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Welfare Law - AFDC Assistance - Connecticut Supreme Court Holds That State Welfare Commissioner May Consider a Child's Tort Recovery in Determining Eligibility for AFDC Benefits - Langs v. Harder, 35 No. 26 Conn. L.J. 7 - A.2d - (1973)
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1974)INTRODUCTION|Courts are faced with an ever increasing volume of welfare related cases. A recent Connecticut supreme court case, Longs v. Harder, considered whether a child's personal injury recovery, held in guardianship ... -
Wetherill v. Geren: The Eighth Circuit Erred by Applying the Feres Doctrine to Bar Dual Status Military Technicians from Bringing Civil Actions under Title VII
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 2013)INTRODUCTION|Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits employers from discriminating against their employees based on race, national origin, color, religion, or sex. The protections of Title VII are ... -
What a way to meet!
(Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.. Dubuque, IA, 2010) -
What can we learn from U.S. corporate governance?
(2005)This essay re-examines our views of corporate governance in light of the recent influence of U.S. corporate governance institutions on reform efforts in other countries. It suggests that the current emphasis on the roles ... -
What Can You Say, Where Can You Say It, and to Whom - A Guide to Understanding and Preventing Unlawful Sexual Harassment
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1992)FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|This nation has finally begun to discuss sexual harassment at the workplace. When Professor Anita Hill alleged that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her while she was an employee ... -
What Did Mork Say to Mindy When He Forgot to Register - Pannu, Pannu - What Pannu v. Holder Reveals about Crimes involving Moral Turpitude and Failure-to-Register Statutes
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 2012)INTRODUCTION|In the Act of March 3, 1891, Congress introduced the legal term crimes involving moral turpitude ("CIMTs") into immigration law by barring immigrants convicted of CIMTs from the United States. Pursuant to ... -
What does it mean to do the right thing?
(2010)In this article I wish to assist in clarifying why, and in what way, the cultivation of mindfulness and wisdom as understood within the Buddhist worldview can promote ethical conduct. As mindfulness is a Buddhist concept ... -
What Is an Accident - Winn v. GEO. A. Hormel (and) Co. and the Workers' Compensation Act
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1999)INTRODUCTION|Section 48-101 of the Nebraska Revised Statutes imposes liability on employers for an employee's personal injury while on the job. The Nebraska Supreme Court has repeatedly held that in heart attack cases, the ... -
What nearly a quarter century of experience has taught us about Leon and "Good faith"
(2008)Article about United States v. Leon and "Good Faith". -
What the federal courts have done with Daubert
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What the Legal Community Needs to Know about the Small Claims Court
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1973)INTRODUCTION|At the third annual Lawyer Referral Workshop held October 27-28i 1972, Chesterfield Smith, ABA President-Elect, stated that many legal needs of people of moderate means were going unresolved. He emphasized ... -
What to do when things go wrong
(Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Boston, MA, 2011) -
What’s the Constitution Got to Do With It? Expanding the Scope of Constitutional Rights into the Private Sphere
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 2012)This paper was presented at The 2012 South-North Exchange on Theory Culture and Law held in Curridabat, Costa Rica, May 10-12, 2012. It is intended to be a brief summary of a larger research project, which was submitted ... -
When a Child Needs a Lawyer
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1990)INTRODUCTION|This essay speaks to that lawyer who has just received a first time appointment as a guardian ad litem to represent a child. The thoughts which form this essay come out of my half-decade of experience in the ... -
When a child needs a lawyer
(1990)This essay speaks to that lawyer who has just received a first-time appointment as a guardian ad litem to represent a child.