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Abstracts: SS 1-201(19), 1-203, 2-103, 2-104(1) - good-faith requirements in contract negotiations. SS. 9-203(1), 9-105(1)(L) - application of "composite document" theory for creation of a security interest
Abstracts: SS. 4-302(a), 4-104(10) - drawee bank's failure to meet midnight deadline. Sections 2-106, 2-401, 2-313 - local repair facilities required to fulfill express warranties in mail order sales - where did the sale occur?
Abstracts: Staged pay rises for most review body groups. Four in a row at 3.5%. Survey of pay in local government
Abstracts: Staged pay rises for most review body groups. Plus ca change? Public sector pay in 1996
Abstracts: Staking an Internet claim; the rush to grab a site name has led to new rules, but no one to enforce them. .Com-mentary on domain names; state bars keep a watchful eye on content of lawyers' Internet IDs
Abstracts: Stalking: a review of the literature and direction for the future. The stadium gambit and local economic development
Abstracts: Standard-setting consortia, antitrust, and high-technology industries. Intercompetitor cooperation in the petroleum industry
Abstracts: Standards of conduct for mediators: text of agreement between AAA, ABA & SPIDR. Hardball questions do pay off; Cornelius Pitts
Abstracts: Stand by for new set of rules on letters of credit; international standby practices are more detailed than current rules - and take effect Jan. 1
Abstracts: Standing and misunderstanding in voting rights law. Civil Rights - Title VI - Fourth Circuit holds that articulated reasons rebut challenges against discriminatory practices. - Ferguson v. City of Charleston
Abstracts: Standing for environmental groups: procedural injury as injury-in-fact. Armed conflict - losses resulting from invasion and occupation of Kuwait - oil well fires - liability for damages - causation - mitigation of damages - abatement of environmental damage - standing - parties - duplication of claims
Abstracts: Standing in the Supreme Court and circuits: October term 1997. Ruling without real rules, or how to influence private conduct without really binding
Abstracts: Standing on firmer ground: separation of powers and deference to congressional findings in the standing analysis
Abstracts: Standing tall among giants. Updating the outdated. Catching the right case management system
Abstracts: Standing to allege violations of the doctrine of specialty: an examination of the relationship between the individual and the sovereign
Abstracts: Standing to sue under rule 10b-5: a fresh look at the new investment doctrine. Section 11(a) and rule 11A-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934: long on the books, but rarely invoked rules that landed NYSE floor brokers in jail
Abstracts: Standing under section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act. Litigating securities fraud as a breach of fiduciary duty in Delaware
Abstracts: Standing up for the powerless; a new legal agenda for children and families. Addressing legal needs of the elderly; ABA, state and local bars focus on elder law
Abstracts: Standing up for women: commission hears testimony for a new report on gender bias in profession. LPM gives nonlawyers a break; Section seeks to improve service by letting lawful providers tap resources
Abstracts: Standing up to cybersquatters; judges are seizing on new legislation to keep Web site pirates from takiing a name for themselves
Abstracts: Stapled Stock and Decontrol of Foreign Corporations: Another Loophole Closing? Foreign currency straddles: bifurcation of foreign currency gain or loss from economic gain or loss
Abstracts: Star chamber redux: secret court in America. Is summary disposition cowardly avoidance. American family values
Abstracts: Starr inquiry, Paula Jones suit collide. Clinton will ask judge to throw out Jones' case; if unsuccessful, his lawyers will seek fast resolution of her sex harassment lawsuit
Abstracts: Star rising for Simpson jury consultant: social science and luck helped Jo-Ellan Dimitrius choose sympathetic panel
Abstracts: Starr performs for house and all that jazz; prosecutor persists; Sam Dash quits; Bob Barr insists; Mary Bono quips
Abstracts: Starr's prominence as business litigator may not be coincidental. The economic hangover from a binge of greed
Abstracts: Stars and bars wars; confederate flag-wavers, many of them students, storm the courts under a banner of free expression
Abstracts: Starter Internet suite. Sort through WP DOS' directory maze. When bad things happen to good documents
Abstracts: Start-ups must plan for both success and failure; entrepreneurs should be ready to cash out at the optimal time or bail out if the need arises
Abstracts: State aid reform: Some reflections on the need to revise the notice on guarantees. Economic analysis and antitrust damages
Abstracts: State AIDS policy making: perspectives of legislative health committee chairs. Public policy versus private rights: the medical, social, ethical, and legal implications of the testing of newborns for HIV
Abstracts: State-by-state update: 39 now require CLE, 4 states propose rules. CLE index
Abstracts: State Clean Air Act programs undefined. EPA clarifies lender liability standards. Sparks fly over Clean Air Act permits
Abstracts: State constitutions - homosexual sodomy - Kentucky Supreme Court finds that criminalization of homosexual sodomy violates state constitutional guarantees of privacy and equal protection
Abstracts: State court approval results in estate tax exclusion of incompetent's gifts. Making estate planning fun (again?)
