocation: Laws and Emerging Issues"

- June 1982: "New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: lnterbasin Transfers"

- June 1983: "Groundwater: Allocation; Development and Pollution"

(Reprinted from Resource Law Notes, no. 1, Jan. 1984, at 1.)

University of Colorado School of Law professors …

Civil Rico And Parens Patriae: Lowering Litigation Barriers Through State Intervention, Beth S. Schipper

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hypnotic Evidence, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Legal Ethics And Class Actions: Problems, Tactics And Judicial Responses, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Perhaps no procedural innovation has generated more controversy than the class action. As Professor Arthur Miller has observed, debate over “class action problem[s]” has raged at several different levels. For example, opponents and proponents of class actions disagree on whether such actions produce socially desirable results in an economical fashion and whether an already overburdened judiciary can handle the additional supervisory demands of the class action. Recently, a somewhat more ideological dialogue has addressed the merit of publicly funded class actions. Such questions arise only indirectly in the context of class action litigation. However, a certain hostility toward class actions …

Statistics In Litigation: A Selective Bibliography, Michael G. Chiorazzi

Articles

No abstract provided.

Illinois Brick Revisited: An Analysis Of A Developing Antitrust Jurisprudence, Edward D. Cavanagh

Faculty Publications

(Excerpt)

In June 1977, the United States Supreme Court handed down the landmark decision in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois. Reaffirming its decision in Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe Machinery Corp., the Court held that in a treble damages action where defendants are charged with price-fixing in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, first purchasers, and not others down the distribution line ("indirect purchasers"), are injured by the full amount of any overcharge; and indirect purchasers are prohibited from offering proof that illegal overcharges had been "passed on" to them by their sellers.

The holding …

Adversary Ethics: More Dirty Tricks, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this article the author provides a primer on the more common forms of cheating employed by trial lawyers. Another purpose is to suggest that there are antidotes that may be administered to curb these abuses, assuming that trial attorneys are alert enough to invoke them, and trial judges are willing to apply them.

Curbing Litigation Abuses: Judicial Control Of Adversary Ethics—The Model Rules Of Professional Conduct And Proposed Amendments To The Rules Of Civil Procedure, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This Article addresses the effectiveness of recent developments and proposals related to abusive litigation, and discusses them in the context of recent opinions illustrating the power of the trial judge to control the excesses of the adversary system. It rejects the countersuit as a time-consuming and costly means of controlling litigation abuses, and concludes that “tinkering changes” in the rules of procedure cannot bring about true reform. It is urged here that the burden resulting from abuse of litigation can only be relieved by changes which foster stronger judicial control of adversarial ethics, and greater judicial involvement in the pretrial …

Survey Of Developments In The Fourth Circuit: 1981

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Developments, Fran Pepitone Arreola Rockwell, Robert V. Stover, Howard W. Brill, Robert J. Hopperton

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.