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Abstracts: Congress speeds legal changes: ABA opposes bills, including caps on damages, as harbingers of 'legal chaos'. Kids' stuff; prospects brighten for improvements in foster care system
Abstracts: Congress takes aim at endangered species. Businesses gain ground in standing; Endangered Species Act ruling will affect many suits
Abstracts: Congress turns to violence as safety reps focus on stress and overwork. Preventing violence to retail staff at Thresher
Abstracts: Connecticut condemnation law makes tax-exempt bonds revocable, testing the limits of state power to alter contracts by eminent domain
Abstracts: Conquering Counters: using Counters as a separate numbering system in WordPerfect DOS and Windows. Publish like a pro
Abstracts: Conscientious objectors in the technology revolution. Legal forms on the net. The future of law office computing
Abstracts: Consciousness raising in the land of the rising sun. Business ethics, Eastern style. How Westinghouse let another one get away
Abstracts: Consensus on value is elusive. A licensee-debtor may sell patent-based stock; First Circuit allows a debtor to effect a transfer of its licenses through the sale of its shares
Abstracts: Consent decrees. Freedom of speech, press, and association. Eighth Amendment
Abstracts: Consequences of unilateral changes. Specific changes. Consultation on redundancies and business transfers
Abstracts: Consequential damages in the international sale of goods: analysis of two decisions. Automated trading systems and the concept of an "exchange" in an international context proprietary systems: a regulatory headache!
Abstracts: Conservatory and provisional measures in international arbitration: AAA's experience. How to draft an AAA arbitration clause for international business
Abstracts: Considering the multiple arch dam: theory, practice and the ethics of safety in a case of innovative hydraulic engineering
Abstracts: Consignors v. consignee's creditors: consignment transactions under the UCC. Factoring and financing in Canada - what every U.S. lawyer wants to know about purchasing and taking security on Canadian receivables
Abstracts: Consolidated arbitration: will it result in increased efficiency or an affront to party autonomy? Arbitration in the energy/minerals field: customizing the clause
Abstracts: Consolidated cases raise fairness issues. Market-share acceptance is still limited. How Cipollone affects other industries
Abstracts: Consolidating antitrust damages in Europe: A proposal for standing in line with efficient private enforcement
Abstracts: Consolidations in health care raise unique state and federal regulatory issues, but the U.S. antitrust agencies have had little success in challenging the deals
Abstracts: Conspiracy jurisdiction issue may go to high court; jurisdiction over parties based on acts of their conspirators raises due process concerns
Abstracts: Constitutional innocence. Constitutional law - abortion - Sixth Circuit strikes down Ohio ban of post-viability and dilation and extraction abortions
Abstracts: Constitutionalism in Hong Kong: politics versus economics. Hong Kong-China legal synergy in the run-up to and beyond 1997
Abstracts: Constitutional law
Abstracts: Constitutional law - bill of attainder - Fifth Circuit holds that the special provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are not a bill of attainder - SBC Communications, Inc. v. FCC
Abstracts: Constitutional law - Commerce Clause - Fourth Circuit rules that Violence Against Women Act is an unauthorized exercise of Congressional authority - Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 169 F.3d 820 (4th Cir. 1999) (en banc), cert. granted sub nom. United States v. Morrison, 120 S. Ct. 11 (1999)
Abstracts: Constitutional law - due process and equal protection - California becomes first state to require chemical castration of certain sex offenders. - Act of Sept. 17, 1996, ch. 596, 1996 Cal. Stat. 92 (to be codified at CAL. PENAL CODE s. 645)
Abstracts: Constitutional law - due process and free exercise - Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court holds that school-based condom program does not violate parents' rights - Curtis v. School Committee, 652 N.E.2d 580 (Mass. 1995)
Abstracts: Constitutional law - Due Process Clause - Third Circuit holds that $50 million punitive damages award in context of a $48 million compensatory award its unconstitutionally excessive. Inter Medical Supplies, Ltd. v. EBI Medical Systems, Inc
Abstracts: Constitutional law - due process, right to privacy and free exercise - First Circuit denies parents a constitutional right to prevent children from receiving school-sponsored AIDS education. - Brown v. Hot, Sexy & Safer Productions, Inc., 68 F.3d 525 (1st Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 116 S. Ct. 1044 (1996)
Abstracts: Constitutional law - equal protection - D.C. Circuit upholds military discharge based on a statement of homosexual orientation
Abstracts: Constitutional law - equal protection - Fourth Circuit finds University of Maryland minority scholarship program unconstitutional
