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2 Sep 2013, 1:24 pm by Larry Catá Backer
  The third source of law, the local law of a state, is also based on custom and tradition but more importantly is manifested by the actions of institutional actors who have been empowered to act on behalf of the people. [read post]
26 Aug 2013, 7:12 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Atiyah, “Common Law and Statute Law,” Modern Law Review 48(1): (1985)  Our last class introduced us to the Common Law and Equity in the United States. [read post]
25 Aug 2013, 1:44 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Young, “Equity,” The New South Wales Bar Association (August 2007).In our first class we used Justinian's Institutes to identify the object of our exploration, law, and the structures created to conceive, build and implement law through collaborations by a variety of distinct actors. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 3:19 pm by Bill Marler
” AP News: Bill Marler, a Seattle attorney who specializes in class-action food-safety lawsuits, said withholding the information can create general fears that damage the reputation of good actors in food production. [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 9:00 pm by Joseph Margulies
”  Two cases do not a pattern make, and perhaps these episodes represent nothing more than unconnected events set in motion by unrelated actors. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 10:09 pm by Marta Requejo
US federal courts have strengthened the requirements with regard to pleading, general jurisdiction, class certification – also discovery has its limits. [read post]
6 Jul 2013, 5:04 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Its actions were deemed in the colonial empire as efforts to usurp the prerogatives and rights of Englishmen at the heart of the American political ideology. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 5:02 pm by JB
Affirmative Action and Original Meaning. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 8:03 pm by Larry Catá Backer
 (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)  This post includes a report by Shan Gao, an SJD candidate at Penn State that proposes some preliminary ideas about the connection between state, Party and business in China as a matter of law and policy. . [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 7:15 am by Sai Vinod
The actor after taking a sip says that it’s not good (and that’s it!). [read post]
9 May 2013, 11:43 am by Sheppard Mullin
Apr. 9, 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of four class action lawsuits filed by employees against brokerage firms Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley. [read post]
9 May 2013, 11:17 am
Apr. 9, 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of four class action lawsuits filed by employees against brokerage firms Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley. [read post]
6 May 2013, 4:30 am by Karen Tani
Even when poor and working-class people have enjoyed access to lawyers and legal processes, law has helped generate, preserve, and legitimize inequalities of wealth. [read post]
30 Apr 2013, 7:31 am by Ryan Scoville
Certainly, this type of attack against the United States has prompted immediate and aggressive action. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The Michigan case presents a superficially easy question: The Supreme Court has held that state actors are rarely even permitted to engage in race-based affirmative action. [read post]
28 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  But the extent to which other Californians would be free from Proposition 8—and when that might happen—depends upon many complexities, including the Governor’s reaction to a ruling based on lack of standing, a potential state-wide class action lawsuit, and also the wild-card possibility that certain elected county clerks (these might be the “other people” to whom Chief Justice Roberts referred during oral argument) may be granted… [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 6:00 am by Tyler Kostal
  The district court consolidated the class action proceeding with Bertucci’s limitation proceeding. [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 2:11 pm by Ken
Melody learned a valuable lesson about how state actors will maintain power by turning citizens against each other and making citizens extensions of their own control. [read post]