Rule 11 and Civil Rights Litigation

Critical Race Theory: New Strategies for Civil Rights in the New Millennium?

The development of critical race theory points to a new direction taken by civil rights activists in the wake of civil rights setbacks in the 1970s and 1980s when ofacial government policy no longer supported an expansive civil rights agenda. The United States Supreme Court began limiting and eviscerating precedents that once promised full equality for African Americans under the law. Critical ...

Analytical, Legal and Ethical Look at Harassment Litigation

Background: The coexistence of human beings requires the observance of moral etiquette, which is called civil ethics in ethics and leads to normative order. In order for civil ethics to have an executive guarantee, a set of laws was formed in the society under the title of civil procedure. One of the lawsuits in this regard is the harassment lawsuit. There are complex issues in the harassment l...

Secrecy in Context: the Shadowy Life of Civil Rights Litigation

When did civil rights violations stop being considered a matter of interest and concern to the public? The articles in this Symposium on secrecy in litigation all focus on the public harm wrought by secrecy in litigation, but they largely ignore the category of cases that account for a substantial proportion of secret settlements in the federal courts. Indeed, civil rights litigation now repres...

Public Law Litigation and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

The effects on financial statements of the litigation cost rule in a civil action for negligence against the auditor

The litigation cost rule relates to which of the two parties in a civil lawsuit has to pay the legal costs. In those countries where the American system applies, each has to pay their own legal costs. In most other countries, the British system applies and the loser pays all the legal costs. By means of a single person decision-theoretic model, I examine the effects of this on auditing and fina...