INTRODUCTION|Controversy in the law is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in the area of personal autonomy. To what extent do individuals in society possess rights which limit the authority of the state to intervene in the ...

INTRODUCTION|In 1990, the United States Supreme Court addressed the rights of mentally ill prison inmates in Washington v. Harper. A mentally ill inmate had challenged the provisions of a prison policy which allowed prison ...

INTRODUCTION|When he gave his delightful Pound lectures at the University of Nebraska, Professor Warren Seavey referred to "the case of economic harm," of which nisrepresentation is an example, as the "the last citadel" ...

INTRODUCTION|In Reves v. Ernst & Young, the United States Supreme Court dealt with the issue of whether a demand promissory note was a "security" under the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although this ...

INTRODUCTION|"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I offer my chariot as collateral." No, that's not exactly how it goes. But, the basic idea is that creditors often require the pledging of collateral when lending ...

INTRODUCTION|Participants in a contact sport assume certain known risks of injury. Judge Cardozo succinctly summed up this concept when he said, "[T]he timorous may stay at home." Although the participants assume the risks ...

INTRODUCTION|Under section 1404(a) of the United States Code, when a federal diversity case is transferred by the plaintiff, is the applicable law that of the transferor or transferee forum? This question has divided ...

INTRODUCTION|Death, poverty, sin and taxes are among the inevitables of humankind. Other aspects of humanity could extend the list, but legislators spend much of their time trying to curtail both sin and taxes. Self interest ...

FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Life today is a spectacle of stark contrasts. Each day news reports describe the political upheavals taking place throughout the world. We read of the heroic efforts of people in Poland, Lithuania, ...

INTRODUCTION|This Article is about Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. It is not about whether Daubert is a good decision or whether it is a bad decision, although, in my view, Daubert is a pretty good decision ...