This article focuses on the narrow “strike zone” that plaintiffs must overcome in private securities actions instituted in the Fourth Circuit. Based on empirical data generated over a fourteen-year span, there emerges a clear finding that during that time period defendants were victorious in almost all cases, either on the merits of the case or [...]
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When state social policies and social realities conflict, state legislatures need to focus upon the problem to try to fix it. Gang activity in a community is such a problem. Since 1998, the Governor’s Crime Commission in North Carolina has studied the problem of gang proliferation and gang violence within the state. The [...] In August 2009, the North Carolina Legislature enacted the Racial Justice Act (“RJA”), which commands that no person shall be executed “pursuant to any judgment that was sought or obtained on the basis of race.” One of the most significant features of the RJA is its use of statistical evidence to determine whether the race [...] This Article is the first monographic history of the legal output of colonial North Carolina courts. Based on an examination of voluminous manuscript court records, it concludes that a fragile legal system developed during the first half-century of the existence of an initially small colony on the banks of the Albemarle Sound. Just as that [...] From its biblical and constitutional roots, American bankruptcy law has developed to provide important and necessary protection to financially overextended debtors. In the nineteenth-century Congress repeatedly responded to national economic difficulty by passing bankruptcy legislation. In the last quarter of the twentieth-century, Chapter 11 bankruptcies frequently prevented the disappearance of major airlines, [...] When a high school student falls into a city-owned drainage ditch, will the city’s prospects of facing expensive wrongful death litigation hinge on the origin of the water in the ditch? If this scenario happens in North Carolina, the answer might be yes. As the law currently stands after the North Carolina Court of Appeals [...] As North Carolina’s craft beer industry has developed and gained a national reputation, the North Carolina General Assembly has recognized the promotion of the craft brew industry as a desirable and worthy goal. Despite this recognition, many craft brewers in the state feel that the laws can be improved to better promote the growth of [...] Content from the North Carolina issue will be uploaded soon. This Address argues that the increase in women’s participation in paid work in many countries has made more manifest the tensions around balancing family and labor market work, hence making more obvious the need to solve the problems of care facing many families. First, the Address focuses on the significance of demographic changes affecting these [...] Scholars working in the fields of labor law, globalization, law and development, and of course gender now encounter the family at every turn. This is sometimes true even when families and households are officially absent from the debate or issue under discussion, as is often the case. Whether the topic is the transformation of labor [...] |
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