Apr 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Limited Liability Companies at 20 One would expect the answer to the question posed in the title to depend to a significant degree on the extent to which legislatures have developed a unique theory of limited liability companies (LLCs) or have simply...
Apr 1, 2009 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 42
This Note examines the creation of the MBTA and its special liability statute. It also inspects the amendment of the general limitations statute for the types of claims the special MBTA statute covers. The Note then explores the change from highway development to...
Apr 1, 2009 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 42
When a party loses or destroys evidence, the standard of culpability courts require before they will instruct a jury that they may view the missing evidence as unfavorable to that party varies among the federal circuits. In order to issue such an adverse inference...
Apr 1, 2009 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 42
The Constitution’s Sixth Amendment promises that “[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall . . . have the assistance of counsel for his defense.” In order to protect the defendant’s liberties in the adversarial system contemplated by the Sixth Amendment the...
Apr 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Limited Liability Companies at 20 Today the goal of many physicists, whether working with what are some of the largest machines ever built such as the newly christened Large Hadron Collider or with the rather more simple chalk and blackboard, is to develop a...
Apr 1, 2009 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—Limited Liability Companies at 20 The law is often like a Slinky: there are two opposing poles, there is tension between the poles, and when one pole pushes out too far from the other, there is a tendency for the tension to pull the deviating pole back or...