Abstracts: Triangular bonds. Seas of conflict. In GATT's name
Abstracts: Alien nations. Saddam's water war. Unblocking the brain drain
Abstracts: The atmospheric engine. Tropical weather: predictable but hazardous. Droplets to thunderstorms
Abstracts: The ozone story. The sky is blue ... or orange, red, and yellow. What gives the sky such a wide repertoire? The atmospheric engine
Abstracts: A postmodern feminist legal manifesto (an unfinished draft). The postmodern in feminism
Abstracts: Court tells police to release reports or show harm. Civilian complaints of police misconduct must be released
Abstracts: Death records in boy's murder must be released: public interest outweighs interests in confidentiality under common law test
Abstracts: In from the cold: a suit makes public an old CIA tale. Mosbacher upstairs, downstairs. No right to speedy civil trial: 9th Circuit kills bar suit
Abstracts: Reports: little discovery abuse; fuel reform opposition. 'Noisy withdrawal' held a duty. The battle escalates on reform: will case management measures work?
Abstracts: Golf course owner copied only the best; but the originals are not flattered by their imitator and have sued the 'dream' course
Abstracts: Court sides with lawyer on expenses; Ninth Circuit says deductions are permissible in some contingency-fee cases
Abstracts: Chicago students plan to export American con law to Chinese. Minority students put together, but some whites are objecting
Abstracts: 'BMW' triggers cuts in punies; states are lenient, but federal courts interpret landmark ruling harshly. Maryland's highest court makes revolutionary changes in punies
Abstracts: Will ruling impact Borland's fall trial? Church, airlines balk at benefits law; San Francisco's domestic partners law causes big stir
Abstracts: In 'O'Hagan,' the Supreme Court gets second chance to adopt, and define the scope of, SEC's 'misappropriation theory' of insider trading
Abstracts: It came from Hollywood. Painting with pixels: natural-media painting software lets desktop designers create art with a handmade look
Abstracts: The incredible shrinking files: JPEG puts the squeeze on PC graphics. Honey, I shrunk the TIFFS: JPEG products cut Mac files down to size
Abstracts: The private life and public death of David Schwartz. 'Intangible benefits' at issue in trial on bond trades. Novel trial on billing set to begin
Abstracts: IBM debt rating affirmed by S&P at triple-A level. Computerized new trading system for government bonds to be introduced
Abstracts: A 'good soldier' stands accused of assault: a night of drinking leads to charges of sexual assault, but was the act consensual?
Abstracts: Structuring trusts to permit the donor to act as trustee. Proposed legislation threatens unified credit. Maximizing the use of the state death tax credit
Abstracts: Swing votes inject suspense into new term; two justices are key to outcomes of federalism, free speech, other issues
Abstracts: Mr. Popeil gets 'reel' about conversions of legal entities: the pocket fisherman flycasts for "form" but snags on "substance." (form and substance characterizations of entity conversions)(50th Annual Federal Tax Conference of the University of Chicago Law School)
Abstracts: Hair spray and life insurance: capitalizing on the baby boom's diversity. Long-term care insurance: national trends in personal care
Abstracts: Murphy's Law and computer security. Marketing and infrastructure. Technology and how we work
Abstracts: Justices feud in Wash. state; a once-collegial court is now rife with publicly aired animosities. Client-conflicts patrols march on
Abstracts: Court secrecy dealt yet another blow. Tax Court scrutinizes a defense; innocent spouse. Texcas ADA caseload puts 5th Circuit in major role; plaintiffs, EEOC are likely to suffer setbacks from court that continues to define disability narrowly, lawyers say
Abstracts: Dilemma of drugs on campus; do law students get quiet counseling - or reported to the bar? Spring brings experience, study to students around the country
Abstracts: Court's waste-test order helps lenders. Circuit courts split on scope of FIFRA. Cases split on medical-device claim pre-emption; courts differ in applying the test set out in 'Medtronic' to decide if U.S. law pre-empts tort claims
Abstracts: 'PC' codes incorrect, courts say; 'political correctness' faces the judicial ax. An incident at Stanford sparks more dialogue on 'PC' speech
Abstracts: 'Frantic' after AIDS news, she becomes a crusader. Spill accord draws fire; plaintiff's lawyers are unhappy with terms; do they violate new state law?
