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.
The Review: Volume 15
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
Issue 2
featuring
- Book Review: Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts
- Recovery of Unemployment Insurance Over-Payments: The Role of Equity and Good Conscience
- 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
- Employees, Not-So-Independent Contractors, and the Case of Migrant Farmworkers: A Challenge to the Law and Economics Agency Doctrine
- Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements in Chapter 11 and the Probability of Strikes: Tipping the Balance of Equities
- Symposium on Federal and State Methods of Repressing Political Activism, February 21, 1987
Issue 4
featuring
In Depth Reading
Volume 15 Issue 1
Federal Tax Reform and State-Local Economic Development Policy
Effects of federal tax reform on state and local governments. Forecasts future reforms, particularly revenue-generating changes enacted alongside tax reforms.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Equitable Estoppel, Unjust Enrichment and the Good Samaritan Doctrine: Three Possible Defenses to a Farmers Home Administration Foreclosure Proceeding
Provides farmers representing small farmers against the FmHA witha series of possible arguments to resist FmHA forclosure.
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.
Volume 15 Issue 3
Symposium on Federal and State Methods of Repressing Political Activism, February 21, 1987
Keynote address on federal and state methods of repressing political activism.
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.
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.
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.
Research Goals and Method
Outlines methodology for conducting research on the 18-B Panel and how it differs from data on the Legal Aid Society.
Criminal Defense of the Poor in New York City Appendices
Click the PDF above for Appendices to Issue 15.4, Criminal Defense of the Poor in New York City.
The Shedding of Legal Aid Society Cases to 18-B Panel Attorneys after Arraignment
Examines why some cases are shedded post-arraignment due to Society attorneys' failure to appear or undertake essential tasks, and the Society's explanation.