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Abstracts: Miller v. California Pacific Medical Center: using the "capable of repetition yet evading review" exception to mootness in section 10(j) injunctions. part 2
Abstracts: Minding the gap: determining interest rates under the U.N. convention for the international sale of goods. Uncommon preservation: common law recognition of admiralty jurisdiction in seamen's wage and hypothecation cases
Abstracts: Mind over market; investors shouldn't let bullish expectations derail long-term investment plans. Knowing when to let go: timing the stock market can make the most of gains, minimize losses
Abstracts: Minimizing arbitrator "reversals" in discipline and discharge cases. Recent findings and practices in grievance-arbitration procedures
Abstracts: Minimum required distribution rules clarified again. Operating retail clothing and optical goods businesses in same shopping mall not a single line of business for purposes of qualified employee discount rules
Abstracts: Minimum required distributions. Due care and financial planning. The marketing of financial services
Abstracts: Minimum standards for private adjudicators? Adversarial or conciliatory: what litigators should know about mediation
Abstracts: Minorities surge at big law firms; Asian-Americans, especially, swell ranks; Hispanics and blacks also up. From the flute to streaming media
Abstracts: Minority discount was applied to determine FMV before special-use valuation was calculated. Estate tax deductions were not limited to size of probate estate
Abstracts: Minority firm battles as political tides shift; Williams & Harris, once the top muni bond underwriters' counsel, must prove itself without patrons
Abstracts: 'Miranda' now on the endangered species list. Liberty interest in aided suicide rejected; Court finds no constitutionally protected interest, distinguishes the withdrawal of life support
Abstracts: 'Miranda' upheaval unlikely; DAs don't favor recent 4th Cir. limit, which does not affect typical case. Trial nears for untested secrets law; some experts see trouble for Economic Espionage Act
Abstracts: Misconduct, misfortune, and just compensation: Weinstein on torts. The courtroom as classroom: independence, imagination and ideology in the work of Jack Weinstein
Abstracts: Misdefined term impedes ability of new ruling to simplify end-of-year gifts made by check. New Alaska trust act provides many estate planning opportunities
Abstracts: Misdirect, then pounce; don't always let witnesses know where you are taking them. It's not always Normandy; advance impeacment planning makes your attack count
Abstracts: Mismanagement of assets didn't cause exclusion of QTIP. Sums received in negligence actions included in estate
Abstracts: Mispriced planet. The beneficiaries of Clean Air Act regulation. Mobile source pollution in Mexico City and market-based alternatives
Abstracts: Missed opportunity: urban fiscal crises and financial control boards. Cutting costs ...and courts: judicial resources dwindle as states cope with budget crises
Abstracts: Missing and presumed murdered. Confronting a dark past: recently released Miss. files aid retrial of Klansman
Abstracts: Missing time-series data and the impact of sentencing guidelines in Minnesota: can the debate be adjudicated? Challenges for multilevel models of school disorder: response to Hoffmann and Johnson
Abstracts: Mississippi changing; how gambling helped the nation's poorest court system. A new evidence tool; first use of mitochondrial DNA test in a U.S. criminal trial
Abstracts: Misunderstanding of standing is plaintiffs' pitfall; co-inventors and licensing are among potential complications in bringing infringement suits
Abstracts: Misuse of IRS car lease value table precluded its use. Second chance at ten-year averaging. New law significantly alters retirement plan landscape
Abstracts: Mitigating punishment for statutory rape. Running the caucus-race: prevailing parties and fee shifting under ERISA
Abstracts: Mixed responses to new safety consultation rights. HSC proposes costly and far-reaching changes to use of work equipment laws
Abstracts: Mixing tools against proliferation: The EU's strategy for dealing with weapons of mass destruction. The SICAR: a new Luxembourg vehicle for private equity and venture capital investments
Abstracts: Mobil goes to bat for birds and bats; inexpensive exhaust stack caps save lives. Paying too much for petrol
Abstracts: Model code of ethics approved for the editors of legal journals. New institute will be attempting to 'redefine' legal profession
Abstracts: Model procedures for sexual harassment claims. Excessive absenteeism and the Disabilities Act. Sexual harassment: new challenge for labor arbitrators?
