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Abstracts: Public library Internet limits spark litigation; in one case, adult library patrons mount a First Amendment challenge to a library's use of a filter restricting Internet access
Abstracts: Public opinion and the development of the European security and defense policy. The Political and Security Committee: governing in the shadow
Abstracts: Public participation in environmental decisionmaking at the new millennium: structuring new spheres of public influence
Abstracts: Public pension fund activism in corporate governance reconsidered. Rule 10b-5 and voluntary corporate disclosures to securities analysts
Abstracts: Public performance rights in sound recordings and the threat of digitalization. FDA ban on steroid is sound
Abstracts: Public-private partnership as a strategy for crime control: corporate citizenship makes the difference. Verity's Truth Center for Enlightened Business
Abstracts: Public relief; tabloid stories that pick at celebrities' flaws - real and imagined - have long seemed to be part of the price of fame. Now the stars may get some help from California legislators who are pushing for libel law reform
Abstracts: Public sector asphxiation: a time for action in collective bargaining. Employee power in conversions to cash balance plans: union, public, and electronic voice
Abstracts: Public sector commissions and comaps: labor-management cooperation in state and local government. Labor-management cooperation: a critical view
Abstracts: Public sector employment. Trainees: an overview of the special employment law considerations applying to trainee workers
Abstracts: Public sector grievance arbitration: structure and administration. The Indianapolis experience
Abstracts: Public sector on the wane. Shopping for a better world. Social screen's bottom-line impact
Abstracts: Public sector pay in 1995. Public sector pay in 1997. Public sector pay clampdown continues
Abstracts: Public values and the Bankruptcy Code. Criminal bad check prosecutions, the Younger abstention doctrine, bankruptcy policy, and Bankruptcy Code section 105(a)
Abstracts: Puerto Rico fights death penalty; islanders clash with U.S., Pennsylvania. Law's true art: a rare law practice: recovering looted art and antiquities
Abstracts: Pulling the plug on executions; ABA's call for death penalty moratorium sparks debate in Congress. Pocketbook pitch
Abstracts: Punching the clock is not so simple;an old statute holds new perils for employers, as workers increasingly sue, alleging wage and hour violations
Abstracts: Punishment versus cooperation in regulatory enforcement: a case study of OSHA. Voluntary regulatory compliance in theory and practice: the case of OSHA
Abstracts: Punitive damages in arbitration: Mastrobuono and the need for creation of a national court of commercial appeals
Abstracts: Punitive damages reviewed; Haslip's effect. Circuits split over whether a heightened showing of egregiousness is necessary to recover Title VII punitive damages, and over use of statutory damages caps
Abstracts: Punitive damages - the dischargeability debate continues. The dischargeability of CERCLA cleanup costs incurred after bankruptcy
Abstracts: Punitives kept ebbing in second post-'BMW' year; nearly half the cases applying the 'BMW' guideposts reduced punitive damages awards
Abstracts: Punitives ruling: cheers and yawns; defenders gleeful, but trial lawyers predict little real change. Lawyers adjust to a post-Sept . 11 world; stranded experts, video hook-ups
Abstracts: Purging monopoly and corruption in the world's 200 countries: 'mobilizing' power of the Internet. Why are some countries so poor? The dead hand of corruption and monopoly
Abstracts: Pursuing domain name registrants can backfire; in domain name disputes, NSI tends to side with challengers, but federal courts can reverse
Abstracts: Put away sword of Damocles. Yes: the press loves activists. Yes: a scuttled investigation
Abstracts: Putting a limit on unlimited creditors' committee liability. Providing adequate assurance for utilities under section 366
Abstracts: Putting a price on life and death. UK praised for manual handling efforts as most member states do the minimum
Abstracts: Putting defenders on the defensive; the criminal defense bar says the DOJ is treating some lawyers in drug cases like criminals
Abstracts: Putting our professional values to work; we are taking on 'pay-to-play,' the Model Rules and health care litigation
Abstracts: Putting the "law" back into environmental law. Why states, not EPA, should set pollution standards. Why states, not the EPA should set pollution standards
Abstracts: Putting the Net into the ocean. His menu: unions, judges and food. Military contracts in the new economy
Abstracts: Putting the plaintiff and defendant on even ground: defining standards of settlement review and the statute of limitations in shareholder actions
Abstracts: Pyrrhic victory in spectrum auction: the FCC's plan to favor small businesses through its C Block auction has resulted in a need for major corporate restructuring
Abstracts: QTIP's tax benefits increased by sale of remainder interest. Revisiting purchases of remainder interests in QTIP trusts
Abstracts: Qualified immunity as a defense to Federal Wiretap Act claims. The justiciability of municipal preemption challenges to state law
Abstracts: Qualified independent underwriters: a primer for the practitioner. IPO road shows - a primer for the practitioner
Abstracts: Qualified individuals with disabilities: defining the ADA's protected class. Anti-drug programs under the ADA: business as usual or harassment of a protected class?
