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  Becoming a Legal Writer: A Workbook with Explanations to Develop Objective Legal Analysis and Writing Skills

  Robin Boyle-Laisure, Christine Coughlin, and Sandy Patrick

  2019

  This workbook will help develop two essential lawyering skills: objective analysis and writing. Providing ample foundation in every chapter followed by exercises, Becoming a Legal Writer is designed to complement any legal writing book or be used as a stand-alone text for academic support or pre-law instruction. Students will learn fundamental lawyering skills such as formulating questions to ask clients upon intake, exploring research strategies into systems of law, developing critical reading skills for statutes and cases, briefing cases, extrapolating implicit and explicit rules, synthesizing rules, organizing and applying the law into objective written analysis, and polishing their writing.

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  Animal Law: Cases and Materials

  Bruce A. Wagman, Sonia S. Waisman, and Pamela D. Frasch

  2019

  Animal law is a rapidly growing field, appearing in law schools, courtrooms, and the media on a constant basis. The study of the law regarding animals combines a review of the statutory and decisional law in which the nature—legal, social and/or biological—of non-human animals is an important factor. Owing to the rapid growth in this field, the sixth edition has updates in almost every chapter, with new focus on cases involving animals in agriculture and the complex legal challenges to laws aimed at providing them with greater protections. In connection with that expansion, a new section addresses the growing advent of "ag-gag" laws and legal issues surrounding them. And the interplay of constitutional law and animal issues is further highlighted with discussion of recent cases and statutory developments.

  This casebook continues to provide a detailed survey format that touches on many areas in which animals affect legal doctrines, case law, and legislative direction. Because animal law is not a traditional legal field, the book is largely framed according to traditional legal headings such as tort, contract, criminal, and constitutional law. Each chapter sets out cases and commentary in areas where animal law continues to develop its own doctrine.

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  Victims in Criminal Procedure

  Douglas E. Beloof, Paul G. Cassell, Meg Garvin, and Steven J. Twist

  2018

  In this revised fourth edition, the authors have updated the casebook in light of dramatic changes that have taken place in crime victims rights since the last edition. This book includes substantial revisions, including a new separate chapter on crime victim privacy issues. It also examines a new wave of expansive state constitutional amendments, known collectively as Marsy's Law, that expand victims rights and enforcement procedures in states such as California, Ohio, Illinois, and others.

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  Federal Income Taxation of S Corporations

  James S. Eustice, Joel D. Kunz, and John A. Bogdanski

  2015

  Federal Income Taxation of S Corporations provides comprehensive, up-to-date guidance on the election, operation, and termination of S corporation status. You’ll get the information you need concerning the federal tax regulations that govern S corporations, how the rules apply to daily business operations, and all relevant court decisions and Private Letter Rulings that could affect your business or your clients.

  The authors, James S. Eustice, Joel D. Kuntz, and John A. Bogdanski, long recognized as authorities on federal income taxation, combine the highest level of tax analysis with practical guidance. They provide planning strategies, useful examples, and realistic solutions to every facet of the benefits and challenges that S corporations offer.

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  Summary Judgment: Federal Law & Practice

  Edward J. Brunet, John Parry, and Martin H. Redish

  2014

  Summary Judgment: Federal Law and Practice

  provides all the guidance and information you need to make effective use of summary judgment. With it, master summary judgment law, practice, and tactics relating to:

  • The role of summary judgment in the federal procedural system
  • The concept of burden shifting
  • The standard for awarding summary judgment
  • Timing of summary judgment

  You'll find coverage of the role of summary judgment in the federal procedural system and the expanding application of summary judgment to different types of cases, including cases involving:

  • Employment law
  • Civil rights
  • RICO
  • Patents
  • Contract disputes
  • Real estate ownership
  • Libel
  • Antitrust
  • Administrative decision review
  • Personal injury

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  Global Labor and Employment Law for the Practicing Lawyer

  Henry Drummonds

  2010

  The global labor markets require workable and predictable law, forums, and recognition of judgments for the enforcement of cross-border employment contracts. Global labor markets make traditional approaches outdated. Yet regulations in the EU now answer these questions for European postings, and provide a framework for building a predictable system generally in the emerging world-wide markets for labor. Party autonomy often controls, but yields to protective rules requiring application of the law of the place of labor regarding non-waiveable employment rights.

