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Survey Agency Actions
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1975)
The decisions in this survey involve a review of agency actions spanning a wide range of government activity from the regulation of natural gas to the administration of social security benefits. The survey includes decisions ...
Survey Bankruptcy
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1975)
Discusses how a depressed economy rears a necessity for the fair administration of the bankruptcy laws. The author believes that the Fifth Circuit during the compendium period are illustrative of the judiciary’s application ...
Survey Labor Law
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1975)
Discusses the importance of the United States labor laws. The author observes how a majority of the labor law decisions rendered by the Fifth Circuit this term involved the National Labor Relations Act and the Labor ...
Survey Intellectual Property
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1975)
Observes the Fifth Circuit’s decisions in regards to developments in patent law. The survey covers subjects such as the amount of damages that should be awarded and what should determine the amount of damages being awarded. ...
Survey Federal Securities Law
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1975)
Examines Fifth Circuits decisions on securities law during the 1974-5 court term. The survey discusses the changes and the possible errors the recent court made. Several of the more important cases this term provided the ...
Legislative Survey-Administrative Law
(Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law, 2002)
Legislative survey that focuses on the 77th Texas Legislature and the laws that were passed. The focus is on legislation that will have implications for practitioners before a specific agency and on changes in laws relating ...
Evidence
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1999)
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 ...
Evidence
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1998)
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 ...
Criminal Law
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1998)
Among the cases decided during the survey period (1996-1997), two opinions stand out as particularly noteworthy. First, United States v. Branch is certainly notable because it involved the prosecution of members of a ...
Securities Law
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1991)
During the survey period, the Fifth Circuit addressed several issues of increasing importance in the area of securities law. First, the court limited the circumstances under which a federal court may exercise subject matter ...