Abstracts: 'Qualitex' makes visible the strategic spectrum; corporate 'color warriors' have various tactics at their disposal
Abstracts: 'Quality' demands alter firms' marketing plans. Firms rethink partners' pay; 'leveraging' in decline. Shift in focus: keeping clients happy; new breed of customer relationship management software allows law firms to quickly access specific info about clients
Abstracts: Quality in life and in death. Fatal failures. Building their own ladder
Abstracts: Quantity and quality in the substantially all requirement. Front-end realignments: non-pro rata contributions of stock before corporate acquisitions
Abstracts: Quarter-century of change; how confidently lawyers stride into the future depends on how clearly they understand the forces that got them to where they are now
Abstracts: Quarterly survey of SEC rulemaking and major appellate decisions
Abstracts: Quasi-collective bargaining: supervisory representation in the U.S. Postal Service. Open markets and collective bargaining: mutual advantage in distress
Abstracts: Queen City Pizza: bad law for franchisees. Courts stress importance of clear clauses; recent decisions have held that the intent of parties to be bound by or supersede arbitration clauses must be spelled out
Abstracts: Questionable tactics: lawyers can protect against suits that second-guess litigation choices. The next target; corporate counsel face their own cast of malpractice demons
Abstracts: Questioning competence: mentally incapacitated clients still can tell their lawyers what to do. You can't take it with you; when can you restrict a former partner from practicing law?
Abstracts: Questioning the "new consensus" on promissory estoppel: an empirical and theoretical study. The absolute pollution exclusion - has it resolved all ambiguities in pollution coverage?
Abstracts: Questions linger on punitives and evidence. Class action, part II. Civil rule revisions a mixed bag
Abstracts: Questions of independence: criticism, political matters heat up judges conference. License to kill? Panelists advocate mercy, not violence
Abstracts: Quickbooks workarounds. Higher Learning. Full-speed ahead
Abstracts: QuickCorrect formatting aberrations. A guide for word converts. Address finesse
Abstracts: Qui tam decision upsets precedent; whistleblower provisions of False Claims Act violate Art. III standing requisites, says court
Abstracts: Qui tam plaintiffs abound; under the federal False Claims Act, virtually anyone can sue a provider, even individuals the defendant hired specifically to find fraud
Abstracts: Qui tam suit is heavy on technicalities. Hellish clients, big trouble; attorneys who ignore the warning signs do so at their own peril
Abstracts: Quo vadis: the status and prospects of "tests" under the religion clauses. Reason, religion, and avoidable consequences: when faith and the duty to mitigate collide
Abstracts: Race, class, and drugs. Working rules for Lawyerland. Stranger in a strange land: the use of overbreadth in abortion jurisprudence
Abstracts: Race, Conventional Crime, and Criminal Justice: The Declining Importance of Skin Color. It's all in the Record: Assessing Self-Control Theory with an Offender Sample
Abstracts: Race, gender, work, and choice: an empirical study of the lack of interest defense in Title VII cases challenging job segregation
Abstracts: 'Race pervades death penalty;' study by anti-death group makes stark charges. Foes seek to kill N.Y. death penalty: lawyers say jury's role in new law's penalty phase makes challenges likely
Abstracts: Race to courthouse may result in needless fees; coverage litigation often entails overbroad claims, defenses and mammoth discovery demands
Abstracts: Racial disparity in sentencing: reflections on the Hood study. Anglo-American approaches to cumulative sentencing and the implications for UK sentencing policy
Abstracts: Racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in sentencing: evidence from the U.S. federal courts. The choice of organizational form in gasoline retalinling and the cost of laws that limit that choice
Abstracts: Racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in sentencing: evidence from the U.S. federal courts. part 2 The impact of gun laws on police deaths
Abstracts: Racial injustice and American justice. The changing face of Law Day; the rule of law and democracy must triumph in Eastern Europe
Abstracts: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) - scope of liability after Reves v. Ernst & Young - Second Circuit holds liable only those who operate or manage the enterprise; First Circuit extends liability to all in chain of command
Abstracts: Radical changes make the market hard to decipher; revamped salaries and billing, still untested, make for an apples-and-oranges situation
Abstracts: Radical Islam and the drive for global dominance: a new 'Caliphate'? The theology of 'martrydom': 72 waiting 'virgins' as a new weapon for world conquest?
