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Observations on Recent Efforts to Deter Frivolous Papers in the Illinois Circuit Courts
(1990)Recently, significant legislative initiatives have been made to deter the filing of frivolous papers in the Illinois Circuit Courts. These initiatives authorize the imposition of sanctions on those who file litigation ... -
Prospective Fathers and Their Unborn Children
(1990)While significant national attention has recently been paid to varying questions about the legal duties of prospective mothers to their unborn children, little comparable focus has been placed on the duties of prospective ... -
Defendant Class Actions Under Rule 23(b)(2): Resolving the Language Dilemma
(1991)This Article explores the language dilemma created by the provisions of subsection (b)(2). After setting out the precise nature of the language dilemma, the Article discusses the arguments of those courts that have denied ... -
Soybean Leaves Contain Multiple Lipoxygenases
(American Society of Plant Biologists, 1991)Chromatofocusing of soybean (Glycine max L.) leaf lipoxygenases revealed three distinct peaks of activity. Based on their isoelectric points (pis), pH optima, and mutant analysis it appears that the leaf isozymes are ... -
Planters and Politics in Peru, 1895-1919
(Cambridge University Press, 1991-10)Article explores Peruvian political development in the period 1895-1919, with a focus on the activities of the Civilistas Party, Guillermo Billinghurst, and Augusto B. Leguia. -
Arbitrage, Clientele Effects, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
(Cambridge University Press, 1991-12)This paper derives a new and intuitive estimation procedure for the term structure under potential tax arbitrage. No a priori assumptions regarding the equality of the prices and present values of bonds are made. The data ... -
Failed or Uneven Discourse of State Constitutionalism?: Governmental Structure and State Constitutions
(1992)ln his Michigan Law Review article, "The Failed Discourse of State Constitutionalism," Professor James A. Gardner examines the responses to Justice Brennan's invitation to state high courts "to seize control of the protection ... -
Arming the Pregnancy Police: More Outlandish Concoctions?
(1992)Emotions abound when encountering a newborn with disabilities which will inevitably lead to an early death or to a less than whole and healthy life. It is especially painful when such disabilities were preventable. Anger ... -
Expression of a Ribosomal Protein Gene in Axillary Buds of Pea Seedlings
(American Society of Plant Biologists, 1992)Axillary buds of intact pea seedlings (Pisum sativum L. cv Alaska) do not grow and are said to be dormant. Decapitation of the terminal bud promotes the growth of these axillary buds, which then develop in the same ... -
Preparing Minority Students for Law School: The Program for Minority Access to Law School
(1992)Students of color traditionally have been under-represented in law school admissions, and those admitted have higher attrition rates than their white counterparts. In response to these concerns, law schools have instituted ... -
The Forum Selection Clause: A Tale of Two Concepts
(1993)This article posits that lack of discussion is a principal reason why the parameters of the forum selection clause remain ill-defined, and that the struggle to construct a standard for enforcement has proven difficult. ... -
Pregnant Dads: The Crimes and Other Misconduct of Expectant Fathers
(1993)Toward the end of the last millennium, there was a surge in state action seeking to protect potential human life. This activity chiefly occurred ín two fields. One was quite fertile, the other barren. A third field still ... -
Designating Male Parents at Birth
(1993)It is becoming increasingly difficult to determine the legal parentage of newborns and infants. Although it may be clear who bore a child, whose sperm was involved in conception, to whom a new mother was married at the ... -
Disciplinary Referrals Under New Federal Civil Rule 11
(1993)The 1983 amendments to Federal Civil Procedure Rule 11, concerning sanctions for frivolous litigation papers, prompted much controversy and satellite litigation. By the latter 1980s many called for further changes to the ... -
Fines Under New Federal Civil Rule 11: The New Monetary Sanctions for the "Stop-and Think-Again" Rule
(1993)The 1983 amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 11, which dealt with frivolous litigation papers, prompted much controversy, satellite litigation, and a new cottage industry, Rule amendments in 1983 increased ... -
Confirmation and the Computational Paradigm (or: Why Do You Think They Call It Artificial Intelligence?)
(Springer Verlag, 1993-05)The idea that human cognitive capacities are explainable by computational models is often conjoined with the idea that, while the states postulated by such models are in fact realized by brain states, there are no type-type ... -
Do Firms Pay Efficiency Wages? Evidence with Data at the Firm Level
(National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Society of Labor Economists: University of Chicago Press, 1993-07)This study tests the efficiency wage hypothesis by estimating wage and quit equations with data from the Employment Opportunity Pilot Project survey of firms. An efficiency wage model is derived that predicts effects of ... -
Sanctioning Legal Organizations Under the New Federal Civil Rule 11: Radical Changes Loosen More Unforeseeable Forces
(1994)Prompted by their perception that significant civil litigation misconduct involving frivolous papers was occurring in federal trial courts, the federal judicial rulemakers first effected a major overhaul of Rule 11 of the ... -
The Presence of Family Members and Others During Attorney-Client Communications: Himmel's Other Dilemma
(1994)In re Himmel, the Illinois Supreme Court addressed the dilemma that confronted attorney James Himmel, who had been forced to choose between reporting another attorney's misconduct and maintaining his own client's secret. ... -
Wage Change and the Quit Behavior of Workers: Implications for Efficiency Wage Theory
(Southern Economic Association, 1994-07)