  Traditionally, private international law affecting these questions found expression at the national or sub-national level. Choice of law rules in the UK might vary with those in Italy, and within the U.S., California and New York applied their own choice of law and choice of forum rules, albeit guided by the Restatements. The result has been a chaotic and unpredictable doctrinal framework variously described as “incomprehensible jargon” (William Prosser) and “gibberish” (Friedrick Juenger).

  In Europe, building on an earlier Convention, the Rome I regulation (effective in 2009 and binding within the EU) generally adopts lex laborium for employment contracts, but allows party autonomy subject to non-waiveable employment rights in the place of work (“overriding mandatory provisions”). The Brussels I regulation (effective in 2002) sets forth rules for jurisdiction in EU cross-border disputes; an employer may be sued in the nation of the habitual place of work, in the EU nation in which it has a “branch, agency, or establishment,” or in which the employee is domiciled. The parties to an employment contract can chose a jurisdiction only after a dispute has arisen. Finally, under Brussels I, a judgment in any EU country “shall be recognized” in other EU nations without review of substance or jurisdiction.

  In applying private international law to international labor markets the EU leads the way.

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  Federal Practice and Procedure

  Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller, and Robert H. Klonoff

  2008

  Wright & Miller's federal practice & procedure provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage on all procedural aspects of the practice of law before federal courts.

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  Sacrificing the Salmon: A Legal History of the Decline of Columbia Basin Salmon (Full Text Part 1 of 2)

  Michael Blumm

  2002

  Salmon remain the cultural and economic soul of the Pacific Northwest, a species whose very life cycle largely defines the region. At the center of the salmon region lies the Columbia River, which once supported the world's largest salmon runs and which now is home to the world's largest interconnected hydroelectric system. These massive federal and non-federal dams have devasted Columbia Basin salmon runs, some of which are now exinct, others are on life-support.

  This book tells the story of the decline of the Columbia Basin salmon in the 20th century. But it begins earlier, with the signing of mid-19th century Indian treaties that promised the tribes the right of taking fish in return for ceding some 64 million acres of land to the onrushing United States. This treaty promise was actually the first in a series of promises that the salmon runs would be maintained. The book uses the promise metaphor to examine the state of salmon and surrounding legal and institutional environment over the last century-and-a-half. None of the promises have been fully kept.

  Among ensuing promises was a false hope that a region-wide commitment to salmon hatcheries could replace salmon habitat lost to development, especially hydroelectric development. Another promise was the 1980 Northwest Power Act's restoration program, which once envisioned doubling Columbia Basin salmon runs. Failure of that promise led to ongoing and largely unsuccessful efforts under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to conserve the dwindling salmon runs. The book is especially critical of ESA implementation, maintaining that the listing of salmon under the statute has done much more to change ESA administration than the ESA has done to revive the salmon runs. Other promises the book examines concern the 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty with Canada, hydroelectric licensing under the Federal Power Act, and water quality protection under the Clean Water Act.

  The book includes chapters on the judicial interpretation of Indian treaties, a history of dam building in the Northwest, the rise of ecosystem mangement planning, and the case for breaching four Lower Snake River dams. Concluding chapters examine the prospects for wild salmon runs in the 21st century and lessons from the decline of Columbia Basin salmon for other resources in other areas.

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  U.S. International Taxation

  Joel D. Kuntz, Robert J. Peroni, and John A. Bogdanski

  1991

  This three-volume set is updated three times per year. Your fastest research resource for any question on the complex and ever-changing area of international taxation. U.S. International Taxation quickly and efficiently delivers answers to any and all key questions concerning international taxation. The authors provide authoritative, in-depth, and practical analysis of the laws, regulations, treaties, and decisions governing U.S. taxation of U.S. persons with foreign income and foreign persons with U.S. income. U.S. International Taxation is organized on a transactional basis rather than by discrete points of law and covers the full scope of international taxation topics.