Abstracts: Model Selection 401(K) Plan. Technical corrections bill contains IRA provisions. Ninth Circuit rejects constitutional challenge to statute criminalizing false statements on ERISA reports
Abstracts: Models for environmental regulation: central planning versus market-based approaches. Antaeus and the public trust doctrine: a new approach to substantive environmental protection in the common law
Abstracts: Mode of trial and the influence of local justice. Reporting rape in London: a qualitative study. Evaluation of a UK police domestic violence unit using repeat victimization as a performance indicator
Abstracts: Modernising trade mark law and promoting economic efficiency: an evalutaion of the Baby-Dry judgment and its aftermath
Abstracts: Modernizing English property law: The influence of internal market principles. The development of collective legal actions in Europe, especially in German civil procedure
Abstracts: Moderns ADR appears, at last, abroad; mediation and other U.S. alternatives to arbitration have slowly been exported for use in international commercial disputes
Abstracts: Mogul bent on grand jury reform. Money-laundering charges curbed. Legal defense funds are pols' latest perk
Abstracts: Momentum grows in Congress for a habeas bill; critics, however, charge that looser standards will lead to more litigation
Abstracts: Monetary costs and benefits of crime prevention programs. Punishment and crime across space and time. Predictors, causes, and correlates of male youth violence
Abstracts: Money for nothing and leverage for free: the politics and history of the leveraged ESOP tax subsidy. Right to vote ESOP shares not a plan asset
Abstracts: Money talks: in defense of common-sense approach to judicial review of campaign contribution limits. The enforcement blues: formal and informal sanctions for campaign finance violations
Abstracts: Monopolization: past, present, future. Joint purchasing agreements. Joint advertising and marketing
Abstracts: Monopoly and competition in the supply and exchange of money. Balancing competitor cooperation and competition against consumer welfare and viable international competition
Abstracts: Monopoly and the face of global poverty and inequality: the 'pork despot' in China. Why is Islam so poor? From wealth to poverty in 900 years
Abstracts: Monopoly in the computer software industry: higher prices, inferior products, and retarded innovation. Vertical nonprice restraints and the mail-order industry: 30% higher prices without intrabrand competition
Abstracts: 'Monopoly is good': a judicial star chamber for the antitrust plaintiff. Monopoly and poverty: killing the goose that lays the golden eggs
Abstracts: Montana court continues its hostility to mandatory arbitration. The developing American approach to arbitrability
Abstracts: Montana court continues its hostility to mandatory arbitration. part 2 Tongue-tied in the market: the relevance of contract law to racial-language minorities
Abstracts: Moore v. The Regents of the University of California: an ethical debate on informed consent and property rights in a patient's cells
Abstracts: More accounting method changes granted automatic consent. Prop. regs. clarify reporting payments to attorneys
Abstracts: More corporations using 'Net to reach investors; annual reports, shareholder proposals and proxy materials are accessible on the Internet
Abstracts: More hospitals eye conversion to taxable status; the benefits of access to equity markets and physicians' capital may outweigh new tax liability
Abstracts: More judges, less justice; the case against expansion of the federal judiciary. Too few judges, too many cases; a plea to save the federal courts
Abstracts: More lawyers are a plus: market forces will lead to better-qualified law school grads, affordable fees. High cost of doing good; more law grads would enter public service with loan-forgiveness plan
Abstracts: More rules, more risks for high-tech health care sites; recently released privacy standards and anti-referral regs increase liabilities for those operating E-health Web sites, links
Abstracts: More SoftWindows. Fast and accurate OCR. Double-entry accounting made simple
Abstracts: More states adopting divorce mediation: with nonlawyer mediators, some spouses will get bad deals, critics claim
Abstracts: More sunshine laws proposed; after the Firestone recalls, 10 states and the U.S. Senate introduced bills to limit secret orders, agreements
Abstracts: More than the law; ancillary business growth continues. New Cal test. The Ide agenda; seeking "nothing short of revolution." (1993-94 A.B.A. president R. William Ide III)
Abstracts: More trial attorneys use computers. Technology is changing how law firms relate to in-house counsel. Specialized data bases desirable
Abstracts: Mormons hit by child-sex lawsuits; $4 million verdict against Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is first result; other suits are pending
Abstracts: Mormons' impact on the law is singular; a coherent world view informs approach to lawmaking, lawsuits, the Constitution and lawyers
Abstracts: Moscow work goes forward amid grief; a sniper kills a U.S. lawyer, and others worry about the future. Hillary's law firm adjusts to spotlight
Abstracts: Most firms' sites do not exploit Web; by and large, law firms' Internet sites opt for showcasing, instead of enabling clients to do research and interact with counsel
Abstracts: Most jurors would want their own case heard by a jury, not a judge. Panelists give tips to lawyers
Abstracts: Most lawyers benefit from boom; even public sector shows some improvement, though it's light years from law firm salaries
