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Jan. 2013, Vol. 65, No. 1
Articles
David Haddock, Tonja Jacobi, & Matthew Sag, League Structure &Stadium Rent Seeking— the Role of Antitrust Revisited
Steven J. Cleveland, Resurrecting Deference to the Securities and Exchange Commission: Mark Cuban Trading on Inside information
Janai S. Nelson, The First Amendment, Equal Protection and Felon Disenfranchisement: A New Viewpoint
Sergio J. Campos, Erie as a Choice of Enforcement Defaults
Hanah Metchis Volokh, Constitutional Authority Statements in Congress
Sapna Kumar, The Accidental Agency?
Christian Turner, State Action Problems
Category Archives: Estates & Trusts Law
Frances H. Foster, Should Pets Inherit?
63 Fla. L. Rev. 801 (2011)| | | ARTICLE :: On August 20, 2007, billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley died, survived by her brother, four grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and her beloved companion of eight years, a white Maltese dog named Trouble. One … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Law, Estates & Trusts Law, Family Law, Governments and Legislation, Property Law, Uncategorized
Tagged 12 million, dog, Donald Trump, Foster, inheritance law, Mickey Sherman, pet inheritance, Pets, Trouble
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Shannon Weeks McCormack, Too Close to Home: Limiting the Organizations Subsidized by the Charitable Deduction to Those in Economic Need
63 Fla. L. Rev. 857 (2011)| | | ARTICLE :: The charitable deduction allows taxpayers to deduct amounts donated to organizations pursuing statutorily designated purposes from their otherwise taxable income. By lowering the after-tax cost of giving and encouraging taxpayers to … Continue reading
Posted in Estates & Trusts Law, First Amendment, Tax Law, Uncategorized
Tagged charaties, Charitable Donations, deduction, efficiency criteria, non-profit, organizations, Shannon Weeks McCormack, starting, subsidies, suggest, Tax Exemption, tax law, underfunded issues
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Solangel Maldonado, Illegitimate Harm: Law, Stigma, and Discrimination Against Nonmarital Children
63 Fla. L. Rev. 345 (2011)| | | | ABSTRACT :: No one would dispute that for most of U.S. history, nonmarital children suffered significant legal and societal discrimination. Although many individuals believe that the legal disadvantages attached to “illegitimate” status … Continue reading
Posted in Estates & Trusts Law, Family Law, Immigration Law, Uncategorized
Tagged Children, Family Law, family support, Illegitimate Children, Illegitmate Harm, Immigration Law, Maldonado, nonmarital children, same sex marriage, social harms, stigma of illegitimacy, unmarried women
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Martin H. Redish, Peter Julian & Samantha Zyontz, Cy Pres Relief and the Pathologies of Modern Class Action: A Normative and Empirical Analysis
62 Fla. L. Rev. 617 (2010) | | | | CASE COMMENT ::The purpose of the modern class action, a procedural aggregation device authorized by Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, is to collectivize individual claims into … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Estates & Trusts Law, Federal Courts, Uncategorized
Tagged Charitable Trusts, Class Actions, Cy Pres, Estates, formal notification, Gifts & Trust Law, indicidual Class Members, Julian, Normative and Empirical Analysis, notification of rights to compensation, Pathologies of Modern Class Action, Redish, settlements, Zyontz
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Melanie B. Leslie, The Wisdom of Crowds? Groupthink and Nonprofit Governance
62 Fla. L. Rev. 1179 (2010)| | | | ABSTRACT :: Scandals involving nonprofit boards and conflicts of interest continue to receive considerable public attention. Earlier this year, for example, musician Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti charity became the target of … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Corporate Law, Estates & Trusts Law, Governments and Legislation, Uncategorized
Tagged Crowds, directors, disclosure of conflicts, fiduciary duty, flat prohibition, fuzzy standards, Groupthink, inside transactions, investigation of alternatives, Leslie, Nonprofit Governance, relationships, scandals, self-dealing, Social Norms, Wisdom, Wyclef Jean, Yele Haiti charity
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