The Steel Valley Authority
Local response to disinvestment by big intdustries in small communities. Avoiding shut downs and attempting to counteract their effects through eminent domain.
The Review: Volume 15
Preview
Issue 1
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Issue 2
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- America's Decision: Will We Save the Family Farm?
- Book Review: Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts
- Pacific Gas & Electric v. Public Utilities Commission of California: Negative First Amendment Rights for Corporations
- Foreign Farm Workers in the U.S.: The Impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Issue 3
featuring
- Petition for Extraordinary Relief: If the LaRouche AIDS Initiative Had Passed in California
- Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements in Chapter 11 and the Probability of Strikes: Tipping the Balance of Equities
- Challenging Fake Abortion Clinics: Protecting Women's Privacy Interests without Violating the First Amendment
- Symposium on Federal and State Methods of Repressing Political Activism, February 21, 1987
Issue 4
featuring
In Depth Reading
Volume 15 Issue 1
Employee Ownership: An Economic Development Tool for Anchoring Capital in Local Communities
Demonstrates employee ownership may not keep jobs and capital in communities; recommends federal policy and examples that could prevent these pitfalls.
Employee Ownership: A New Strategy for Economic Development
Explores employee ownership as an underutilized route to economic development in low-income communities that relies neither upon altruism nor outside funders.
Creative Strategies for Community Finance--Introductory Remarks
Overview of development/creative strategies in financing community economic development.
Volume 15 Issue 2
America's Decision: Will We Save the Family Farm?
Considering how farming should take place in the US -- how will givernment approach the farm economy?
Foreign Farm Workers in the U.S.: The Impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Analyzes each of the major provisions of IRCA that affect foreign farm workers.
Recovery of Unemployment Insurance Over-Payments: The Role of Equity and Good Conscience
In unemployment insurance, states should not have right as in NY to recover unemployment insurance over-payments from own errors; should be equity-based
An Attorney General's Role in the Farm Crisis: The Minnesota Experience
Argues state attorneys general have a crucial role to play in the farm crisis; case study of Minnesota.
Volume 15 Issue 3
Challenging Fake Abortion Clinics: Protecting Women's Privacy Interests without Violating the First Amendment
Argues state attorneys can challenge fake abortion clinics under existing state statutes without violating 1st amendment.
Symposium on Federal and State Methods of Repressing Political Activism, February 21, 1987
Keynote address on federal and state methods of repressing political activism.
Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements in Chapter 11 and the Probability of Strikes: Tipping the Balance of Equities
Defines how much weight a court should give to strike likelihood when evaluating a debtor's motion to reject its labor contracts.
Employees, Not-So-Independent Contractors, and the Case of Migrant Farmworkers: A Challenge to the Law and Economics Agency Doctrine
Article argues that under law and economics, unskilled migrant farmworkers should be categorically recognized as employees.
Volume 15 Issue 4
Caseload Division Between the 18-B Panel and the Legal Aid Society
Outlines criteria and difficulties in obtaining data about respective caseloads of 18-B Panel and Legal Aid Society attorneys.
The "Shedding" of Legal Aid Society Cases to 18-B Panel Attorneys at Arraignment
Examines frequency of non-conflict cases that Legal Aid "sheds" to 18-B Panel attorneys at arraignment, and the quality of defense provided for such cases.
The Origins of the Indigent Defense System
Chapter on the origins of the indigent defense system, including the reform movement.
Research Goals and Method
These documents enabled us to analyze the Society's citywide assignments and dispositions and to compute the number of Criminal Court cases and citywide trials completed by the Society, the proportionate share of indigent defendants represented and the average cost per