Abstracts: Constitutional law - Establishment clause - Eighth Circuit holds that public school opened with concessions to religious group does not violate Establishment Clause
Abstracts: Constitutional law - Establishment Clause - Seventh Circuit invalidates Illinois law mandating Good Friday school closure. - Metzl v. Leininger, 57 F.3d 618 (7th Cir. 1995)
Abstracts: Constitutional law - Fifth Amendment - Ninth Circuit rejects Public Use Clause challenge to Honolulu's lease-to-fee ordinance
Abstracts: Constitutional law - First Amendment - Establishment Clause - Fourth Circuit holds that a school board policy allowing a religious group to distribute Bibles in public school does not violate the Establishment Clause
Abstracts: Constitutional law - First Amendment - Fourth Circuit rules that a teacher's selection of school curriculum is not protected speech
Abstracts: Constitutional law - First Amendment - Ninth Circuit invalidates Arizona Constitution's official English requirement - Yniguez v. Arizonans for Official English, 69 F.3d 920 (9th Cir. 1995)(en banc), cert. granted, 64 U.S.L.W. 3635 (U.S. Mar. 26, 1996)(No. 95-974)
Abstracts: Constitutional law -- Fourth Amendment -- Eleventh Circuit invalidates search because officers failed to inform bus passengers that they could withhold consent
Abstracts: Constitutional law - free exercise of religion - Alaska Supreme Court holds that housing anti-discrimination laws protecting unmarried couples withstand a free exercise challenge by a religious landlord
Abstracts: Constitutional law - peremptory challenges - Third Circuit holds that peremptory challenges based on foreign language ability do not violate the Equal Protection Clause
Abstracts: Constitutional law - procedural due process - Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds sentence-enhancement provisions of "Megan's Law" unconstitutional - Commonwealth v. Williams
Abstracts: Constitutional law - substantive due process - Fourth Circuit holds police officer not liable for exposing children to harm that culminated in their murder
Abstracts: Constitutional law - Tenth Amendment - Ninth Circuit holds interim enforcement provisions of the Brady Bill constitutional - Mack v. United States, 66 F.3d 1025 (9th Cir. 1995), petition for cert. filed, 64 U.S.L.W. 3642 (U.S. Mar. 15, 1996)(No. 95-1478)
Abstracts: Constitutional mass torts: sovereign immunity and the Human Radiation Experiments. Abrogating state sovereign immunity in legislative courts
Abstracts: Constitutional migration and the bounds of comparative analysis. Charitable choice and the critics
Abstracts: Constitutional questions about vouchers. The Enlightenment case for vouchers. January 27, 1961: the birth of gaylegal equality arguments
Abstracts: Constitutional structure and judicial deference to agency interpretations of agency rules. Informational standing under the NEPA: justiciability and the environmental decisionmaking process
Abstracts: Constitutional structure. Criminal law and procedure. Commerce Clause
Abstracts: Constitutional structure. Foreign affairs power - the Massachusetts Burma law is found to encroach on the federal government's exclusive constitutional authority to regulate foreign affairs
Abstracts: Constitutional substantial-evidence review? Lessons from the Supreme Court's Turner Broadcasting decisions. Stare decisis and the Constitution: an essay on constitutional methodology
Abstracts: Constitution provides no right to be killed. Defense of marriage - or attack on family? Assisted suicide is a federal case
Abstracts: Constructing a new paradigm of labor arbitration. National Labor Relations Board: deferral to arbitration. Starting from scratch: ADR helps resolve labor conflicts in the new Hungary
Abstracts: Construction ADR: you get out what you put in. EEOC adopts ADR methods. The business and legal communities look to ADR
Abstracts: Constructive discharge: A.K.A. was it a quit or a discharge? Understanding the doctrine and prevention of constructive-discharge cases
Abstracts: Constructive Dividends to U.S. Parent in Non-Arm's Length Transactions: Rollover of Short Term Obligations as Investment in U.S. Property-Technical Advice on Memorandum
Abstracts: Consultants on Consultants. A Cost-Effective Approach to Security Training. Security Regulation: A State-By-State Update
Abstracts: Consultation on disability regulations. New regulations on health and safety consultation. Consultation on "check-off."(deduction of trade union subscriptions from pay checks)
Abstracts: Consultation regulations under fire. Definition of "establishment" under Collective Redundancies Directive. Part-timer's redundancy pay claims time-barred
Abstracts: Consumer contracts and jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters
Abstracts: Consumer dealings. Debt collection and the Trade Practices Act. New super-tribunal to replace Small Claims Tribunal
Abstracts: Consumer lawyers innovate; new breed of suits brings results, big fees. Rent-to-own is targeted as racketeering
Abstracts: Consumer protection in the European Union: an analysis on the directive on the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees
Abstracts: Consumer protection on the market for consumer credit in Poland-Do near-banks enter the "second market"-similar to the British model?
