Vol. 72 No. 1, January 2005
Index
- The state of the IADC: very alive, very well and continuing to move ahead.
- Calendar of legal organization meetings.
- Tort law reform in Australia: fundamental and potentially far-reaching change: following the Ipp Report, reforms are going forward in New South Wales, with the emerging result that runaway insurance costs are coming under control.
- Cross-jurisdictional requests for evidence: United States, England, European Union: American lawyers seeking evidence in England should connect with correspondent lawyers there to guide them through the necessary steps.
- Competition enforcement in the European Union: a three-way partnership: with Europe's modernized competition regime highlighting the importance of both public and private enforcement, companies are self-assessing.
- E-discovery help may be on the way ... sort of: Civil Rules Advisory Committee proposal: the amendments address several issues, including inaccessible documents, privileged documents, third-party subpoenas and a sanctions safe harbor.
- Proposed national e-discovery standards and the Sedona principles: the Judicial Conference's proposed e-discovery rules generally reflect the Sedona Principles, but there is room for improvements in some respects.
- Fast food or fat food: food manufacturer liability for obesity: before the courts and juries extend liability beyond reasonable limits, proactive legislation can balance rights of claimants and the food industry.
- Punitive damages: achieving fairness and consistency after State Farm v. Campbell: despite its best efforts, the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion leaves many blank spaces and holes with which appellate courts have had to cope.
- Disregarding manifest disregard: Watts shifts standard for vacating arbitrators' decisions: the Seventh Circuit seems to have discarded the manifest disregard of the law doctrine, which has been used to overturn arbitrators' decisions.
- Conning the IADC newsletters.
- Reviewing the law reviews.