Abstracts: Radical plan: turn down work. Firm limos 'drive up' business. Starting a firm from scratch
Abstracts: Rail deals focus on 3%, as strikes hit network. Electricity deals worth 3.3%, but worries surface over PRP. Housing deals focus on 3%
Abstracts: Rainmaking on the podium. Attorneys' actions set firm image; public's view. Scenario: expanding a practice; six proposals
Abstracts: Rain no deterrent to First Lady's followers; conferees try pushing, arguing in quest to see a lawyer named Hillary
Abstracts: Rand study of Civil Justice Reform Act sparks debate; the study's findings that court ADR did not significantly affect civil litigation costs or delays lead to differing interpretations
Abstracts: Rape victims' records vulnerable; Massachusetts prosecutors, therapists see a chilling effect. When can therapists testify? Confidentiality at issue
Abstracts: Rapists under 14 in the news. Litigation as a strategy in penal reform. The reporting trajectories of top homicide cases in the media: a case study of The Times
Abstracts: Rapprochement between the EU and the UN: history and balance of intersecting political cultures. Normative power Europe and the problem of legitimacy deficit: an Israeli perspective
Abstracts: Rat day afternoon. Free speech on the firing line: the legal controversy continues. Muzzling the speech cops
Abstracts: Rationing health care while writing blank checks for environmental health hazards. Environmental crime and the police in Europe: A panorama and possible paths for future action
Abstracts: Rationing justice. The hidden federal shield law: on the Justice Department's regulations governing subpoenas to the press
Abstracts: Reaching out to rural communities; through grants and fellowships, pro bono efforts are moving beyond urban areas to help those clients in need of legal services
Abstracts: Reaching out to women of color: special report chronicles concerns over bias in the profession. Riding high on the hog; in biker disguse, these guys roared off to motorcycle mecca
Abstracts: Read all about them: Supreme Court justices have become popular subjects for biographers. Whose court is it? Conservatives in search of their own Brennan
Abstracts: Reader's choice awards. Document comparison: WordPerfect 9 vs. Word 2000. Get in the ring
Abstracts: Readers' choice awards. Training arena. A hard lesson learned: disaster planning and recovery are no longer optional
Abstracts: Reading death sentences: the narrative construction of capital punishment. Punishment postgenocide: from guilt to shame to civis in Rwanda
Abstracts: Real estate tax disputes: arbitration provides better resolutions. Commercial arbitration in Olde England (602-1698)
Abstracts: Realism, liberalism, values, and the World Trade Organization. The fit between changes to the international corruption regime and indigenous perceptions of corruption in Kazakhstan
Abstracts: Reality checks; lawyers must manage client expectations by being upfront about what is possible and what is not
Abstracts: Real-time billing blues. Equal treatment? Study shows a wide gap between worker, employer wins in job bias appeals
Abstracts: Real-time mess: Engate files patent infringement lawsuit against electronic court reporting firms. Wrapped too tight? federal appeals court decision offers broad protection against reverse engineering of software
Abstracts: Reasonable arguments: fair-minded advocacy is a better approach than trench warfare. Hand-me-down trials; learns what the case is really about before taking it over
Abstracts: Reasonable doubt: an argument against definition. Mens rea in federal criminal law. Winship on rough waters: the erosion of the reasonable doubt standard
Abstracts: Reasonableness a matter of opinion; a 'breakthrough' ruling and a battered woman stir controversy in California
Abstracts: Reasonable royalty damages and the ambitious patentee Georgia-Pacific revisited. Damages in the post-Rite-Hite era: convoyed sales illustrate the dichotomy in current damages law
Abstracts: 'Reasonable woman' test catches on. 'Reasonable woman' test may perpetuate sex bias. After 'O'Connor v. Coin Caterers,' the question remains: When does replacing an employee with a younger employee become actionable age discrimination?
Abstracts: Reasons to start saving; tax act lets you give more to IRAs and other accounts with tax-free distributions. Free with purchase; shareholders who do some sleuthing can rake in plenty of perks
Abstracts: Rebellious grand jurors hire lawyer; twelve who heard Rocky Flats evidence want to criticize plea, avoid charges
Abstracts: Recalling the papers and the papers. CFTC shouldn't license the press. War crimes suits on tap in NYC; rights group served alien tort papers on Serb chief Radovan Karadzic
Abstracts: Recalling the papers and the papers. Keynote address: state of the union for the law of the new millennium, the Internet, and the First Amendment
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