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And Justice for All: an Alternative Decision to Williams V. Nassau County Medical Center to Ameliorate the Harsh Impact of New Y
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology Volume 12 Issue 1 Article 4 2011 And Justice for All: An Alternative Decision to Williams v. Nassau County Medical Center to Ameliorate the Harsh Impact of New York's Late Notice of Claim Statute on Infant Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs David A. Mayer Christopher McGrath Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mjlst Recommended Citation David A. Mayer & Christopher McGrath, And Justice for All: An Alternative Decision to Williams v. Nassau County Medical Center to Ameliorate the Harsh Impact of New York's Late Notice of Claim Statute on Infant Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs, 12 MINN. J.L. SCI. & TECH. 23 (2011). Available at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mjlst/vol12/iss1/4 The Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology is published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. 121_MayerMAYER DA,.DOCX McGrath (DO NOT D C.ELETE And) Justice for All: An Alternative Decision4/4/2011 to 8:07 AM Williams v. Nassau County Medical Center to Ameliorate the Harsh Impact of New York’s Late Notice of Claim Statute on Infant Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs. Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology. 2011;12(1):23-60. And Justice for All: An Alternative Decision to Williams v. Nassau County Medical Center to Ameliorate the Harsh Impact of New York’s Late Notice of Claim Statute on Infant Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs David A. Mayer* & Christopher McGrath** Strict construction of New York State’s late notice of claim statute1 has unintentionally thwarted the lofty goals of equal access to justice and equal protection under the law through de facto economic segregation of infant medical malpractice plain- tiffs. -
Advisory Opinions and the Problem of Legal Authority
Vanderbilt Law Review Volume 74 Issue 3 April 2021 Article 5 4-2021 Advisory Opinions and the Problem of Legal Authority Christian R. Burset Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr Part of the Judges Commons, and the Jurisprudence Commons Recommended Citation Christian R. Burset, Advisory Opinions and the Problem of Legal Authority, 74 Vanderbilt Law Review 621 (2021) Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol74/iss3/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vanderbilt Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Advisory Opinions and the Problem of Legal Authority Christian R. Burset* The prohibition against advisory opinions is fundamental to our understanding of federal judicial power, but we have misunderstood its origins. Discussions of the doctrine begin not with a constitutional text or even a court case, but a letter in which the Jay Court rejected President Washington’s request for legal advice. Courts and scholars have offered a variety of explanations for the Jay Court’s behavior. But they all depict the earliest Justices as responding to uniquely American concerns about advisory opinions. This Article offers a different explanation. Drawing on previously untapped archival sources, it shows that judges throughout the anglophone world—not only in the United States but also in England and British India— became opposed to advisory opinions in the second half of the eighteenth century. The death of advisory opinions was a global phenomenon, rooted in a period of anxiety about common-law authority. -
Part I Background and Summary
PART I BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY Chapter 1 BRITISH STATUTES IN IDSTORICAL PERSPECTIVE The North American plantations were not the earliest over seas possessions of the English Crown; neither were they the first to be treated as separate political entities, distinct from the realm of England. From the time of the Conquest onward, the King of England held -- though not necessarily simultaneously or continuously - a variety of non-English possessions includ ing Normandy, Anjou, the Channel Islands, Wales, Jamaica, Scotland, the Carolinas, New-York, the Barbadoes. These hold ings were not a part of the Kingdom of England but were govern ed by the King of England. During the early medieval period the King would issue such orders for each part of his realm as he saw fit. Even as he tended to confer more and more with the officers of the royal household and with the great lords of England - the group which eventually evolved into the Council out of which came Parliament - with reference to matters re lating to England, he did likewise with matters relating to his non-English possessions.1 Each part of the King's realm had its own peculiar laws and customs, as did the several counties of England. The middle ages thrived on diversity and while the King's writ was acknowledged eventually to run throughout England, there was little effort to eliminate such local practices as did not impinge upon the power of the Crown. The same was true for the non-Eng lish lands. An order for one jurisdictional entity typically was limited to that entity alone; uniformity among the several parts of the King's realm was not considered sufficiently important to overturn existing laws and customs. -
Biodefense and Constitutional Constraints
Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2011 Biodefense and Constitutional Constraints Laura K. Donohue Georgetown University Law Center, [email protected] Georgetown Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 11-96 This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/677 http://ssrn.com/abstract=1882506 4 Nat'l Security & Armed Conflict L. Rev. 82-206 (2014) This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, and the Military, War, and Peace Commons BIODEFENSE AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS Laura K. Donohue* I. INTRODUCTION"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" & II. STATE POLICE POWERS AND THE FEDERALIZATION OF U.S. QUARANTINE LAW """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 2 A. Early Colonial Quarantine Provisions""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 3 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 4 """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""&) -
