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27 Oct 2014, 5:42 am by SHG
One reason for that is that the U.S. does not actually hew consistently to the so-called American Rule; across wide areas of litigation, including civil rights suits, it follows “one-way shift” principles in which prevailing plaintiffs but not prevailing defendants are entitled to fees, and whose encouragement to litigation is greater than either the American Rule or the loser-pays principle. [read post]
8 Jun 2008, 2:02 pm
The American Law Institute ("ALI") has recently published the first draft of the ALI Principles of the Law of Software Contracts ("Principles") [www.ali.org] [www.ali.org]> . [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 1:47 am by David Kopel
For the first time in American history, a majority of the States are suing to ask that a federal law be declared unconstitutional. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 10:05 pm
Stanley Fish, writing in the New York Times on Sunday examines what Immanuel Kant would tell us about affirmative action programs at American universities. [read post]
11 Apr 2010, 9:40 am
By fencing in only the negative, Moses left an open field for positive action. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 11:37 am by John Wester
Standing to sue, a venerable piece of American jurisprudence for sure, continues to draw attention in recent class action cases, including in the Fourth Circuit. [read post]
3 Sep 2016, 8:18 pm
Pragmatism here is understood in a very specific way, with a nod toward Charles Sanders Peirce and the semiotics oriented American pragmatic school, the Metaphysical Club, with origins after 1870. [read post]
20 May 2020, 11:58 am by Silver Law Group
Silver Law Group is a nationally-recognized class action law firm representing investors. [read post]
30 Jan 2019, 3:26 pm by Eugene Volokh
But one important American legal principle is that contracts are enforceable, so long as they can be enforced without resolving theological questions -- and that's true whether or not the contract is motivated by the parties' religion, or tracks that religion's principles. [read post]
2 Dec 2018, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
A lighter touch: American constitutional principles in comparative perspective Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn2. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 11:21 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
This legislation runs contrary to the principles of federalism and has no place in American democracy. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
There are some basic principles of tax law that every teenage and adult American should know and understand, though it might be expecting too much for that to happen. [read post]
1 Apr 2018, 4:20 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  But extending American Pipe tolling to successive class actions filed outside the limitations period would promote the filing of repetitious and duplicative pleadings that could lead to a virtually endless series of putative class actions. [read post]
4 Jul 2008, 1:50 pm
In that case, arms that allow a single individual to inflict enormous damage do not further the purposes of the principle, because they do not encourage collective action. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 10:24 am by Roger Alford
In undertaking his analysis of American law, Judge Simma relied on the Restatement (Second) of Torts and the famous case of Summers v. [read post]