Abstracts: Noriega: were the previews more lively? Falling rates threaten IOLTA. Raveling the web of BCCI
Abstracts: Call to Congress: untangle takings. Fly(t) of fancy in Southern California. Government as predator
Abstracts: Sua sponte. Mr. Escobar, one of the world's richest inmates, helped design the prison. As it turned out, the historic $100 million may not have been totally altruistic
Abstracts: Looking again at Iraq: commercial law issues. Bahrain liberalizes commercial agency law. Agents in military contracts: evolving Kuwaiti policy; confusion over ministry of defense change from prohibition to requiring agents
Abstracts: Type troubleshooting on the Mac: the care and feeding of fonts. Type troubleshooting on the PC: the care and feeding of fonts
Abstracts: Strange bedfellows: previously all-Mac companies add PCs and find out the two can get along fine. Type troubleshooting on the PC: the care and feeding of fonts
Abstracts: Rewriting history. Magazines you can click through. Designer in motion: how one graphic artist moved into multimedia
Abstracts: Confidentiality may be harder to keep. An earnout - in which part of the purchase price is contingent on performance objectives - can rescue a stalled merger
Abstracts: Panel raps Bush's order; president's effort to cut litigation called "no-brainer." (executive order requiring government lawyers to reduce court congestion and delay)
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: Our Eastern European challenge; providing technical assistance to struggling democracies. The politics of crime: or, the crime of politics
Abstracts: Expensive conversation gets expert disqualified: forensic psychiatrist talks to plaintiffs' lawyers in workplace case, then is hired by the defense
Abstracts: Courts battle over Harris execution; an impatient Supreme Court orders an end to last-minute stays by 9th Circuit
Abstracts: Studies challenge accepted notions; judges not unsympathetic to plaintiffs; corporations win more often than people
Abstracts: "Finders, keepers" modified; insurance companies due part of the treasure from recovered shipwreck. Sane serial killer; experts say insanity plea alive and well, thanks partly to Dahmer jury
Abstracts: Indigent defense fee abuses found; experts say failings of Miami's assigned-counsel system are not unique. Billing beyond fees; some law firms profit from faxes, photocopies, but abuses are few, surveyor says
Abstracts: When Rubin sues, defendants settle; unscrupulous debt collectors pay the bills for New Mexico consumer lawyer
Abstracts: Some university fees voluntary; like lawyers, students don't have to fund objectionable speech, court rules. ABA releases civil justice plan; Quayle spokesperson ridicules bar proposals as costly, but enriching for lawyers
Abstracts: Batson and the straight-face test; courts split on gender-based jury picks, permissible stereotyping. Made in America; law protecting Indian art stirs controversy
Abstracts: Not-so-big issues; sorting through little-noted decisions from the Court's last term. Shutting the door; decisions impose new burdens on aliens seeking a home in the United States
Abstracts: Tampering with evidence; the liability and competitiveness myth. Navigating the shoals; Whitewater counsel denies conflicts, admits job a liability
Abstracts: Why settle for less? Factoring in taxability. Winning and losing: Supreme Court raises questions about taxability of personal injury awards
Abstracts: Taking the blame; accepting responsibility makes a difference. Using a business record; a document that's inadmissible one way can still get in
Abstracts: Sexual harassment; state and federal courts decide standards, scope of tort. A new day for DNA? Despite widespread acceptance, admissibility standards vary
Abstracts: Supermandamus; stiffer standard for attorney disqualification. Fallen woman? Double standard for centerfold
Abstracts: Civil justice reform; legislation backed by administration introduced in Congress. Good deeds; amid turbulence and election politics, 102nd Congress yields key legislation
Abstracts: Parental consent; stringent Miss. law passes muster. On and on; will the new amendments cut Rule 11 litigation down to size?
