Attorney's Fees for Section 1983 Claims in Fair Hearings: Rethinking Current Jurisprudence

A Primer on Fair Cross Section Jurisprudence

The phrase “a jury of one’s peers” brings to mind an image of a jury that perfectly mirrors its community in terms of demographic and attitudinal characteristics. In an ideal world, a perfectly representative jury would be best able to fulfill its role as the conscience of the community in judicial decision-making. As a practical matter, however, the legal requirements governing the composition...

Order on Attorneys' Fees (WILLIAM A. WILLIS)

The Quasi-class Action Model for Limiting Attorneys’ Fees in Multidistrict Litigation

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 R I. Multidistrict Consolidation and the Powers of the Transferee Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593 R A. The MDL Statute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594 R B. Multidistrict Consolidation and the Declin...

Fair division in unanimity bargaining with subjective claims

In an experiment on a subjective claims problem we compare three unanimity bargaining procedures – the Demand, the Offer and the Exit variant – in terms of fairness and efficiency. To assess the fairness of the allocations obtained by these procedures, we evaluate them from a partial point of view using stakeholders’ subjective evaluations of claims as elicited in a hypothetical fairness questi...

novation in imamiyah jurisprudence (civil section)

novation is one of the important topics of the obligations law, that is in its special and traditional meaning a legal act , and has been adopted from roman law and it has been used in civil codes of the most countries, among them iran. with due attention to special role of the imamiyah jurisprudence rules in codification of the iran civil code, some questions are propounded in connection to no...