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Abstracts: Fast-track law doomed by earlier maneuvering. The Australia print media inquiry. (Obtaining an injunction for alleged breaches of Section 50 of the Trade Practices Act) (Australia) (Editorial)
Abstracts: Father Time & billing: a look at your ptogram choices for 2001. Desktop faxing comes of age
Abstracts: Fault lies not only in Starr but in law. NHRA fixes standards for private suits; by establishing a benchmark for quality of care, the act has become the basis for a number of lawsuits against nursing homes
Abstracts: Fawell introduces legislation to overhaul ERISA. Health care reform may soon pass. Administration sends two health care reform proposals to Congress
Abstracts: Fax at your fingertips; desktop faxing is easy, fast and economical. In and out of court; new trial-related products - and some others
Abstracts: FBI head rebuts report; accused of wrongdoing, Sessions claims charges unfair, inaccurate. FBI head investigated; critics charge Justice probe politically motivated
Abstracts: FCC, carriers tangle over Internet telephony; the FCC, under pressure by phone companies, soon may regulate IT as a 'basic service.'
Abstracts: FCC gains upper hand over local telephone companies; a recent high court decision and an FCC order on ISPs uphold the FCC's regulatory primacy over local telecommunications
Abstracts: FCC order may foster competition; new access reform order's success will depend on whether access charges are reduced, not shifted, among local carriers
Abstracts: FCC's competition unit swims against the tide; a new 'SWAT team' ferrets out media monopolies as a GOP-dominated Congress clamors for deregulation
Abstracts: FCPA demands due diligence in global dealings; with antibribery enforcement on the rise, U.S. firms are wise to devise due diligence plans
Abstracts: FDA can nix marks pre-PTO. Should the exemption from the Robinson-Patman Act apply to pharmaceutical purchases by nonprofit HMOs?
Abstracts: FDA is aggressively enforcing GMP compliance; the agency has heightened the sanctions for deviations from good manufacturing practices
Abstracts: FDA liable for polio vaccine; didn't follow own rules. Dalkon trust prevails on claims; closely watched cases
Abstracts: FDA prescribes cautious labels; increasingly, dietary supplement and food manufacturers are allowed to make health claims, but FDA regulations are still tight
Abstracts: FDA prescribes cautious labels; increasingly, dietary supplement and food manufacturers are allowed to make health claims, but FDA regulations are still tight. part 2
Abstracts: FDA reform and the European Medicines Evaluation Agency. Reform of the new drug approval process. Some FDA applications can escape full testing; draft guidance suggests that in many cases, studies conducted by others will be acceptable
Abstracts: FDA's backers move to increase its powers. Does innocence void death sentence? Maybe. Capital appeal becomes a court tug of war
Abstracts: FDA's taxing authority extended to year 2003. The problems of price controls. Seeing through the snow
Abstracts: FDICIA: one year later. Those who live in Glass Steagalls.... Financial services modernization
Abstracts: FDIC loses face as well as case; NBW suit called frivolous. FDIC wants cut of Winstar win; S&Ls are livid that agency is seeking to muscle in
Abstracts: FDIC proposes limits on golden parachute payments. IRS confirms method for establishing annual periodic payments of distributions from IRA to avoid tax on early distribution
Abstracts: FDIC's powers face growing challenge. Repudiation powers are at issue again. Marketplace discipline is reintroduced
Abstracts: Fear of filing: securities fraud plaintiffs steering clear of federal restrictions by suing in state court, study says
Abstracts: Fears about post-transfer terms not a breach of trust. Award for injury to feelings was excessive. Employers not vicariously liable for discrimination
Abstracts: Feasible for part-timer to claim unfair dismissal in 1976. Age limit for unfair dismissal and redundancy pay contrary to EC law
Abstracts: Fed does end run on Glass Steagall. Shareholder rights will be next battleground. A report released by the Federal Reserve suggests that regulation of electronic stored-value devices, such as mass-transit cards, will not change significantly
Abstracts: Fed does end run on Glass Steagall. Will euro's heat make U.S. firms wilt? Blame managers, not derivatives
Abstracts: Federal agency reviews of existing regulations. The APA at fifty: a celebration, not a puzzlement. Survey of non-ALJ hearing programs in the federal government
Abstracts: Federal bankruptcy court holds debtor's interest in s. 457 plan is property of bankruptcy estate. First case under Pension Annuity Protection Act allows participants who received Executive Life contracts to sue under ERISA
Abstracts: Federal Circuit clarifies laches defense. Misuse defense gains in federal courts. A licensee's rights in an original work that secures a loan will hinge on whether and when the security interest was properly perfected
Abstracts: Federal Circuit clarifies laches defense. Questions persist on security interests. Legality of 'interim copying' is disputed
Abstracts: Federal Circuit expands recovery of lost profits; patent owners now may be able to recover damages for profits lost for unprotected articles
Abstracts: Federal Circuit rulings damage patent law. Patent law; willful infringement. Patent law; insurance coverage
