This comment provides a comprehensive overview about the Texas Department of Criminal Justice—Institutional Division and how they operate and discipline inmates. It covers how the TDCJ-ID balances prison rules, statutory ...

This 1981 article is written in anticipation of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Reorganization Act of 1980. The Act divided the “former Fifth Circuit” into two completely autonomous judicial circuits: the “new Fifth ...

This article discusses how lack of uniformity among courts in the application of the “stream of commerce” test removes clarity and predictability from the law and creates problems for commerce. Part I of this article ...

The legal regulation of the criminal justice system has been and always will be a daunting, enormous task. As in previous survey periods, therefore, criminal cases constitute a large portion of the caseload of the Court ...

The survey this year focuses on significant decisions in the area of privilege and expert opinion. In United States v. Smith, the court explicitly rejected a journalist's First Amendment privilege for non-confidential ...

The Fifth Circuit's decisions in the area of Evidence dealt with a variety of familiar topics, such as the discretionary power of the trial judge to exclude relevant evidence because of the countervailing considerations ...

The survey this year concentrates on significant Fifth Circuit decisions that further define the gatekeeping role of trial judges in determining the admissibility of expert evidence under the Supreme Court's opinions in ...

Professor Zanglein discusses the Fifth Circuit’s handling of employee benefits cases during the 1995-96 term. Topics include the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), breach of fiduciary duty, and ERISA's three ...

The Fifth Circuit's decisions in the area of federal civil procedure dealt with a variety of familiar topics, such as pretrial motions and pleadings, summary judgment, class actions, trial procedure, and appeals, to name ...

Civil RICO cases represent a significant and growing portion of all case filings in the federal courts. During the survey period, the Fifth Circuit decided twelve civil RICO cases, more than any other circuit except the ...