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Quality v. Quantity: Will ERISA Preemption Survive the Third Circuit Test of In Re U.S. Healthcare
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 2001)INTRODUCTION|Congress enacted the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") in 1974 to, in part, regulate employee health care plans of employers. The intent of Congress in enacting ERISA was to replace the states' ... -
Quasi-Corporate Professional Service Associations and the Kintner Regulations
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1969)INTRODUCTION|For income tax purposes, taxpayers are classified as individuals (including partners), as trusts or estates, or as corporations. All organizations, however labeled, must be placed into one of these three ... -
Quest for justice
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Questionable Constitutionality of Article I - Bankruptcy Courts, The
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1982)INTRODUCTION|Article I of the Constitution seems to mandate that Congress staff the courts of the United States with judges for life tenure of office with undiminishable compensation. As the Supreme Court has noted, this ... -
Questions and answers: Constitutional law
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Questions and answers: Constitutional law
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Quinnipiac University Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition, 2nd Place 2010
(2010)- 2nd Place Quinnipiac University Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition Sponsored by the Quinnipiac University School of Law and The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association October 29-31 2010 -
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. FDA: The D.C. Circuit tells the FDA to butt out of the tobacco companies' business, causing the graphic image requirements of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act to go up in smoke
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Race and American Juries - The Long View
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1997)FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|It became clear during the first O.J. Simpson trial that Americans- depending on their color - viewed the criminal justice system through different lenses. One indication of that was the differing reactions ... -
Racism 4.0, civity, and reconstitution
(2015)Racism has been so deeply embedded in our culture for so long that actions taken to uproot it have not been entirely successful. After each concerted effort, racism grows back but in a different form. To emphasize the ... -
The Radical Act Of Loving
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 2017)FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|It has been nearly fifty years since the United States Supreme Court handed down the Loving v. Virginia decision, which banned state anti-miscegenation laws. With this important anniversary comes increased ... -
Railroad Abandonment: The Disappearing Railroad Blues
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1975)FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Much has been written of railroads in recent years since the demise of the Penn Central Railroad. The native son of America, the railroad, is being recognized once again. However, what is seen is not ... -
Railway Labor Act Meets the Mackay Doctrine: Trans World Airlines v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants, The
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1990)INTRODUCTION|Two primary statutory schemes govern labor relations in the private sector in the United States. The Railway Labor Act (RLA) covers the railway and airline industries, while the National Labor Relations Act ... -
Ramble through reaffirmation: Recent developments in law and practice
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Rate of Return Determination in Nebraska
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1974)FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|In the field of public utility regulation, probably the most common (and complicated) problem is that of rate making. In industries where there is intra-industry competition (railroads and motor carriers), ... -
Rationalizing the Irrational: The Treatment of Untenable Federal Civil Jury Verdicts
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1995)INTRODUCTION|The American legal system is 'imperfect. The results arising therefrom are similarly imperfect. These statements cannot be seriously disputed. Although perfection is impossible, American society nevertheless ... -
Rawson v. City of Omaha: Contribution, Indemnity and Subrogation - Sharing and Shifting the Loss under Nebraska Law
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1984)INTRODUCTION|The trend in tort law has been toward a system of loss distribution among joint torfeasors based on their proportionate share of fault. At common law there was no mechanism for loss distribution between joint ... -
Re-Evaluation of the Filed Rate Doctrine in Light of Revised Regulatory Policy and Carriers' Practices: Inf, Ltd. v. Spectro Alloys Corp., A
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 1990)INTRODUCTION|In 1887, Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act as a means of protecting shippers and travelers from the abuses of carriers. In order to prevent discrimination toward shippers by carriers, section 10761(a) ... -
Re-Examining the Dormant Commerce Clause Analysis in Jones v. Gale after National Federation of Independent business v. Sebelius
(Creighton University School of Law. Omaha, Nebraska, 2013)INTRODUCTION|The Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution states, "The Congress shall have Power ... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with Indian Tribes." Starting i ...