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
featuring
Issue 2
featuring
- Equitable Estoppel, Unjust Enrichment and the Good Samaritan Doctrine: Three Possible Defenses to a Farmers Home Administration Foreclosure Proceeding
- Foreign Farm Workers in the U.S.: The Impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
- America's Decision: Will We Save the Family Farm?
- Book Review: Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts
Issue 3
featuring
- Petition for Extraordinary Relief: If the LaRouche AIDS Initiative Had Passed in California
- Employees, Not-So-Independent Contractors, and the Case of Migrant Farmworkers: A Challenge to the Law and Economics Agency Doctrine
- 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
In Depth Reading
Volume 15 Issue 1
Community Finance in the Age of Gramm-Rudman
Advocates for the expansion of credit unions in low-income neighborhoods as a tool to stimulate reinvestment in these communities.
State Economic Development Policy: Strategic Approaches for the Future
States must engage in strategic planning to achieve economic development. The need for creative state policies has been subordinated to national policy.
Worker Ownership As the Basis for an Integrated, Proactive Development Model
PACE supports businesses in becoming employee-owned. Urges its replication elsewhere to promote economic development and better account for workers' needs.
Volume 15 Issue 2
Pacific Gas & Electric v. Public Utilities Commission of California: Negative First Amendment Rights for Corporations
Analyzes 1st amendment rights for corporations by examining the Supreme Court case Pacific Gas and the Berger Court's definition of property rights.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
Petition for Extraordinary Relief: If the LaRouche AIDS Initiative Had Passed in California
Petition for extraordinary relief against CA statute requiring HIV positive persons to report themselves to the Dept of Health.
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
The Distribution of Multiple-Defendant (Conflict) Cases Between the Legal Aid Society and the 18-B Panel at Arraignment
Analyzes how Legal Aid Society distributed multiple-defendant cases to Panel attorneys, and the ramifications of delegating cases that required more skill.
The 18-B Panel's Operational Structure, Demographic Characteristics, and Work and Income Patterns
Discusses rotational assignments structure, demographics of Panel, as well as the effect of the rotations on the activity level of Panel attorneys.
The Relative Cost of 18-B Panel and Legal Aid Society Defense Services
The effect of comparative costs of caseloads on distribution of cases between Panel and Society attorneys, and New York City's emphasis on cost efficiency.
The Intractability of Reform
Goals of the indigent defense system do not account for actual needs of defendants, leading to deficiencies within the system.