Abstracts: State courts provide new forum for mass torts; plaintiffs find that aggregating their claims before state judges facilitates group cooperation
Abstracts: State eqity doctrine helps title insurers; equitable subrogation has evolved as a way to protect parties that advance funds when intervening liens suddenly come up
Abstracts: State False Claims Acts can add sharp teeth. EPL policies cover the claims of employees; such specialty policy insurance often excludes 'wilful' acts
Abstracts: State falters in retrial of escaped con: governor orders probe of case that was subject of ABA Journal investigation
Abstracts: State groups seek historic gathering. ABA committee chooses big-city, big-firm insider; nominating groups association's next chief from a major Philadelphia firm
Abstracts: State income taxation of trusts: new case creates uncertainty. New ruling provides more flexibility in removal of trustees
Abstracts: State insurer insolvency system in need of repair; unqualified, poorly supervised receivers have provoked calls for overhaul and federalization
Abstracts: Statement of Q. Todd Dickinson before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property on March 25, 1999. Remarks of Q. Todd Dickinson at PTO Day Annual Conference on Patent & Trademark Office Law and Practice
Abstracts: Statement of the P.T.O.S. on proposed corporation of the U.S.P.T.O. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. v. The Commerce Commission and Ors
Abstracts: Statement of the P.T.O.S. to the U.S.P.T.O. on Interim Guidelines for Examination of Patent Applications under the 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph "written description" requirement
Abstracts: State reactions to the trading of emissions allowances under Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
Abstracts: State responsibility in private civil action - sovereign immunity - immunity for jus cogens violations - belligerent occupation - peace treaties
Abstracts: States, feds clash over waste sites; contamination. Because property contamination can be a hidden risk in many real estate deals, purchasers should obtain environmental site assessments before the closing
Abstracts: States map coverage; counsel and risk managers shopping for insurance should learn relevant state case law. How well do insurance policies cover cyber-risks? Insurers have denied coverage under old policies; specialized new ones may lead to litigation
Abstracts: States may not claim immunity in patent cases; a New Jersey federal court rules that states can be held liable for patent infringement
Abstracts: States need a simple guarantee of rights. N.R.A. should not rejoice: Brady Act lives on. In DWI cases, Texas disregards constitution
Abstracts: State-sponsored abduction: a comment on United States v. Alvarez-Machain. Foreign sovereign immunity - commercial activity of a foreign state having a direct effect in the United States
Abstracts: State-sponsored growth management as a remedy for exclusionary zoning. The exclusionary suggestion? Conservative legal grooup fighting lonely battle to buffedr Miranda's force
Abstracts: States prevail in First Amendment cases; court completes turnabout on religion clauses by deferring to states in 'Boerne' and 'Agostini.'(Supreme Court Review)
Abstracts: States' rights and family obligations; courts split on whether states must grant employee leave under act. When pros turns cons
Abstracts: States take up 'speedy' uniform adoption law; critics say model act restricts the rights of biological parents
Abstracts: States try shielding S&L execs; a classic federalism battle is under way. The 'property rights' revolt; environmentalists fret as states pass Reagan-style takings laws
Abstracts: States want share of punitives; three more join trend. Impact of crimes shakes sentencing: statements by victims or their loved ones inform judges but risk mayhem
Abstracts: State the case simply, starting with voir dire; John M. O'Quinn. The defense must make a positive statement; Howard J. Privett
Abstracts: State variations on the Daubert theme: Texas. State variations on the Daubert theme: Florida. State variations on the Daubert theme: California
Abstracts: Stations face regs for kids' programming; FCC's strict view of 'educational' in three-hour-per-week rule gets a poor reception
Abstracts: Statistical analysis enables firms to set flat fees; cost-component calculus, widely used to price services, facilitates matter-based billing by lawyers
Abstracts: Statistical analysis for the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts. Environmentalism and ethnic awakening
Abstracts: Statisticians at DOJ may overstate case; government't use of statistical sampling to prove False Claims Act liability, damages may be unreliable, if not impermissible
Abstracts: Status-Changing Citizens Gross Income Includes a Simple Trust Income Prorated over Period of Citizenship. Marine Construction Activities Held to Constitute Manufacturing within Regs 1.61(a)-Rev. Rul. 83-118
Abstracts: Status checks plus details on the March ABA techshow. Out-of-office experiences; from communicating with clients to locating experts worldwide, lawyers are finding the Internet can help boost their hometown practices
Abstracts: Statute of limitations for bankruptcy avoidance actions brought by debtors in possession. Bankruptcy Section 108(c): is the "suspension" question still in suspension?
