Fiduciary Duties and Limited Partnership Agreements

Apr 26, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 37

Closely-Held Business Symposium:  The Uniform Limited Partnership Act Fiduciary duties of general and limited partners in limited partnerships have generated a significant number of recent cases.  The most important issue has been the relationship between the...

Selected Estate Planning Aspects of the Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2001)

Apr 26, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 37

Closely-Held Business Symposium:  The Uniform Limited Partnership Act Limited partnerships are an important entity alternative for a segment of businesses that can be categorized as family businesses.  Family businesses have many of the same needs as other operating...

Introduction

Apr 25, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 37

Closely-Held Business Symposium:  The Uniform Limited Partnership Act This Symposium Issue is the brainchild of Professor Daniel S. Kleinberger at the William Mitchell College of Law and of course the Reporter for the Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2001) (ULPA 2001)...

Cause-In-Fact and the Plaintiff’’s Burden of Proof with Regard to Causation and Damages in Transactional Legal Malpractice Matters: The Necessity of Demonstrating the Better Deal

Apr 16, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 37

Since time immemorial, philosophers, theologians, mathematicians, and members of the bar have been fascinated with the concept of cause and effect.  Indeed, since at least the days of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, there has been an exhaustive attempt to...

Constitutional Law——Violations of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Create No Personal Rights Under § 1983——Gonzaga University v. Doe, 536 U.S. 273 (2002)

Apr 8, 2004 | Case Comments, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 37

Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act permits individuals to bring private actions against state actors for ““deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws.”  Courts, however, have continually refused to recognize...

““Democratic Experimentalism””: A Separation of Powers For Our Time?

Apr 1, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 37

The American administrative state often looks like Hobbes’’ Leviathan itself.  It makes and changes law on a scale and with an inscrutability that are scarcely to be believed.  Its agencies at times seem rigidly bureaucratic while at others cravenly partisan and...