Abstracts: Most major life companies are vigorously enforcing compliance standards with their sales agents. The law and economics of vanishing premium life insurance
Abstracts: Mother of mercy! They've killed off worst of RICO; the courts reined in civil RICO excesses, which may provide a lesson for today's legal reformers in Congress
Abstracts: Motion strategy key for Prez; lawyers who defended impeachment targets urge Clinton to take offensive. Elian's dream team; facing a new hearing, the Cuban has many lawyers, none his
Abstracts: Motivating employees to act ethically: an expectancy theory approach. Pharmaceutical advertisements: how they deceive patients
Abstracts: Motor vehicle policy - assured to take all reasonable steps to safeguard a vehicle. Claim under professional indemnity policy
Abstracts: Motor vehicle policy - assured to take all reasonable steps to safeguard a vehicle. part 2 Antico v. Heath Fielding Australia Pty Ltd
Abstracts: Move over, Ms. Bingaman; new trustbuster is in D.C.; new FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky's theoretical views may clash with Anne Bingaman's pragmatism at Justice
Abstracts: Moving document management into Y2K. 20 tips for effective Web research. Feeling lucky? Palmtops: the winning hand
Abstracts: Moving forward on the development of minimum humanitarian standards. Jamaica withdraws the right of individual petition under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Abstracts: Moving in on crime; eviction of public housing tenants for third-party criminal activity at issue. How far is boss's reach? Employees fight back against firings based on their online activities
Abstracts: Moving the immovable: protecting real estate from creditor claims. Tax-favored strategies for funding a child's higher education
Abstracts: Moving up is hard to do: firms bid DOS farewell; DOS handled a law firm's core function - word processing - brilliantly. Some firms stayed with it for over a decade. Until now
Abstracts: Movin' to main street; how to leave a big city firm and set up a small town practice. Family business
Abstracts: Mr. Chess makes surprising move: he leaves Bar Bri and goes west. Suing for extra credit, latest 'A' got rid of clubs' 'ladies nights.' (Professor John F. Banzhaf III's 'Legal Activism' course at George Washington University National Law Center)
Abstracts: Mr. Thompson takes on Washington: whether as a lawyer, actor or now U.S. senator, Fred Thompson follows his own script
Abstracts: Mr. Wallach defends self in take 3 of Wedtech. Is boxing's Don King down for the count? Teamsters try to block Webster
Abstracts: MSHA: undermining progress in occupational safety and health. Myths of antitrust progress
Abstracts: Much focus on antitrust law, but don't neglect Microsoft's viruses. Keeping up is hard to do: ways to track technology legislation
Abstracts: Much of the transactional activity following the Telecommunications Act of 1996 flows from the elimination of entry barriers and outmoded regulations
Abstracts: Multi-faceted tool for litigators. CaseMap: replace your legal pad. Now hear this
Abstracts: Multimedia liabilities. Loss of data control plagues many corporations; regulation of information wanes with the increasing dominance of networked PCs and e-mail
Abstracts: Multiple factors govern the conveyance of IP; venturers must asgree on the specifics of the IP, as well as the parties' rights and obligations
Abstracts: Multi-tier partnerships can pay general partners for results and avoid guaranteed payments. Abandoning interests may save taxes for investors in troubled partnerships
Abstracts: Multi-user Internet access. Law office makeover. The digital law office: learn to stop wasting time on filing, copying and retrieving paper documents
Abstracts: Municipal recovery of natural resource damages under CERCLA. The Fourth Amendment warrant requirement in the environmental law context: can imminent harm to the environment justify a warrantless search?
Abstracts: Murder in America: a historian's perspective. School shootings, the media, and public fear: ingredients for a moral panic
Abstracts: Murphy's Law and computer security. Marketing and infrastructure. Technology and how we work
Abstracts: Museums that put corporations on display. Corporations that confront the scourge of AIDS. Should corporations care about child care?
Abstracts: Musician/IS director sees keyboards come and go; Honigman Miller's director of information services has overseen the transition from typewriters to sophisticated data bases
Abstracts: Musick clarified defendants' obligations. The House bill's 'loser pays' provision and its single standard of recklessness would affect much private securities litigation
Abstracts: Must formalism be defended empirically? Constitutional structure and statutory formalism. Two functions of formalism
Abstracts: Must lawyers tell clients about ADR? Reducing firms' pro bono liabilities. Take care the suit isn't yours
Abstracts: Mutual funds may face problems unless they defer all post-October capital losses. Mutual funds can use stock redemptions to meet distribution requirements
Abstracts: Myres Smith McDougal: 1906-1998. Assessing claims to revise the laws of war. Maritime delimitation between opposite states - traditional "artisanal" fishing regimes - transboundary nonliving resources - interpretation of prior award - straight baselines - effect of coastal and midsea islands
Abstracts: NAFTA - arbitration - scope of jurisdiction to arbitrate - requirement of transparency - expropriation resulting from withholding governmental permits and imposing new environmental restrictions - damages for expropriation - enforcement of arbitral award
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