Abstracts: Federal civil procedure - Sixth Circuit holds that federal court should abstain from deciding a nonparty's First Amendment challenge to a state court injunction
Abstracts: Federal civil procedure - supplemental jurisdiction - Seventh Circuit holds that 28 U.S.C. 1367 allows supplemental jurisdiction over permissively joined plaintiffs in diversity suits. - Stromberg Metal Works, Inc. v. Press Mechanical, Inc., 77 F.3d 928 (7th Cir. 1996)
Abstracts: Federal courts' budget blues; Congress asked for more money to pay jurors, court-appointed lawyers. No more second-class jurors; U.S. Judicial Conference turns alternates into extras in federal civil trials
Abstracts: Federal courts disagree on pleading securities fraud; circuits differ on meaning of pleadings requirement for scienter under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
Abstracts: Federal cuts will isolate rural poor. The ins and outs of a uniform citation system; while its supporters contend that citation reform is long overdue, others are skeptical
Abstracts: Federal Dilution act at 5: a qualified success story; owners of famous marks have found relief, although circuits split over issue of actual harm
Abstracts: Federal evidence; looking at vital rules. Evidence; amendments. Evidence; proposed rules
Abstracts: Federal income tax consequences of spousal & dependent travel expenses. Tax consequences of domestic partner participation in group health plans
Abstracts: Federalism - intergovernmental relations - Congress requires a separate recorded vote for any provision establishing an unfunded mandate. - Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 104-4, 109 Stat. 48
Abstracts: Federal judge: juror has a right to privacy; for now, a juror who refused to answer voir dire questions is spared jail
Abstracts: Federal judges in South Carolina try trifurcation; juries are asked to consider insurance coverage in a trial stage after setting punitives
Abstracts: Federal jurisdiction and procedure. Federall jurisdiction and procedure
Abstracts: Federal jurisdiction is addressed. Court preserves the privileges of the dead; in its procedural decisions, the court breaks no new ground and declines to create new doctrine
Abstracts: Federal jury instructions and the consequences of a successful insanity defense. Informed conviction: instructing the jury about mandatory sentencing consequences
Abstracts: Federal practice; civil rules amendments. Federal practice; civil RICO conspiracy. Federal practice; civil rules II
Abstracts: Federal practice; complex litigation. Complex litigation; the art of interviewing
Abstracts: Federal practice - computer evidence. Federal practice; ethical issues. Federal practice; securities pleadings
Abstracts: Federal practice; enhancing pictures. Federal practice; ABA discovery standards. Federal practice; ethical issues
Abstracts: Federal practice; expert-related rules. Federal practice; new expert rules. Federal practice; expert depositions
Abstracts: Federal practice; RICO 'conduct.' Federal practice; RICO causation. Federal practice; the Clinton sanction
Abstracts: Federal practice; sanctions update II. Federal practice; sanctions update
Abstracts: Federal preemption - a prime case reference. How to win early in lead paint litigation: a defense perspective
Abstracts: Federal preemption of state law. Review of administrative action. Fifth Amendment
Abstracts: Federal role attacked by habeas reform bid. Prisoners' rights lawyers plan attack on new law. Habeas proposal stresses only appeals counsel
Abstracts: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 6(e) and 72(a): how poor draftsmanship makes for bad law. The cold shoulder of occupational disease recovery: Ganske v. Spahn & Rose Lumber Co
Abstracts: Federal Rule will trim length of appellate briefs; new Fed.R.App.P. 32 shortens appellate briefs, but electronic briefs, if available, can fill gaps
Abstracts: Federal securities arbitration: does it provide adequate relief? Assessing fairness in securities industry arbitration
Abstracts: Federal, state bills challenge same-sex marriages; bills in Congress would deny them federal recognition; state bills would ban them outright
Abstracts: Federal statutes - Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 - Ninth Circuit holds that the Wiretap Act protects electronic communications in storage to the same extent as those in transit
Abstracts: Federal taxation of foreign trusts: coping with a complex regime. (part 1). Prop. regs. on ESBTs: more guidance for family trusts owning S stock
Abstracts: Federal tax returns simplified. Where there's a will. Trust drafting simplified
Abstracts: Feds' audit checks bias at N.Y. firm;much paperwork follows tough 'glass ceiling' exam. Fun goes 'PC' for '95 summer associate programs; no '80s throwbacks, please: the bonding exercises are modest - to a degree
Abstracts: Fed securities actions go online; courts experiment with the Web. Technology and the law meet online commerce; 'digital signature' guidelines and an upgraded U.C.C. will ease Internet transactions. An L.A. court tries it out
Abstracts: Feds settle to save act and species; but critics say deals may hurt not help endangered. Non-profits mobilize against lobbying bill
Abstracts: Feds snare lawyers in Cali Cartel net; the defense bar sees, in raids, taps and novel theories, an unprecedented attack
Abstracts: Fee case shows fast-lane billing. Don't call them local; is office politics making some 'national' firms erase their hometowns?
