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Abstracts: The Supreme Court gives Two Pesos' worth - trade dress and the franchise trademark portfolio. Pros and cons of a Community trademark
Abstracts: The Supreme Court goes back to work. Stormy sessions: the court carries on through a blizzard and a budget freeze
Abstracts: The Supreme Court has agreed to take up an issue that has stymied regulators and judges: waste disposal facilities planned for construction in minority areas
Abstracts: The Supreme Court injects federalism into the implied private right of action for breach of Securities and Exchange Commission rule 14-a9. A taste of things to come?
Abstracts: The Supreme Court ruling that curtailed race-based federal affirmative-action programs has left the private sector wondering if its programs may be next
Abstracts: The Supreme Court's answer raises more questions. Post-Gilmer developments in mandatory arbitration: the expansion of mandatory arbitration for statutory claims and the congressional effort to reverse the trend
Abstracts: The Supreme Court's decision on Terminix reaffirms the scope of the FAA. Developments in employment arbitration
Abstracts: The Supreme Court's role in not shaping administrative law. Regulatory reform and judicial review. To preserve meaningful judicial review
Abstracts: The Supreme Court's ruling permitting same-sex harassment suits is one of several employment cases on this term's docket
Abstracts: The susceptibility of vertical restraints to summary adjudication: procedural avenues to substantive objectives
Abstracts: The tale of a survivor: despite bombardments, law school refuses to close. Out of the rubble: with training from U.S. lawyers, justices on a new Constitutional Court will try to establish the rule of law in war-torn Bosnia
Abstracts: The talk of the 9th: gender bias. Judge and arbitrators lock horns; JAMS panelists charge bias and meddling in siding case
Abstracts: The taxability of pre- and post-judgment interest: some recent issues. The interaction of damages awards and capital gains tax: two recent cases
Abstracts: The taxation of retirees under retiree health premium arrangements. Congress extends expiring tax provisions
Abstracts: The Tax Court Ignores Sham and Section 367 Arguments but Utilities 482 to Allocate Income - Hospital Corp. of America v. Comr
Abstracts: The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 contains a litany of amendments, many of which will affect the types of business entities in which attorneys practice
Abstracts: The taxpayer's rights and the role of the Tax Ombudsman: an analysis from a Spanish and comparative law perspective
Abstracts: The Telephone Interpretations Manual Supplement. The Section 3(a)(10) exemption has been torpedoed but is still afloat and making headway
Abstracts: The temporary solution; many small firms are using flexible staffing to win big-time clients. February is the cruelest month
Abstracts: The ten best companies to work for in America. Can companies trust their employees? BSR bookshelf
Abstracts: The tentative case agaiinst flexibility in commercial law. The new formalism in contract. Confusion about custom: disentangling informal customs from standard contractual provisions
Abstracts: The term's hot issues; on agenda: workplace harassment, rap lyrics, clinic violence. Supreme Court's business docket lacks legal punch
Abstracts: The terms of Archer-Daniels-Midland's $100 million plea agreement suggest that Justice may be emphasizing fines, not future compliance
Abstracts: The test for determining foreign private issuer status. The SEC's new public disclosure rule: regulation FD. New York Court of Appeals finds state-law claims attacking payment for order flow preempted by Exchange Act and SEC regulations
Abstracts: The third and fourth sessions of the UN Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court
Abstracts: The three faces of Dow Chemical. The myth of the corporate conscience. The gurus of corporate change
Abstracts: The time has come: time-billing vs. value-billing. Reach out and call someone: the wireless telephone is an indispensable tool
Abstracts: The top 10 wacky employment cases of 1996. 1997's 10 wackiest employment cases. Employment law's 'top ten' list for '94
Abstracts: The tort of bad faith: leaving insurers defenseless. Fifth Circuit joins other circuits in holding that arbitration clauses apply to ERISA claims
Abstracts: The torts of summer; the season's pleasures - pools, Little League games, afternoon visits by the ice cream truck - are litigation just waiting to happen
Abstracts: The total package. Digging for gold. The quest for time and billing
Abstracts: The tragedy of the telecommons: government pricing of unbundled network elements under the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Abstracts: The transfer of undertakings and the importance of taking over personnel-A vicious circle. Making (it) work: introduction to the special issue on the future of the European Employment Strategy
Abstracts: The transplant paradox: overwhelming public support for organ donation vs. under-supply of organs: the Iowa Organ Procurement Study
Abstracts: The treatment of environmental matters in bankruptcy cases. Game theory and bankruptcy reorganizations. Bankruptcy trustees' compensation: an issue of court control
Abstracts: The treaty was not violated. Bounty hunters rebuked; Miss. bondsmen's grab angers Texas jury, leads to extradition fight
Abstracts: The treaty was not violated. Mandatory arbitration clauses in general liability insurance policies may prove expensive if they are contradicted by other primary or excess policy provisions
Abstracts: The trend toward liberal enforcement of repatriation claims in cultural property disputes. Louis B. Sohn and the settlement of ocean disputes
Abstracts: The truth of equality; disabled persons are equally endowed with inalienable rights. Colorado's Amendment 2 blocked; court says referendum barring gay-rights laws denies equal protection