Abstracts: ABA floats trial publicity rule. Streamlined ethics rule proposed; by key ABA committee. Case holds key to U.S. competitiveness; NLRB to rule on legality of labor-management committees
Abstracts: Antitrust shift eyed with doubt. Judge is nearing decision on bailout for Mutual Benefit. Insurer's workout is a test; professional fees come to $1 million a month
Abstracts: Suits over school financing, vouchers increase. Making computer searches easier; questions can be asked. The 'show' case may be gutted; Utah abortion ban lawsuit
Abstracts: Watchdog of LAPD gets Starr review; like independent counsel, the job itself is widely hated. Keating gets help from his friends
Abstracts: Senior bar members once considered it their role to train young lawyers. It is not uncommon for the government to keep informers satisfied
Abstracts: Sterilization ordered for child abuser; from Tennessee to Texas, judges order procedure when defendants volunteer
Abstracts: Reform bill is dangerous electioneering. Chapter 11 retailers peril landlords. Regs on claims trading may fall short
Abstracts: Cop's second trial in L.A.; judge who sent King beating trial to Simi Valley denies venue change. Firings to continue; survey shows 86 percent of large law firms planning associate layoffs
Abstracts: "Palace revolt" by Nevada justices? Members of state high court spar over pace of decisions, chief's fitness. One opinion, two controversies; 2nd Circuit limits copyright protection for software, approves court expert
Abstracts: A visual simulation tool: Visual Solutions Inc. VisSim. Virtual instruments. A neural-network-based tool
Abstracts: Early retirement window programs within qualified plans - complying with the final coverage and nondiscrimination rules
Abstracts: IRS proposes regulations on VEBA geographic locale requirement. Termination of employee-funded VEBA does not result in UBTI; distributions to participants taxable only to the extent they exceed their contributions
Abstracts: Porn forfeiture stymied; judge bars confiscation of $10 million in assets based on two obscene tapes. Trials suspended in Tyler, Texas; judge cites racial tensions as reason for two-month hiatus
Abstracts: Prop. regs. require that employers notify participants and PBGC of name of insurer selected to provide annuities on termination of defined benefit plans
Abstracts: ALJ loss; whistleblower claims rejected. Whistleblower wins appeal; N.Y. court rules attorney can't be fired for reporting dishonest colleague
Abstracts: IRS issues guidance and regulations on deadlines for amending plans for certain changes in the law. IRS issues temporary guidance on issuance of determination letters
Abstracts: Body of evidence: when coroners and medical examiners fail to distinguish accidents from murders from suicides, a botched autopsy can be the death of a fair trial, an insurance settlement or a civil suit
Abstracts: Lobbying lawyers; Clinton, Perot spur debate on disclosure requirements. Bill of Rights enters its third century; birthday observed with debate on constitutionality of mind control, birth ban
Abstracts: Romer convicted; N.Y. lawyer found guilty of larceny for stealing $7 million. What price prosecution? Critics claim Noriega guilty verdict costly in lives, "Faustian bargains."
Abstracts: Using genes to define motherhood - the California solution. The last resort -- the use of physical restraints in medical emergencies
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: Extradition reopened; Justice denies it withheld evidence about Ivan the Terrible. Final justice; limiting death row appeals
Abstracts: Nobody's victim: Sarah Buel left an abusive partner to save her life. Since then, she's been saving others. Treaty limits Title VII actions against foreign-owned companies
Abstracts: Heeding Haslip; states review punitive awards. Rand-ly criticized: Congressional court fix had little effect on cost and delay
Abstracts: AIDS phobia; reasonable fears or unreasonable lawsuits? Having my baby; unwed fathers score victory in California
Abstracts: Quick ride: Honda Helix not just for dweebs anymore. Ride for Kids. Uncle George's last ride
Abstracts: Betting men. Anatomy of a spark. Rocket fuel
Abstracts: Doctor for a day: Seven minutes anyway. No regrets. Now on sale: $75,000 GP racebike
Abstracts: Getting naked. Ultimate interceptor. KTM comes back from the brink
Abstracts: The Porker. Solitary Beemer. Midnight run
Abstracts: Rolling thunder. Forever young. Work in progress
Abstracts: Choppers. Gone with the wind: Clark Gable: actor, adventurer, motorcyclist. Rebel's ride: James Dean's Triumph finally goes home
Abstracts: Kawashocki! Suzuka 8-Hour. Coming of age: Damon Bradshaw searches for the elusive Supercross championship
Abstracts: Street-tracker supreme. ZX-7 upgrade. Badsey EMX
Abstracts: True believers: strikes and all, pro sports still captivate their fans. Signals of war
Abstracts: Going plastic: here's how to gain merchant status for your small firm so you can accept major credit cards. A Florida businessman's sunscreens turn out to be as golden as his suntan
Abstracts: Bloodied hands: a tainted Bosnian trio opens peace negotiations. The baby bonus: R.I.P
Abstracts: A costly coupling. Battered and bruised: voters are pessimistic about the economy. A split in the ranks
Abstracts: Villains in pinstripes. Sibling boardroom feuds. Tarnished opulence
Abstracts: The national dream derailed. Bre-X and the dark side of capitalism. Time to kiss off the universality myth
Abstracts: A disturbing link to the 'mad cow' disease. Dow Corning's retreat. Beauty and the breast
Abstracts: 'Oh my God, it could be me': AIDS is striking a growing number of Canadian women. 'More like a woman.' (model Heidi King's breast implants)
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