Abstracts: Fee change is a sea-change; but some seek way to skirt justices' limit on catalyst theory fees. High court to settle fee fight; weighs awards when civil rights suits are catalysts for change
Abstracts: Fee fie foe firm: Big Four gobble up lawyers. Internal investigations. Lawyers and confidentiality
Abstracts: Fee fie foe firm: Big Four gobble up lawyers. Reno to lawyers: consider ADR. Explanations, suggestions, and solutions to conflict tracking and prevention in response to the growth and expansion of the larger law firm
Abstracts: Fees paid by trust for investment advice not subject to 2% floor on deductions, rules CA-6. IRS rules on predeceased parent exception for GST purposes
Abstracts: Female lawyers see bias in their arrests: cursing and culottes were unacceptable to authorities in Texas, Florida
Abstracts: Female lawyers see bias in their arrests: cursing and culottes were unacceptable to authorities in Texas, Florida. part 2
Abstracts: Feminist legal analysis and sexual autonomy: using statutory rape laws as an illustration. Toward a new history of American accident law: classical tort law and the cooperative first-party insurance movement
Abstracts: Feminists back anti-porn bill; critics say holding pornographers liable for rape chills protected speech. Speech without fees not free: court strikes down ban on honoraria for federal workers
Abstracts: Fencing the oceans: a rights-based approach to privatizing fisheries. Subsidies are not property rights
Abstracts: Fen-Phen suits grow; panel mulls MDL forum for diet-drug litigation as feds urge heart exams. Will liability cloud use of thalidomide? Renewed interest for a spate of diseases, but risks remain
Abstracts: Fen-Phen victims may die before MDL ends; federal judge is considering creating a fast track for most seriously ill plaintiffs
Abstracts: FERC asserts vast power as utility mergers heat up; policy statement signals intent to regulate aggressively in the 'public interest' as the industry pursues a lightning consolidation
Abstracts: Ferrell Schultz Carter & Fertel. Time and billing dos and don'ts. Traverse Legal
Abstracts: Fertility and coercion. The Defense of Marriage Act and the overextension of congressional authority. Authority of federal courts to compel party attendance at settlement conferences: sound authorization or creative coercion?
Abstracts: 'Festo' opens the door; case sharply limits doctrine of equivalents; designing around patents will now succeed more
Abstracts: Fetal protection: law, ethics and corporate policy. Corporate codes of ethics and sales force behavior: a case study
Abstracts: Fewer law school applicants; more minorities seek admission, but not enough to offset drop in white males. Law school affirmative action in doubt; 5th Circxuit ruling strikes down University of Texas admissions preferences
Abstracts: Few like pollution guidelines; business "up in arms" over proposed fines for corporate environmental crimes. 27th Amendment ratified; congressional vote ends debate over 203-year-old pay-raise proposal
Abstracts: FICA tax timing rule for nonqualified deferred compensation applied to taxpayer attempt to limit current income subject to FICA
Abstracts: Fiduciary duties derailed? Appropriation of directors' duties in the battle for control of Conrail. Revisiting the import of shareholder consent for corporate fiduciary loyalty obligations
Abstracts: Fiduciary duties in burnout/cramdown financings. Private equity funds: What counts and what doesn't? Securitization vehicles, fiduciary duties, and bondholders' rights
Abstracts: Fiduciary duty a la Lyonnais: an economic perspective on corporate governance in a financially-distressed firm
Abstracts: Fifth Circuit joins other circuits in holding that arbitration clauses apply to ERISA claims. Two circuits hold that IRA is exempt from bankruptcy estate
Abstracts: Fight for your rights. Desparately seeking something! Trailer park marketing
Abstracts: Fighting back; 1999's biggest defense wins made waves, if not headlines. Verdicts: The Big Numbers of 1996
Abstracts: Fighting fire with firefighters: a proposal for expert judges at the trial level. Court of Federal Claims: a case against reform
Abstracts: Fighting genetic discrimination; lawyer, denied insurance on basis of father's disease, backs protective laws
Abstracts: Fighting on the job: analysis of recent arbitration decisions. Preparing your client for mediation
Abstracts: Fighting poverty with $30 billion. Working in a woman's world. Qualcomm counsel hits the jackpot
Abstracts: File sharing tug of war. Advanced Word. Mac news
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