Head-Of-State and Foreign Official Immunity in the United States After Samantar: a Suggested Approach
Fordham International Law Journal Volume 34, Issue 2 2011 Article 6 Head-of-State and Foreign Official Immunity in the United States After Samantar: A Suggested Approach Christopher D. Totten∗ ∗ Copyright c 2011 by the authors. Fordham International Law Journal is produced by The Berke- ley Electronic Press (bepress). http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj Head-of-State and Foreign Official Immunity in the United States After Samantar: A Suggested Approach Christopher D. Totten Abstract A concept of immunity for foreign heads of state has existed since ancient times. Such immu- nity constitutes customary international law (“CIL”) and, when applicable, frees such individuals from the criminal jurisdiction of foreign nations while carrying out their duties. In the United States, executive branch guidance is considered determinative on the issue of foreign head-of-state immunity; however, the executive branch does not always provide suggestions of immunity, or it may provide suggestions that violate CIL. Drawing upon both US and against foreign sitting and former heads of state and government officials increasingly are becoming more established and ma provide additional guidance in the absence of, or as a supplement to, US executive branch guidance. For example, while relevant international immunity law norms generally prohibit crim- inal prosecutions by domestic jurisdictions against foreign sitting heads of state and other senior governmental officials, they allow such suits against former leaders and officials in certain circum- stances. Moreover, these same norms permit prosecutions against both sitting and former heads of state and officials if these prosecutions are commenced by international criminal tribunals (e.g., the ongoing International Criminal Court proceeding against President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan). -
PLEASE NOTE This Is a Draft Paper Only and Should Not Be Cited Without
PLEASE NOTE This is a draft paper only and should not be cited without the author’s express permission THE SHORT-TERM IMPACT OF THE >GLORIOUS REVOLUTION= ON THE ENGLISH JUDICIAL SYSTEM On February 14, 1689, The day after William and Mary were recognized by the Convention Parliament as King and Queen, the first members of their Privy Council were sworn in. And, during the following two to three weeks, all of the various high offices in the government and the royal household were filled. Most of the politically powerful posts went either to tories or to moderates. The tory Earl of Danby was made Lord President of the Council and another tory, the Earl of Nottingham was made Secretary of State for the Southern Department. The office of Lord Privy Seal was given to the Atrimming@ Marquess of Halifax, whom dedicated whigs had still not forgiven for his part in bringing about the disastrous defeat of the exclusion bill in the Lords= house eight years earlier. Charles Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, who was named Principal Secretary of State, can really only be described as tilting towards the whigs at this time. But, at the Admiralty and the Treasury, both of which were put into commission, in each case a whig stalwart was named as the first commissioner--Lord Mordaunt and Arthur Herbert respectivelyBand also in each case a number of other leading whigs were named to the commission as well.i Whig lawyers, on the whole, did rather better than their lay fellow-partisans. Devonshire lawyer and Inner Temple Bencher Henry Pollexfen was immediately appointed Attorney- General, and his cousin, Middle Templar George Treby, Solicitor General. -
Ba, Ll.B. (Honours) Integrated Course Syllabus
B.A., LL.B. (HONOURS) INTEGRATED COURSE SYLLABUS SEMESTER – I Paper-I GENERAL ENGLISH-I Objectives: Objective of this paper is to identify the parts of speech in English Language. to facilitate the students in enhancing their reading, writing and comprehension skills. The course will also help the students in having a sound grasp over the language and to clearly and effectively communicate using the written language. Students should learn legal terms and be able to use those terms accurately. Module-I: Grammar and Usage (Communication Skills) 1. Parts of Speech i) Noun ii) Pronoun iii) Adjective i) Degrees of Comparison iv) Verb a) Tense and concord b) Active voice & passive voice c) Reported Speech d) Conditionals v) Adverb vi) Preposition vii) Conjunction viii) Interjection 2. Articles 3. Sentences i) Simple, compound & complex sentences (one clause) their phrase ii) Negatives, Questions. iii) Modifiers (determiners, phrases, clauses) 4. Question Tags & Short Responses 1 5. Some Common Errors Module-II: Vocabulary 1. Legal terms (relevant to the subject) 2. Use of legal terms and idiomatic expressions Module-III: Comprehension Skills 1. Reading comprehension (principles and practice) 2. Listening comprehension Module-IV: Composition Skills 1. Paragraph Writing 2. Formal correspondence 3. Note Taking 4. Translation from regional language into English and Vice-Versa. Module-V: Literature A) Prose: Masters of English Prose i) Of Friendship – Francis Bacon ii) Of Youth and Age – Francis Bacon iii) The Spider and the Bee – Jonathan Swift iv) City Nightpiece – Oliver Goldsmith v) The Convalescent – Charles Lamb vi) The Maid servant – Deigh Hunt vii) Manners – R, W. Emerson viii) Of Myself – Abrahman Cowley ix) The Golden Age – A.G. -
Local Sovereign Immunity