Abstracts: The TTAB and the Paris Convention: pleading Article 10 and 10bis claims before the Board. The Iraqi claims process and the ghost of Versailles
Abstracts: The UCC gets another rewrite; just when you thought you really knew the Uniform Commercial Code, almost every article is undergoing major changes in a major revision
Abstracts: The UCC takes aim at slogans: ad-copy puffery may wind up being a warranty under its proposed new rules. 'Abused' parent-killers win clemency; Florida and Maryland shorten terms of parricides who say they were victims
Abstracts: The UNCITRAL Draft Convention on Independent Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit. Automatic crystallization of floating charges - catching a disposition which triggers the crystallization
Abstracts: The U.N. Convention on International Bills and Notes (CIBN): a primer for attorneys and international bankers
Abstracts: The underlying problem. Disability insurance with social insurance integration: the best value? Social Security reform
Abstracts: The undersecured creditor's adequate protection rights in the single asset area: did the 1994 Bankruptcy Code amendments redress lender grievances?
Abstracts: The uneasy case for uniform taxation. The utility of the efficiency/equity dichotomy in tax policy analysis. Community property with right of survivorship: uneasy lies the head that wears a crown of surviving spouse for federal income tax basis purposes
Abstracts: The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act will provide state and local governments new opportunities for involvement in the legislative and regulatory process
Abstracts: The United Nations Compensation Commission - developments since October 1992. The International Whaling Commission and the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission: the institutional risks of coercion in consensual structures
Abstracts: The United Nations Compensation Commission - developments since October 1992. part 2 Changing the Charter: the United Nations prepares for the twenty-first century
Abstracts: The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: the Bush Administration's stance on torture
Abstracts: The United States Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment: evolution from Warren to post-Warren perspectives. The use of the justice system prior to intimate partner femicide
Abstracts: The unjust enrichment doctrine: an expanded definition threatens the rights of secured lenders. The intersection of bankruptcy and revised article 9
Abstracts: The unserviceability of published accounting data for enterprise bargaining in the public sector: an Australian perspective
Abstracts: The unserviceability of published accounting data for enterprise bargaining in the public sector: an Australian perspective. part 2
Abstracts: The UN years: Lachs the diplomat. The teacher: Lachs at the Hague Academy. On the bench: Lachs the judge
Abstracts: The upending of a Camelot knight: the Los Angeles lawyer became embroiled in a Japanese bond racket. Securities lawyers go east - to China for stock offerings
Abstracts: The USA, the EEC, and the GATT: the road not taken. Of Chinese walls, battering rams, and building permits: five lessons about international economic law from Sino-U.S. trade and investment relations
Abstracts: The use of 26(c) protective orders: "pleading the Fifth" without suffering "adverse" consequences. Caltex and Abbco Ice Works - the end of the road for corporations?
Abstracts: The use of ADR methods in environmental disputes. Teaching mediation: the need to overhaul legal education. Teaching alternative dispute resolution to America's school children
Abstracts: The use of ADR methods in environmental disputes. Why are so few women in the ADR field? Mediation - a growing means for settling divorce conflicts
Abstracts: The use of delaying tactics to obtain submarine patents and amend around a patent that a competitor has designed around
Abstracts: The use of force against terrorism and international law. In defense of world public order. The incident at Cavalese and strategic compensation
Abstracts: The use of litigation trusts to fund franchise lawsuits. Fraud in the inducement claims provide means of avoiding franchise agreement arbitration clause - at least in the first instance
Abstracts: The use of open terms in contract. The great transformation of regulated industries law. The property/contract interface
Abstracts: The use of supermajority voting rules in corporate America: majority rule, corporate legitimacy, and minority shareholder protection
Abstracts: The Use of the Nonrecognition Provisions of Section 1031 in the Exchange of Partnership Interests: Recent Tax Court Cases
Abstracts: The U.S. role during and after Hong Kong's transition. Beware of bullish brokers. The West must beware as it feeds Russian Bear: funding the growth of a market economy is noble, but the nation may devour cash for some time
Abstracts: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to strike down the doctrine of equivalents in 'Hilton Davis,' but it still left many questions about the doctrine unresolved
Abstracts: The U.S. Supreme Court will settle a circuit court split over whether punitive damages may be awarded in securities arbitrations governed by New York law
Abstracts: The U.S.-U.K. arbitration concerning Heathrow Airport user charges. Commercial arbitration - representation by foreign counsel - illegal practice of law in California
Abstracts: The value of moral philosophy. Philosophy matters. Darwin's new bulldog
Abstracts: The verdict is unanimous; e-mail is becoming a necessary component of case management software. A lawyers' time does matter
Abstracts: The Victim's Charter: citizens as consumers of criminal justice services. Community penalties warrants: a gap in the criminal justice system?
