Admiralty. State Legislation. Employers' Liability Law Inapplicable in Suit under Federal Tort Claims Act for Maritime Casualty in Repairing Dam on Navigable Waters. Hess v. United States (9th Cir. 1958)

1959 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 1363
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
Liability Law ◽  
In Suit ◽  
Tort Claims

Congressional Settlement of Tort Claims against the United States

1955 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Walter Gellhorn ◽  
Louis Lauer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tort Claims

scholarly journals Association of State Legislation of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination with Vaccine Uptake Among Adolescents in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-287
Author(s):  
Nadja A. Vielot ◽  
Anne M. Butler ◽  
Justin G. Trogdon ◽  
Ramya Ramadas ◽  
Jennifer S. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Papillomavirus ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vaccine Uptake ◽  
Human Papillomavirus Vaccination ◽  
State Legislation

The Initiative, The Referendum, and The Recall: Recent Legislation in the United States

1907 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Schaffner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Remarkable Progress

To make representative government more representative is the problem of today. The gradual process of social evolution has changed the industrial basis upon which our political institutions rest, and the increased complexity of our social organization has made the expression of the popular will more difficult. As readjustment to changing conditions is the requisite for any advancing type of life, so political progress becomes impossible unless new agencies are developed to be retained or discarded as experience may warrant.Among the agencies for political expression, few have made more remarkable progress in the history of recent legislation than the initiative, the referendum, and the recall. State wide referendums for the adoption of State constitutional, and local referendums for local affairs, are familiar institutions in the United States, but it is only within recent years that our States have begun to adopt the initiative and the referendum for State legislation.

The Paradoxical Feminist Quest for Remedy: A Case Study of Jane Doe v. Islamic Salvation Front and Anouar Haddam

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karima Bennoune
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Lawyer ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Tort Claims

AbstractThis article analyses Jane Doe v. Islamic Salvation Front et al., an Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) case brought in the United States by the late Rhonda Copelon, a leading feminist international lawyer. Bennoune explores the experiences of the Jane Doe plaintiffs, exposing the limited legal avenues that were available to them at the time. She finds that Copelon's creative ATCA litigation strategy embodied a symbolic, feminist act in the paradoxical quest for justice, armed with the knowledge that it would likely become a losing battle. The article ultimately shows that the ACTA litigation, even if unsuccessful in the end, recognised that non-state actors can harm human rights, and provided a powerful avenue for expressing plaintiffs' grievances when no other court would hear them.

Moral and Instrumental Rationales for Affirmative Action in Five National Contexts

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele S. Moses
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
The Social

The author’s primary aims are to clarify the differing rationales for affirmative action that have emerged in five nations—France, India, South Africa, the United States, and Brazil—and to make the case for the most compelling rationales, whether instrumentally or morally based. She examines the different social contexts surrounding the establishment and public discussion of each nation’s policy. Next, she examines four justifications for affirmative action in these nations: remediation, economics, diversity, and social justice. She offers philosophical analysis of the justifications for affirmative action in each country and synthesizes federal and state legislation, court decisions, news media sources, and research-based scholarship. She argues that the social justice rationale ought to be invoked more centrally, underscoring affirmative action’s role in fostering a democratic society.

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