INTRODUCTION|The Eighth Circuit decided significant cases in three diverse areas of labor law. The first section of this article examines the process of determining the appropriate wage rate at which backpay should be set ...

INTRODUCTION|In United States v. Burkhead, the Eighth Circuit decided the propriety of a lower court's refusal to rule on a motion in limine under Federal Rule of Evidence 609(a) (1). The motion requested that the defendant's ...

INTRODUCTION|A net gift is a transfer of property in which it is expressly agreed or implied that payment of the gift tax will be made by the transferee as a condition of the transfer. The theory underlying the net gift ...

INTRODUCTION|In Miller v. United States the court confronted the question of whether non-service related work by a serviceman after completing his regular military duties was "incidental to service." Activities deemed ...

INTRODUCTION|The fourth amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual from unreasonable searches and seizures by government officials; warrantless searches are per se unreasonable in the absence of ...

INTRODUCTION|Since the enactment of the Statute of 13 Elizabeth in 1570, the underlying premise of Anglo-American law of fraudulent conveyances has remained unchanged. Refusing to condone any deceitful transfer, the Statute ...

INTRODUCTION|In 1973 the Eighth Circuit articulated the standards for a traditional test for the grant or denial of a preliminary injunction in this circuit. Perhaps dissatisfied with the restrictive language of the ...

INTRODUCTION|Section 1983 claims have proven to be a major source of civil rights litigation in recent years. Perhaps the most important reason for the large number of section 1983 cases is the broad language of the statute ...