Books from West Academic

  • A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
    By Steven Baicker-McKee, William M. Janssen, John B. Corr

    RULE 23 ( e ) —SETTLEMENT , VOLUNTARY DISMISSAL OR COMPROMISE CORE CONCEPT Rule 23 ( e ) requires court approval of voluntary dismissal or compromise , and requires that proposals to settle the case be submitted to the entire class for ...

  • Selected Commercial Statutes
    By Carol L. Chomsky, Christina L. Kunz, Linda Rusch

    The following examples illustrate the Section 8–115 protects Able and Baker from liability . operation of this section in the multi - tiered indirect The protections of Section 8–115 do not depend on the holding system : presence or ...

  • Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility
    By Ronald D. Rotunda, John S. Dzienkowski

    Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility

  • A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
    By Steven Baicker-McKee, William M. Janssen, John Bernard Corr

    Section 1367 is discussed in greater detail elsewhere in this text . ( 3 ) Federal Question Suits : Federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction over class actions involving federal questions in the same manner as conventional ...

  • Office Skills for the 1990s: The Finishing Touch
    By Charles Francis Barrett

    Office Skills for the 1990s: The Finishing Touch

  • Civil Procedure
    By Jack H. Friedenthal, Mary Kay Kane, Arthur Raphael Miller

    This text covers the major themes underlying the governing legal standards and those basic issues that the case law and literature suggest to be the most pressing.

  • Cases and Materials on Patent Law: Including Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks
    By William H. Francis, Robert C. Collins

    Griffith argues that the admitted inactivity of three months between June 15 , 1983 , and September 13 , 1983 , which he attributes to Cornell's “ reasonable ” policy requiring outside funding and to Griffith's “ reasonable ” decision ...

  • Constitutional Law
    By Ronald D. Rotunda, John E. Nowak

    John E. Nowak, Ronald D. Rotunda. does not mean that the “ reasonable person ” standard is not met . The Second Element of the Miller Test . With respect to the second part of the Miller test , the Court offered " a few plain examples ...

  • California Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials
    By David I. Levine, William R. Slomanson, C. Keith Wingate

    The parties exchanged designations of experts , including expert witness declarations . In these declarations , Roy's trial counsel designated Dr. Robert Shuman , a cardiovascular thoracic surgeon , Dr. Jan Duncan , an orthopedlie ...

  • Global Issues in Freedom of Speech and Religion
    By Alan Brownstein, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

    Softbound - New, softbound print book.

  • A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
    By Steven Baicker-McKee, William M. Janssen, John Bernard Corr

    McInnes , 338 F.3d 1221 , 1227 ( 11th Cir.2003 ) ( modification may be 54 . See Prudential Ins . Co. v . National Park warranted where significant time has passed Med . Ctr . , Inc. , 413 F.3d 897 , 903 ( 8th Cir.2005 ) . since order ...

  • Property
    By Ann M. Burkhart, Roger Bernhardt

    This short work summarizes and sets forth the basic rules of Property in a systematic way, allowing students to review what they have learned from their casebooks and to appreciate how parts of the course fit together into an integrated ...

  • Internet Law in a Nutshell
    By Michael Rustad

    The book begins with a review of the history, technology, and competing theories of the Internet that enables a deeper understanding of case law and statutory developments discussed in the substantive chapters.

  • 2001 Supplement to Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy
    By Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff, David A. Martin, Hiroshi Motomura

    A majority of the Justices in Miller having concluded otherwise , see id . , at 423 ( opinion of Stevens , J. , joined by Rehnquist , C. J. ) ; id . , at 460 ( Ginsburg , J. , joined by Souter and Breyer , JJ . , dissenting ) ; id .

  • Hazen & Ratner Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials. 2003 Supplement
    By Thomas Lee Hazen, David L. Ratner

    Hazen & Ratner Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials. 2003 Supplement

  • Corporations & Other Business Enterprises: Statutory
    By Thomas Lee Hazen, Jerry W. Markham

    Designed for use in law school courses covering corporations, other limited liability entities, and partnerships.

  • Securities Regulation: Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms
    By Thomas Lee Hazen

    Selected Statutes, Rules and Forms David L. Ratner, Thomas Lee Hazen. Pending the promulgation of such regulations, all provisions of law relating to the disposition of property, or the proceeds from the sale thereof, or the remission ...

  • Statutory Supplement to Cases on Admiralty
    By Healy, Nicholas J. Healy, David J. Sharpe

    Statutory Supplement to Cases on Admiralty

  • Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks and Copyright in a Nutshell
    By Arthur Raphael Miller, Michael H. Davis

    Authors Michael Davis and famed Harvard professor Arthur Miller provide authoritative coverage on the foundations of patent protection, patentability, and the patenting process.

  • Constitutional Law 2004: Themes For The Constitution's Third Century
    By William N. Eskridge, Philip P. Frickey, Daniel A. Farber

    The majority didn't say much in response , but consider some possible defenses : ( a ) The Libertarian Presumption . ... Wade , a precedent protecting a liberty interest , gets more stare decisis support than Bowers v .