NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN LAW ,9780890897096

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN LAW

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ISBN13: 9780890897096
ISBN10: 0890897093
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Pub. Date: 1997-10-15
Publisher(s): Carolina Academic Press
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Civil Procedure
3(70)
Introduction
3(1)
The Adversary Process
4(1)
The Neutral Tribunal
4(1)
Party Control of the Case
5(1)
A Structured Procedure
6(1)
The Inquisitorial Alternative
7(1)
Civil Procedure and the Adversary Process
7(1)
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
8(4)
Overview
12(1)
Jurisdiction
13(16)
In Personam Jurisdiction
13(2)
Subject Matter Jurisdiction
15(1)
Service of Process
15(2)
Pennoyer v. Neff
17(4)
Hess v. Pawloski
21(2)
Gray v. American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation et al
23(6)
A Short Note on Pleadings
29(7)
Gillespie v. Goodyear Service Stores, et al
32(2)
Dioguardi v. Durning
34(2)
Discovery
36(22)
The Scope of Discovery
36(1)
Seattle Times Co. v. Rhinehart
37(7)
Means of Discovery
44(1)
Depositions
44(3)
Carey v. Rudseal
47(3)
Cook v. Welty
50(3)
Interrogatories
53(1)
Ballard v. Allegherny Airlines, Inc.
54(2)
Frost v. Williams
56(1)
Other Discovery Devices
57(1)
Managerial Judges
58(15)
G. Heileman Brewing Co., Inc. v. Joseph Oat Corporation
60(10)
Conclusion
70(1)
Suggested Reading
71(2)
Criminal Law
73(134)
Introduction
73(9)
Who Is the Victim? Or, On What Grounds Do We Apply the State's Coercive Force?
82(29)
Criminal Attempts
83(1)
Model Penal Code Section 5.01: Criminal Attempt
83(1)
People v. Dlugash
84(6)
``Criminal Attempt and the Theory of the Law of Crimes''
90(8)
Does Who the Victim Is Make a Difference?
98(1)
Warren McCleskey, Petitioner v. Ralph Kemp, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
98(5)
The Role of the Victim
103(1)
Pervis Tyrone Payne, Petitioner v. Tennessee
103(8)
The Scope of the Criminal Law
111(27)
Punishment for Acts
113(1)
Robinson v. California
113(6)
People v. Rizzo et al
119(2)
State v. Rusk
121(9)
Omissions
130(1)
People v. Beardsley
130(4)
Victimless Crimes
134(1)
Bowers v. Hardwick
134(4)
Mental Elements
138(30)
Model Penal Code Section 2.02: General Requirements of Culpability
140(2)
Voluntariness
142(1)
The State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Walter J. Sikora, Defendant-Appellant
142(6)
Intention/Mens Rea
148(1)
Morissette v. United States
148(6)
Regina v. Morgan
154(2)
The Importance of Mental Elements - Homicide
156(1)
First Degree Murder
156(1)
State v. Ollens
156(3)
Murder v. Manslaughter
159(1)
Girouard v. State
159(4)
Felony Murder
163(1)
People v. Washington
163(5)
Causation
168(4)
People v. Kibbe
169(3)
Defenses
172(35)
Insanity
173(1)
Model Penal Code Section 4.01: Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Responsibility
173(2)
People v. Drew
175(7)
Necessity
182(1)
The Queen v. Dudley & Stephens
182(4)
State v. Warshow
186(5)
Self-Defense
191(1)
New Jersey Statutes Section 2C:3-4: Use of Force in Self-Protection
191(1)
People v. Goetz
192(4)
People v. Ceballos
196(3)
State v. Norman
199(5)
Select Bibliography
204(1)
Who is the Victim?
204(1)
The Scope of the Criminal Law
204(1)
Mental Elements
204(1)
Causation
205(1)
Defenses
205(2)
Torts
207(88)
Introduction
207(2)
A Short Background on Torts in Common Law
209(1)
Origins
209(4)
Modern Tort Law
213(2)
Types of Liability in Tort
215(1)
Intentional Torts
215(1)
Negligence
216(1)
Liability Without Fault
217(1)
Studies in American Tort Law
218(1)
Vincent R. Johnson
Alan Gunn
Some Principal Political Dilemmas in Contemporary Tort Law
219(3)
What Does It Mean to Intend Harm?
222(2)
Vosburg v. Putney
222(2)
Introduction to Duty of Care: Citizen Know Thyself
224(3)
Breunig v. American Family Ins.
225(2)
Causation: Playing Ducks and Drakes with Nature
227(7)
Summers v. Tice
227(2)
Joint and Several Liability
229(1)
Sindell v. Abbot Laboratories
230(4)
Negligence as Breach of Duty: Contingency and Duty in the Technological World
234(13)
Wood v. Pennsylvania R.R. Co.
236(1)
Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co.
237(3)
United States v. Carroll Towing Co.