Abstracts: Consumer reaction to measures of poor quality: evidence from the mutual fund industry. Reversion taxes, contingent benefits, and the decline in pension funding
Abstracts: Consumers in the Wringer. Do environmental regulations increase economic efficiency? The "Backdoor Btu Tax"
Abstracts: Consumers seek to curb farm animal suffering. Nuclear power rate regulation after Eastern Enterprises: are ratepayers being taken for a ride?
Abstracts: Consumer suits target prescription drug benefits; advocacy groups are seeking rights, information, recourse under state and federal laws
Abstracts: Content is in the eye of the beholder: the Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the 1992 Cable Act's "must-carry" provisions
Abstracts: Contextualizing business ethics. The Economic and Ethical Implications of New Technology on Privacy in the Workplace
Abstracts: Contingency fees: should plaintiffs lawyers in the tobacco settlement receive billions of dollars? Attorneys oppose Social Security fee plan
Abstracts: Contingent beneficiaries and Crummey powers: the battle lines are drawn. Contingent payment transfers of trademarks: a sale in license clothing
Abstracts: Contingent liabilities in section 351 transactions: the IRS limits the application of Holdcroft. Sidestepping the business purpose test for corporate spin-offs
Abstracts: Contingent liability is key issue for new wave of manufacturer M&As; lawsuits stemming from 1980s acquisitions provide invaluable negotiation and drafting lessons
Abstracts: Contingent payment transfers of trademarks: a sale in license clothing. Tax planning for the transfer of franchises, trademarks, and trade names
Abstracts: Contingent power resulted in inclusion of property in estate. Fourth Circuit confirms that noncharitable gifts by check were complete in year of delivery
Abstracts: Continued prosecution in a continuation application, or a Transco best mode trap for the unwary? Comment: stripping politics from the Board
Abstracts: Continuing legal education
Abstracts: Continuing legal education. CLE directory. State-by-state update: 39 now require CLE, 4 states propose rules
Abstracts: Continuing legal education. part 2
Abstracts: Continuing legal education. part 3
Abstracts: Continuing legal education. part 4
Abstracts: Continuing legal education. part 5
Abstracts: Continuing legal education. part 6
Abstracts: Continuing legal education. part 7
Abstracts: Continuing legal education. part 8
Abstracts: Continuing protection: converting a limited liability structure raises key insurance issues. Something in the air; ozone depletion raises commercial real estate issues
Abstracts: Continuing to look a gift horse in the mouth: state death taxes and IRC section 6166. Renewal commissions and other income items as gifts to charity at death
Abstracts: "Continuous" regulatory reform at the Federal Trade Commission. How changes in the Federal Register can help improve regulatory accountability
Abstracts: Contract and copyright are not at war: a reply to "The Metamorphosis of Contract into Expand". The metamorphosis of contract into expand
Abstracts: Contract and jurisdiction. Hands off! Civil court involvement in conflicts over religious property. Virtual civil litigation: a visit to John Bunyan's celestial city
Abstracts: Contract disputes: EEOC reaffirms policy favoring judges over arbitrators for workplace discrimination claims
Abstracts: "Contracted" biographies and other obstacles to "truth."(Symposium: National Conference on Judicial Biography)
Abstracts: Contract for nonbeneficial use: New Mexico water law is drowned out by contract. Who controls New Mexico's acequinas? Acequina government and Wilson v. Denver
Abstracts: Contracting around exhaustion: some thoughts about the CAFC's Mallinckrodt decision. The Federal Circuit as a competition law court
Abstracts: Contract law - employment-at-will - N.Y. Court of Appeals implies reporting requirement into law firm-associate employment relationship
Abstracts: Contract notions have corrupted torts. Online dispute resolution: click here to settle your dispute. ADR methods can streamline mass tort actions
Abstracts: Contract notions have corrupted torts. Two concepts of jurisdiction cleave courts; traditional notions of justice and fair play have been prevailing in Internet cases, but the revolutionaries are far from defeated
Abstracts: Contracts enhance owner discretion; employment agreements help companies avoid suits, protect IP and delineate stock plans
Abstracts: Contracts - Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act - Federal Circuit holds federal government liable for breach of thrift contracts. Winstar Corp v. United States
Abstracts: Contractual expansion & limitation of judicial review of arbitral awards. Judicial review of arbitral awards
Abstracts: Contractual issues. Discussion on worker information and consultation. Relocation and job mobility
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