Labor of law
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Issues are discussed regarding the shift from trade unions to employment litigation as a vehicle to improve workers' lot. The labor movement's goal has become to work for labor law reform in a political climiate hostile to its objectives. Pres Clinton established the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations and the Republicans had their own counterpart.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 2000
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The man who would undo Miranda
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Attorney Paul Cassell's attempts to persuade the US Supreme Court to overturn the Miranda rule are discussed. Cassell's attempt rests on 18 USC 3501, which spares voluntary confessions from being thrown out on technical violations of the Miranda rules. With Dickerson v. United States hel has succeeded in lower federal courts.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 2000
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When it rains it pours
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The article describes the initial victory of attorney Christina Rainville in the Pennsylvania habeas case freeing her client Lisa Lambert from prison and her employment problems afterwards. result of that case, she believed. The federal district court disregarded the principle of comity when it overturned the lower court ruling and returned Lambert to prison.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1999
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