NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN LAW

by Carter, Lief; Sarat, Austin; Silverstein, Mark; Weaver, William G.

• ISBN13: 9780890897096
• ISBN10: 0890897093
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-15
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

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