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Labor Law - Seventh Circuit Denies Board Jurisdiction over Lay Teachers in Parochial Schools
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 11, pg. 1321, )INTRODUCTION|The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States specifies that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." The case of Catholic ... -
Labor Law - Solicitation and Distribution by Employees - Nonprofit Hospital's Prohibition Presumptively Invalid Where No Showing of Patient-Care Disruption - Retail Exception Not Applicable to Cafeteria and Coffee Shop
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 12, pg. 1283, )INTRODUCTION|The National Labor Relations Act was amended in 1974 to include within its coverage and protection employees of nonprofit health care institutions. In Beth Israel Hospital v. NLRB, the United States Supreme ... -
Labor Law - Supreme Court Review
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 12, pg. 281, )INTRODUCTION|The Nebraska Court of Industrial Relations obtains jurisdiction when a copy of the petition and notice are served on "a principal officer" of the adverse party. Service of process on a city of the first class ... -
Labor Law - Supreme Court Review
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 11, pg. 244, )INTRODUCTION|During the survey period, the Nebraska Supreme Court faced three very important cases in the area of labor law. The decisions announced by the court should have extensive impact on future determinations in ... -
Labor Law - Supreme Court Review
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 13, pg. 208, )INTRODUCTION|Police Officers Local 567 v. University of Nebraska involved two separate appeals from orders entered by the Court of Industrial Relations. The Court of Industrial Relations was petitioned by the union to ... -
Labor Law and Unemployment Compensation - United We (Must) Stand: Effects of the State Right to Grant or Deny Unemployment Compensation on the Protected Rights of Organization - United Steelworkers of America v. Johnson
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 21, pg. 1287, )INTRODUCTION|Within a period of five weeks in 1935, Congress enacted both the Social Security Act and the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"). Title IX of the Social Security Act provided incentive for states to enact ... -
Labor Law: The Availability of Federal Injunctive Relief to Halt Sympathy Strikes
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 9, pg. 613, )INTRODUCTION|The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in Valmac Industries, Inc. v. Food Handlers Local 425, and the Second Circuit in Buffalo Forge Co. v. United Steelworkers reached opposite conclusions as to whether a federal ... -
Laissez-Faire Approach to Telecommunications Rate Regulation: State Ex Rel Spire v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., The
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 24, pg. 649, )INTRODUCTION|In 1986 the Nebraska Legislature passed Nebraska Revised Statutes sections 86-801 to 86-811 ("Act"), an act which reduced governmental rate-setting authority in the telecommunications field. The legislation ... -
Lambert v. Nebraska Crime Victims Reparations Board: Justice for Victims of Crime in Nebraska
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 18, pg. 401, )INTRODUCTION|Violent crimes occur with staggering frequency in America from 1973 to 1979 there were an estimated 40,035,000 rape, robbery, and assault victimizations and 118,096 victims of homicide. While the numbers are ... -
Landlord-Tenant - Immunity - New Hampshire Abrogates Landlord's Limited Tort Immunity and Imposes Reasonable Man Standard - Sargent v. Ross - N.H. - 308 A.2d 528 (1973)
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 7, pg. 694, )INTRODUCTION|A child fell to her death from a steep outdoor stairway which led to the second story apartment of her babysitter. The child's mother sued the landlord for negligence. The landlord, in turn, raised the ancient ... -
Larry Kramer, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Politics of Legal Scholarship
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 38, pg. 533, )INTRODUCTION|The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health has once again brought the Full Faith and Credit Clause into the public eye. With same-sex marriage legalized in ... -
Larry Raful
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 37, pg. 835, )INTRODUCTION|In 1988, Father Michael Morrison asked Lawrence Raful, Associate Dean and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, to come to Creighton University Law School to become its ... -
Larry Raful
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 37, pg. 837, )FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|I first met Larry Raful at a Creighton University alumni event here in Des Moines. He struck me as a person who truly enjoyed events such as that and a person who was not merely "going through the motions." ... -
Larry Raful
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 37, pg. 831, )INTRODUCTION|I first met Larry Raful, then Dean Raful, when I started law school at Creighton in 1992. He welcomed me into his law school to fill my brain with case law, legal theory, and Socratic Method. He welcomed me ... -
Larry Raful - Friend and Colleague
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 37, pg. 839, )INTRODUCTION|In June of 1999, at the conclusion of Larry's eleven-year tenure as Dean, Creighton University hosted a public reception in his honor. I was honored to be asked at that time to make a few remarks about Larry ... -
Larsen v. D B Feedyards, Inc: The Supreme Court of Nebraska's Attempt to Apply the Farm or Ranch Laborer Exemption of Nebraska Revised Statutes Section 48-106(2) Sticks out Like a Sore Thumb
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 37, pg. 161, )INTRODUCTION|The concept of workers' compensation far predates the modern American system of workers' compensation. Antiquated civilizations, such as the early Germanics, made primitive reference to the concept of workers' ... -
The Last Hurrah: The Kutak Commission And The End Of Optimism
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 49, no. 4, pg. 689-742, )INTRODUCTION|In 1977, Robert J. Kutak was named chairman of a newly-created American Bar Association ("ABA") Committee on Evaluation of Ethical Standards ("Kutak Commission"). ABA President William B. Spann, Jr., asked the ... -
Last Temptation is the Greatest Treason: To Do the Right Deed for the Wrong Reason: After-Acquired Evidence in Employment Discrimination Claims: McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co., The
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 28, pg. 1031, )INTRODUCTION|Many state and federal statutes protect employees from being discharged by employers based on improper motives. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 ("ADEA") and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("1964 ... -
Latest Look in Nebraska Trust Law, The
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 31, pg. 221, )INTRODUCTION|Over fifteen years ago the Nebraska Unicameral passed its versions of the Uniform Trustees' Powers Act and Revised Principal and Income Acts. In an article appearing in a prior edition of this publication, I ... -
Law and beyond Law: A New Humanity
(Creighton Law Review. vol. 25, pg. 1141, )FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a journal originated by physicists at the University of Chicago, my alma mater, where the atomic bomb was conceived, under the football field at Stagg Field, the ...