Abstracts: The Victorian government's new forestry bill. Corporate citizenship: managing relationships with professionals and government
Abstracts: The view from the minors; the legal profession can protect children in domestic relations cases more effectively if it sees the process through their eyes, explains this year's winner
Abstracts: The view from the Summit: jurisdiction and beyond. 60 minutes with Robert M. Langer, chair, National Association of Attorneys General Multistate Antitrust Task Force
Abstracts: The Violence Against Women Act - an emerging employment remedy. Prohibition against certain offenders in the labor movement: a review of 29 U.S.C. 504
Abstracts: The waiting at the (patent) bar is over - the Supreme Court decides Hilton Davis. Do the means justify the end - a matter of Bond, Bowles, the office and 35 U.S.C. s. 112, paragraph 6
Abstracts: The waste war: Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality. Environmental law trivia test no. 2
Abstracts: The Web - a valid proxy for proxy-fight notices? Pension managers speaking up: institutional investors ready for role in class action securities suits
Abstracts: The welfare challenge; states face tough choices and lawsuits under new act. Excuses, excuses: any old facially neutral reason may be enough to defeat an attack on a peremptory challenge
Abstracts: The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989: foundation for the modern law of employment dissent. In from the cold: the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998
Abstracts: The White House counsel takes center stage. IP attorneys find the Net hits the mark; the Web sites of U.S. and foreign PTOs are among the online resources that can help counsel prosecute and police trademarks
Abstracts: The Windsors have problems, not Britain. British thumbs-up to 'conditional fees.' 'A Certain Justice' portrays British lawyers warts and all
Abstracts: The winged gudgeon - an early patent controversy. An economic incentives analysis of the jury's role in patent litigation
Abstracts: The Woburn controversy: what we know. Beware of the "public nuisance" lawsuit. The food lion case: are journalists above the law?
Abstracts: The wonder of Windows: a look at upgrading to Windows 2000 and utilities you can use. Power vs. usability: choosing a Windows database
Abstracts: The woodchips decision. Making docile lawyers: an essay on the pacification of law students. Lay participation in decision making: a Croation perspective on mixed tribunals
Abstracts: The Working Time Directive. The Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Bill. General principles
Abstracts: The Working Time Directive. The Working Time Regulations 1998. Injunction to restrain dismissal in breach of redundancy selection procedure
Abstracts: The work of the Sixth Committee at the Fiftieth Session of the UN General Assembly. The work of the Sixth Committee at the fifty-fourth session of the UN General Assembly
Abstracts: The work of the Sixth Committee at the fifty-first session of the UN General Assembly. Toward world antitrust and market access
Abstracts: The world of mediation: a spectrum of style. Successful mediation: the do's and don'ts. What type of mediation do you need?
Abstracts: The world's in the palm of his hand. Stem-cell deals. Fighting ghosts of corrupt Teamsters
Abstracts: The World Wide Web of financial gerontology. Life insurance or long-term care insurance? The changing financial burden of middle-agers
Abstracts: The WRAP Trust. Estate planning implications of nonqualified deferred compensation benefits. Leveraged wealth transfer with asset protection
Abstracts: The WTO AB Report on Mexico - Soft Drinks, and the limits of the WTO dispute settlement system: WTO, Report of the appellate body, 6 March 2006, Mexico - Tax Measures on Soft Drinks and Other Beverages, WT/DS308/AB/R WO
Abstracts: They battle for a dinosaur named Sue. Peltier lawyers return to court. NFL players just gotta be free agents
Abstracts: They blinded me with science! Lawyers are often accused of playing fast and loose with scientific evidence. Have they gotten a bum rap?
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