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Recent Cases, Robert L. Teicher, Timothy C. Maguire
Recent Cases, Robert L. Teicher, Timothy C. Maguire
Vanderbilt Law Review
In the 1930 decision of State ex rel. LaFollette v. Kohler, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected the earliest free speech challenge to a candidate expenditure limitation. The court held that the state's interest in protecting the integrity of its electoral process outweighed the individual's right of communicating with the public without governmental infringement." The court's identification of the communicative effect of campaign spending anticipated the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Stromberg v. California" that communicative conduct was entitled to protection from government infringement. The Court, however, hampered the effectuation of this protection by failing to define conclusively the point …
Recent Cases, Stephen K. Rush, Joseph A. Latham, Jr.
Recent Cases, Stephen K. Rush, Joseph A. Latham, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
Conflicts of Law--Federal Preemption--Aviation Law
Appellant-defendants, the United States' and a national airline whose plane had been involved in a mid-air collision while under radar direction from the FAA, agreed to a settlement of the resulting actions for wrongful death that had been initiated in various federal district courts and consolidated in the Southern District of Indiana. Appellants then sought indemnity and contribution by cross-claim and third-party complaints against appellee-defendants, the owners of the other plane involved in the collision and the estate of its student pilot. The appellees contended that since no right to indemnity and contribution existed under …