LOCAL SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY Fred Smith* When governmental actors offend federal rights, victims are often left with no one to hold accountable in federal courts. This Article explores this accountability gap in cases involving local officials’ violations of the Constitution. Local government, after all, is the layer of government that is often closest to our daily lives, from law enforce- ment to education. This Article argues that as a descriptive matter, contrary to the conventional account, a form of sovereign immunity protects local governments from federal constitutional suits. And this immunity unduly obstructs constitutional accountability. Local sovereign immunity operates primarily through two doctrines that, together, prevent remedies for violations of federal rights. First, a special, stringent causation requirement often prohibits recovery against local governments, even when that government’s agent violates federal constitutional rights. This causation requirement shares core historical and ideological commitments with the Supreme Court’s state sovereignty jurisprudence. The requirement also shares historical roots with com- mon law doctrines barring or limiting suits against local governments for traditional torts. Second, like federal and state officials, local actors are often entitled to qualified and absolute immunities, blocking suits against such actors in their individual capacities. Qualified and absolute immunities have roots in the doctrine of sovereign immunity. This Article observes that the version of state sovereignty that infuses these immunity doctrines is inflected with concerns about repub- licanism, representative government, federalism, and autonomy. It concludes by advocating for reforms that would narrow the rights– remedies gap for constitutional violations, while showing due respect for *. Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Law School; Visiting Professor, Emory Law School. -
Congressional Authority to Induce Waivers of State Sovereign Immunity: the Onditc Ional Spending Power (And Beyond) Michael T
Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly Volume 29 Article 2 Number 3 Spring 2002 1-1-2002 Congressional Authority to Induce Waivers of State Sovereign Immunity: The onditC ional Spending Power (and Beyond) Michael T. Gibson Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/ hastings_constitutional_law_quaterly Part of the Constitutional Law Commons Recommended Citation Michael T. Gibson, Congressional Authority to Induce Waivers of State Sovereign Immunity: The Conditional Spending Power (and Beyond), 29 Hastings Const. L.Q. 439 (2002). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_constitutional_law_quaterly/vol29/iss3/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Congressional Authority to Induce Waivers of State Sovereign Immunity: The Conditional Spending Power (and Beyond) by MICHAEL T. GIBSON* I. State Sovereign Immunity vs. American Business A. State Sovereign Immunity Invades Silicon Valley Supporters of state sovereign immunity eventually will rue June 23, 1999. On that day, the Supreme Court's conservative justices seemingly produced three triumphs for states' rights.' In Alden v. Maine, they revealed that sovereign immunity protects States from suits in federal and state courts.2 In Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank,3 they let a state intentionally infringe upon a federal patent without fear of monetary liability.4 In College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board, they let the same state violate a federal trademark with the same impunity In all three cases, they said that Congress could not use Article I to abrogate state sovereign Professor, Oklahoma City University School of Law; BA, University of Nebraska; JD, Yale University. -
National Implementing Measures
n;J .f~ COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES National Implementing Measures to give effect to the White Paper of the Commission on the Completion of the Internal Market Situation at 30 April 1991 0 0 () c s:: •*• m * * z * * -1 * * 92 * * * This document has been prepared for use within the Commission. It does not necessarily represent the Commission's official position. Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1991 ISBN 92-826-2694-6 Catalogue number: CM-70-91-782-EN-C © ECSC-EEC-EAEC, Brussels • Luxembourg, 1991 Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Belgium NOTE TO READERS This guide, available In all the official languages of the Conunlty, Is beIng pub II shed as part of an I nfor~~at I on exercIse. It was designed as a documentary tool and In no way binds the Conlsslon. The lnforutlon It contains Is drawn from the INF092 data base accessible to the public and there Is no Implied crltlcln or otherwise of what the Member States have done. Measures whIch have not been offIcI a II y notIfIed are not II sted. Because the situation Is constantly changing, the guide can do no more than ref I ect the posIt I on on a gIven date, In thIs case 30 April 1991. A new edition wl I I appear every six months . • • • TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE REMOVAL OF PHYSICAL BARRIERS Control of goods Dlr. 85/347 Duty-free fuel contained In fuel tanks of commercial 1otor vehicles Reg. -
A Pilgrimage Through English History and Culture (F-L)
Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Faculty Publications 2009-05-01 A Pilgrimage Through English History and Culture (F-L) Gary P. Gillum [email protected] Susan Wheelwright O'Connor Alexa Hysi Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub Part of the English Language and Literature Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Gillum, Gary P.; O'Connor, Susan Wheelwright; and Hysi, Alexa, "A Pilgrimage Through English History and Culture (F-L)" (2009). Faculty Publications. 12. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/12 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. 833 FAIRFAX, JOHN, 1623-1700. Rare 922.542 St62f 1681 Presbýteros diples times axios, or, The true dignity of St. Paul's elder, exemplified in the life of that reverend, holy, zealous, and faithful servant, and minister of Jesus Christ Mr. Owne Stockton ... : with a collection of his observations, experiences and evidences recorded by his own hand : to which is added his funeral sermon / by John Fairfax. London : Printed by H.H. for Tho. Parkhurst at the Sign of the Bible and Three Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside, 1681. Description: [12], 196, [20] p. ; 15 cm. References: Wing F 129. Subjects: Stockton, Owen, 1630-1680. Notes: Title enclosed within double line rule border. "Mors Triumphata; or The Saints Victory over Death; Opened in a Funeral Sermon ... " has special title page. 834 FAIRFAX, THOMAS FAIRFAX, Baron, 1612-1671. -
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