Abstracts: Statute's repeal results in gift tax refund. Excessive trustees' fees deemed a gift. Reciprocal trust doctrine applied
Abstracts: Statutory construction - drafting errors - D.C. Circuit declares Section 92 of the National Bank Act invalid. Administrative law - waivers - Ninth Circuit holds statutory waivers for welfare experiments subject to judicial review
Abstracts: Statutory interpretation - Americans with Disabilities Act - Tenth Circuit holds that courts should consider mitigating measures in evaluating disability
Abstracts: Statutory interpretation -- Americans with Disabilities Act -- Third Circuit holds that unemployable former employees may sue employers
Abstracts: Statutory interpretation - Census Act - special D.C. District Court panel holds that statistical sampling cannot be used for congressional apportionment - United States House of Representatives v. United States Department of Commerce
Abstracts: Statutory interpretation - Ethics in Government Act - Eighth Circuit holds Attorney General's referral of matters to independent counsel to be nonreviewable. - United States v. Tucker, 78 F.3d 1313 (8th Cir. 1996), cert. denied, 65 U.S.L.W. 3257 (U.S. Oct. 7, 1996)(No. 95-2013)
Abstracts: Statutory interpretation - Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 - First Circuit holds that the FMLA includes a private right of action for prospective and former employees
Abstracts: Statutory interpretation - Second Circuit holds that health care funds lack standing to sue tobacco companies under RICO - Laborers Local 17 Health & Benefit Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc
Abstracts: Statutory stoplights; automatic stays bring new balance to divorce actions. Tragedy is the mother of invention; Sept. 11 expected to bring surge of anti-terror patent applications
Abstracts: Staying away from the dogs; your first decision should be whether to take a case at all. The domino effect; one bad thing leads to another when a case is mishandled
Abstracts: Staying out of jail; keeping your license and staying out of trouble. By the letter; writing around potential malpractice hazards
Abstracts: Stay safe with the top down; convertible bonds give holders options to keep on the right road. Practice in the fast lane; in-dash Net browsers, speech converters make it easy to go mobile
Abstracts: Stealing the good name of the company: the Fourth Circuit strengthens constitutional barriers for corporate defamation plaintiffs
Abstracts: Stealth split dollar. The family business sale: it's more than tax planning. Success begins with "M." (insurance underwriting)
Abstracts: Steering clear of conflicts; search time-and-billing systems, new case reports to make checking easier. Lawyer, know thyself; understand all aspects of your practice before buying specific software
Abstracts: Stenographers - a dying breed? . Samsung pays for e-mail erasure. Delaware tops polls: innovative technology helps make courtrooms user friendly
Abstracts: Step 1 in reforming U.S. antitrust: abolish the economic units at Justice and the FTC. Monitoring economic results of current cases to shape future antitrust policies
Abstracts: Step by step: how the U.S. government adopted the ADR idea. The role of the ADR in managed care disputes. California lawmakers turn focus toward ADR
Abstracts: Steps to prepare and file estate tax returns effectively. When can an estate deduct expenses of maintaining and selling the decedent's residence?
Abstracts: Stereotyping dress codes in tatters; new California statute says that businesses may not keep women from wearing trousers to work
Abstracts: Sterilization ordered for child abuser; from Tennessee to Texas, judges order procedure when defendants volunteer
Abstracts: Stewart Hood & Robbins. Sarbanes-Oxley statute upheld. Truth in blogging
Abstracts: Sticks and carrots spur fuller Y2K disclosures. IRDA offers protection - with limits; the Year 2000 IRDA is intended to reduce liability, but since it doesn't cover all the bases, companies still need a good plan
Abstracts: Still breathing. Protecting P.T.'s legacy. Lab mice by the millions. L
Abstracts: Still breathing. Service, not suits. Hardly kid stuff
Abstracts: Still over their head in overhead: expensive quarters have taxed law firms from coast to coast. Firms join the web marketing craze
Abstracts: Still working after all these years; cases raising Fair Labor Standards Act issues are on the rise. Writing wrongs; teachers of legal prose struggle for higher status, equal treatment
Abstracts: Still worthy of praise. Flawed foundations: the philosophical critique of (a particular type of) economics. Poets as judges: judicial rhetoric and the literary imagination
Abstracts: Stock acquisitions and liquidations by S corporations: availability of benefits afforded by sections 332 and 338
Abstracts: Stock fraud case awards? Go figure; calculating compensatory damages in securities fraud cases is no simple matter
Abstracts: Stockholders' holding claim class actions under state law after the Uniform Standards Act of 1998. Resolving the "choice-of-law problem" in rule 23(b)(3) nationwide class actions
Abstracts: Stogies no longer just for old fogies; though it's hardly PC, cigar smoking has become popular among younger lawyers
Abstracts: Stop the world, we want our own labels: treaties, state voter initiative laws, and federal pre-emption. Why mobile homeowners want landlords to hit the road
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