240(4)
Sneaking Up on Contemporary Negligence
244(1)
Contributory Negligence
244(1)
Comparative Negligence
244(1)
Kumkumian v. New York
245(2)
Strict Liability in a Complex Economic Environment
247(5)
The Nitroglycerine Case
248(2)
Madsen v. East Jordan Irrigation Co.
250(2)
Products Liability
252(9)
Privity of Contract, the Subsidization of Manufacturers, and the Rise of Protection for Products Users
252(2)
MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
254(2)
Knowledge and Liability for Products Injuries: Duties of Victims
256(1)
What Is A Defect?
257(1)
Obvious Design Defects and Dangerous Products
258(1)
Micallef v. Miehle Co.
259(2)
Vicarious Liability: Drunken Sailors, Stupid Employees, and the People Who Hire Them
261(3)
Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc. v. United States
262(2)
When the Government Kills and Injures
264(9)
Dalehite v. United States of America
268(5)
Special Relationships: The Palsgraf Principle Faces Up to the Demands of a Modern Technological Society
273(7)
Tarasoff v. Regements of University of California
274(6)
Speech, the First Amendment, and the Dangers of Defamation Awards
280(8)
Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
284(4)
Outrage and Organizational Psychosis: When Corporations Lose Their Minds or Their Morals
288(7)
Field v. Philadelphia Electric Co.
289(4)
Conclusion
293(2)
Politics and the Law of Contracts
295(56)
Introduction
295(1)
A First Look at Contract Law
295(3)
Why Contract Law Is Politics, Not Economics
298(10)
Politics
299(2)
Contracts
301(1)
Lucy v. Zehmer
301(4)
Reflections on Lucy
305(1)
Contracts and Politics
306(2)
Two Lessons About Politics from ``Ordinary'' Contracts Disputes in the Courts
308(18)
Seven Elements of Contract Law
309(5)
Hamer v. Sidway
314(2)
Feinberg v. Pfeiffer Co.
316(4)
Reflections on Hamer and Feinberg
320(1)
Moral Values in Contract Law
321(1)
Webb v. McGowin
322(3)
Reflections on Webb
325(1)
Contract Law in American Political History
326(14)
Contracts in U.S. Constitutional Law
326(2)
A History of Contract Law in Everyday Life
328(5)
Toker v. Westerman
333(2)
Stambovsky v. Ackley
335(4)
Reflections on Toker and Stambovsky
339(1)
Contracts Today: A Forum for Contemporary Moral Debate
340(10)
In The Matter of Baby M
341(8)
Reflections on Baby M
349(1)
Conclusion
350(1)
Select Bibliography
350(1)
Property
351(114)
Introduction
351(1)
Some Theoretical Approaches to Property: Theorizing the Individual
352(2)
Property and the U.S. Constitution
354(4)
Corporations, Property, and Power
358(4)
Law and Equity
362(1)
The Development of Equity
363(1)
Normativity and Rationality in the History of Law and Equity
364(1)
The Reactive Nature of Law and the Proactive Nature of Equity
365(1)
Merger of Law and Equity
366(1)
Possession
366(3)
Pierson v. Post
367(1)
Young against Hichens
368(1)
Accession and Value
369(8)
Wetherbee v. Green
371(3)
The Isle of Royale Mining Co. v. Hertin
374(3)
Adverse Possession
377(7)
O'Keeffe v. Snyder
378(6)
Gifts
384(4)
Scherer v. Hyland
385(3)
Forfeiture
388(5)
Bennis v. Michigan
388(5)
Landlord/Tenant
393(8)
Commonwealth Bldg. Corporation v. Hirshfield
394(2)
Edwards v. Habib
396(5)
Real Property
401(44)
Tenure and Seisin
401(1)
Concurrent Ownership
402(3)
Future Interests
405(1)
Rule Against Perpetuities
405(3)
Covenants
408(1)
Tulk v. Moxhay
409(1)
Shelley v. Kraemer
410(5)
Barrows v. Jackson
415(4)
Zoning, Takings, and the Police Power
419(2)
Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Mahon
421(3)
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
424(9)
City of Cleburne, Texas v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.
433(4)
Easement
437(1)
Finn v. Williams
438(1)
Criscuola v. Power Authority of the State of New York
439(2)
Estate
441(1)
Morrison v. Piper
442(3)
License
445(3)
Marrone v. Washington Jockey Club
446(1)
Stoner v. Zucker
447(1)
Intellectual Property
448(17)
Patent
450(1)
Diamond v. Chakrabarty
451(4)
Copyright
455(1)
Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., Inc
455(4)
Trademark
459(1)
Qualitex Company v. Jacobson Products Company, Inc.
460(3)
Conclusion
463(2)
Conclusion 465(2)
Index 467(3)
About the Authors 470

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